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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

Popular systems

In this final section of the book, we will be covering some overarching workspace systems that use certain frameworks and methodologies to organize the entire system inside Notion. This can give you an idea of an overarching methodology that might work for you or your team.

Note

Each example in this section is a snapshot of a much wider system that has been built by everyone to support their work inside Notion. For further information on each system, you can find the links to their work in their respective section.

PARA system

The PARA system is built around a framework suggested by Tiago Forte and the work he does on his course about building a second brain. The system breaks down projects, areas, resources, and archives into separate storage silos.

This system was originally used for files and folders inside a PC in the file explorer and was then used in notetaking tools such as Evernote and then Notion.

When using PARA in Notion, the overarching...