hello everyone welcome back to the Keep P roductive youtube channel in today's video we will be diving into the brand new timeline view that is available inside of notion and it's rolling out as we speak
there's also a few additional updates including page customization that i want to run through
in today's video so without further ado folks let's roll into today's video
so before we begin if you want to learn about notion including all about this new timeline
view update you can check out the lessons that are available inside of notion made simple
the first module's free and you can check it out below so let's start with the timeline view this
is actually weirdly been teased for over a year now and i was pretty excited about this new update
coming because i quite like gantt charts to some extent in allowing you to visualize data and this
new timeline view will allow you to do that inside of databases so to start the timeline view can be
added either inline or full page database so this is actually the sixth view that you can access a
database in you can view table list calendar board gallery and now timeline so when you go ahead
and create a timeline view you get three cards of the preset much like you do if you create a board
or another type of database so you can actually hover and add a card at any time and pop the cards
tray open to see what cards you have in there in this page view if you want to now what's really
nice is if you have a say a database calendar with everything inside of that database calendar with
end dates and start dates then you can actually change the view to timeline and automatically see
all of those projects or cards all mapped out and plotted out in timeline view so this view actually
helps people who have already got projects maybe set up or events and information like
that projected from a start to an end date so all you have to do is switch to the different
view for that however if you don't actually want to add an end date this will automatically do this
for you if you're plotting them out inside of this view so one of the things that is most impressive
in this timeline view is the actual ability to change the time that you view the timeline on
so for example you could have a regular month view which we're seeing automatically you can actually
choose bi-weekly week day and even hour view now the reason i want to go into this is because the
hour view could actually be quite useful for people that are organizing events or meetings
which really enhances the way that you use this timeline view but it could be a good
way to plot out an event or an activity that you may be running and actually see them by
time based which is very useful especially when you're planning things to the granular level so
obviously i might not necessarily recommend this for calendar blocking because obviously
it is quite uh difficult in the timeline view but i did change it back to the calendar view
and found that it actually matched it quite nicely without interrupting the natural flow
of the database so there is that ability if you did have a couple of projects or staff members
that you were working with you wanted to assign them specific activities or things per hour to
work on then that could be something that you did there this could also be useful for someone using
time tracking if they wanted to block their time and see where they spent specific portions of
their time throughout the day but one of the other major updates is the ability to customize a page a
little further than you used to so you can go into the top right hand corner and press customize page
and this works for both databases and regular pages so inside of a database you can actually
customize the sections to start you can choose whether you want to show backlinks or comments
i'll come back to this but the real magic is the ability to customize the properties so for example
if you wanted to hide certain things so you didn't have any stupidly extensive long properties list
you can now do that so you can actually choose to always show hide when empty or always hide
and this is something that might help people when it comes to making a little bit more of attractive
areas or places that you regularly visit and you want to hide specific things but only pop them
open when you need them this is actually something i've done for the the videos um section because
i'm actually um because i actually don't use all of the sections every single time but when i do
i can pop them open and see all of the properties i need so when it comes to regular pages you can
go to the top right hand corner and customize the page and choose whether you want to see backlinks
completely off or whether you want to show them in pop-up or have them always open and the same goes
with comments as well this is particularly helpful if you're someone that isn't in a team and you
don't necessarily want to see comments distracting the page so page customization just makes it
easier to make your page looks more visually beneficial when you're using it more routinely
okay something i won't jump into in today's video is actually two additional updates which
are advanced page permissions so you can now edit permissions of sub pages which is something that
you weren't able to do before and also you can now limit inline database rows so all in all
this new timeline view adds a new view for your databases the customized pages makes it easier
to access and manipulate what you see on the page but just when you're routinely visiting
pages it definitely helps it to be a lot more organized and better for everyday use so folks i
really hope you enjoyed today's video please do check out the notion made simple course as i said
we're adding a few lessons for timeline view and we're also adding monthly lessons now so please do
join us there if you want to and i'll see you all very soon anyway folks thank you very much cheerio
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