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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

How to use the rollup property

This section covers the rollup database property and how you can use it to get calculations from another database and use that value in various views, as well as shows us how rollups can be used to change the information you see.

The reason this property is so powerful is that it saves navigation time, helps create clear overviews, and calculates the value and numbers you are looking for.

Note

As mentioned previously, you cannot use a rollup property without a relation property in the database.

Using the same database as the previous chapter, we are going to add a rollup property showing information across databases. Figure 7.8 shows selecting the relation property in the rollup configuration window. This drop-down menu will only show relation properties that are in the same database you are creating the rollup in:

Figure 7.8 – Selecting the relation property for the rollup configuration

Once the relationship...