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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 3: Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings

Once you have set up your account and are able to navigate around Notion, you can get started. However, when you start building out your workspace, there can be some irritations you come across, which, very often, are in the account settings or the workspace settings. If the solution isn't found in the settings, then it makes us contemplate where to start and which imports and templates to use to help.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • How to duplicate and import templates
  • Other external import options
  • The My account settings options
  • The Workspace settings setup options

You will learn how to import default templates from the Notion options, what the templates mean and do, and how to duplicate other creators' templates in your workspace. Additionally, we will check what other information you can import into Notion.

Additionally, you...