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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

Using database templates in advanced workflows

In this section, we will go through some important topics such as using templates in a database and creating contextual dashboards inside a database template (to help with the creative workflow). In this section, we will use the auto-filter feature, the linked database feature, and the self-referencing filter. Additionally, we will require some backend knowledge that will be introduced later in this section.

Database template configuration can be extremely powerful when used in certain use cases, as it can save time when creating dashboards and pages but also remove some of the human errors that could appear when adding in new information.

Note

In this section, the techniques that I have used are not necessarily needed for using templates in Notion. I have used these techniques to demonstrate a use case that combines many database features.

Using the same Projects database and Tasks database as the previous sections, a database...