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Design, Planning, Database, Program Functions
How to create a one-click checklist using Notion. This includes a free template that can be used for personal or professional tasks. The recurring checklist is designed to simplify the process of adding checklists and completing projects, allowing you to focus on what needs to be done rather than spending time recreating repetitive to-do lists.
For those looking for an easy way to manage their travel information, this Notion template for airline tickets can provide a great solution. This template is designed to help users keep track of airline tickets and associated information. It includes sections for collecting and organizing information like flight number, departure and arrival times, airline, layovers, and more.
This address list Notion template is a great tool for organizing places you’re going, places you’ve been, or places to catalog. In this post, we'll look at how the address list can be used to keep track of address information for individuals, businesses, or other places. The template includes properties that describe an address’s name of place, building status, and country, in addition to generating links to Google and Apple maps.
This is a weekly spread between Monday and Sunday that will auto-populate from a Notion calendar. All days are spread into two rows of four columns. For those who like the presentation of a non-database weekly spread but also like the convenience of a database manager, this is the best of both worlds, and it takes a few minutes to setup. There is also the option to duplicate the Notion template below the tutorial.
If a task is overdue, push the due date in Notion to today, and show the new due date in a calendar. If the task is not overdue or complete, show the original due date. We also explore how to see this new date formula in a calendar view. Calendars can only see one date at a time so it is important to join all dates you want to see into one Notion formula. Here is how it works.
The contains() and test() function in Notion conduct similar tests on database properties. Both functions allow the user to check for strings in another property. For example, to check for the string “Hello” in a string property named “Name”, call contains(prop("Name"), "Hello") or test(prop("Name"), "Hello"). Both codes will return a true boolean. What exactly is the difference between these two functions then?
Program Functions, Database, Templates
There are many reasons why Notion is a great note-taking app. For starters, it's extremely user-friendly and easy to use. The interface is clean and simple, making it quick and easy to find what you're looking for. There are also tons of features and customization options available, so you can tailor the app to your specific needs. Here is how you can get started.
Create a note-taking database in Notion that’s both easy to use and navigate. In this short tutorial I show you how to create a hierarchical structure for your notes using the relation property. For example, all parent notes have children notes that help describe the parent. This connection is made with a relation.
Design, Database, Dashboards, Planning
Claim your free copy of 2022-2023 calendar covers for Notion in 6 color way themes. Below is a collection of calendars between September 2022 and December 2023 with weekly pages included too. The template, available to duplicate at the bottom of the article, nests all corresponding weeks with their parent month in the body of every month page.
Learn how to use Notion’s dateBetween formula function to calculate between two dates in your database table. This function is very useful for task managers, deadline alerts, timesheets, and more. I’ll show you how to calculate between two dates in your table, between a single date and now, and between dates in a date range.
Ever wonder how to incorporate flashcard decks into Notion? Here is a method to build flashcards with Notion’s boardview database. Simply use every database page as a new card in a flashcard “deck” with the front of the card as the title and the back as a database property. And with one formula, you can turn any Notion page into a flashcard to study.
Do you use a web clipper with Notion to bookmark URLs? These formulas can enhance your Notion web clipper database to help organize and group saves. For example, you can extract the Twitter profile from a saved tweet. Next, group all tweets by Twitter user. Copy and paste the codes below into a formula property to see how they can work for you.
Planning, Database, Dashboards
Here are five valuable starter templates that can get your Notion workspace on the right footing. Some popular templates of mine include a wiki, notebook, habit tracker, goal planner, and class schedule. I tackled the chore of simplifying these templates for your workspace. They are “skeleton” templates that can be customized.
The SEO keyword research database is designed to collect important keywords from SEO tools like SEMrush and Google Keyword Planner into Noiton. These tools, and their free versions too, provide some basic information like Monthly searches, Keyword competition, Keyword trends, and more. Transfer this data into a Notion database and relate relevant keywords to content in your content calendar or task manager.
Here is a simple timesheet database template in Notion that requires little to no system building and can help you get right to work. This is a planner and timesheet for your working sessions. For example, you can track total hours worked for projects your working on, describe how well each session went, and analyze most and least productive weeks and months of the year. Here’s how it works.
When I started making Notion content in 2019, a color library database was one of my first projects in the program. I decided to revisit this template in 2022 and build a simple color library and color palette generator using one database. Included is what I’m calling a “color map” organized by color type, a palette view, and a portal for bookmarked colors too. Here’s how it works.
Want to create a progress bar to track date progress? Here are some different designs to countdown the year, month, week, and day in Notion. These formulas require no properties aside from one formula for each. The progress bars will be using the current date and time. There is also an option for light-mode and dark-mode for the progress bar designs below.
Notion can be used for simple and complex financial planning and tracking. For instance, using some important formula tricks, you can manipulate date and number properties to project the approximate end to a savings goal. The following use-case is a great addition to any personal finance Notion dashboard. Here’s how it works.
2022 Notion workspaces are being prepared all over the world. Here is a blank calendar database to help you with your new year build. This is a prefilled gallery Notion database from the first day of the year to the last. Each gallery card, or day, is accompanied by a files and media property for a cover image and a month formula. The rest of the setup is up to you!