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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

Contextual dashboards

In this section, you will learn how to utilize the master database setup to create customized contextual dashboards using linked databases. There will be various examples shown using various filters, sorts, groups, and viewing differences to illustrate some of the combinations that are available. This is useful to understand, as each person is likely to have different needs from the information that is stored, and learning how to create contextual dashboards will open up much of Notion's database power.

A potential setup configuration

Using the same master databases from the previous section, Figure 10.3 shows a potential setup configuration:

Figure 10.3 – A list and gallery contextual dashboard

As linked database views don't allow for a name change, the Tasks database can be seen twice in Figure 10.3, as there are two different linked database views on the same page, with one linked database view of the Projects...