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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)
1
Section 1: Settings and Structure
6
Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
12
Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

Chapter 13: Other Example Use Cases

In this chapter, we will look at a variety of Notion use cases, ranging from basic to advanced templates for students, business owners, and everyday individual uses. This chapter will inspire ideas and open your mind on how to use Notion in your work as well as in your personal life. The examples shown in this chapter are from my own personal experience and other Notion ambassadors that aim to help users get the most from the app.

In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:

  • Planning dashboards
  • Tracking dashboards
  • Popular workspace systems

You will learn how dashboards are used for a variety of use cases. You will also learn how to start building out your workspace and get directions to other resources that you can use to kick-start your Notion journey.