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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 2: Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance

As an online tool, Notion has many features for collaboration, which means appearance and navigation need to stay consistent across platforms. There are still differences and nuances in how the tool looks and functions for each user, and these differences will be covered in this chapter. In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Quick Find and breadcrumb navigation
  • Sidebar navigation
  • Sharing and collaboration options
  • Page appearance options

You will learn how to navigate Notion through the Quick Find search option and Breadcrumb, which, in Notion, is similar to a traditional File Explorer path, but instead of showing a folder path leading to a file, it shows page paths going down the hierarchy leading to a page.

Additionally, you will learn how to use the sidebar as a file and folder manager and gain an understanding of how each page will appear in the sidebar for ease...