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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

Using Quick Find and breadcrumbs

In this section, you will go into your Notion workspace and search for different blocks and pages within the space and learn how the breadcrumb works when navigating through pages. Breadcrumbs are extremely useful when trying to locate specific blocks, pages, or databases when you can't find them, have no quick or easy way to get to them, or you don't remember if you already have a page, block, or database made for a certain purpose.

At this point, you should have an account and a workspace to navigate around, either with some default templates from the onboarding process or just the Getting Started page.

Quick Find

The Quick Find search option is the most global search option inside Notion. It will go through each block, page, and database in search of the terms that you enter:

  1. To access this search option, you can go to the left-hand sidebar, underneath the workspace menu, and click on Quick Find.

    Note

    As mentioned in Chapter...