What is Notion and why should you use it?
Notion is classified as a note taking app but it is much more than that.
Notion is a way to reprogram the way you think and form connections essentially becoming
your digital brain.
If there is a system of thought in your mind, you can actualize it with Notion.
Notion allows us to clarify and organize all the information we need in one place.
A space to capture thoughts, organize ideas, manage projects, and create systems to more
effectively run your business and your life.
Our brains are for having ideas not storing them so you need to have a system of capturing
new ideas and associating them to a project in order for them to be directly useful.
Once you have such a system in place you can begin to set daily, weekly and monthly goals
for yourself and start to plan ahead in order to achieve your goals.
We forget about 75% of the information we learn after a week from learning it.
We remember 75% when we practice what we’ve learned and 90% when we teach it to someone
else.
You can retain 100% of all the information you learn by creating an information funnel
where everything can easily be captured and organized into categories and topics.
This information system helps you internalize and remember what you’ve learned so you
can implement it into your life.
It also gives you access to all the knowledge you’ve accumulated over the years so you
can easily convert the informational input into creative output for other people to benefit
from including yourself.
You’ll want to be using the Notion web clipper extension to save any form of content online
into your information funnel from where you can organize and process the bookmarks.
These are mainly the areas I focus my attention when it comes to my Notion dashboard but there
are a multitude of systems you can create all relating to different areas of your life.
Here are a few ways in which Notion could be useful to you:
For students you can get yourself a student dashboard showing your schedule and allowing
you to take class notes.
You can get yourself a grade calculator or even a shared homepage for you and your roommates.
Startups and business would benefit from having some sort of a roadmap page, a job application
board or even a full Customer Relationship Management system in their Notion dashboard.
Creators will probably have some sort of a content calendar, a creation workflow or a
way to track their page analytics And for personal use you’ll probably want
a habit tracker, a bullet journal or maybe even a meal planner and travel planner.
These are just a few examples as to how different types of people can use Notion to effectively
optimize their life.
If you want a Notion template for your needs and goals based on your lifestyle, chances
are good it exists
Something I’ve recently used Notion for was creating my new website.
You can simply turn any Notion page into a website by just going to share and toggling
share to web.
This makes your Notion page accessible to anyone with the link.
However I would recommend using a third party software such as super.so to create your Notion
website as it gives you a lot more customization and coding options.
Amongst my new videos planned for the channel is a full Notion Website tutorial so be sure
to subscribe and stay tuned for that.
The link to my website as well as the templates used in this video is in the description.
Creating, optimizing and improving your Notion workflows takes time.
Don’t try and have the perfect Notion system in order to begin because it doesn’t exist.
As we grow and change, so will our systems.
We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.