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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

Capturing information

In this section, you will learn how to put new information into Notion in a quick, convenient, and organized way to help speed up the capture stage of note-taking. This is important to prevent information from being lost or forgotten about while keeping the process quick enough to not be an irritation.

One key aspect of capturing information is that is it easy to do. On the web, this is easy to do using the web clipper, which was covered in the previous Chapter 11, Using API Integration and Add-on Options. Once you have created a database inside Notion, you can clip web pages to the database, as shown in Figure 12.1:

Figure 12.1 – The Notes database with web clipper results as pages

Figure 12.1 shows three different web pages that have been clipped into a database, called Notes. They were done only a minute apart, as clipping is so quick, and can be seen in the Created property, which is a created time property type. There is...