in this video we are going to find how
to make your notion pages stop looking
like this and look more like this
but is this necessary do you need an
aesthetic notion workspace to be
productive efficient and the best
version of yourself
well absolutely not
but it's fun so why not right designing
and adapting your tools to an aesthetic
that you identify yourself with may not
actually make you more productive but it
does add some fun to the process and
identifying your work and study routine
with a fun experience is always the best
way to actually stay motivated to do
your work so let's get started
let's start with the basics notion lacks
some powerful calendar and time tracking
features so being able to embed your own
calendar in your workspace can be a good
alternative if you simply can't bother
with switching back and forth between
different productivity tools
indify has a nice google calendar widget
that you can add anywhere in your notion
workspace to check your calendar and
this will work with monthly weekly and
daily views
pair it off with a nice section to write
down any to-do's of the day and you got
yourself a simple but effective time
management system in your workspace
icons are a big part of notion besides
illustrating the page you're editing or
creating icons can also help you
categorize information for instance in
kanban board view i use icons to signal
whether one of the ideas is on hold in
progress or completed you can apply the
same principle to several other areas in
your notion workspace so having a
cohesive icon list can make a big
difference
my advice is to go to a website like
vladicon and create a customizable icon
collection that you can download into an
ocean page to keep all of those icons at
hand using the same icons and giving
them a specific purpose will help you
identify your color key throughout the
workspace giving you a powerful tool to
categorize and organize things
the live progress widget is another
great in defy plugin that basically
helps you set a timeline that breaks
down various units the main purpose is
to establish your live progress but of
course you can select other types of due
dates
it's pretty minimal and aesthetic and
updates daily so it's a fantastic
countdown to keep at hand
you can also create a synced block in
your notion workspace and copy and paste
it throughout all of your workspace
while keeping an embedded playlist
inside your sync block of course you can
also keep any other kind of information
in there but when you embed a playlist
that way your notion workspace will have
its own theme song or individual
playlist
and if that isn't main character
material i don't know what is
noah chart is a plugin that turns your
notion databases into well interactive
and customizable motion charts
the app gathers the data from the
database embeds the chart into any page
with a click and you can tell it exactly
what you want to see from that database
and the ai will do the job for you
it's great to share insights with other
people or if you're a visual learner to
see your data arranged in a different
more intuitive way
and for day-to-day management it can be
quite useful to have a comprehensive
weather plug-in in your main notion
dashboard there are several weather
widgets available for notion but i'm a
fan of indifi's weather widgets as it
has a very minimal aesthetic and shows
you the weekly weather for your selected
location you can also click and drag it
and drop it anywhere in your workspace
if you're leaning to a more visually
appealing way to organize pages and
information having a beautiful color
coordinated gallery is the way to go
when creating a gallery block go to the
layout options and allow card preview to
match your card cover you can use colors
to generate a color palette that you can
use throughout your whole notion
workspace to ensure everything looks put
together make sure your card icons don't
clash with the covers you choose and
you're good to go
and if you have part of your financial
life or other types of data in your
notion workspace having a handy
calculator widget nearby can be useful
and also look actually pretty cool
and because we can't get enough of in
the fight today i also want to introduce
you to a concept i rarely see in
workspaces and that is a possibility to
create buttons to navigate your
workspace in a very visually pleasing
way you can customize the button the way
you like choosing colors and different
formats and then you can hyperlink any
kind of page to that button
you can place it anywhere in your
workspace create multiple buttons for
different purposes and overall just make
these links pop out very nicely in your
workspace
and finally i want to talk about doccam
doccam is still very early in its
development but i wanted to include it
in this list as i believe this will
completely transform the way you use
notion and that's because dockham
basically turned your notion content
into mind maps this can be an incredible
option for people who want to use notion
to take notes and love the ability to
study their notes in mind map format but
it can also be great for visual learners
in general
after selecting a starting block doccam
uses smart features to transform toggle
blocks colored text checkboxes and even
images into a mind map format the same
happens with structured databases and
because they're interactive you can
collapse and expand blocks zoom in and
out and overall just customize the map
as your own while staying true to
notions minimalistic style
and you can use notion to organize your
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i really hope you've enjoyed today's
video and i will see you next week bye
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