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How to set the YouTube title and TikTok caption from Notion

You schedule a video on YouTube or TikTok, it publishes fine, but it lands with no title and no caption. It's the most common question we get on videos, and it comes down to two fields in your Notion card.

The key thing to know: your Notion page title is never published. It's there to help you navigate your database, nothing more. Scheduled picks up the title and the caption elsewhere in the card.

Where the title and caption come from

YouTube title: the caption of the video block, meaning the small line of text you add under the video in your card.
YouTube description: the text you write in the body of the card.
TikTok caption: that same text from the body of the card.

TikTok has no separate title field. The text shown under a TikTok video is the caption, and it comes from the body of your Notion card.

Step 1: write your text in the body of the card

Open your card in Notion.
Write your post text directly in the body of the page, below the properties.
That text becomes the TikTok caption and the YouTube description.

Step 2: add a caption on the video block

Hover over the video block in your card.
Click the ... on the left of the block, then Caption.
Write the title you want to see on YouTube.

YouTube titles are capped at 100 characters. Past that, Scheduled truncates automatically.

What happens if you leave them empty

No caption on the video block: for a long-form video, Scheduled generates a title from your description. For a Short, it reuses the first 100 characters of the description. And if the body of the card is empty too, the video publishes with no title at all.
Empty card body: your TikTok video publishes with no caption, and your YouTube description stays empty.

So a card with nothing but its Notion title and a video will publish a video with no title and no caption. That's by far the most common cause.

Can the title differ from the description?

Yes, and on YouTube it's the better setup. Put a short, punchy caption on the video block for the title, and keep your longer text in the body of the card for the description. The two fields are independent.

Key takeaways

The Notion page title is never published, on any platform.
YouTube title = video block caption, 100 characters max.
YouTube description = body of the card.
TikTok caption = body of the card, TikTok has no separate title.
Both left empty = a video published with no title and no caption.

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Updated on: 20/08/2026

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