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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

Database sorting

Database sorting is a feature that can be accessed in every database view and in this section, we will cover how the sorting works and some ideas you could use when thinking about property use.

Sorting is useful for viewing information in more appropriate ways for the situation or context that the page is for. Some individuals may need different views from others and sorting is a great option.

The location of the Sort option is at the top right of the database view in the menu, as shown in Figure 7.13:

Figure 7.13 – The location of the Sort option in the … drop-down menu

Note

Once you have some sorting in the database, the word Sort will appear when you hover over the top right of the database, so there is no need to go to the menu again.

The Sort for menu shows two drop-down options. The first is a list of all the properties in the database, with the second being the actions you can take. The actions list...