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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 My account settings setup options

In this section, we will go through the account settings, making sure they are safe, connected to the appropriate apps, and show the correct information. Most of the account settings will only be set once and not changed. However, knowing where to look when a change is needed, or to help a co-worker, can really help.

To access the account settings, you need to open the sidebar and click on Settings & Members, which will open up the settings window. This window will show a sidebar section that is split by a WORKSPACE title, as shown in Figure 3.6:

Figure 3.6 – The Settings & Members sidebar section with Members as the currently active window

Every option above the WORKSPACE section, as shown in Figure 3.6, relates only to the account, whereas the other information is specific to the active workspace (that is, the workspace you are currently in).

Note

The account settings are accessible irrespective...