Book Image

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

Basic database properties

In this section, you will learn about all the basic properties that you can use inside a database. These properties include manual input properties that function in the same way as blocks on a page but are inserted into the metadata of the page in the database. They also include some automatic properties that, after inclusion, don't require any manual work.

Understanding all of these options will give you flexibility later on when you are looking to view the information in different database views. These properties can also be used to filter and sort information for personalized and contextual database views.

The Text property

The Text property is a simple text editor that allows you to enter any text style such as letters, numbers, symbols, and emojis. You can start a new line by using Shift + Enter while typing, giving you a different aesthetic in the property:

Note

When using the Shift + Enter aesthetic, the lines will make the table...