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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

Creating an advanced countdown formula

In this section, we will go through an advanced formula countdown that has various elements in which to show specific information. This section will illustrate how granular you can go with the formulas you use and how you can use some of the known mathematical functions to create an output that can be customized to your needs.

Note

This formula is an expanded version of the one shown in the task database from the previous section. This demonstration is only for explanation purposes and is not needed in your workspace to use Notion effectively.

Figure 10.14 shows a date property, called Date, and a formula property, called Deadline, in the Projects table database view:

Figure 10.14 – The projects database view with the date and formula properties

The formula in the Deadline property signifies whether the end date of the date property is before today by displaying an emoji or after today's date...