StashLane help

1. Install StashLane and connect Notion

1. Install StashLane in your Google account. Google shows the permissions it needs; why each one is needed is under Permissions.
2. In Gmail on the web, open any email and click the StashLane icon in the side panel on the right.
3. Press Connect Notion. Notion’s own window opens. Sign in if Notion asks, choose the workspace, and select the pages or databases StashLane may add pages to. StashLane cannot see anything you do not select.
4. When the window says Notion is connected ✓, close it. StashLane reloads by itself.

If the card says StashLane cannot see any Notion database yet, nothing was selected in Notion’s window: press Connect Notion again and select the database. Selecting a page that holds databases gives StashLane those databases too.

2. Save an email

With an email open, the StashLane card shows:

• Notion database: the databases you shared, by name. The last one you used comes first.
• Page title: the email’s subject. Change it before you save if you like.
• Copy the email text into the page: on, the page holds the text of the email; off, only the properties, the header lines and the link. StashLane remembers your choice.
• Attach N files to the page and Save the whole conversation (N emails): these switches appear only when the email has attachments or is part of a conversation. Both are Pro.

Press Save to Notion. When the page is made, the card says Saved to and the database name, with Open in Notion. On the free plan it also shows how many saves are left this month.

Next time you open the same email, the card starts with Already saved and an Open button for its page. StashLane remembers the last 300 emails you saved. You can still save the email again, for example to another database.

3. What the Notion page holds

• Properties: the title, and the fields you chose under Fields…. If the title is not mapped, it still gets the subject, so no page is blank.
• A quote block with From, To, Cc (if any) and Date, the date in your own time zone.
• An Open in Gmail link. It opens a Gmail search for the email’s unique message ID, so it finds the email in the mailbox that has it.
• The email text, if the switch is on: the plain text of the email, one paragraph block per paragraph. Very long emails stop after 400 paragraphs, with a note that the rest is in Gmail.
• Attachments (Pro): see below.

Notion allows 2,000 characters in one piece of text and 100 blocks per request; StashLane splits the text to fit and adds the rest of a long email in further steps.

4. Fields: what goes into each property

Press Fields… to see every property of the chosen database. For each one, choose where its value comes from, then press Save fields. Choices are saved per database and kept until you change them.

Each kind of property offers the sources that fit it:

• Title, text, phone, multi-select: any text source. For multi-select, a fixed value can hold several options separated by commas.
• Email: From — address, To, Cc or a fixed value. Only the first address is used.
• URL: the Gmail link or a fixed value.
• Date: Date received, Date saved or a fixed value.
• Select and status: a fixed value, or the sender’s name or address, so each sender becomes an option.
• Number and checkbox: a fixed value (for a checkbox, yes or no).
• Files: Attachments (Pro).

People, relation, rollup, formula and the created and edited times are shown as Left as is: Notion either does not let an add-on write them, or they need values an email does not have.

The first guess. Before you open Fields…, StashLane fills what it can from each property’s type and name: the title gets the subject, an email property the sender’s address (or To or Cc if its name says so), a URL property the Gmail link, a date property the date received (or the date saved if it is called something like Added or Saved), a text property called From, Sender or Contact the sender, and one called Summary, Notes or Body the first lines. Dates named like a task’s own dates, such as Due, Deadline, Start or Follow-up, are left empty, and so are select, status, number and checkbox properties. Change any of it under Fields….

StashLane — Gmail to NotionSave the email you are reading to a Notion database, fields filled in

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5. Attachments, whole conversations and fixed values (Pro)

• Attachments. Switch on Attach N files to the page. Each file up to 20 MB is uploaded to Notion: into the Files property you mapped to Attachments (files), or, if none, as file blocks at the end of the page. Larger files are skipped, and the card lists them under Not attached. Inline images in the email text are not attachments and are not uploaded.
• Whole conversation. Switch on Save the whole conversation to put every email of the thread on one page, in order, each under a heading with the sender and date, with its own quote block, link and text. The properties and attachments come from the email you have open.
• Fixed values. Under Fields…, choose A fixed value… and type it, such as To do for Status or Invoices for a Category, so every saved email lands with the same choice.

6. Save as PDF to Google Drive™ (free)

At the bottom of the card, Save PDF makes a PDF of the open email and puts it in a folder called StashLane in your Google Drive. The PDF holds the subject, From, To, Cc, the date, the attachment names and the email with its formatting. It is named after the subject and the date of the email, such as Invoice 1042 — November — 2026-11-14.pdf. When it is saved, Open the PDF opens it in Drive.

The PDF button is free and does not count toward your monthly saves. The first time, Google asks you to allow StashLane to make files in your Drive. StashLane can reach only the files it made; if you delete the StashLane folder, the next PDF makes a new one.

7. Free and Pro

• Free: 30 saves a month to any database you shared, with all the free field sources, the email text and the Gmail link, plus Save PDF. Every card shows how many saves are left; the count starts again on the 1st of the month.
• Pro: $4.99 a month or $39 a year. Unlimited saves (a fair-use ceiling of 3,000 a month), attachments, whole conversations and fixed values.

Pro is bought from the Plan section of the StashLane card, with Paddle as our Merchant of Record. The checkout is filled in with your Google account email. After you pay, go back to Gmail: Pro switches on by itself the next time the StashLane card opens (for 7 days after you press a Pro button, StashLane checks your Google account email with Paddle, at most once a minute). Paid with a different email? Press Already paid? Activate, enter the checkout email and press Activate Pro. One subscription is for one Google account.

Cancel any time from the link in your Paddle receipt, or by emailing info@bilingoplus.com. Pro then runs to the end of the period you paid for. Every charge has a 14-day refund (see refunds). Pages you already saved stay in Notion when Pro ends.

8. Your Notion connection

With no email open, the StashLane home card shows the connected Notion workspace, your plan, and:

• Choose databases: opens Notion’s window again, to add or remove databases StashLane may use.
• Disconnect: forgets the Notion sign-in on this Google account. Your field choices are kept for when you connect again. To remove StashLane from your workspace on Notion’s side as well, use Notion’s settings for connections.
• Erase my data: deletes everything StashLane keeps for you; see Your data.

If Notion asks to sign in again (for example after you removed StashLane in Notion), the card shows Connect Notion. Connect once more; your settings are kept.

9. Permissions

StashLane cannot send email, change your mailbox or read emails you do not open it on. None of its permissions is a “restricted” Google permission.

10. Troubleshooting

11. Your data

StashLane runs inside your Google account. An email goes from Google straight to your own Notion workspace through Notion’s API, and a PDF into your own Drive; nothing from your emails is sent to BiLingoPlus. StashLane keeps, in your Google account: the Notion sign-in, your settings and field choices, the IDs of the last 300 emails you saved with their Notion page links, and this month’s count of saves. Erase my data on the home card deletes all of it, except the monthly count and today’s count of Pro activation attempts, which stay so the limits cannot be reset. Pages already in Notion and PDFs in Drive are yours and are not touched. Details are in the privacy policy.

12. Still stuck?

Write to info@bilingoplus.com or use the support page. Tell us the message you see on the card. Please do not forward us the email you were saving if it has private details in it.

StashLane — Gmail to NotionSave the email you are reading to a Notion database, fields filled in

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