
Enhancing Productivity with Notion: Save time on projects by supercharging your productivity with Notion's powerful features and templates
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Packt Publishing
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.
About the Author
Danny Hatcher is a researcher in human performance and a digital tool enthusiast. He has made over 100 video tutorials about Notion on YouTube, has spoken on other YouTube channels and podcasts about the tool. He is also a Notion ambassador frequently looking out for new features, use cases, or ideas. Having used the tool over the years personally, he has also helped countless others use it for personal and team use, use cases ranging from trading, accounting, content creation to sport, teaching, music, and lifestyle organization.
- Understand how to set up and build on any device
- Navigate, share and alter the appearance of your workspace
- Import and export data to and from Notion
- Understand how to use all the database views, filters, sorts, and properties
- Create task, wiki, and project management systems
- Connect Notion to third-party applications with the API
Business users, power users, IT professionals, or anyone from a non-technical background looking to use Notion to increase their productivity will find this note-taking book useful.
- Setting up the Application
- Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance
- Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings
- All the building blocks
- All the Basic Database Properties
- Database views
- Database Features and Functions
- Basic Formula Functions
- Advanced formula combinations
- Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow
- Using API Integration and Add-on Options
- Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and Wiki Example
- Other Example Use Cases