How to Randomize Select or Multi-Select Options in NoteForms?

When creating forms in Notion, the order of your options can unintentionally influence how users respond. Randomizing select or multi-select options in NoteForms helps reduce bias, improve data accuracy, and create fairer surveys—especially for feedback forms, polls, quizzes, and research questionnaires.

With NoteForms, you can easily randomize option order in just a few clicks.

How to Randomize Select or Multi-Select Options

1. Go to the Edit Form page in NoteForms.

2. Click the Settings icon of the Select or Multi-Select input field.
3. Under Select Options, enable Randomize options order.
4. Save or Publish your form to apply the changes.

What Happens When Options Are Randomized?

When enabled, NoteForms will automatically shuffle the order of options for each form viewer. This means the first option no longer gets more attention by default, responses are less biased by option placement, survey results are more reliable and statistically fair, and it works especially well for experiments, rankings, feedback forms, and user research.

Each respondent may see the options in a different order, while the submitted value stored in Notion remains accurate and unchanged.

When Should You Use Randomized Options?

Randomizing options is especially useful when running surveys or polls, collecting unbiased feedback, performing A/B testing or research, or avoiding order-based influence in decision-making forms. If the order of options doesn’t matter, randomization is a simple way to improve data quality.

Final Tip

Randomizing select and multi-select options in NoteForms is a small change that can make a big difference in the quality of your form responses. Combine it with other NoteForms features—like conditional logic and required fields—to build smarter, more reliable forms directly connected to your Notion databases.

Updated on: 26/12/2025