Why this needs a tool at all
Notion is a good place to plan Pins: a row per Pin, the image, a keyword-rich title and a description, a date. What it cannot do is publish. Notion’s own Pinterest connection embeds Pins and boards into a page so you can look at them; it does not create a Pin from a row. Without a publisher, every Pin is copied across by hand on the day.
A Notion calendar can hold every Pin you will post this month. It cannot post one of them.
Setting it up, step by step
- Start a free trial at getninecast.com/start. You get a planner link.
- Paste the link into your Notion page and choose Embed. A grid of your planned posts appears inside the page.
- Connect your database and confirm which column is the title, the date, the media and the caption. Any database works; nothing has to be renamed.
- Connect Pinterest from Settings in the grid, then choose the board the Pins should go to.
- Give a row a date. When it arrives, the Pin is created and its link is written into the row.
The setup guide walks through each step with what you will see on screen.
What a scheduled row needs
- An image, or up to five for a multi-image Pin. Files are copied to our own storage first, because the links Notion gives out for files expire after about an hour and Pinterest fetches the image from a link.
- A title. The row’s name becomes the Pin title, which is the part Pinterest shows above everything else.
- A caption for the description, up to 500 characters.
- A date, with a time if you want one; a date on its own posts at your default time in your own timezone.
Compared with the usual workarounds
Copying Pins in by hand works and costs the same few minutes every day. A Zapier or Make automation reads the database and calls Pinterest, and you become the person who maintains it when a token expires or a file link dies. Other Notion publishers are built mostly around other networks; NotionScheduler and Scheduled do not list Pinterest on their own sites (checked 12 October 2026). They are compared properly in Instagram schedulers that work with Notion.
If Instagram is part of the plan too, scheduling Instagram posts from Notion covers that side, and publishing from Airtable covers a base instead of a database. LinkedIn is covered in scheduling LinkedIn posts from Notion.
Questions that follow
Can Notion post to Pinterest by itself?
No. Notion has no publishing of its own; its Pinterest connection shows Pins inside a page but does not create them. Ninecast adds the publishing: it reads your Notion database and creates each row as a Pin on its scheduled date.
Do I need Zapier or Make to schedule Pins from Notion?
No. Ninecast connects to Notion and Pinterest directly. There is no automation to build, no task quota, and nothing to fix when a property is renamed, because columns are matched by id rather than by name.
Which board do the Pins go to?
The one you choose when you connect Pinterest. A Pin has to live on a board, so connecting asks which one; an account with a single board is linked to it straight away. To pin to a different board, connect again and choose it.
What does the Pin look like?
The image or images from the row, up to five, with the row’s title as the Pin title and the caption as its description. Pinterest cuts descriptions at 500 characters, so a longer caption is trimmed before it is sent rather than refused.
Can I schedule video Pins from Notion?
Not yet. Image Pins only for now. A row whose media is a video says so on its card instead of half-posting, so nothing goes out wrong.
Does the same row post to Instagram too?
It can. Ninecast publishes to Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok, and a Platforms column decides where each row goes. Leave it empty and the row goes to every account you have connected.
Does it work with Airtable as well?
Yes. Ninecast reads an Airtable base the same way it reads a Notion database, so the steps below are identical with a base in place of a database.
How much does it cost?
The grid preview is free, forever. Publishing is on Creator, $15 a month or $12 a month billed yearly, for 3 planners — and the free plan includes 2 posts so you can see it work first.
Try it on your own calendar
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