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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

Enhancing Productivity with Notion

By : Danny Hatcher
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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

Enhancing Productivity with Notion

4.4 (9)
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)
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Section 1: Settings and Structure
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Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
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Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Setting up the Application, teaches you how to set up your account through the Notion online onboarding process.

Chapter 2, Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance, shows you how to set up your account and manage the workspaces.

Chapter 3, Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings, outlines how to alter settings, import data, and use the default templates provided.

Chapter 4, All the Building Blocks, shows you all the different building blocks available in the Notion application.

Chapter 5, All the Basic Database Properties, teaches you the core functions of the database.

Chapter 6, Database Views, demonstrates how to use the table view, list view, board view, calendar view, gallery view, and timeline view.

Chapter 7, Database Features and Functions, shows you how to use the relation and rollup properties to link databases together, along with the database sorting, filtering, and grouping features.

Chapter 8, Basic Formula Functions, teaches you how to create basic formulas using the formula database property.

Chapter 9, Advanced Formula Combinations, shows you how to use the formula property in databases to use variable inputs to create different outputs.

Chapter 10, Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow, explains why and how to leverage a master database for a specific purpose.

Chapter 11, Using API Integration and Add-on Options, helps you learn how to use the API integration inside a workspace, along with a discussion of the advantages and concerns of using an API.

Chapter 12, Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and Wiki Example, shows you how to capture, organize, and share information through Notion.

Chapter 13, Other Example Use Cases, has a look at how other users have built templates and systems to help them in their daily lives.

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