24 New Notion Database Features - Applied to Notion Life OS / PPV

How to implement ALL of the new Notion Database features in the Notion PPV Life Operating System or any other Notion system.
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⌚Timestamp Index⌚
0:00 Intro
1:49 Faster Database Speed
2:14 Table Cell Drag Values
2:47 Side Peak Re-size
3:35 Setting Pop-Open Options
4:04 Action Zone Daily Focus Board View
8:34 New Filtering Approach
11:26 Edit Properties from Board View
12:07 Using "Status" Property Type
16:57 Progress Bar Use Cases
19:30 Better Relational Property Selection
20:53 Properties in Page Section
22:00 Property Title Pop-Ups
22:36 Adding New Properties
23:18 Better Property Naming
23:25 1-Way Relational Properties
24:28 Property Title Option
24:52 Wrap Individual Columns
25:29 Selective Filtered Export
26:35 Better Database Controls
27:13 Better Database Locking
28:05 Adding Linked Databases
29:27 Multi-DB Views in Same Block
29:38 Create DB From Scratch
29:50 Consolidated DB Controls
30:10 Closing Thoughts
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[@Dirk80241]

Thank you for the great overview of all new features. I learned a couple of new ones that I'm going to try! This type of update on the improvements of Notion is very helpful, please keep doing it.

[@augustbradley]

Glad it was helpful! This new video gets into some even more recent updates with database automations: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sH-TeJ6YftVkZrc

[@StevenMichels]

Side peek is really a game changer for how to navigate quickly around your database. So wonderful!

[@HomesickMac]

I loved all the new features and getting them so nicely presented with examples here is fantastic. Thank you for taking the time August!

[@jtmusic830]

So much good stuff here. I’ll have to spend some time with it learning the new features. Thanks for another great video!

[@silvanamicallef8123]

Oh, thank you so much August. I can’t tell you how much I love your videos!

[@michaelhyatt9711]

I found this hugely helpful. In fact, it helped me understand some things about the PPV system I had previously missed. Thank you!

[@armand3966]

I barely finish the notion series, and it was recorded and post in 2020, and this so joyful to see a recent video with new features, we are in the same pace now !

[@augustbradley]

Onward, together! 🚀 More to come.

[@FutileGrief]

They seem like little tweaks, but when experienced together, it MASSIVELY transformed my setup. I am a very visual person and have very little regard for coding. So these little things just makes my life way easier, way more effective and I'm just over the moon with my system thanks to these improvements. Usually when some company "updates" their app, it's a pain in the arse to navigate the changes or even get used to them, but when Notion releases something new I'm immediately all over it, I stop doing whatever I was doing and just immediately implement whatever new thing they've just released. That speaks volumes to the type of company they've created and I'm happy to support them in their journey! I am eagerly waiting for that calendar update where I can sync my Google Calendar seamlessly without all the hassle of a third party app.

[@augustbradley]

Completely agree with you on all accounts! Well stated. And I too am very interested inwhat they do with the calendar app. Exciting times.

[@sim9955]

love it!!

[@biabolada]

Thanks, it was really helpful!! 💕

[@carriolan1]

Hi August - I found this update together with examples really helpful - Thanks

[@SusheeNzeutem]

A great and easy-to-understand overview of all the new Notion functionalities 👏 I particularly love the new 7-days calendar view. Thank you, August!

[@augustbradley]

Awesome, Sushee! Great to hear from you.

[@Lenastar23]

I didn't know about dragging!! thank you!!

[@mortenlileng5872]

Great video - thanks!

[@vudshpreyk]

Your content is always on point, packed with information and wisdom. Thank you!

[@augustbradley]

Awesome to hear this feedback. Thanks!

[@alexinfoclub21]

Awesome!!!🤩

[@stoicwis]

Great video and timing. I've been looking to freshen up my system a little.

[@augustbradley]

Perfect. Dive in and enhance the system, Peter!

[@stephentassell3531]

What a clear and easy to follow tutorial on the awesome new features in Notion - watching this video has been an excellent investment of my time. Many thanks August; your content is always extremely valuable and very much appreciated by me.

[@augustbradley]

We covered a lot in this one in a short period of time. Tried to keep it efficient and dense with useful info. Thanks, Stephen!

[@eliezerpoliglota]

Hey Mr Bradley, thanks for all of It. I'm only capable of having my KZbin channel and My job today because of PPV. Thanks for keeping it up to date!

[@-_M___M_-]

Thank you August !!! I thought I was 100% up to date but I had miss a few things... including the ability to feature properties in a relation! W.O.W. Notion geek out on a rainy Saturday morning. Love it. 👌🏼

[@augustbradley]

So many good new features, it’s hard to keep up!

[@user-nx5gs7pc9j]

Master Bradely, we're looking forward to the 5th generation of PPV with all the AI and Automations and New Formulas implemented :D MUCH LOVE AND THANKS

[@alkhayyat2]

Hi . today I subscribe your channel and this is the first video I seen . it is great & useful . tank you and notion.

[@hydronicrocker]

Thankyou for such an informative video. I've come into the Notion platform with this update already in place, but I still learnt from your video and I'm passing the link to your video on to my colleague to see the features outlined in case she is unaware of some of the functionality that is possible with Notion.

[@zafar_ahmed]

Thanks!

[@blacksheep_77]

Thanks August...clean and clear...learned a lot!

[@augustbradley]

Excellent! Thanks for the feedback.

[@blacksheep_77]

@@augustbradley sure thing! Still using PPV after 3 years. Have built 2 companies on your system.

[@augustbradley]

@@blacksheep_77 Outstanding! Congrats on all that progress 🎉. Keep up the awesome work 🚀.

[@danielemoyon9044]

The three dots are known as an ellipsis (when following a sentence or words in the English Language). However, they go by a different name when used in a software menu; when they are vertical they are called the kebab menu but when they are horizontal they are called the meatballs menu. Thanks for yet another amazing video August. You rock!

[@devonfazekas5691]

Another useful database feature are the Relation property limits, enabling a one-to-many or many-to-many relationships.

[@augustbradley]

I find that very useful for team use cases or shared templates, but haven’t found value in it for individual user uses. Have you? Seems to me in our own personal solo systems we know whether it should/could be one or multiple relational connections.

[@devonfazekas5691]

​@@augustbradley, in your system perhaps it could be used between Projects and Action Items; an Action Item shared among multiple Projects sounds confusing. Restricting Action Items as a subtask to a single Project improves clarity.

[@oksanatoofor4470]

Very helpful video, and I love your delivery. It seems the guys at Notion have been very busy of late. I just wish they would bring out recurring tasks, so that I could move off my old tasks manager completely.

[@augustbradley]

Thanks, Oksana. I am surprised we don’t have recurring tasks yet since it has from the beginning been one of the very biggest requests. Perhaps some day. I find the basic workarounds to solve it for me, but I know there are many people who really want this feature. Some day I hope!

[@StanleyOppenheimerToronto]

@@augustbradley absolutely recurring tasks - Please Please Please. - I have to manually create tasks for Garbage Day - Week 1 Garbage 🗑️ Day, black bag week, and Week 2 following week no black bags.

[@augustbradley]

@@StanleyOppenheimerToronto Don't re-create them. Instead of checking them "done", just re-assign the "Do Date" to the next iteration the following week or whenever. If you're not using Do Dats, then you should look into the PPV system presented on this channel 🙂

[@jeffrhind175]

Useful information as always. Thank you August. Where did you get those nice colored icons?

[@augustbradley]

I think those were from the Freather Icon collection. But now there are minimalist icons built native in Notion. I use those now - look for them next to the Notion icon selector.

[@sim9955]

I really like your unified icon theme, is that from flaticon or custom made for your system?

[@multicoremedia4516]

Thanks for the video August! Where do you get all of your icons from? Love the simplicity of them.

[@augustbradley]

I either use the default icons in Notion (a new feature, and place as emojis) or I use Feather Icons or Flaticon. Hope that helps!

[@JonathanBrowninator]

Where did you get the icons you use for the databases in your system? They are simple at a glance and visually appealing. Where can I get them? Need!!

[@leaderkunst6294]

I love the date is shown as text like „Today“ or „Tomorrow“. How did you do this? I was wondering you used a formula or if there is an option to set the way the date is shown.

[@carterboyle947]

I love the new do date group by. I’m just going to point I made some formulas that output the week day though, so it could be automated before. This is much cleaner.

[@augustbradley]

Nice Carter!

[@rootcao1360]

I see that you removed the "Notes, Meetings & Ideas" database from the Action Zone page, where do you put it now?

[@asmamaghrabi7856]

hello , I joined the newsletter but didn't get any templates can you help me ... did I mess a step?

[@JimShingler]

Great Stuff As Usual, .... I am starting to experience some slowness in Notion, ... do you have any Pro Tips

[@augustbradley]

We don’t have much control over Notion speed, as long as our internet speed is fast enough. I have not seen a slowdown lately and it has been quick for my uses. You might limit the size of your database loads through more filtering if you are loading huge database views.

[@francescogmail3225]

Progress bar view for numbers seems to apply only for positive numbers. Any suggestion on how to have a progress bar for negative to positive numbers for example from -5 to +5 which I use for energy or emotion?

[@augustbradley]

I think the idea is for progress toward completion, so that doesn't tend to happen with negative numbers. But I agree your use case would benefit from a negative progress bar. Hopefully at some point Notion will add this.

[@PeteEdmunds]

Signed up for your newsletter via the link. Looking out for the action zone templates as promised. Nothing has arrived as yet. How long should it take them to arrive after signup ? “ Join the Newsletter and receive the Notion template pack. Template pack includes:….”

[@rootcao1360]

Do you still use your "Ongoing Low-Priority List", "Not-to-Do List" , and the Google Calendar widget? Or you deleted them?

[@mellabbanm]

I really hope they make a synced database views, means: If a database have already multiple views, and I linked one of theses views in another place, they sync whenever I change or modify the original one in the main database. This will really make a big difference and make our life much easier especially in the PPV system.

[@danielemoyon9044]

You could achieve this by placing the database within a synced block and pasting this synced block (via it's URL) into other pages where you need to access it. Any changes (layout/view/filter/sort/etc) you make to the database within this block is synchronized in all locations where the database exists. Hope this helps.

[@ghdotxyz]

really hope they add filters on related properties

[@augustbradley]

That would be very helpful.

[@juani4718]

Little improvements that between are very productive...

[@skohaya]

I feel like I just went to A Database Feature Matrix. I can only decode the little things. 1. Fill down 2. Individual Column wrap 3. Peek a boo screen.

[@drallynelsondpt]

Hi August, I just went through all your videos & I'm hoping you can add clarity for me on a couple of things. 1. What's the difference between the Knowledge Vault vs. Pillars? It seems that both places are holding the same information. 2. I'm a physical therapist and have an exercise library for PT exercises: where would this go under? (Pillars, Pillar Support, Physical Therapy, Knowledge hub). I also think I made things a bit more complicated. I have databases for: exercises, movements, programming, workouts I've gotten from others all connected with a relationship. I also have content attached too as I record movements. I was wondering if there's a cleaner way to do this or roll up options you would add in? I would super appreciate your help! Thanks!

[@augustbradley]

Hi, congrats on your progress! Pillars would be just a dashboard view into other parts of your system-such as the knowledge vault filtered for the relevant pillar, or projects, or anything else. The actual information goes into the knowledge vault, and the pillars dashboards are not necessary. The knowledge vault is very necessary and goes into much more detail with granular specific breakdowns than pillars do. Pillars are merely for organization at the highest level. The knowledge vault is where the details and information actually go. For your PT exercise list, I think that would be worthy of a specialty vault specifically for PT exercises because it sounds like you have a lot of them and it's central to your work. So, create a database just for that with properties only relevant to it. Place it under the vault section of your database stack and customize it for your PT exercises. It sounds like all your databases for exercises, movements, programming, and workouts could be combined into one. That'll simplify and streamline. It takes time to figure it out, but it's worth it. You're on a great path, this is working. I can see it coming together, and it will get better and better over time. Keep up the great work!

[@drallynelsondpt]

@@augustbradley thanks so much for the insight. Any chance you would be willing to do an updated view of a pillar and what's connected. For something simple like Home as a pillar and how things are connected and the knowledge hubs that go to home? Would super appreciate it! Or if you have an updated reference outside of the content creation one. I have a couple of those specialty vaults for PT, fitness, cashflow, work, and medical. Those seem more detailed, but I'd love to see just a basic pillar like home or travel and how that's connected to each part of the system.

[@drallynelsondpt]

I don't have pillars connected to my projects, I tried to keep up with updating as the videos and rollups went on but I have that filtered by value goals. Not sure if you can see this but this is how I have set things up so far: whimsical.com/ally-s-notion-C2UtcVgVGWBRiAs7jsy8x2

[@productivity6693]

Great content as always August. Aside for the resizing of sidepeek I already knew most stuff. Greetings from Matthew van der Hoorn btw, you know me from my comments on LinkedIn. Also, I have a different channel for each major topic I follow on KZbin, under the same e-mail address. Each has own history, subscriptions, etc. Decreased clutter and distraction. Really amazing for focus.

[@augustbradley]

Nice Matthew! Great system.

[@StanleyOppenheimerToronto]

The Hold-Shift - Wheel - (Going Left-Right) , is one of those life changing lessons, like screwing in a standard screw bolt. "Righty Righty, Lefty Loosely" - PS: For those poor Sods still using Outlook (Not Gmail) - There is a super trick which I wish was available in Gmail(Sigh). The ability to change the Subject line of any incoming email! (Yes you could forward to yourself, rename, but creates problems-and duplication/confusion). You know that incoming email that's titled "RE:" Stuck in your inbox - Where you curse the original sender for not naming the thread correctly. This Super Power is available in all versions of Outlook even in 2001!! Just open the email in it's own window. Put your cursor on the subject line, and type away - this is written nowhere in the documentation for OUTLOOK. Now you can fix the original subject line and reply without losing or duplication. I wish GMAIL had this functionality.

[@augustbradley]

Nice, Stanley! Tanks for dropping these great tips.

[@abodaa4059]

Can you give me a Full PPV system

[@augustbradley]

It’s part of the full Notion Life Design course. More info at: www.NotionLifeDesign.com

[@CarlCBischoff]

Seems insanely complicated vs just using teamwork or like to manage tasks and team ...