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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

Page appearance, actions, and information

In this section, we will go through the native Notion appearance changes we can make to a page that can change the aesthetic. Additionally, we will go through the main actions that are available on a page, which can change its appearance for others viewing the page and yourself when editing the page.

This is useful not just for aesthetics but also when collaborating with others, showing them relevant information or guiding them to specific areas using different features such as lock page and customize page.

As mentioned in Chapter 1, Setting up the Application, the breadcrumb is always located at the top of the screen, irrespective of the device. Additionally, the action menu is located in the same place in the upper-right corner of the screen for each device, which is where the focus of this section will be.

Note

Multiple community projects work with Notion and that can also provide added functionality and changes to the page...