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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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Danny Hatcher Danny Hatcher
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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 basic and inline block options

In this section, you will learn what all the basic blocks in Notion are and how they can be used to create various pages for sharing and storing information. Knowledge of each of these blocks not only helps to reduce the page size and page number, but it also creates an aesthetic that is pleasant to work in.

Understanding block uses can also allow other team members, or collaborators, to create pages to their liking, giving some individual personality to their work environment.

Note

You can only add a block to a page or a page to a database, but you cannot do so for a database page. If the page has a database in its full width with no option to add a block underneath, it is a database page. You can check this by looking at the upper-right three-dot menu and searching for a database lock. If one is present, then it is a database page.

To insert a block onto a page, you can either click on the + option next to an existing block or push...

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