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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

Organizing information

In this section, we will cover some options for organizing the notes inside databases and on pages. This can help you keep up to date with information, prevent forgetting information, and avoid things being lost.

Note

In this section, the example that is used utilizes the same database setup from previous chapters alongside the contextual dashboard concept.

The formatting of a page can help with organizing information and notes on a page. By combining the toggle blocks, pages, and columns, you can create a storage system for any block, page, or database that might store information. When using the web clipper with a page, you can move the page or any note into a column, under a toggle, as shown in Figure 12.6:

Figure 12.6 – Organizing a page using columns and toggles

Each page can have various combinations of toggles, columns, and linked databases with multiple color combinations. This style of organization is more manual...