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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

Sharing information

In this section, we will cover some dashboards that can be used to make sharing information easier for the disseminator and the consumer. This will be helpful if you are collaborating with someone unfamiliar with Notion or with a team that has multiple people with various responsibilities and needs for information.

The first thing that helps when organizing a workspace for collaboration is to have a home dashboard that can help with orientation. This would be a top-level page that can be accessed by all individuals in the workspace. From this page, there can be links to contextual dashboards, potentially for specific groups of people, or you can have contextual dashboards showing specific information, allowing for quick navigation back to the home dashboard. This not only makes navigation quicker, but it also makes sharing information easier, as each piece of information has a place.

The home dashboard doesn't need to be overly complex with various linked...