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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 Timeline database view

In this section, we will go through the Timeline database view. As mentioned previously, this view has limited uses depending on the plan of the workspace, which was covered in Chapter 3, Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings.

This view has much more flexibility when looking at the information when considering time, as it has an Hours, Day, Week, Bi-week, Month, Quarter, and Year view, allowing for various levels of overview, as shown in the following screenshot. This view mimics much of the Gantt chart style view you may have seen or experienced in other applications.

Figure 6.30: Different types of views available in the Timeline view

The view works in a similar way to the Calendar view in that instead of having one option in the Calendar by setting, there are two date properties allowed in the Timeline by settings, meaning you can use a Start date property and End date property. This allows for options...