How To Use Notion For Productivity
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Apr 19, 2024
In this video, we'll explore how to maximize productivity using Notion, a versatile tool for task management, note-taking, and collaboration. Learn how to set up databases, customize templates, and integrate advanced features to streamline your workflow and stay organized. Whether you're a student, professional, or entrepreneur, this guide will help you harness the full potential of Notion for enhanced productivity.
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How to use Notion for productivity. Hi guys welcome back to another video and in this video
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I'm going to be telling you how you can use Notion to increase your productivity. So having said that
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let's just jump into the video. So as you can see I'm on the main website notion.so and over here
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as you can see this is how the website looks like. Now what we're going to do is we can go ahead and
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sign up and we can also download the application as well. So first I'm going to go ahead and sign
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up and then I'll download the application if need be. And the signup process is very simple all you
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got to do is you simply click on get Notion free and just simply sign up either using your email
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address or continuing with Google or Apple. And then you just simply choose what are you going to
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be using Notion for. For team, for personal use, for school, it depends on you. I'm going to choose
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personal and click on continue and then it'll take you to your workspace. And over here you can go
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ahead and get started with it. You can first go ahead and you know type in all of the notes
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over here as you can see click anywhere and just start typing hit the forward slash to see all the
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types of content you can add header video subs pages whatever highlight the text and use the
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menu that pops up to style the writing however you like it. It's really cool. So over here I'll just
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type just simply click over here and press the space button the AI will pop up as you can see
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and if you click the backspace it'll go away and if you select the forward slash button you can go
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ahead and select all these different options that you can see image web pages videos embedded audio
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code file table view board view you can change all the types of views that you have. It has a lot of
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different options as you can see right here. You can even choose and select the applications that
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have already been embedded with Notion such as Google Drive, Twitter, GitHub, Maps, Figma and many
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many more. As you can see you have different types of text as you can see columns headings
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tables of content as well. So you can just simply go ahead and select text and over here I'll just
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write create a video on Notion and this is the task and if I just simply highlight it I can go
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ahead and select all these different options that I have such as the text option right here. I can
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go ahead and change it to whatever I want as you can see right here. I can even add a link to it
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if I want to. You can comment it you can make it bold or italicize it underline it you can strike
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through as well you can mark as a code create an equation as well and you can text the color
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by using these different options that you can see right here. So yellow background with a black text
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or default or you can select the different background colors right here. So if I click on red
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text as you can see and I can choose the background however I want to. As you can see this is how it
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looks like it looks really cool and it looks really really nice and you can even mention other
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persons if you have added them over here. Now this was a general overview right over of Notion and
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now on the left hand side you have all the other options as well. So as you can see you have quick
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notes personal home task list journals reading list you can add different pages over here and
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you can even select different templates and import different templates as well and you can create a
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team space for teams if you have selected that option in the beginning when you were creating an
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account. Now this was a general overview of Notion so now let's get into it and see how you can use
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Notion to get more productive. So as you can see over here on the left hand side you have a bunch
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of different options. So this is getting started of course you can delete this once you've you know
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done with it you've seen it how it looks and all of that you can go ahead and delete it but the main
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focus is going to be on the other pages as you can see you can create different pages by clicking
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on the add a page button. Now we already have some quick notes over here some personal home we have
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task list over here journal reading list and all of that so you can go ahead and use this template
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that is already made or you can just simply click on the template option and select what you want
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So over here you can see you have projects and tasks this is a template that you can use as well
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so over here and over here this is how it's going to look like you're going to have your tasks
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over here project names their dates and their project and the people that are working over here
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project tasks and sprints so sprints are going to be basically quick tests that you have to do it
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immediately there's meetings as well there's wiki docs there's also about life so they're all the
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templates are characterized into different categories like student life product management design engineering marketing human resources sales support all of that so you can go ahead and use
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that or you can just simply you know create one yourself for me I really think that since you're
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getting started with it the to-do list is actually really important and project and tasks are going
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to be really important and if you have some meetings and documentations that you can go ahead
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and use that as well but it depends on you but you can also use the pre-made ones as well like
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for example in personal home right you want to add different goals like yearly goals travel plans or
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movie lists right you can go ahead and just simply click on one of this list and you can go ahead and
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add a movie so this is a movie that's already been added I haven't actually watched this so
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we'll just simply go ahead and delete them and over here you can just simply add a movie and you
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can put a link as well and you can create a bookmark if that is what you want but I already
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have a bunch of lists that I can use so you could go ahead and select a list as well so over here
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you can just simply add movie links and you should be good to go but I think we should move on next
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we have also have yearly goals as well so you know you can go ahead and add yearly goals so this could
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be like earning a hundred thousand dollars over here I'm not quite there yes I think I might have
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crossed the 50 percent mark or maybe even 60 but I'm not really sure but you can create that these
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types of goals as well it depends on you so this is going to be like your motivation right next is
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very important right we can let me actually add a page right here so over here this is going to be
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like a to-do list right and this is going to be your of course your daily planner if you want
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so you could go ahead and add that so we have this one right here create we can add and change
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different tasks over here so I'm going to create a task right here so I'll just say create two videos
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right any videos I want and I'll also create do three biddings on Upwork we could create a task
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like that and we can also add this one as well so this one is not started yet and this one is also
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not started yet this one is in progress so we'll just say that over here you can add different
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assignees as well if you want and you can add a due date as well so the due date is going to be
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right now which is the 26th I'll add that we can even include the time as well if you want
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and the time is going to be by 12 a.m yeah I think that's good same with this one as well
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by 12 a.m and for this one as well so you can add these different tasks right here
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as you can see right here we can also add more tasks right here we'll just say have a meeting
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have a meeting with your partner or whatever we'll add that then we can also add a due date as well
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and since we have a meeting we can also add a new page and we can import the template of meetings
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right here now we'll click on get meeting right here we can add different meeting sections right
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here week team week weekly team meetings team stand-ups and all of that we can select the
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calendar view as well so you can see where your meetings are you can add list type as well and
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you can add mine as well so over here are going to be the meetings that you have to do and click
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on all to view all the meetings as well so different sections can be used for different
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things so it's all very simple it depends on you and how you want to you know set up your day-to-day
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schedule it's actually really simple you can add different tasks over here as i said before
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you can add reading list you can even have a journal option right here so you can go ahead
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and add different journals right here so daily reflections hawaii vacation you have so much to
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be grateful for 20th birthdays date with stewart and date with stewart no i do not want to date
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with stewart so we'll just remove that how do i remove that so we'll just delete that by just
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simply right clicking and clicking on delete oops date with stewart there we go there we go so very
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simple this is how you do it this is how you get started with notion it's very simple you just
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simply add your tasks or you can select a template option if you want or you can just simply create
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yourselves by clicking on the empty page button right here and getting started with it you can
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add a title add an icon cover and comment and just go ahead and start using it so very simple
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this is how you do it this is how you get more productive with notion so that is it for this
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video guys hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did be sure to hit the like button subscribe to the channel and turn on post notifications and i will catch you guys in the next video and
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until then take care and goodbye
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