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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 Calendar database view

In this section, we will go over the Calendar database view and how it can help for planning, viewing, and adding information in the date property. This database view does have some limitations when moving across devices, but it can be very powerful when using the Auto-add feature.

The first thing to be aware of when using the Calendar view is the full-page view, which can be accessed by clicking the arrow shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.22: The expand arrow button to access a full-page database view from an inline database view

When you scroll down the page, it will keep moving forward into future dates, whereas if you want to visit previous dates, you need to push the backdate arrow button located next to the Today button, which jumps you to the current date, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.23: The backdate arrow is highlighted next to the Today button

As with the previous...