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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 fundamentals of database properties

In this section, you will create a database and all the basic properties, while also learning about the different types of properties. Learning the various property options allows for better filtering and sorting of information when more data is put into databases. Additionally, it will help you to understand the differences when you are looking to use advanced properties.

This can help with creating personalized views using the metadata on each page. Page Metadata refers to the information within the properties that relate to that specific page.

To create a database, you can either make an inline view or create a database. The full-page DATABASE option is shown in Figure 5.1:

Figure 5.1 – The drop-down list inside a page after typing /table into an empty text block, showing the database section

Both will result in a database page being created that you can navigate to. The view type of the database will...