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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

Database filtering

In this section, we will cover database filters and advanced database filters, which allow you to show or hide information specific to conditions you add to the filter of a database view. This is useful for not only hiding information you don't want to see but also showing specific information when searching for something.

In addition to this, using filters also allows some added functionality when interacting with pages in databases, using them to auto add property information, saving you time during the workflow.

Note

All of the information that was mentioned about the Sort option in the database remains active with any filter that you add to a view. You can have multiple sorts and filters on a single database view.

Figure 7.13 shows the Sort and Filter menus in the database view, which is accessed via the menu at the top right of the database view. The difference between them becomes apparent when you access the filter as it comes up...