So this webinar will be focusing on how you can use notion in
everyday practice this will give you some real-life examples of how notion is being used day to day and
Hopefully inspire you and your notion account before we begin for those curious about what notion is
Notion is very simply a new type of productivity software
Unlike applications like Evernote and Trello notion gives you total freedom to what you build inside of the application
It's best described as a personal and team wiki allowing you to create
Areas or spaces inside of your account to meet whatever need you have
So for example inside of notion if I wanted to take simple notes, I could using the list database ability
If I wanted to go ahead a manager project I could use the board's feature in there, too
And if I wanted to start creating a useful guide for my team to follow I can add text
Useful formatting and also videos as well. So
The amazing thing is notion is an application that you can mold to any of your situations and that's what makes it very
Special and very attractive to many new new users now
There's no doubt that notion takes a little bit of time to learn because you're developing some of these skills from scratch
But once you get a good idea of the application and how you can use it in day-to-day practice you really saw with notion
So we're going to break things up into three different sections. We're going to talk about the use cases in
Section two I'm gonna give you a little bit of a tour of a working notion account and in in section three
We're gonna talk specifically about the brand new template feature, which will save you huge amounts of time
So let's start with section one and that's a different use cases of notion
Soon as you can see, I'm on our account here and I have three examples that I like to show you
This hopefully will give you a few inspirations of how you can apply your notion account
These have all been copied from the templates area, but will give you a good idea of how this can be used in day-to-day practice
The first of those is a recipe book
Now this here is a recipe book and it allows you to essentially see all of the recipes that you have in your list
Now as you can see, this is a nice photo gallery of all the different recipes I want
But I can also click in and see more details for example
Whether this can be used for example as a dinner in the slow cooker and what type of meal it is. I
can also see a link back to the actual direct ingredients and recipe that I can follow and
Down here as well. I can give it a star rating and also yield and total time that it will take to cook
These are all things that you can build into your notion account very very easily just by going ahead and adding a property
Down below here inside of the card details
You can see the ingredients and also the preparation information now
This is really useful and I think as many home cooks will know
This is a great way to be able to see everything at a glance and when you want to find a recipe
Be able to find it in one place that can be consistently updated if I wanted I could go to the top
Left-hand corner and press open as page allowing me to see this as a separate page so I can view it in more detail
If for example I cooked it and I wanted to be able to edit some of the details
For example, I knew that I wanted to change at a time to for example five hours
I could go here and change it to five hours
So the great thing about notion is you can manually edit everything and it makes it so easy to do
So if I go back to the recipes area
I can find all of the recipes and the great thing is there are some filters that allow me to chop things down
so for example if I only wanted to see the
Dinners that were available in this list, I could press and filter
Choose the tag section and
press contains
Dinner and as you can see all of the features that are available for dinner become
Viewable. So essentially I can see here all of the meals that I could cook for dinner and I can do that with other such
areas, for example
using that same feature I go to filter and
contains
Breakfast
And as you can see, there are only three items here that I can cook for breakfast, but I can click into them
And find all of the relevant information for example how to prepare them and get the ingredients ready
So this is a great example of how I could use a recipe board inside of notion
And the great thing is it's so flexible to all of the features that you have and you can add whatever properties
Whatever areas and whatever abilities you like to your recipes book
Going back out of this lets show you another area that might be useful
That is the habit tracker
this is a great way to keep track of your daily habits and keep organized as
Well as being able to see a good outline of what you actually went and completed
So as you can see here, this is a nice table view allowing me to see all of the days of the month ahead
So for example, you can see here they have columns for workout
meditation read and no phone in bed and bed by 10:30
As well as a host more that I'll be able to track using this habit tracker
So for example, let's say I skip to the 15th of April and I said ok
I worked out today
And I also did read and no phone in bed and also bed by 10:30. You can see here
I've ticked these off quite visually and this is a great way in being able to see what habits you've completed and
Haven't completed for the month
so this can easily be created with a table database view and
It really doesn't take long to be able to add the columns and also checkboxes
the way that you do that is
Once you create a column you don't go ahead and select the text property type you change it to checks box property type
So that you can track the status
Using this check box so you could be using it as your recipes area your habit tracker
But what other experiences can you use so if I go back to home?
Let's touch on the third example
Now the third example is the weekly agenda and this can be used to organize the week ahead and also plan in advance
Now you can design this to whatever needs you want, but this is a great example that notion provided on their templates page
For example, these are the 5 days ahead
And I can be able to add tasks to what's called a to-do list block
this allows me to create a simple check box and add a task and
It can even theme the day as well and also add any other additional to dues
So this is a great example page of how I could use a weekly agenda to plan my week ahead now
It's quite cool because there's milestone tracking also the most important things I need to get done as well as a view on
For example week reflection down here outstanding tasks and also a habit tracker as well
So this can actually be copied from the notion template area
Which we'll be touching on at the end of this video
So you can get a sort of an idea now, for example, the many different use cases that you can apply to notion
So let's start section 2 where we jump into a tour of my notion account
Giving you a bit of an idea of how notion can be used in everyday practice
Now if you're worrying and you're watching along going how would I even create this area?
We'll touch on that in section 3 with copying from the templates area
The templates area will save you valuable
Time and also effort in developing some of these templates and you can also still customize them to your needs
So here we are on my own home
Area and as you can imagine I've been using notion for a little bit of time now to organize and plan most of my week
So you can see here. I've got two separate sections. I've got life and work
Inside of life. I have things from diet and fitness to our our house
inspiration finance and other such areas
In work, I also have all the projects travel tax and payments that are coming up. I
Find this separation and actually using the home page to separate life and work actually helps me to get organized. So
The first page I'd like to show you is inside of our home area where we've been planning
What we'd like to see in all of our rooms
So if I click in I go now to the rooms area now as you can see
this is very similar to the
Recipes book that we created earlier as you can see I've added images
To each of the rooms that we're planning to have and as you can see everything from the hallway to the kitchen
Now the great thing is we need to know what were actually buying for each of these rooms. So
For example if I clicked in to the office and bedroom
I could see all of the essentials that we need to buy and how much it will cost
I've also added a few links below the image and this is super duper helpful because I can see everything all at a glance
We've even got property areas to type in the theme of the room. And also what wallpaper we want to have
So we're getting a good idea of what we want to see we've replicated this for pretty much every room
So, let's see the main bedroom. You can see here
The theme will be navy blue and white very similar to this image, but just below it
We can see all of the essentials that we need to buy for that room and a few of the links that we've already saved
So this has been a great way to keep track of all of the different
Rooms and all the things that we need to get for those rooms
We've also got additional stuff. For example, if you click in you can see the extras and the flooring prices below
so we found this a great way to keep track of all that we need and even
We're going to use this list here is a way to see all of the stuff. We need to buy in IKEA
So moving on to the next area which is inbox
Now I have two core inboxes one source of inspiration
things that I think I'm like to save for later that will inspire me and
Also articles to read let's go into articles to read as you can see here
I've got a full track of all the articles that I want to read in the next couple of weeks. I
use the notion Web Clipper
Which is available through the Chrome Web Store to save any articles and this is really really easy to do
So all I need to do is go to the Chrome Web Store sign into Google
Download the notion Web Clipper and if I'm on any article or page
I can go ahead and press notion
Once I've saved this I'd make sure to save it to the database
Created articles to read so that I can read them all for later
Now this is perfect
If I click in I can see a bit of an outline on the article the author and much more details about the piece
But the great thing is I can find the URL and get started straight away
now just a note the notion Web Clipper isn't as good as the evident Web Clipper per se but it does a good job at
Clipping basic articles the final area. I want to show you is actually inside a different workspace
So as you can see here, I have two separate workspaces one for myself and one for our team
Inside of our team area we keep a good track of all of the things that we need to know about it
And for example if I click in YouTube calendar?
I can see all of the upcoming articles and pieces that I want to post out on YouTube
So you can see here that I want to be able to post this one
The Microsoft team's intro and be able to update this. So this is a very very simple
Boards view and it allows me to see all of this front cards
Then I'll be creating and I can drag them like Trello between the statuses that I'll be working on
so this is a perfect experience if I'm able to be able to manage and organize some of my content and
I share this with the team in case that we need to share or even assign pieces to other people and
If I wanted to as well, I could go ahead and type in and search this board for anything in particular
Let's say I wanted to see all of the GTD pieces coming up. I can see them both there
So this was a little bit of an outline of how I use notion, but let's touch on the final section
Which is talking to you about the new templates ability
so on the web browser if I go ahead and type in notion dot s o
slash templates
This is a new area that notion is created dedicated to helping you find the most suitable template
So here are the ones that have been recently added
All I can do is browse all of the templates that is available. And this is really useful
So for example if I wanted to go ahead and copy the okay ARS
This might be useful for team situations. I can go and preview what they look like
Let's say I'm pretty happy with that. Then I can go to the ok ARS area here
Now once I'm in here, it's really great because I can see what this looks like in practice
And of course the great thing is if I copy this to my own area it won't affect the original document
So if I go to the top right hand corner and press duplicate
I can duplicate it into the key productive area
And as you can see, it's being automatically pasted now, most of these new areas go into the private area
so
All I'd have to do is drag this into the relevant page that I want
Now gives me a notification in whether I want to actually share it with all of the three members already in the workspace
And I'm pretty happy with that
So the great thing is now I can go in and edit and change it to my own needs without affecting the original database
So, of course the templates gallery which can be found at notion deso slash templates is really useful
But as you can imagine it's also important to learn the skills of creating a page from scratch
so
Of course, make sure to learn about the many features of notion and take a full advantage of the application one thing
I'd also say is if you have an idea for a page
It's worth just playing around with the many block abilities that notion has and don't be worried about making mistakes as you
Get started with your notion account. So guys, hopefully this gave you a good idea of you can apply notion to everyday activities
Please do. Let me know if you've got any questions, but I look forward to answering some of your questions now. Cheers guys