Get Organised In Notion Fast! My Quick-Start Guide 2024

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00:00 Get Organised In Notion Fast: My 2024 Quick Start Guide!
01:09 The Basics: Getting Started In Notion
05: 02 Notion Databases & Build Basics
11:02 The Power of Notion Database Relations
15:53 Customising Free & Public Notion Templates
18:20 Your Next Steps for Your 2024 Notion Setup
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[@BetterCreating]

Happy Friday friends! After many requests: here's My answer to the overcoming the overwhelm of getting started in Notion FAST! Fast track the initial learning curve?!📣 Grab my free Notion Tasks Template here www.bettercreating.com/taskmanager & check out my Essential Template collection here: www.bettercreating.com/notionessentials Cheers!

[@philipjones1552]

Clearest explanation of using Notion I have seen. I can stop trawling through other second brain videos (for now) and follow yours.

[@BetterCreating]

Great to hear! This is exactly the comment I hoped to read on this video. Thanks so much for taking time to share the positive feedback! And welcome to the BC Notion community. :)

[@getupmotivation8404]

Agree

[@Leo_ksr]

I think it's the best video that you can watch when it comes to using Notion for the first time.

[@BetterCreating]

Love this! Thanks for the great feedback: you wrote the comment I imagined I’d ideally get. :)

[@privet671poka]

Damn, this looks soo overwhelming... My dream Notion feature is getting the flexibility of databases but having the clean & minimalistic look of a simple [ ] checkbox list

[@BetterCreating]

That would be the perfect combo! :)

[@thenutrisciguy]

Hey Simon! Awesome video. Curious what the timeline is for the 2024 iteration of your complete LifeOS refresh is. I think I recall it dropping in April, is that still accurate? I do not want to spend a bunch of time really filling out the old version if I am going to have to transfer everything over to the new version soon so I am in a sort of holding pattern with a lot of my project management and would love to get into the new and refreshed system soon! Thanks!

[@Michael-qp7gx]

Great video, thanks! I love Notion. I've recently also discovered Capacities and it seems to stick even more with my ADHD brain.

[@slcrooks]

Very helpful, I am quite confused about Notion!

[@BetterCreating]

Glad it was helpful! I hear you: I'm working on more onboarding and demystification content for Notion! thanks

[@manojmistry499]

Hi Simon. Thanks for that video. I was one of the "overwhelmed" that commented on a previous video and this one has started to clear away the confusion and help me get started from first principles. I'm going to give Notion a 2nd try and will use the free version to just learn the basics, follow your guidance on this video and build up - before I think about migrating my current content and the way I manage my life currently. Great intro - thanks. I did have a couple of questions or suggestions - 1) Is there a way to download all of the content that is created in Notion so a user can back it up (on iCloud for example or an external drive)? if so, perhaps that's a good subject for a future video if there isn't one already. 2) Do you have any idea when Notion will be allowing integration with Outlook calendar (not just Google calendar)? Thanks again.

[@cee8226]

I really want to organize my life with notion and I appreciate you for making a video on how we can get started. I can say from Experience that Notion isn't "intuition-friendly" to navigate with hahaha. Maybe just a suggestion, if Notion can be similar to a social media platform that we use daily and already know, it should be easy to navigate. Thanks and I'm going to try Notion again xD

[@BetterCreating]

You can do it! Yes, a little learning and it unlocks! Do feedback to Notion- they tend to listen: but it is definitely designed to be ubiquitous - not a complete ready made UI ! :)

[@khamirbhatia]

Great video but after watching it all i realized my specific requirement - finding a replacement for evernote. Do you have any videos that can help in this regard? I'm eager to use notion for its clean design but getting started has been overwhelming.

[@BetterCreating]

Hey - i feel you - check out my Simplified Notion Life OS template and playlist - it could be great for you: This video is the full tour: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJPcYXmgfZaimJI and this one is specific to Notes and Clippings section of it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIXdYqKvnpqpY6c

[@lukee4969]

Whats the mouse you are using in the vid?

[@thebillioniarmindset]

Hi Simon Have been following you since 2022. I was curious to know if you have the plan to give for free the Notion Life OS for students and those who can't afford it (Even the older versions)? Meanwhile, We'll highly appreciate if you put some notion courses in youtube or any other platform. Thanks

[@brandonjames9169]

Struggling to find the video linked in the description about creating project and database templates?!?! The link that looks to be there goes to a video about using a templated system vs creating one unless I’m clicking the wrong link

[@G_Gued]

Came for the tutorial, stayed for the thocc. Keyboard sounds like Lego Star Wars😮‍💨

[@BetterCreating]

Haha - welcome!

[@CornNation]

I would love to watch your videos because they seem very educational. Unfortunately, I have a TBI, I have difficulty with the background music during dialogue, and you don't do CC. WTF man.

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks and sorry to hear that, now I have improved the mic set up I’m actually looking at removing some music on videos soon. Let’s see. :) CC is available - you can just turn them on.

[@shaneconway1993]

Great introduction but I'm wondering how many of these features are free vs paid? For example, I tried creating my own task management list only to find that if I wanted my completed tasks to be deleted, I had to become a paid user.

[@BetterCreating]

Everything I’ve built on Notion (Complete Life OS System) has been on the free plan other than the database automations: task manager is very doable on free and just using a filter for completed tasks is the best way. :) so all good!

[@shaneconway1993]

@@BetterCreating Thanks

[@dcj7368]

How did you get system database under task database. Approximately 9- 10 minutes mark

[@BetterCreating]

The top tasks view is a linked database view. Or ‘table view’. So main database is at the bottom as system database, and the. I create various dashboard views linking to that. How I make all my Notion systems. :)

[@DrJohnPollard]

Already that "new page" link is now a tiny button at the top.

[@souchikjoardar201]

people waste a hell lotta time watching videos on how to make their notion pages more aesthetic instead of working their way towards achieving things in life notion increases your dependency on your phone and time blocking doesn't really work that way because in life not all the conditions are ideal

[@BetterCreating]

My favourite saying on this: ‘you have to plan, but you can never plan’! :)

[@daiviastra]

hey dude! I'm from India currently in high school can I get your life os templete for free as I don't have any payment method ! & I cannot ask for parents please!

[@BetterCreating]

Hey there, I recommend downloading my Task & project manager for Free: use the link below: you can also drop me an email at [e-mail] and I'll help you out with a couple of the other templates so you can join them together! :) Thanks! S

[@TheTraderGuy]

Or, just write a post it note.

[@rafaelsouza6113]

The video was great, but it would be better if you were using Notion in Dark Mode. It was very unpleasant to watch the video with this all white screen.

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks for watching! overall, I’ve had more comments saying the opposite when I did dark mode I’m afraid! Old videos are in dark mode and many people find this harder to follow :) thanks for the feedback.