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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

Chapter 7: Database Features and Functions

Thankfully, the advanced properties of the Notion database help increase the features and flexibility drastically. The relation property combines different databases and transfers data, and the rollup property acts as a lookup of information from other databases.

In addition to this, the filtering and sorting options on each database view can add another level of flexibility in viewing the database brought together by the various properties.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following:

  • How to use the relation property
  • How to use the rollup property
  • The database sorting option
  • The database filtering option
  • Database grouping

You will learn how to use each of these advanced database features to your advantage, bringing together all the data from your workspace to create whatever view suits you and/or your team.