Student story: the timetable that updates itself

Lin's university publishes the semester timetable as one enormous HTML table on the registrar's site. It changes: rooms move, tutorials get merged. Last semester she screenshotted it once and spent three weeks walking to the wrong building.

What she crops

Only the block that matters — the rows for her own class, about 400×260 pixels of a very long page. Everything else (the navigation, the news banner, the footer) stays outside the frame.

How it sits in her notes

1. She pastes the registrar's URL into Widget.diy and drags the selection onto her class's rows.
2. In the preview she picks contain, so the table stays readable at any block width.
3. The widget link goes into a /embed block at the very top of her course hub page in Notion.
4. Scheduled refresh: every 6 hours. Enough for a timetable, gentle on the source site.

The part she likes most

"When a room changes, my note changes. I didn't do anything. That's the whole point — my notes stopped being a copy of the web and started being a window onto it."

Try the same crop

• Create your first widget in under a minute
• Embed a live clock from any time site into Notion