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

Chapter 10: Creating an Action Management Contextual Dashboard and Workflow

In this chapter, we will look at how to create pages in Notion that can be used as dashboards to show specific information in linked database views with formulas relating to task and project management. This can then extend into other pages in the workspace to provide high-level contextual dashboards and lower-level dashboards for various users.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

Master databases
Contextual dashboards
Using database templates in workflows
Creating an advanced countdown formula

You will learn about the best practices for creating and storing information in databases while creating views from that stored data. You will learn how to combine the principles of pages aesthetics, linked database views, and database template features to create quicker workflows. Finally, this chapter will teach you how to take a contextual dashboard, isolate...