hi there jamie here today at teachers tech hope you're having a great day today today i want to
show you how to use notion now i started using notion a couple of months ago and i've been really
impressed with it you can use it as little as possible just to keep some daily tasks going and
or keeping yourself organized but it has the power to be so much more for teams and organizations
so i'm going to show you the free version today that's what i'm using i'm going to be
starting from scratch with notion then walking through how you can set up notion for you to
get the most out of it let's get started with how to use notion here today on teachers tech
i'll put the link to notion down below in the description you can click on it will take
you right to this page and also time stamp everything in this video that you can jump
around to different parts if you're looking for something specific one of the things i love about
notion is just how flexible it is you can quickly drag and drop pages add things to pages quickly
create databases in it and i want to go all over those things but let's first with starting
a account a free account in notion so i'm going to go up to the top here just where it says try
notion for free and you're going to see i have some options to sign in i can either sign in with
google apple or create one i'm going to go ahead and connect it to just a demo gmail account that
i have for this tutorial here today and then i'm going to just select this and log in so you'll see
it's going to be this easy to create your account you can create it with your team or for yourself
i'm just going to do it for myself in this example here but remember you can grow with notion keep it
start it off simple then grow with it if you need to be sharing different uh pages or invite team
members into it but i'm going to just go take me to notion and you'll see at this point it's going
to set up a spot that's going to look very similar for everybody and i like it how they put the pages
uh in it so you can get some examples with these pages i could go through and edit them and start
from there or i can delete them or i'll start from scratch that's what i'm going to start with right
now just a little walk around what you're going to see and then we'll start creating some pages
i'm going to keep the templates that they show us over here notice i could hit clear templates
but i'm just going to hit okay now what i want to point out with when you're using notion you
have these different pages here and any of these can be open up if i click on the down arrow you
can see that there are sub pages underneath these here at any point if you're using these templates
you can quickly alter them change the names for an example if you didn't want this journal look if i
hit these three little dots here i can have delete if you see something that you really like and you
want quick access to it we could add to favorites so if i click on it it creates this topic right up
here favorites so those three little dots can do a lot i can remove from favorites to put them back
down so as i open up different ones if i go to a reading list you can see how they have it set up
inside of any of these pages are going to be blocks so this is a block in here
at any point if you wanted to you can move these blocks around i can click and drag and move them
on the page so it makes it very easy to manipulate i can click to add a block here and when i go
ahead and add a block i can choose what i want from here so maybe is there a certain quote that
you found or you could add dividers or a table or you want a quick bulleted list you can start
with here and just put information in so if i put another one and then i have that list the other
thing that i like with any of these if i drag it over to the side over here i can move it around
and i'll just move it on the outside of this notice i created columns so any of these templates
can be manipulated you can delete whole pages if i don't want this journal i can go ahead and hit
delete use the ones that you want to get yourself started so maybe you want your personal home one
set up like this i want to point out when you're creating these it creates this wiki inside here so
it gives these links so if i go to movie list it gives me connects to a movie list inside
of here that you can keep track of everything so that's just a little bit about how you can
manipulate the templates but what i want to do next is just start from scratch with the page
right before we start this blank page i just want to point out you can download an app for this too
and it runs a little bit faster notice that there was a notification right here so i'm on windows
but if you're on mac you can download the app too if i go up top here you'll be able to see where
it says get windows app i'll talk about settings and everything later on in this video again just
check the timestamps down below so down below here i'm just going to go new page and when i click on
new page we have some options and in this case i'm just going to start with a blank page and i'll do
another page where it's going to be a database but in this case it's just going to be a blank page
and i'm just going to call this we'll keep this simple this is just going to be a demo page here
now we have some choices do i want an empty icon empty templates and i'm going to make
another page just showing how the options with templates and the templates are great because they
save you a lot of time and then you can go through modify the way you want or you can
import but i'm just going to do i'm going to do an empty one here and then add the icon
i do want to point out right up here we can change this at any time there's different styles uh for
the font here you can see as i click on it we have small width full width so if there's some
customization uh customization you'd want there take a look at these and right away i can add two
favorites here so i'm just going to go ahead and click off this and you'll see as soon as i do that
if i look over here i have demo page when i click on it i have all these options now that i can
add to this demo page now i'm going to customize this a bit here and i said before even after you
can click on this and do your customization here's another shortcut just to pin this as your favorite
now i'm going to hover over up here and i can add an icon so the icon will show up just how
these books are so if i go add an icon this pops up but i can click on this and add some more so
you can do some searches if you want or take a look at the different options that you have here
so you can even upload on it so i'm just going to go ahead and we'll just pick this
one here and you can see how it gets updated if i want to change it just click on it again
and it's very easy i can add a cover the cover when i click on it just picks this one
i can change the cover i can upload a cover too so if there's something you want to upload that you
have to personalize it more you can do that you can link this too and you can see you can go to
unsplash here i'm just going to go ahead and just pick one of these here so i'm going to pick this
and you can see how it's updated very quickly that's what i like is how quickly this updates
we can reposition so if i reposition you can see i can make something kind of stand out more
if i want all right so we got our page all set up the way we want it to look uh we can change this
too if i drag this so all these are draggable if i wanted a different part notice how i
put it right into here so you can just drag them around very very quickly at this point i can add
start adding my blocks i can click on the page and i'm ready to go notice if i click the plus right
here i have the blocks or else i can just hit the forward slash and it's going to come up too
so i guess you would have to choose what you wanted to start with so if you're going to
just add some text to it i can type some info and then you have this in take a look at the different
options so as soon as i highlight this notice i get some more options so i can go and bold this
italicize and just as a normal web document editor it looks very similar and works very
similar so i can even link this so if i wanted to link this to a website i can go and paste the link
right in here notice i have more options here if i want to delete duplicate and so on uh i want to
point out also that if i go ahead and highlight this i can drop down and i can change it so maybe
this is going to become a heading as i select this this is a heading now if i hit enter it
gives the spaces in it but i can and then i can quickly drag it to there i can't drag it if i
haven't hit any enters or given it any more space i can't uh do it but as soon as i hit a few enters
then it comes in and remember with the columns too so if i go ahead and click in here and then
just add another one and i'm just going to do a to-do list and this will be just an example
and like i showed you before if i drag this to the end it starts creating the columns here right so
i can do more too so if i go ahead and just hit one more text and i'll type test again and
drag it way over i've added another column so you can quickly add these columns of these different
blocks by adding anywhere so just remember how quickly it is to drag and drop them
the more customization you have with any of these blocks again if you click on it
and open it up you do notice that there's color so we can change color background so if i select it
now it has a different color background if you wanted it to stand out again drag around very
quickly so just click on it take a look at color we do have other options where we can move this
also so if i hit move i can move it to a different page that would be over here just by selecting it
i'm going to go ahead and just do some deleting now so i'm just going to hit delete here
and we'll just clean this up because i also want to show you that you can add things to the page
like this or you can create sub pages to this so with this demo page right here i'm going to go
ahead and see where it says quickly add a page inside so if i click on it this time and i i'm
going to just put down uh to do just like this so i'm going to go ahead and i'll just say empty with
an icon and it jumps over that step here and if i click off of it now notice it says to do on the
demo page and it creates this link so if i drop click on it it brings me over i'll just close this
notice here so i have this drop down at this point again these can be deleted they can be renamed
and they can be moved very very quickly i can go to it if i want to i'm going to go to another one
i'll hit the add page to it and this time i just want to point out templates because templates
allow you take a take a look at all the different things that you can create that they've made for
you you can tweak a little bit but you take a look at these ones maybe you have a goals one here
and we'll say use this template and it adds it to so with any of these you can uh add a
new one to do so if i was going to make a video on notion like so and if that's under my to-do
i can then bring it through the series of where i want it to notice that this one has a tag
in it too you can take a look at these as you add more if i click on this i can have more options
so if i click in it i can pick this is based on the template that they picked on it so i could go
through and pick one so if this is work i could do that but if i was going to add i can go ahead and
add more to this very very quickly just like that by typing in other tags that will show up after it
because you can do filters so this is a database that i did add through that template and i'm
going to add another template also but you can add filters through here to be looking for something
specific to this so if i click add a filter you can be looking through all these different
options i'm going to create a different video about diving into the databases on notion but
this one is more of just a getting started with notion video but now if we take a look over here
we have our two pages if i click on the first one we have goals and untitled and it's creating those
links at any point i can still put information into this page so if i was going to go ahead
and just add anything to this i can hit my ad and i can add some text to this and
put the info right up here and notice that this is still all movable and everything to it i i'm going
to go to this page quickly you can update all this information still add your icons and everything
gets updated so if i go to this one more time and i just go ahead and i'm going to go and add
and i'll go this way and i'm going to go and put a database and this time it will be just a
table database it puts it right in this first page but it also created
a page right here notice untitled if i click on it it's its own separate page too so i'll just
write data and you can see if i go up here to the first page this is connected so in this time i've
inserted it from this first page and it's there but it still created this separate page
if you uh if i didn't want it on that first page i could have just clicked what i showed you before
and it would have just added to as a sub list so if you go ahead and try to add any sub pages to
inside here notice and i'll just type example and click off of it if i drop down you don't see
example but notice it's what it's part of what the database is it added it as a
status right here the other thing i want to point out as you get lots of different pages
take a look at your quick find i there's example right here if i click on it it opens up the page
that it's connected to right here but this or this note inside of this is going to be showing up in
goals as this play around with some of the other templates that they gave you in this too so for
example if i go up to uh personal home and look at movie lists how they have these uh we could
add movies to these these are just a simple copy paste if i paste this in here and maybe as you
watch them you can go through and move them here so everything that can be organized there's lots
of different templates in these make sure you take a look at all the databases that you can add to it
uh if you wanted a calendar you can go through we have calendar right here then you could be adding
your pages to an event so anytime i go ahead and click one of these it opens up a page so if i
do it was going to be i'll just write work i click off of it and it's on so it takes a page
and puts it into my calendar and that's how it's being connected through the database as a calendar
one the other ones i showed you with the list or it could be tables but it's just connecting those
pages and you can add those tags and then connect with filters to it the other thing
i just want to point out to when you're adding things to your page i'll go to the demo page here
and i've showed you how to add text and how to add your databases but if you add these blocks
keep scrolling down so maybe you want to add some images you can upload or embed a link a web
bookmark maybe you want to put a video where you can just paste them in notice that these videos
will show up right in here so as i i go through and just hit i'll hit the forward slash this time
take a look at all the different things that you can add uh you can add embed pdfs embed a google
doc google maps and just keep going down you can put any things on these pages and it's so
easy to customize as you're setting up your notion workspace take a look at these templates again
find the ones you like so if you go ahead and create another page with all these sub pages
maybe you like the movie list you can drag that down into your new one so remember
just how flexible this is to add there's also another place if i go down you can add your
templates you can start right from here and take a look this can save you so much time take a look
at all these templates that they have are already created for you so i just wanted to end kind of
today looking at some of the settings that i mentioned some of the extra things you can do
you can share your notion pages with other people too if you take a look up top notice where it says
share here if i go ahead and click on this i can publish and share a link with anybody but
i need to turn this on take a look at some of the options they would need their notion count account
but take a look at some of the options and then we can go ahead and copy that link and then send it
to them the other thing i wanted to point out was under settings and members here this is where if
you wanted to upgrade you can do that and it will show you different ones i'm just using the free
one i've really liked just using the free one but you can check to see if any of these options would
work better for you with account with your account uh upload photo rather than in this case the demo
one i could upload my photo here i if i didn't want this be calling demo demo i can just write my
name and go through you can see your password log out of all devices i'm just going to hit update
do take a look also if you want to work in the full view this arrow close the sidebar
allows you to see the full page on this so you can go back hover over and open it up again so you get
more to see there again take a look around at all these different settings i find
notion uh very intuitive to use as you see the different things also try out the desktop app if
you're looking for that or try your mobile app all these things can be connected throughout devices
so i hope this beginner's tutorial and notion has kind of given an idea how you might set up your
personal life through notion or maybe your workspace let me know what else
you're looking to learn about notion as i said i'll do a different video diving
a little bit more into the database and maybe how you could create your own to help organize
something that you have at home and then you can keep everything in the same place thanks
for watching this week on teachers tech i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials