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(I work on Notion)

Pages in Notion have an icon you can set. The icon for a new, empty page is a blank piece of paper, and the icon for a page with content is a paper with line on it. We also allow setting an emoji as a page icon (using our emoji picker menu), or uploading or linking to an image file like an SVG.

There’s a button to apply a random emoji as a page icon but it’s not a default behavior.

It automatically adds them to new pages. As far as I can tell it randomly assigns them.

It never happened to me, there's always default page icon unless I click at this icon to change it. I write in polish, maybe they're trying to deduce from the title what the note is about and this works only for english?

Windows Key + . on Windows 10+ to open a mobile style emoji selector.

Yak Shaving, probably.