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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 this chapter, we covered how a relation property can be used to combine and transfer information between databases. We saw how the rollup property can be used alongside the relation property to bring in information from another database and use that information to create calculations and summarize information in a specific view.

The database viewing features were also covered, looking at how to sort a database view and how to use filters, grouped filters, and some of the advanced filter options, such as self-referencing filters and auto filtering. The grouping features were also covered, as well as how it can alter the view of five of the six view options.

All of these lessons can be used to create quicker, more seamless workflows when creating pages of information and creating dashboards that show specific information for contextual use cases.

There is still one more property that needs to be covered that you can use in a database, which is the formula property...