Notion is a popular productivity tool, but it can be daunting at first.
The app does a lot of different things and uses terminology you may not be familiar with.
Take it slowly with this step-by-step guide.
What Is Notion?
you’ve got the option to even use it to host a website!
However, its best not to run before you’ve got the option to walk.
The next screen asks Whats on your mind?
and you might select any of the available features.
Notion will attempt to personalize your experience based on your selection.
Again, I recommend you skip this by selecting nothing and pressing eitherContinueorSkip for now.
For large projects, you’ve got the option to use a sophisticated hierarchy to organize your thoughts.
Your new page will not show in the sidebar by default.
To confirm youve created it, simply snag the page icon to the left of its parent page.
This will expand the parent page, displaying its sub-pages.
Start by clicking the Templates menu in the sidebar.
This will open a template gallery from which you’ve got the option to search and select templates.
Try theTo-do listtemplate and clickGet templateonce youve found it.
This will create a new page from that template.
This is what Notion calls a database.
A Notion database is simply a collection of pages with different views to show specific information from those pages.
Notion uses the fundamental concepts of blocks, templates, and databases to provide much more functionality.
Aside from these features,Notion can use AIto summarize or translate your pages.
It alsolets you set task reminders, embed a Spotify playlist, and much, much more.
