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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

Using advanced blocks, actions, and databases

In this section, you will add the advanced blocks onto a page and use the additional functions each block gives you. Navigate through the actions that can be taken on each block, some of which are specific to certain block types. Then, cover the database options when going through the block menu.

The advanced blocks are great tools for saving time in a workflow by helping with the creation of blocks, navigating through pages, or ensuring synchronicity across the workspace:

  • A Table of contents block is a block that is placed on a page, and it will automatically show each heading that is on the page. It will indent Heading 2 and Heading 3 under Heading 1, and indent Heading 3 under Heading 2, as shown in Figure 4.17.

    Note

    By clicking on the heading in the table of contents block it will take you to that location on the page. To get back to the table of contents you would need to scroll or navigate another way.

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