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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

Creating columns and coloring blocks

In this section, you will learn how to use some of the basic blocks to format a page and create different aesthetics. This is a crucial skill to learn when creating pages in Notion, as some pages suit devices better than others, and some pages can be condensed by using some of the tools available when formatting blocks.

Irrespective of the type of block on the page, there will be two options to the left-hand side of each block—a + option and an ⋮⋮ option—as shown in Figure 4.1. To move a block, you can use the ⋮⋮ icon:

  1. First, you need to select the block by clicking on the ⋮⋮ icon and dragging your mouse over the desired blocks (or while editing the block, push Esc on the keyboard):

Figure 4.4: A highlighted text block with the words "A text block" written inside

  1. Once the desired blocks have been highlighted, you can click and hold the...