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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

Other external import options

In this section, you will import data into your Notion workspace and learn how importing data into Notion works. Each import option function goes through the same process, but there are some differences in how the information is shown depending on the type of import.

This is not only useful for starting your Notion workspace with preexisting information but also for importing data when working on other software such as Excel.

Note

Many online applications will have the option to export the data to a CSV file or Excel. This means that even though there might not be a direct import into Notion, you can still transfer the data.

If you look at the sidebar, underneath Templates, and above Trash, there is an Import option.

There are two main types of data that can be imported into Notion: the first is Text & Markdown and the second is a CSV file, which imports much like many of the other import options, as shown in Figure 3.4:

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