Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel it is
Francesco here in today's video. We're going to be taking a look at the brand new notion search
It's in beta at the moment for me, but it will be available today. So I'll include the what's new
Page that notion have in description below. I know a lot of notion is no Shania's
Actually are really interested in search upgrading obviously
There's been autofocus on the stability the offline ability of notion. So I think this would be a nice update
what I'm gonna do in this video is actually told you around what it looks like how it works and
Give you a few of my opinions and I also want to maybe leave a few notes at the end
for the notion team maybe to incorporate into the next version then maybe I have just because you know
always
Progressing and improving, but as you can imagine they may have actually solve these by the time they release this today
So as you can imagine just something to note. You may not you see it in your live version it goes
So as you can see I am on our account hit the key productive account
I'm looking at the podcast calendar because I'm seeing obviously who's coming up next in terms of interviews now
Obviously you can do it in two different ways
If you're a Mac, I think the command is command P so you can see this is new search
It's slightly different and previously it was more of just sort of a panel for you know
being able to add stuff but the idea behind this is just to make it a better search to
Build a bit be a bit more refined in a sense. So if I
For example went on to the recent pages. You can see that the recent pages appear here
And if I press ENTER on any of them obviously take me to that page, so that that's quite nice
And as you can see here
You know, it's got all of my most recent ones that I've been in but what you can do is for example
You can start typing away. So if I wanted to find
the
Actually, I'm going to say a specific feature that we have next week. We have a
Tour of an application called Miro you can see there I can obviously go straight to it now
There is a few additional things if you're trying to go a little bit deeper
with your search results and that's
Sort and so sort by is based on best matches
So if you have lots of different database entries and things like that, then it's give it give you best matches
But obviously a longer list you can have it last edited
Newest first or oldest first and even when it's created now, let me give you another example of how the filters work
so let's say I wanted to
holidays, so if I looked for holiday
Holidays, this is when we had our holidays before if I went to add
Filters I could actually go and look for something very specific
so in this case
I could open this menu up and you can see only the ones that match the title
So you can see here that has already reduced the list. I remember when we're doing their present ideas
Obviously it's going to drill that down by page and author
But you could also do ones only created by me
So as you can see here, you can a filter by person or author so you can also add for example
We have Alice and Ben on another page and that I invited so obviously I could drill down to only what Alice is made
so if I remove myself
I could add a person and I should be able to remove myself. There we go. So this will only appear when Alice there
So we can see that she had holiday time off for graduation
So that drills it down but author so if I can remove that you can also have edited last week
Which is quite a nice little sort of quick edit. So for example, if I
wanted to actually go onto a
Podcast if I typed in podcast, and you can see here
These are the ones I actually edited last week
In that time spam which you can click on and edit if you want to do so, for example, if I was like, okay
I want to see which ones I only edited between these days and
As you can see it goes even thinner and I can say ok. Only the ones I edited on Tuesday
Tuesday -
Yep, that's it, Tuesday to Wednesday
There we go. And
As you can see I actually didn't do anything there
So last editing is quite helpful one
But that's in the quite a nice pin because you can go like last edited last week
Which gives you a clue sale Mondays when you're like, okay, you know, what did I get done last week?
You can also see here in the current page. So for example in the current page, which is detected as the podcast calendar
you can then search so I can be like
You know, oh, let's have a look for
Eric who were interviewing next week and
You can see there that it drills down and finds Eric's very specifically and you can even add a page if you wanted to
Of anything else that it might be related to which is quite cool so you can then find per page
Specifics which is very good. So if I go have that that's the quick filter settings. So again author date and
in page
So down here, you've got more filters. You've got in page
Of another page so you don't necessarily have to go through that quick filter of in page in current page
you can user created by without doing that complicated then so could be like
Okay, what's been created by Ben and you can also give it a specific day so it could be like, okay last July
Between these days. What did I go and create they had Erica net or what? Did I am create in general?
I'm guessing I can just run a blank filter Oh
Didn't like that. I can't run a blank filter
You have to always have text there. So if I say anything that
was a title youtube and
I went to
created by
Actually created and I went to last july. I
Could say any projects that I or anything that I had that was relevant to youtube
looks like I didn't I think I was on holiday that time but you can get the concept very easy to use as well as
Last edited so that's all very useful
So my initial opinions are I'm very happy that they've upgraded the notion search
This is something that it should be have been around for a while
As you can imagine I don't it fully fixed in my opinion
Just yeah, obviously it's a much better experience and we currently half and I can imagine actually finding very specific things
Inside of deep folders or areas that you may have created at home
It's going to be a lot better. I can see that there's gonna be a lot of value
from using this
however
I would say a search that would be able to drill down
Format types of files would be pretty beautiful can imagine they're gonna be adding that
I would also like date based ones. So for example if I typed in
tomorrow
You can see that any keyword mention of tomorrow pops up and I could
Go into here and maybe add a date. But at the same time it have to relate to that keyword
so having one that
Associates to date like I could just type in today or
There be an option for today and it will come up anything that I've created and any reminders that I had associated to it
anything that might be important related to today has a due date for today as almost like a
Layover dashboard to what? We've already got that would be pretty cool. So
Formats dates I wouldn't say people necessarily
I would say these are my two sort of things. I'd like to see in the search
Obviously the thing that at the moment is I'm not unlocking the searches the offline abilities and they've just added this stability update
So I could imagine when they get the offline update
it becomes a lot better as a search experience because
you'll be able to access more older databases and you can download what you need and
I guess to some extent what I was mentioning in the
Sort of like a mini layover dashboard. You can see here that
You know
Like we like getting updates like analysis latest article in the top 25 project management applications. You can see here
She'd give me updates and you know, I'm getting updates on like dates and stuff
But it's not really a comprehensive method. I think search could be a nice way to do that
maybe up to opening up and seeing like
Almost what you need to get done during the day because you can see all the all updates, but it's not in the same fashion
so guys
Overall my opinions good. I think it's a great update
I'm glad they added some stability stuff and there's some slight improvements in at least the Mac application
I'm really try it on mobile yet, but seems a little bit snappier since the previous update in December
Let me know what you think because obviously this is a community thing and the more I think the more things that they have
Said to them the better and more experience they get at developing it but as you can imagine a big
Thank you guys, if you want to check out the notion course
that's
Fantastic, you can find it in a link in description
We're doing a small discount of $50 using the webinar 50 code checkout and you get 50 bucks off
But that's only till Thursday. So do just make sure you take advantage of that, but guys a big
Thank you, and hopefully this tour was nice and useful. I look forward to seeing and hearing your comments
I've been a little bit bad on the youtube comment side of stuff recently
But I will be checking that out and I look forward to hearing what you think is the best
Sort of additions they can add it to this update. So guys a big. Thank you and I told you guys
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