# How to Make a Vision Board in Notion > Make a Notion vision board two ways: a free gallery database with image covers, or a $1.99 widget with a photo grid. Steps for both, and when to use Pinterest or Canva. Source: https://widgetsfornotion.com/blog/notion-vision-board Published: 2026-11-13T00:00:00.000Z --- A Notion vision board is a page of pictures of what you want from the year, kept where you already plan. Notion has no vision board block, so you build one. The free way is a gallery database with an image cover on each card. The other way is our Vision Board widget, which is a photo grid you paste in as an embed and costs $1.99 once. There is no free vision board widget from us. The steps below start with the free route. ## Make a Notion vision board with a gallery database A gallery is a database view that shows each entry as a card with a picture. Every card is a page, so it can hold notes as well as an image. 1. **Create the gallery.** On a new page, type `/gallery view` and choose a new database. Name it "Vision board 2027". 2. **Add one entry per goal.** The title is the caption. Open the entry, choose **Add cover**, and upload a photo or paste an image link. 3. **Show the covers on the cards.** Open the view's **Layout** settings. Set **Card preview** to **Page cover**, pick a card size, and switch on **Fit image** if you do not want photos cropped. 4. **Hide what you do not need.** In the same menu, turn off the properties you do not want on the cards, so only the picture and the title show. 5. **Order the cards.** Sort by hand and drag the cards where you want them. A finished gallery looks roughly like this, with an Area tag under each title. A Notion gallery view used as a vision board, with six photo cards tagged by area That is the whole board. Add a Select property such as "Area" (health, money, travel) if you want to group the cards. Most people already have a vision board template in mind when they search. A gallery like this is the same thing, and it takes about ten minutes. What you give up: you cannot set an exact grid such as three by two, a card opens as a page when you click it, and you cannot put a caption over a photo. ## A Notion vision board with a widget The [Vision Board widget](/widgets/vision-board) shows your own photos in a grid you choose, from one photo up to 6 by 6, which is 36 photos. It fills the whole embed, so it matches whatever size you drag it to. You can set: - The space between photos, and whether corners are square or rounded. - Borders: none, thin, bold, a polaroid frame or a shadow. - A caption on each photo, below it or over it, or no captions. - The first photo at double size, if one goal matters most. - Light, Dark or Auto. Four of those settings on the same six photos: The Vision Board widget in four styles: thin border, polaroid with captions, shadow with captions over the photo, and one big photo To add it, buy the widget, click a tile to upload a photo or paste a link to an image, then copy your embed link. In Notion, type `/embed` and paste it. Photos are saved with your copy on our servers, so the board shows on every device you open the page on. It costs $1.99 once, with no subscription. That is the US price, and other countries pay a local price. Pick it if you want a tidy grid and fixed captions without building a database. If the gallery already does what you need, skip it. | | Gallery database | Vision Board widget | | --- | --- | --- | | Cost | Free | $1.99 once | | Setup | About ten minutes | Upload photos, paste one link | | Grid | Notion decides, by card size | You choose, 1 by 1 up to 6 by 6 | | Captions | The card title, under the photo | Below the photo, over it, or off | | Notes on each goal | Yes, every card is a page | No | | Clicking a photo | Opens the page | Nothing opens | ## Other tools that make a good board - **Pinterest** is the best place to collect images. Make a board there, then add the pictures that matter to your Notion page. It cannot hold your plans. - **Canva** suits a collage you want to finish as one image. Export it and drop the file onto your Notion page. After that, changing one picture means going back to Canva. - **Notion's template gallery** has many vision board pages you can duplicate. Browse the [template gallery](https://www.notion.com/templates) if you want a layout to start from. Our widgets cover the part a picture cannot: numbers that change. Next to the board, a [goal tracker](/widgets/types/goal-tracker) fills as you save or finish things (see [how to track a goal in Notion](/blog/notion-goal-tracker)), and a [year progress bar](/widgets/types/progress-bar) shows how much of 2027 is gone. **Live preview: [New Year Goal Tracker](https://widgetsfornotion.com/widgets/new-year-goal-tracker)** — interactive on the page. Both are free. The full [New Year widget set](/collections/new-year) has a countdown, a mood tracker and a reading tracker too. If you need pictures to fill the board, read our [vision board ideas for 2027](/blog/vision-board-ideas-2027). To paste any of these in, follow the [beginner guide to adding widgets to Notion](/blog/how-to-add-widgets-to-notion). ## Questions **Is there a free vision board widget?** No. The Vision Board widget costs $1.99 once. The gallery steps above are free and use only Notion. **How many photos can the widget hold?** Up to 36, in a grid of at most 6 by 6. If you make the grid smaller, the extra photos stay saved and come back when you make it bigger. **Can I use a vision board template?** Yes. Duplicate one from Notion's template gallery, or build the gallery above. Both give you a normal page you can edit. **Does it work on my phone?** Yes. Notion shows embeds in its phone app, and a gallery works there too.