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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 basic and inline block options

In this section, you will learn what all the basic blocks in Notion are and how they can be used to create various pages for sharing and storing information. Knowledge of each of these blocks not only helps to reduce the page size and page number, but it also creates an aesthetic that is pleasant to work in.

Understanding block uses can also allow other team members, or collaborators, to create pages to their liking, giving some individual personality to their work environment.

Note

You can only add a block to a page or a page to a database, but you cannot do so for a database page. If the page has a database in its full width with no option to add a block underneath, it is a database page. You can check this by looking at the upper-right three-dot menu and searching for a database lock. If one is present, then it is a database page.

To insert a block onto a page, you can either click on the + option next to an existing block or push...