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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 5: All the Basic Database Properties

Databases inside Notion are where much of the power and flexibility is introduced. They are more than simply a place to store information, and they can be located, filtered, sorted, and changed to create personalized views. Combining various databases views allows flexible personalized dashboards and individualized workflows.

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

  • The fundamentals of database properties
  • Basic database properties
  • Viewing database properties

You will learn how to add a block to a page, move a block around a page, and change existing blocks to a different type. This also includes creating columns in pages and gaining an understanding of what pages allow for block placement.

Additionally, you will learn about all the different options of blocks you can put into a page, from basic blocks to special blocks with added functions, and the database and action block options...