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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

Summary

In summary, before you can access the application, you need to make an account using your preferred email address, which can receive updates and notifications. To access that account on multiple devices, a download of the app needs to be completed per device. Then, you can log in to the account using the same email and password. Despite Notion being available on all of the main devices, such as PC, Mac, laptop, mobile, and tablet/iPad, the flexibility, usability, and available features are better suited for PC, Mac, and laptop devices.

Now that the account and workspace have been created, we need to gain an understanding of how to navigate around the workspace so that we know where data and information are stored. Additionally, we need to gain an understanding of the main actions that are available when working within the Notion app.