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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 fundamental database views

In this section, you will learn about the Table database view functions with calculations and the main views that you will see alongside the List views. This is important as the Table view is often the best view for maintenance of data, and it helps you see the most information on your screen at once, whereas the List view is great for seeing important information without overload.

Note

Every database view can be full-page or inline, both with unique differences, but all the information stored in the database is added and removed in each instance. This means that if you add something to an inline-linked view of a database, it will be added to every instance of that database.

You can create a Table database view by typing /table into a textbox and selecting Table - Inline for an inline view and Table - Full page for a full-page view. This will create a first instance of the database. The following screenshot shows the drop-down menu, which will...