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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 Board database view

In this section, you will create a Board database view and learn which functions and features you can use that are unique to this type of view. A Board view is often used for task and project management, as it mimics the properties of a Kanban board, which is used in knowledge work or for manufacturing processes.

To reiterate this point, the database view still uses the same information as all the other database views if it is created from the same database. The following screenshot shows the same database as seen previously in this chapter, but shows a Board view option and Board view in the linked database:

Figure 6.14: A Board database view in the main database and a linked database view

Note

There will always be a section in the Board view that is for no status. In the example shown in Figure 6.14, No Project Type shows the pages without any status.

Columns are created by property information that is in the database, from...