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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By : Danny Hatcher
Book Image

Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By: Danny Hatcher

Overview of this book

Notion is note-taking, wiki management, and task and project management software that gives you control of your working environment. By creating pages using a variety of block types and database styles, the possibilities are endless. This book will help you overcome challenges in managing large projects using Notion and creating documents using real-time updates with a great deal of flexibility, allowing everyone to have a customized view as per their needs. With this book, you'll become well-versed with Notion, where you’ll learn how to access, create, and change a workspace utilizing all the blocks, database views and properties, and advanced features and functions. From a table or list view to a Kanban board or gallery view, you'll get to explore several database options available in Notion. You’ll learn the skills to build pages, customize the aesthetics, create templates, and store, organize, and surface information through databases, all while building a system and workflow that works for you in your context. The book will also demonstrate how to import and export information and combine Notion with other tools using the API. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create a task management system, project management system, or any other system while combining it with other tools that speed up your work for better efficiency.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Section 1: Settings and Structure
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Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
12
Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

API integration examples

In this section, we will go through an integration example using Automate.io, between Google Calendar and Notion, and a Typeform integration with Notion. These are two of the most common integration uses and will give you some practical use cases for when and how the API can be used.

The Notion and Google Calendar integration

Just like at the beginning of this chapter, you will need to set up the bot in Automate.io, which permits you to use your Google Calendar account and your Notion account.

Once permission has been granted, we need to add a trigger and an action. In this example, we will use adding a Google Calendar event as the trigger and adding a database item as the action. This bot aims to create a page in a Notion database when an event is added to a specific Google Calendar trigger.

As you can see in Figure 11.13, there is one required field in the Google Calendar trigger section and one required field for the Notion database action section...