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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 grouping

In this section, we will cover database grouping, which alters the way the database views can be seen. This feature, just like filtering and sorting, can be applied to any database view, which gives even more flexibility to how to present information.

One of the main benefits of this feature is that you can use all of the properties to group information. This allows the auto filter feature to be used without creating multiple linked databases, there is a smaller need for various database views, and it allows for subgrouping inside of the board database view.

Using Project database from previous sections, we have a relation between the project and a person database, and for easier viewing, we can use groups to separate each project by a person.

Going into the menu at the top right of the database and clicking on Group brings up a grouping menu.

The Group by option gives you a list of all of the properties in that database, which you can select...