Hello everyone and welcome back so to Keep Productive youtube channel on today's video
We're diving into some Notion news, which I think you guys will be very excited to hear. So without further ado
Let's dive into today's video
So, guys, some notion announcement has occurred today and it's going to be releasing grand amount of time
That I post this video as well
So please do check the link in description to actually find out all about it
but it is basically the notion offering free personal plans to students anyone with adult a
Cuk email address or dot edu email
Meaning that any student will get access to the personal plan which gives you unlimited blocks and unlimited file storage for free
Which is amazing news, especially if you're a student
so this actually is quite exciting and I wish out the team to tell more about what inspired them about this actual release and
A little bit about what they aim to do with this. So here's a little bit from the team a big
Thank you to those guys for actually providing some a bit of a story behind that
I'm Abigail Africa a student at USC who spent the summer on notions marketing team
my personal story
I was looking for a way to build a wiki for a club called spark SC which is the driving force behind a lot of
grassroots entrepreneurship at USC
we run at least seven different initiatives each semester to expose individual students to their creative potential and
In general to drum up an innovative and collaborative culture at USC
we've been around for five years which means that we're starting to propose ideas and initiatives that alumni have tried and learned from
But all our knowledge lives in these archived folders and documents. I can't communicate with each other
it was really unclear especially the last summer where to go for post mortems or historic metrics on simple things like
Attendance at our speaker series or fundraising data from previous iterations of our startup career fair
So we tried notion as a way to bring that old information to life. It's turned out to be much more than that actually
It's a living reflection of spark a sees consciousness in a way. We keep our ideas in there alumni right life updates in there
We use it to run our entire recruitment process and maintain our end-to-end graphics and communications pipelines. I
Started using notion as a place to keep my personal consciousness at the same time
I call my workspace my second brain and it's really a place where I can categorize the chaos in my mind. I
Felt so understood by this tool that could both capture and flex to accommodate the pieces that were colliding in my brain everyday. I
Applied to work at notion out of passion. Really I sent in this crazed
Email and listed out what I thought I could bring to the team. I
learned much more
Than I've brought over my time with the notion. And now I'm working to bring my experience to students across the world
I am so grateful. It really is the best job
At Berkeley I think that it's really easy to kind of get swept up into the chaos I
Procrastinate a lot. And so I find it hard to kind of stay organized. I
Personally have used so many task managers and productivity equals. I've tried everything
In college, it's not just about your classroom environments, but it's also about your personal development
My mind is always pretty scattered in like different places, even though I want to be a hundred percent there
Notion is the one tool that I've just continued using over time at first glance. It's so simple you are inside of a document
It's very focused and it just says like right
But you can start creating all of these tools around the stuff that you're working on
It feels more like a webpage in that way, which is really nice
notion helps me approach my everyday in a very organized way and also a very intentional way I
Can be very productive but also switch to a different tab and reflect and have like all my notes there as well
There's sort of a narrative technology displaces people, I'm kind of interested in exploring how we can reverse that narrative
blueprint is a club that
Uses technology for social good we work with on profits to build them apps or websites that fit their needs
as the vice-president
I feel like an octopus sometimes
I have my hands and all these different types of work efforts
To be able to assign tasks and tag people in them or it's at deadlines that are all visible
It was really important to me and it's helped me stay really organized
We started keeping track of things in the decision log
We linked all of the places that we talked about these things and then we write context for the decision
And also what went well and what didn't go as well. I
Saw how productive it was for our entire club to be on
Notion and I started adopting it more into like my personal life. I
Created a dashboard
for most of what I'm working on this summer kind of had like a school dream section, which
Are like things that I want to involve myself without Berkeley?
Actually like share a lot of my documents with my sister too we have a shared workspace with all our recipes
If you're a student and you have all these different work efforts that you're a part of
Notion is a really great way to kind of keep them all in one place
And then also keep yourself reminded and accountable for the things that you're working on. I
Really want to invest more in the clubs that I'm in and the people that I've run to it
The notion is really conducive to that and that's what I've enjoyed the most about it
So guys the reason why I think this is quite exciting news is for the fact that
Obviously evident we all know offer a student plan, which is 50% off
Anyone with it, either you or AC UK email address? And of course, that is fantastic
But with students pricing and money is a very important factor when it comes to utilizing a tool
now, of course
if you're a student there does quite heavy research relies on the Web Clipper and
Annotates PDFs and things like that then evident will still be a really valuable tool for you
but for those students are coming into college now and actually looking at applications to organize themselves in terms of planning their projects and
Organizing their classes and taking notes notion is actually a pretty attractive solution
For the main reason that it does have some of the basic abilities that someone might not necessarily need inside of Evernote
but it also is very attractive and
It's free which means perfect for students because they actually end up saving money like at the time when I was in university
Of course, I recommended Evernote a lot and they do have a free plan which actually rocks or I used to free plan
So it's not wiping out. It's just definitely something that makes it a lot more attractive for those students out there
So that's why I think it's going to shake up the space a little in terms of putting pressure on Evernote
To do something with their student plan
But at the same time I do think that notion have done a good job at this release and I think it's some great
Exciting news for sure. Now if you are a student and you are interested in this new notion for students free
I'll include the link in description. But you also need to know that I hopefully by the end this week
We'll have a short module on the notion made simple course which can't do all the way through notion
Available in the link in description, that'll be free for any student. That's interested
So give me a bit of time, but it should be up there very very soon
Anyway, guys, I thank you and I really am looking forward to some of your coins, obviously
I did a lot of so features on evident recently and we will be touching on Evernote
But I hope to cover this in the right way. So please do let me know in comments, but I look forward to hearing your
Opinions and I'll talk to you guys very very soon. Cheers ever