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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

Formula fundamentals

In this section, you will learn the basics of how the formula property functions inside a database, what limitations it can have when using the property, and the output variations that will impact how the property can be used.

This section of the chapter is the most important to understand because each point raised will impact what functions and operators you choose to use, what information is needed, and, potentially, how using other properties may be needed for a formula to work the way you want.

Note

If you have previous coding experience, or experience using spreadsheet formulas and calculations, these are transferable skills that can be used. Having said that, they do not function in the same way. If you have no prior experience, the next couple of chapters will take you through each process step by step.

The first and most important thing to realize while working with Notion formulas is the properties in the database are specific to the page...