--- title: "Notion flagged my template for looking too close to their official one - Digital Templates Seller Hub | SideHustlr" description: "Built a template based pretty closely on one of Notion's own official templates, just with some tweaks. Got a notice about it. Anyone know what the actu..." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "DiscussionForumPosting", "@id": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/digital-templates-seller/notion-flagged-my-template-for-looking-too-close-to-their-official-one-17335774", "url": "https://sidehustlr.ai/forum/digital-templates-seller/notion-flagged-my-template-for-looking-too-close-to-their-official-one-17335774", "headline": "Notion flagged my template for looking too close to their official one", "text": "Built a template based pretty closely on one of Notion's own official templates, just with some tweaks. Got a notice about it. Anyone know what the actual line is here? 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You can build something that solves a similar problem, but the structure needs to be genuinely your own, not a tweaked version of theirs. 0 T\_ t\_nguyen · about 2 months ago Had a near miss with this too. Ended up rebuilding mine from scratch instead of starting from their template, took longer but no issues since. 0 Login to join the discussion Login to Reply [![SideHustlr - Earn more. 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