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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

Function options

In this section, we will cover all the function options that are available in the formula property. We will see how they are similar to and different from one another regarding previous constant and operator options for potential combinations.

The function options in the formula property are often specific to a calculation or use case, making them time-consuming to remember and learn. Some of the functions can be replaced by operators in specific circumstances, but the reason learning these functions can be so useful is that they can reduce the length and complexity of the formula while giving you more flexibility at the same time.

Note

The most important thing to remember when learning about the formula property is to look at the type of information it uses and outputs and its syntax in the help window. Many functions can use a variety of inputs and outputs, which can make things confusing.

Once again, we will split the types of functions available into...