If you use Notion for finances, recurring payments and reminders is a must. Below I share three different ways to add recurring monthly, quarterly, and yearly payments to find the Next Payment Due and the Last Payment Made. In addition, I show you how to view both recurring and non-recurring payments inside the same calendar using one formula.
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How To View Grandparent Relations In Notion
The relation is a Notion property that can do one of two things. The first is connect one database to another. The second is to relate one database entry to another within the same database. This is called a parent-child relation. I want to show you how you can view grandparent relationships using the latter technique with rollup properties.
How To Show Current Week, Month And Quarter In Notion
There are several ways to filter and sort Notion databases by dates. The following formulas and filters can help a user create unique database views for entries. For example, filtering dates by the current week , by the current month, and by the current quarter. Formulas like this are necessary when filters alone don’t work. Here is how it works.
Free Notion Template: College Requirements And Course Directory
Use Notion to track credits, plan required courses for graduation, organize classes your taking and more with this course directory template. Great for students planning and tracking their academic career. There are three databases in use: Semesters, Course Requirements, and All Classes. Here is how they connect.
How To Format Dates In Notion: A Cheat Sheet
Formatting dates with Notion formulas can be incredibly useful. Below I provide 40 different examples of formulas that range from finding the month number to timezone offsets. Try these formulas out for yourself and arrange them in an order that enhances the understanding of your workspace calendars.
How I Made A Pomodoro Planner In Notion
While wondering what types of productivity methods are compatible with Notion, I realized that I never tackled the pomodoro technique. Of course, you cannot create a pomodoro timer with a database that would be remotely useful, but you can use a Notion database to track and/or plan a set of pomodoro sessions. This is my take on a pomodoro tracker that returns the number of daily and total minutes/hours spent on projects.
Free Notion Template: Simple Document Management
If you’re planning to use Notion to organize a document wiki for your team, this simple document management template can be a great starting off point. Each entry into the document database is an import into the workspace with the ability to file documents into folders, identify who uploaded at what time, file types, and more.
How I Built A Double Elimination Bracket With Notion
Configure games and cascading rounds through a double elimination tournament format with Notion’s boardview. I wanted to tackle a fun project in Notion that displays “rounds” in a tournament and the funnel of winning teams into succeeding rounds. I was able to achieve this with a couple relations to a Team database and a simple formula.
Notion Formula: Double Progress Bar
Here’s an alternative to the classic Notion progress bar that may be interesting to the power-user. Let's assume you're reading for an exam, and you want to give yourself a number of days to finish reading and make sense of the text before the exam. This Notion formula will keep track of task progress AND progress to a deadline.
Advanced Notion Formula: Find Interval Progression
I wanted to find a way to calculate the difference only between the most recent two entries in a database. Using the formula, I was able to produce the difference automatically as new entries are made. As well, I found how to capture the percentage increase between the most recent interval and the previous.
Notion Trick: Sort Years In A Timeline That Include BCE
Database, Planning, Program Functions
How To Quickly Duplicate Recurring Tasks In A Notion Calendar
In my latest YouTube video I show how a Notion user can quickly duplicate a scheduled event like a weekly review, bulk edit titles, and distribute the duplications to corresponding dates quickly. The following is how I did it. This trick is especially useful for those working with recurring tasks.
How To Build A Weekly Review Template In Notion
In this video I walk through how I conduct weekly reviews with Notion. I use both a database and inline template, linked database, and different database views to make it work. Recalling the past week's actions is important to understand how to move forward in the most efficient and balanced manner.
Notion Guide: How To Extract Characters From A Title
How I Created A Wikipedia Search Portal Inside Notion
This is a tour of my workflow for research inside Notion. I go through each step from finding information to saving search results, saving pages, and connecting notes inside Notion. If you're interested in exploring powerful Chrome extensions for Notion, I talk about Save to Notion and and Evergreen Notes for Notion as well.
I Created A Heat Map Mood Tracker In Notion
Whether you plan to enter a new year with a fresh mood tracker, or building your first in Notion, I hope this mood heat map can give you some inspiration. Included is a row for each week and a drop-down menu for each day of the week with mood options from poor to great. As well, there is a selection of emojis to add context.
Notion Template: Medication Log And Fluctuating Schedule
With Notion’s handy filter feature, using a complex tracking database is easy. In addition to a complete template available at the bottom of the page, here is how to create a medication tracking database with fluctuating elements. Using this filter technique can be useful for other tracking calendars as well.
Notion Formula: A Minimal Progress Bar Slider
How I Merge Notion Databases To Minimize My Workspace
How To Make A Spaced Repetition Database In Notion
Spaced repetition inside Notion is a use-case that may need a bit of creativity to work. In this week's video I tackled this challenge with the goal being usability. I tried to avoid workarounds and excessive friction in the workflow. My solution is a combination of if-statement formulas and templates.