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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 Gallery database view

In this section, you will learn about the Gallery database view, which has lots of similarities with the Board database view but does not use groupings in the view. This database view can be useful for a more visual aesthetic and can be used as a horizontal or vertical button display, allowing for better customization of showing information.

The Gallery view works with each page as a card, which is viewed in a grid display, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.20: Two Gallery database views

Note

Every Gallery view will have an empty card with + New in it, giving the option for a new page to be created. There is no way to remove this from the view.

As seen in Figure 6.20, the Gallery view gives you the option to show things on cards. This feature is also available in the previously mentioned Board view by going to the Preview option and selecting Cover or Content. As the page preview option for Figure 6.20 is set...