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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

Master databases

In this section, you will learn how the use of master databases can save time, increase efficiency, and save a lot of headaches when the workspace starts to increase in size or increase in user numbers. This section will be mostly directed toward the philosophy and framework of use, rather than functional features, and gaining an understanding of this Notion terminology alongside the database features will be helpful.

Note

There are nuances that have been laid out in the upcoming sections, but these guidelines can be used for the majority of use cases.

When creating databases in Notion, one of the first questions you will need to answer is whether to create multiple databases for the information you want to store. For example, if you are looking to keep track of tasks, actions, tickets, or issues for yourself or members of the business/team, you could take various approaches.

Some of the common options are to create a database per team member, a database...