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.
Free Notion Template: Employee Directory
Start here if you’re new to Notion, using the program to build a team workspace, and organizing employee directories. This template has properties for basic information, contact information, onboarding statuses, and birthday tracking. The following dashboard uses two databases; one for Employees and another for the Departments those employees are associated with.
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: A Daily Planner With Week, Month And Year View
In this video I show you how to navigate my daily document dashboard template in Notion, the steps I took to create it, and other tips and tricks I found useful along the way. Included are daily, weekly, monthly, and a year view too. This is a template with a lot of entries, and as a result, the duplication time may be slower than usual.
Notion Basics: Minimal Notion To-Do List Design
Create quick pages inside Notion as a checklist with the following set of commands, shortcuts, and an inline template. This is a really easy way to turn your Notion workspace into a minimal non-database productivity hub. I also included a page that acts like a trash bin or archive list at the bottom to drag and drop completed tasks into.
Notion Template: Apartment Hunting Database
Since I’ve been looking for apartments to move into, I figured I’d share an apartment hunting database in Notion. I’ve been using this to help me gather information about potential apartments and their Amenities, Expenses, Nearby Transit Access, etc. Here is how I made the simple setup, the properties included, and how to use the template for your own apartment hunting needs.
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.
Dashboards, Relations, Planning
Free Notion Template: Team Meeting Blueprint
There are multiple elements that make meeting notes actionable from discussion to pipeline. This dashboard creates two funnels from a single meetings database. The first funnel allows participants or note-takers to write discussion topics associated with the meeting, and another funnel connects to an Actionable tasks pipeline.
Free Notion Template: Online CV (Database And Non-Database)
It’s become increasingly popular to create a CV landing page in Notion. The clean UI, different design techniques, and ability to publicize pages are just a few reasons why. If you’re looking for some inspiration or a jumping off point to create your own CV page, I made the following two templates. One uses a database and the other uses only headings and bullet points.
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: Story Outline Database
Breaking a story down into broad groupings before or during the writing process is something that Notion can be a great tool for. In this database I include a handful of potential methods to divide a story with scenes, acts, and chapters. As well, character arcs and inner/outer character journeys. Here is how I used a combination of select and multi-select properties to make this process a breeze.
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.