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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 Workspace settings setup options

In this section, you will go through the workspace settings, making sure your guests, members, and admins are in order. The plan you are on gives you the features you want and ensures that the billing is correct. Additionally, you will see where the integration and security information is stored; however, this section will mostly focus on the plan and member sections.

This is important because as your team grows or your use case for Notion increases, there might be features you are looking for that require a different plan, as there are limitations to each plan.

Note

The settings you see in each workspace will be dependent on your account privileges in that workspace. If you are accessing a workspace without admin privileges, you won't have access to every settings section.

Settings

The Settings section is where you can change the name of the workspace, and this will be seen by any other user. The icon can also be changed—...