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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

The sidebar sections, hierarchy, and updates

In this section, you will be going through the left-hand sidebar options, learning the basics of what they are, and how the main page and sidebar hierarchy are organized.

The sidebar hierarchy of pages is similar to File Explorer and can be used for navigation and for moving or reorganizing the workspace in a different way. Understanding how the sidebar functions will give you a high-level view of the page privileges, page structure, and workspace foundation.

At the top of the sidebar, there is the workspace menu, which was covered in Chapter 1, Setting up the Application. This shows the workspaces and accounts that you are signed in to. You can be signed in to multiple accounts at any one time, with all the workspaces shown underneath the appropriate account.

The Quick Find option was covered in the previous section, but finding out what actions are being taken and what notifications you might have in your workspace are located...