Book description
Written by an experienced Notion Ambassador, this book helps you become proficient with the features, functions, and flexibility of the Notion app to make work and personal life easier
Key Features
- Create accounts, workspaces, and dashboards using all of Notion's flexible features
- Develop the skills you need to work in various contexts, while working collaboratively with others
- Use basic and advanced blocks, databases, and functions to optimize a workflow that works for you
Book Description
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.
What you will learn
- 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
Who this book is for
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.
Table of contents
- Enhancing Productivity with Notion
- Copyright © 2022 Packt Publishing
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Preface
- Section 1: Settings and Structure
- Chapter 1: Setting Up the Application
- Chapter 2: Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance
- Chapter 3: Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings
- Chapter 4: All the Building Blocks
- Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions
- Chapter 5: All the Basic Database Properties
- Chapter 6: Database Views
- Chapter 7: Database Features and Functions
- Chapter 8: Basic Formula Functions
- Chapter 9: Advanced Formula Combinations
- Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows
- Chapter 10: Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow
- Chapter 11: Using API Integration and Add-on Options
- Chapter 12: Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and a Wiki Example
- Chapter 13: Other Example Use Cases
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Enhancing Productivity with Notion
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2022
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781803232089
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