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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

Chapter 4: All the Building Blocks

This is where Notion starts to separate itself from other applications that you might already be familiar with. Notion is not just an app you use but one that you can build. You are in total control of what information is on each page, what information you see on each page, and how you see it. This is achieved by giving you the power of adding and removing blocks and databases to and from pages.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • The basic and inline block options
  • Creating columns and coloring blocks
  • The media and embed block options
  • Using advanced blocks, actions, and databases

You will learn how to add a block to a page, move a block around a page, and change existing blocks to a different type. This also includes creating columns on pages and understanding which pages allow for block placement.

Additionally, you will learn about the different blocks that you can put onto a page...