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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

Chapter 12: Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and a Wiki Example

In this chapter, we will look at using Notion for notetaking and wiki management. We will combine concepts such as contextual dashboards, master databases, and how to use the web clipper to create a flexible system that can be altered to create a process for capturing, organizing, processing, and sharing information.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • How to capture information in Notion
  • How to organize information in Notion
  • How to share information in Notion

You will learn how to bring information into the Notion application in a quick, organized, and convenient way. Following this, you will learn how to maintain a good level of organization with that information using database features. Then, you will look at how to process that information so that it can be applied in practice rather than stored and forgotten about. You will also learn how to share the information...