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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

The Notion add-on options

In this section, you will find out about some external embed options, alongside other tools that can be used to enhance your experience with Notion. These add-on options can be free or paid options with similar risks to the API integrations.

Note

This book will not go through how to use every add-on option listed, but it will cover the most common uses and processes to activate the majority of tools.

The first add-on to mention has been built by the team at Notion, which is the web clipper. This add-on, alongside many of the add-ons available, is a browser extension. This means that some extensions will only be available on certain browsers, which is important to bear in mind when working as a team.

Note

The following instructions are for the Google Chrome browser. The instructions will be similar across browsers if the extension is available.

After searching in the Google Search bar for Chrome extensions, assuming you are using Chrome,...