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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

Viewing database properties

In this section, you will learn how to view the various database properties and alter their appearance on each page. Understanding where and how to view properties will become useful when working out the workflow of everyone in the workspace.

Some people prefer an overview of information so that they can view lots of information at once, whereas other people prefer specific information being shown. Another use case when considering workflows is that properties also appear on each page as metadata, which also impacts workflow.

Note

The screenshots that are in this section are from the table view, but all of the functions mentioned are available across the database view options, which will be covered in Chapter 6, Database Views.

Figure 5.3 shows all the basic property types with a symbol next to each type. That symbol will remain the same in all the views of the database that show the symbol. The symbol and type of property will also remain the...