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Enhancing Productivity with Notion

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803232089
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

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

The fundamentals of database properties

In this section, you will create a database and all the basic properties, while also learning about the different types of properties. Learning the various property options allows for better filtering and sorting of information when more data is put into databases. Additionally, it will help you to understand the differences when you are looking to use advanced properties.

This can help with creating personalized views using the metadata on each page. Page Metadata refers to the information within the properties that relate to that specific page.

To create a database, you can either make an inline view or create a database. The full-page DATABASE option is shown in Figure 5.1:

Figure 5.1 – The drop-down list inside a page after typing /table into an empty text block, showing the database section

Both will result in a database page being created that you can navigate to. The view type of the database will...

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