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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

Planning dashboards

In this section, you will see lots of dashboard combinations that are used to help with planning tasks, projects, notes, and events. These examples will use the master database concept, contextual dashboard concept, and other database and page features, which will be explained.

Note

Each template in this section is either created by me or by other Notion ambassadors that are happy to share their work as examples. The example is briefly explained with a link for you to follow if you would like further details on the specifics.

Student Workspace

When thinking about creating a page for planning, considering all the elements that are included in the planning is the first step. For most people, tasks will be something to keep track of, alongside events. But for students it may look like Figure 13.1, with tasks and lectures alongside other important planning elements:

Figure 13.1 – Student Workspace template with four list database...