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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By : Danny Hatcher
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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 8: Basic Formula Functions

The formula property can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be, giving you the possibility to create outputs from any other piece of information from another property. The reason we are talking about this property in two chapters is due to the amount of flexibility it can give with the various functions, calculations, and combinations that can be created. Any of those formulas can be used for viewing, filtering, sorting, or for other property uses, such as database views.

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

  • Formula fundamentals
  • How formula constants work
  • How formula operators work
  • How formula functions work

You will learn how to use all the options that are in the formula property individually, with the required information regarding each option. This will enable you to create formulas in any database and generate basic outputs that can be used to change database information and...