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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 media and embed block options

In this section, you will learn how to embed media and other tools in a page. This is often useful for visual users of a tool, for showing images, embedding instructional videos, or including another tool in the space. Another common use is to just have links going to other places on the internet.

Media blocks

The blocks that are underneath the MEDIA section are mostly using external links or files to be displayed in Notion:

  • The Image block allows you to upload an image, embed a linked image from other places on the web, or use Unsplash for something such as the page icon.

    Note

    The upload size of any file will be limited depending on what payment plan you are on. Some plans limit individual uploads to 5 MB, so it is worth checking this.

  • The Web bookmark block is a way of showing a web link in a button format instead of seeing the text link, as shown in Figure 4.15:

Figure 4.17: An example of a Web bookmark...