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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

Tracking dashboards

In this section, we will go through some dashboards that can be used for tracking information, which can be useful (since information can be shown in various configurations).

Note

Each template in this section is either created by me or by another Notion ambassador or is located in the Notion template gallery.

The simplest type of database setup for tracking information is the one with simple property types. Using the number property, text property, date property, and checkbox property is often all that is needed to collect information while keeping it organized in storage. Figure 13.13 shows an example of a habit tracker:

Figure 13.13 – Habit tracker database filtered for today

The example shown in Figure 13.13 is a database with checkbox properties named using emojis. There is a filter on this particular example on the Date property, filtering for today, which means that tomorrow, the record for today will disappear and...