Do you still see yourself using Notion in a year?.What features of Notion would fulfill your needs?.What app or system would Notion replace?.Some questions to ask yourself before committing to Notion are as follows: Board view Uses for NotionĮven though Notion is extremely versatile, you should first evaluate if it is suitable for your needs. Boards in Notion follow the Kanban methodology. Boards are flexible because they are essentially a moveable set of cards. List view Boardsīoards can be used to track the status of a project or jot down ideas. They are perfect for skipping the creation of a table. Calendar view ListsĪll of your pages can be viewed as a list to help you visualize what needs to be done in a day. You can set up a reminder for each task too. Adding pages to your calendar can help you plan events, build your first editorial calendar, and simply coordinate your day. Table view CalendarsĬalendars in Notion can be viewed into the week or one month ahead.
A pro tip: Add columns like a due date or files to add even more multimedia to your page. You can create lists and databases with this feature. Tables are like simple Excel sheets that still allow you to customize columns and include unlimited rows. You can take project planning, client meetings, to-do lists, and document creations to the next level. Tables, calendars, boards, and lists are the major blocks that can add significant creative value. Let's move on the more advanced elements. Building a page!Ĭongrats! Now you have officially created a page in Notion. Once a page has been created, you can choose to work from a template or build your own database. Inside of pages you can add notes, to-do lists, tables, calendars, Kanban boards (a way to visually depict work at various stages of a process), and timelines. From here, you can add almost anything to your page or create a new page. Blocks are quite literally the building blocks of your workspace. The fundamentals of Notion include blocks and pages. I use this for everything: school, projects, and even this blog. It is an all-in-one workspace where you can take notes, organize your life, manage a team, and so much more. The application is similar one that makes team management a little easier through the form of created interactive tables.There are a lot of apps, websites, and systems available to use, including Google Drive, Bear, Evernote, OneDrive, etc., but what if one system could do it all?įortunately, Notion does do it all. This could be a bug.Īirtable is one of the more attractive ways to manage new tables that uses integrations to help you connect with other popular productivity tools a little further. For example, I’ve found that creating in-line tables cuts off a lot of the view when crunched into a smaller space. Tables can look messy if added as a block, they aren’t as full-span as they could be within the in-line view. So for example, you could transfer the demonstrated list of “upcoming articles” into a Board or Calendar view without too much visual complication. Remember all of the Notion tables can be converted into another view without damaging the table’s content.
But what issues will you face when using them to be aware of?! What limitations do tables hold? There are so many different situations you can apply the use of tables. The nature of the flexibility allows you to apply to a lot of things that warrant the creation of a Google Sheet or Excel document. Understanding how you can apply tables inside of Notion to all of your projects and activities might be helpful.
Now you’ve added new blocks and created your first few tables.
You can add as much as you like to this giving you a flexible workspace to add more detail to new table rows without the need to add any more additional columns.įrom this view, you can even share, favourite, export as MDK or PDF and see updates, if you work with a team. This essentially works as a new page, you can add links, elements, blocks and even new tables, calendars, sub-headers, images etc. Once you create a page row, you can now add any additional information to it from the “Open” view. The page is not invasive so it won’t turn the row into a bulkier page or card, only as a selectable asset in the row. You can enter any new row and create it as a page. Adding those interactive columns earlier will add some context to your table without the need to go into the row.Ĭreating new rows comes with many benefits that don’t end there. Adding new rows will help you to add a new entry very similar to Google Sheets or even Microsoft Excel. Once you’re happy with the Notion columns, great! Next step is to create your row.