How to Use Notion: 3 Ways to Take Notes on the Notion App 📚

[@ProductiveDude]

Timestamps and resources to help you follow along! 💛 ------------------- TIMESTAMPS ⏱ ------------------- 0:00 - Intro 1:28 - Method 1: Cornell 4:40 - Method 2: Outline 8:51 - Method 3: Mind Mapping 14:05 - Notes Database -------------------- Thomas Frank Explaining These (Without Notion) kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fJpqqvf7-Hh7M --------------------

[@evan.5967]

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[@JunoonRocked]

Of all the notion videos here, i have found yours to be the most useful. All other videos assume I am already a notion user and you start from very basic concepts which is really important for beginners. Keep up the good work!

[@ProductiveDude]

Glad to help!

[@ahmadurrani]

I learned a lot from your notion videos and wanted to thank you

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

Dosent matter Thomas Frank or anyone which you mentioned in this video. What matters for beginners is helpful people like you. You actually taught the basics of the basics which no other youtube video taught for beginners like me. Very helpful video. Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏

[@ProductiveDude]

SO happy to hear that. Thanks!

[@quocthai253]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL FOR ME 👍

[@alexanderrichtertd]

Great ideas! I am just using this as a piece for my 2nd brain. Thx! :)

[@adinahaffeez1763]

Such a legend, thank you so much! I;ve really struggled with note taking over the years and i have to say after the gazillion hours I've spent watching videos - yours actually helped. Thank you!

[@ProductiveDude]

You're very welcome! Glad it helped! 😁

[@ResanChea]

I guess the Cornell Method is used for separated peices of information of what you learned framed to easily accessable and findable key terms. Outline method, which i use most, is for lessons which have multiple main points that are interconnected and must all be one after another. I usually use the three headers and bold text for outline # Main Point ## Sub Point 1 ### Sub Point 2 *Sub Point 3* And mind mapping is used for a lot more interconnectedness with more points and less details that you can't really capture with typed texts

[@ProductiveDude]

I agree, mind-mapping for me is usually a brainstorming method and in that case, it can be better to just draw it. You can also import your drawings to Notion too! Great explanation!

[@MrShmoses]

I love your videos man. This channel is going to blow up.

[@suvn89]

4:43 it's always our English teachers that teach us the most applicable things in the real world.

[@ProductiveDude]

Yes it is! :)

[@thoughtfully]

Oh my, that chapters feature is super nice. I wish all youtubers did that.

[@polin4uu]

thanku so much for the video. im getting anxious for my online classes and i still dont know what note taking tool i should use but then i watched this video and just decided to use notion. thanku!

[@ProductiveDude]

You can do it!

[@cami3402]

Same

[@FastLifeInc]

GREAT video. Please keep making these notion tutorials

[@ProductiveDude]

More to come! Anything you particularly would like to see?

[@fawad0301]

Thanks buddy, I learn a lot from your video. especially how to deal in notion.

[@ProductiveDude]

Glad to hear it! Any other videos you're interested in seeing? Let me know.

[@reembaz7929]

THANK YOU SO MUCH . THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL.

[@ProductiveDude]

You're welcome!

[@dsprathamesh1032]

Good video young man Really helped Love from India

[@antahmad]

Damn dude, great vid. It answered a lot of random questions I had.

[@ProductiveDude]

Happy to hear! Hopefully you tune in for more in the future.

[@hugsandkissesxoxo]

Great content! This is really helpful, thanks for putting these out there!

[@ProductiveDude]

Thank you Lauren. Your comment is appreciated.

[@thoughtfully]

What I would like to see is a video on how to use templates. That is to say, how to use parts of a template in my notion, for example there is a menu planning template out there, well Id like to copy the recipe data base out of that, but then there is another one I like that does kitchen inventory really well, so Id like that, and the two will need to talk to one another.

[@ProductiveDude]

Maybe I’ll do something like that soon! ;)

[@mahmoudramdane2848]

Dope, good luck with your channel - I don't know but for videos like these, especially for apps, people prefer shorter videos.. But this one is like vlog through your Notion, so it flows well

[@ProductiveDude]

Thank Mahmoud! :)

[@Intentionallivingnow]

Great video - Yes to scan note video!

[@ProductiveDude]

Glad to hear you enjoyed this. I'm really thinking that will be a good video idea! :)

[@Ken-ts6ex]

Very well done! Thank you.

[@athaliahkisochi3443]

Loved this!!

[@ProductiveDude]

😁

[@bremcdonald]

Loved this. Subbed!

[@ProductiveDude]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@shahin2324]

Great video! Subscribed!

[@ProductiveDude]

Thank you! It's a pleasure making videos for you.

[@dantitoprrito]

What a great video!

[@ProductiveDude]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Mark4Jesus]

Can you search on 2 tags (the intersection, "AND" function)?

[@ProductiveDude]

I don't think you can do a straight search but you could create a filter to only include those words.

[@danieltolessa6962]

Great Video, thanks

[@ProductiveDude]

No problem! Thank you for watching.

[@isaacvargas7493]

Is there still no way to toggle the hierarchical bullets or numbered list in Notion for something like the outline method?

[@ProductiveDude]

They seriously need to add something like this. :(

[@keithsweatshop]

Thanks for this one, big dog

[@ProductiveDude]

Absolutely, glad you enjoyed.

[@ainamardhiah3940]

how to back up all those notes?

[@OLeonOfficial]

Notion has a automatic back up option. Besides, you can download a regular back up to you computer.

[@aliyahquiroz8247]

This was super helpful! Not sure if this is a dumb question but, how did you do that thing where after you typed I.) you made it so that it came up automatically three more times. and same thing for A.) etc.

[@ProductiveDude]

That was my editor cutting the clip I think. Lol sorry to break it to you. :/

[@mayojuno]

Notion has a feature similar to that. You can make an exact copy of a block on a Mac, by doing option+click on the Menu button beside a block, and just dragging your cursor to where you want the copy to be placed. Formatting and everything will be identical to the original block. It will also copy any content inside the selected block (eg. if you select a toggle list, stuff inside the toggle list will also be copied). This feature is useful to make sets of similar headers, but a bit unwieldy for big chunks of content.

[@robertmaxey5406]

I am curious. What are those boards behind you? Just curious.

[@ProductiveDude]

Those are doors

[@robertmaxey5406]

@@ProductiveDude OK, thanks. I always observe the presenter and his/her surroundings. Much can be learned about a person.

[@bkpaf21]

Great vid thanks for sharing, One question though: Is there a way to search through the text of each note, I get the tag system but what if you want to search for a specific word in a note, is there a way to do this in notion?

[@ProductiveDude]

When you search through your notes in the database of notes, you should be able to type in a key phrase from anywhere in the note and it will come up. If you want to search for a specific part of the note, go to the note and use: CMD + F on a mac or CTRL + F on windows. This will pull up a search box in your web browser and you can type the word you're looking for.

[@bkpaf21]

@@ProductiveDude thanks for your reply!

[@farhadnazari2637]

thanks.

[@ProductiveDude]

No worries!

[@thehaag378]

Is Notion really good for *heavy* note taking? Over OneNote? I really wanna switch, but am nervous. Do you have any lag issues once you cross 10-15 pages?

[@ProductiveDude]

I have NOT stress tested it that much. I recommend trying it for a week. Worst case scenario you can just copy and paste all your Notion notes to OneNote. I love Notion though, no performance issues that I've seen so far and it makes for a great note database.

[@jiulyd]

@@ProductiveDude with Notion you can't take notes if you aren't online. Evernote and OneNote still win for taking notes. Notion wins only for the database capabilities and for the various layouts (table, kanban, etc..)

[@RahulYadav-nk6wp]

I am a developer, and I can say that you can use Notion to as many level of depth as possible. Notion uses no-sql based database at the backend such as mongoDB which is enhanced to work with documents based storage structure. Conclusion: yes go ahead, or you can stress test by importing from OneNote to Notion.

[@ZChuyoyo]

cool vid, cute guy, what else could I need

[@ProductiveDude]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@Tgrjye]

Nice

[@ProductiveDude]

Thanks

[@Mary-kq4rw]

Anyone know how to turn on spell check on notion? I accidentally turned it off

[@huggingpuppy2613]

Right click and the there should be a turn on button

[@vaibhav5038]

how are you making connected subgroups man is their any key ? can Anybody help me in this ?

[@ProductiveDude]

Connecting subgroups? Do you mean making relations between tables?

[@vaibhav5038]

@@ProductiveDude aaah leave it my doubt got cleared thanks a lot for the video man really helpful ❤️❤️

[@thesunshinehome]

notion is probably the worst app you could possibly use to take notes with

[@ProductiveDude]

What do you prefer?