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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

Chapter 5: All the Basic Database Properties

Databases inside Notion are where much of the power and flexibility is introduced. They are more than simply a place to store information, and they can be located, filtered, sorted, and changed to create personalized views. Combining various databases views allows flexible personalized dashboards and individualized workflows.

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

  • The fundamentals of database properties
  • Basic database properties
  • Viewing database properties

You will learn how to add a block to a page, move a block around a page, and change existing blocks to a different type. This also includes creating columns in pages and gaining an understanding of what pages allow for block placement.

Additionally, you will learn about all the different options of blocks you can put into a page, from basic blocks to special blocks with added functions, and the database and action block options...

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