You're reading from Enhancing Productivity with Notion Save time on projects by supercharging your productivity with Notion's powerful features and templates

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803232089

Length 312 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Notion

Concepts

Project Management

Author (1):

Danny Hatcher

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Settings and Structure

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Workspace Navigation, Sharing, and Appearance

4. Chapter 3: Templates, Imports, Account Settings, and Workspace Settings

5. Chapter 4: All the Building Blocks

6. Section 2: Database Options, Features, and Functions

7. Chapter 5: All the Basic Database Properties

8. Chapter 6: Database Views

9. Chapter 7: Database Features and Functions

10. Chapter 8: Basic Formula Functions

11. Chapter 9: Advanced Formula Combinations

12. Section 3: Creating Advanced Workflows

13. Chapter 10: Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow

14. Chapter 11: Using API Integration and Add-on Options

15. Chapter 12: Note Taking, Knowledge Management, and a Wiki Example

16. Chapter 13: Other Example Use Cases

17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Contextual dashboards

In this section, you will learn how to utilize the master database setup to create customized contextual dashboards using linked databases. There will be various examples shown using various filters, sorts, groups, and viewing differences to illustrate some of the combinations that are available. This is useful to understand, as each person is likely to have different needs from the information that is stored, and learning how to create contextual dashboards will open up much of Notion's database power.

A potential setup configuration

Using the same master databases from the previous section, Figure 10.3 shows a potential setup configuration:

Figure 10.3 – A list and gallery contextual dashboard

As linked database views don't allow for a name change, the Tasks database can be seen twice in Figure 10.3, as there are two different linked database views on the same page, with one linked database view of the Projects...