Master Tag Database for Notion Life OS & Personal Knowledge Management

[@GeremyDeMelo]

Marie Poulin: Having a Master Tag Database is the best way to organize all your knowledge. August Bradley: Hold my beer...

[@bm5543]

August, you are on another level. I browse KZbin for Notion advices, and nothing comes close to this kind of robustness. Thank you for sharing these.

[@RyanMagner]

I actually have a two level tagging database. One database is my true “Master” topics, and then those are linked to smaller “Atomic” tags. So in the Master knowledge vault I’d have Productivity, but linked up to that from another database I’d have tags like “time, GTD, focus” etc. so that way my top level knowledge base doesn’t get overcrowded with tags. And then the topics can share those smaller tags.

[@JP-ek3mc]

This is brilliant Ryan thanks for the idea. It adds more clarity for when there are many sub topics. And I like that there is a clear hierarchy to the tagging system.

[@robbiegal]

good solution to the problem, but what happens when an issue from the 2nd database gets too big and needs its own sub-tags?

[@DavidEsp1]

Or have single database with column for "Level" or "Priority" whatever? (Plus filtered views and matching "new entry" templates) ?

[@brendalg4]

Any more info on how to do it? I am new

[@drizzleshard903]

This is actually what I'm looking for. Any more info on how to set this up?

[@JoeF480]

You're a pretty intense dude aren't you. Super amazing content. Exactly the the quality I've been looking for but have never found until now.

[@dessentials2562]

Thank you so much, Mr. Bradley! You're training us so well to cross-relate things within our system, you're correct -- I'm part of the group who already started linking Knowledge Vault topics to other parts of the system. I just didn't make the leap of understanding to realize that now it functions pretty much as my master tagging system. Sir, you are brilliant, and I'm so grateful for the info and training you are sharing with us.

[@augustbradley]

Right on Donna! The system is organically enhancing itself at this point :) - revealing new capabilities from what is already present.

[@esmecrutchley7983]

I've been playing with a Master Tag Database, but couldn't seem to find the value (or get my head around it). With this video my tags & knowledge vault has gone from 1 entry (Notion) to over 50, I finally get it now!! You, Sir, are a genius!

[@g-ann3527]

Wow! Been doing this since the Knowledge Lab video came out! I know myself to not be diligent enough to use the tags and categories columns every single time I add a new entry so I just made it a point to at least relate each one to a Knowledge Vault topic.

[@augustbradley]

Perfect! Well done 🙂

[@lizmaria2646]

Awesome!! I kinda came across this while I was implementing the media vault. I started noticing that my knowledge vault relation and tags property kept mirroring each other so I deleted the tags property. Never thought that was coz the knowledge vault was already functioning as a master tag. How cool is that! Always looking forward to more great content :D

[@augustbradley]

Yes, at this point the system is teaching us and building itself! It has taken over :) Thanks Liz!

[@RachelOber]

Nice, I came to the same conclusion a couple weeks ago. :-) My Knowledge Hub is essentially this middle ground between my capture and my expression where the ideas percolate!

[@augustbradley]

Yes! It was an organic evolution/discovery. Just makes natural sense.

[@KahunaCoder]

Brilliant! I just renamed my Knowledge Vault to Topics & Tags since that's what it is now (and really was anyway). Thanks!

[@KahunaCoder]

One of the hardest and most important things I did as a software developer was to name things. I love the Pillars, Pipelines and Vaults naming convention. It's very clear and elegant. While building the Knowledge Lab I named the "related knowledge lab item" "related topics". That should of been my first clue. While watching this video I noticed that you kept calling knowledge items "topics". When you renamed the links to "knowledge vault/tags" that's when it hit me. This is a "Topics and Tags Vault" with tags being a little questionable but I like the sound. FYI: My mind, if it exists, is still recovering from your Donald Hoffman interview. Glad I found your conscious agent!

[@firemike7]

What a great video series 👍! I'm watching and re-watching several of them, as I'm building my own mind expansion dashboard and knowledge vault/master tag database. That is just a genius idea to make the knowledge vault the master tag database 😀!

[@eusouoleonardo]

I use my knowledge aggregation as a mastertag database too, I had the same insight about it is already be a mastertag. I have used the same insight for gamify my system. I use the quarter review for bring all the data about my knowledge, projects completed and big wins for my avatar. My systems have gained lots of power with this 2 insights. I love systems thinking and see the forest beyond the trees 😊 Another great video August, you are amazing. Greetings from Brazil!

[@augustbradley]

Awesome Guri, great insights. Each element enhances and supports the others. Nice work!

[@HollywoodFTW]

Yup, this is a breakthrough. Implementing ASAP.

[@augustbradley]

Right on Nick! Yeah, it just makes sense to roll this out in the system. A perfect organic evolution of what we already had.

[@alstovalljr]

Great stuff, August! I’ve followed your video series and built out my knowledge management system per your specs. Life is so much easier now. Thank you for that. As for the master tag database, my tags naturally evolved to become largely sub-topical to my Knowledge Vault topics. But I think you addressed this possibility by suggesting that we add to the Knowledge Vault topics accordingly. Another compelling video . . . Nicely done!

[@labulabuland]

7:50 Knowledge vault 🔸Relational database 11:00 🔸Kapan harus connecting to knowledge vault 12:1 🔸 14:09 Mind Expansion ✅n

[@bereketjemal1083]

The best course I have ever taken. Thank you so much August.

[@sim9955]

This is art! 👌🏻Lovely, thanks!

[@augustbradley]

🎨 Notion is my canvass. Thanks!

[@lukeMac]

Very validating, since I recently came to the same realisation (knowledge base subjects as master tags)! Love it.

[@augustbradley]

The system seems to be organically guiding us now, it's building itself and taking control 🙂. Awesome to hear this works for you too Luke!

[@lukeMac]

@@augustbradley is this how SkyNet begins? 😱

[@augustbradley]

@@lukeMac Began, past tense :)

[@MartinSchabbauer]

This even beats the Apple Event from yesterday. :) Coming from me that means a lot :) Yes, I ordered a new Apple Watch Series 6 :) Thank you for this aspect of the LOS in Notion using the PPV model.

[@augustbradley]

Awesome to hear Martin!

[@PROFESSORO313]

I CAN SEE RIGHT NOW, IF I KEEP WATCHING YOU IM GOING TO BE EXTREMELY ORGANIZED AND EXTREMELY RICH!!!!!!!! KEEP EM COMING.......NOTION SENSI........MR. BRADLEY AKA MR. MIAGI!!!!😁😁😁

[@augustbradley]

Be careful Professor, you might just become unstoppable!!!

[@vibesmom]

Okay this is exactly what I’ve been trying to do, but couldn’t figure how to build it right, or necessarily explain it correctly to ask the right question. . I think after watching this I’m a lot closer than I thought.

[@MarkDMoore-rr1rv]

Massively useful insight, August!!! "knowledge vault functioning as the master tag database" (10:23)

[@MicheleBugiolacchio87]

Awesome video! I started doing the same myself without even thinking about it. I started creating Knowledge Lab Topics when I needed to categorize notes, it just felt right. Didn't even consider it as tagging, sometimes there's too much effort in labels, I find. Glad you found the same flow! Looking forward to more updates and details, great as always.

[@MisterDivineAdVenture]

I had a master tag database note system as early as 1980 ("SquareNote"). I used it as a professional administrator on contract jobs for about 15 years. Same program - 50KB. I still find it essential, but heavily handicapped. I have been trying to replace it with a new kind of system that is based on a tag hierarchy, with the top being just a handful of master-tags that the user has to adopt and adapt based on h/is precise position in the world (basically). It's possible to use a larger tag database that contains that hierarchy - but it is essential to not lose the hierarchy, which you would surmise implies a meta tag. The challenge in this is to automate the meta tag system, which cannot be done in the same database. It's a relational database of tag relationships - which is an etheric wish. However, it is possible to do a rough equivalent by using the intersection of that top level of tags. And this is why I think a true master tag database is essential. That was not possible for me to graft onto anything, and it's been "in development" with various rewrites of models. Now, I am anxious to get to run Notion to try and implement this. I don't believe there is anything comparable and your video and the state of the ecosystem of users on KZbin has flipped the switch for me. So - looking into it! ThankS!

[@ravenmoses8669]

Excellent suggestion to use the Knowledge Vault as a master tags database! My only question is how might we incorporate the idea of "tag grouping" or "tag hierarchy" within this system? As someone in the academic field, my work is mostly interdisciplinary and often organized around the idea of "topics" and "subtopics" (e.g. American History as a topic and pre-colonial, colonial, WWI, etc. as subtopics). Any ideas how I might achieve similar functionality in Notion?

[@FashionKIEND]

I would love to hear August's thoughts on this as well!

[@sarateinturier4261]

I need the same (tag hierarchy), for same purpose (academic field). Till now, I use a "ParentTopic/subtopic" title : at least, it appears a little bit more organized. So my Topics names are, for instance : "Hist / Epistemology", "Hist / SocHistory", "Hist / Biography", and so on. I also use filter features to make spectific dashboards and table views for specific topics I most use and need a quick overview on (see what August did with "Hot topic", "Cold topic" in the previous tutorial). Problem is I have hundreds of Topics/subtopics items of course :-) 💡 There might be better way to do it : if someone has any idea or tips, let me know !

[@m3rcurus]

The Knowledge Vault already has a field referencing other items in the Knowledge Vault which lets you create relationships between topics. I don't think there's an automatic way to create a filter for displaying everything about a topic plus its subtopics. That kind of a view has to be created manually with several OR filters, but wouldn't be much a pain if you only need a few.

[@freespiritkaro3414]

Yes, ditto, would love to hear how August would handle that.

[@augustbradley]

Great questions. Two potential approaches: 1. Have the topics in the Knowledge Vault be the Master Categories, then within each create a dashboard of sub-topics (either in a new embedded DB within, or a collection of toggles or sub-pages). Without having experimented much on this, my instinct is this approach will be better organized and easier to find/remember where everything is located. However, this will not enable tagging of sub-tasks across your system. If that's important, see #2... 2. Just as we created "dependent tasks" in the video I did on that subject, create dependent sub-topics using DB relation to the same DB, chose the "Epic/Sub-task" option and establish dependencies as sub-task relations to the Master task. Then set various filtered views to see an assortment of arrangements. Mor eon this at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZfIeKB4gM1srs0 ...and... www.notion.so/Relations-rollups-fd56bfc6a3f0471a9f0cc3110ff19a79#8652d43b52ed41e6b4b73673fc8bc150

[@MikeHudsontek]

I really appreciate the depth of these videos, the amount of careful thought put into this is amazing. But I've been trying to implement the PPV system for a while now, slowly bit by bit. But I'm still at the stage where it's all quite confusing and it's easy to get lost amongst all these different relations, connections, references, separate DBs. Has anyone had this struggle and how did you deal with it?

[@WesleyAnna]

I think the most important step is having a solid foundation of how Notion works (truly understanding relations + rollups will make things WAY easier). Then, commit to going through all of his videos, in order, one-by-one. I tried skipping over videos at first (thinking I'd just pull bits that were useful to me) but it's much easier to understand if you get the entire gist, then go back and refine after. Takes longer, but you'll find your brain breaking less. :)

[@samuelitooooo]

@@WesleyAnna Can confirm. As someone who grasped the basics quickly, I got a little bit impatient and skipped to the parts I knew I wanted right away. Especially as this is a long series of videos each 10-30 minutes long. This chaotic approach works sometimes but not this time. 😅 Going in order now.

[@RyanMagner]

I posted this comment months ago that the knowledge vault is my master tag database. I’m obviously a genius. (JK but I’m glad you made a video on it so I can learn from how far you take it!)

[@porrellop]

Hi August, I am a big fan. I own a company that operates in 14 countries and we are very much PEOPLE focused so I am looking at Notion to be the driver of our ATAWAD system, which due to COVID has become even more important to our business. I gives this explanation so you understand that my comment is based on a much complex problem where we need to integrate a Private and a Work area keeping the work area robust enough to meet our legal liabilities. Therefore our knowledge hub as you call it need to be two different databases one Private and one Work. Besides this point, we also see our knowledge hub as you see it. having said all this, my comment is as follows, I believed is best to us the Zettels concept where you have Cards and Sources and use the Cards as your master task data base. in our case we have two Sources databases one Personal and one Work and the Cars (we just called it Zettels) is another Personal database that its use by the individual as a Master Task database. It would require a very long note to explained it properly but I am sure you can work it out. Food for thought only. All the best, Peter.

[@augustbradley]

Yes, team implementations have different requirements. I work with a lot of teams and have a Team version of PPV in development also, I may eventually start highlighting differences in the Team approach. You have some great thoughts here!

[@porrellop]

@@augustbradley at present I am looking at Notion my self on purpose, with the view that if I can integrate my life into it as CEO, then I can get the pros to come and do the rest. Like you I am a process guy and I designed most of the company systems myself including our Hollarchy and ATAWAD methodologies. I find the Notion community a very generous one and wanted to give something back. I would like to have a chat later on about some consultancy services, I will be in touch.

[@augustbradley]

@@porrellop Sounds great, I look forward to talking when the time is right. Thanks!

[@augustbradley]

@@porrellop Sounds great, let me know when the time is right.

[@YosefBeder]

thank you, you allowed me to make my notion system. I've taken lots of the ideas in your videos 🙂🙂🙂

[@mdkgr]

August, first of all, thank you for all that you have done for the community. I wanted to ask if you plan to make a video on explaining your thought process and execution around your daily tracking habits, like the Visualisation or the Bullet Planner? I more or less do them myself and they're pretty powerful but I am pretty sure your execution will be overwhelmingly better! Thanks!

[@samleareng6298]

We are early this week, yay!!

[@augustbradley]

I like to keep everyone on their toes 🙂. You win the first comment prize trophy! 🏆

[@Nick_Portillo]

August, the work you're doing is absolutely PHENOMENAL and seriously inspiring. I'm not sure if you've answered this question before but do you still use Roam for insight curation or is all knowledge and insight purely housed in Notion? I saw your video on the keep productive channel and I just finished watching all your videos here on this channel so I was curious about that. Thanks!

[@augustbradley]

I'm losing interest in Roam and with the new backlinks in Notion which are still evolving with more features on the roadmap, the gap is closing in the one area where Roam had an advantage (while Notion has capability in so many other areas where Roam doe not even compete). Too much effort to maintain the bridge across them, and Notion is covering the Roam specific functions more and more, So I'm all in on Notion now. Roam is a cool app and has some innovative approaches for sure, there's just too much power having everything together in Notion.

[@stevetao180]

Amazing as always! I was already using the Knowledge Vault as my master tag DB so great to see you are advocating this as well! Quick question: where do you get the icon images from?

[@augustbradley]

Great to see we're on the same wavelength Yijing! I use several icon collections, one of my favorites is Flaticon.com

[@ambereleasexo]

thank you for these videos, they’re so helpful ❤️

[@jeffwhay3882]

I'm stuck...sort of. I've been following the vids since numero uno. Thank you by the way! I've had several experiences with the "organize my life" concept. In fact, I came across one from 2016 that was titled "organize my life". Opened the note, only to find that I hadn't implememted it. Rinse and repeat until 2019. "I quit!", I don't like feeling like I'm failing and at times have struggled with discerning the difference between failing and being a failure. I've always gotten back up, if I'm going to fail, I'm going to "fail forward" Andy Stanley. But in 2019 it all came crashing down. I stopped trying to organize information for later retrieval. I stopped trying to "No Code". I stopped organizing my tasks, projects...as a result I've lived more in the moment; some call it spontaneity, but most of us know, I just quit trying. Maxwell maybe: If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail. Well, you can't fail if you never attempt anything!!! Drum roll...Then, I found Notion. I knew it could be the solution I'd been looking for. A note I had written prior put it this way: One app to rule them all. Although I knew it could be a great ecosystem, I was also fearful of failure. So I only used it for basic things. As I used the app I began seeing connections that could be made. Because of my past failures, however, I resisted the urge to dive-in again. Fast forward to the month of August, I'd implemented a somewhat, useable system. I knew it was in no way what it could be, but was just happy to be moving in the right direction. But then, I saw and watched my first video from you! Ha...I found August in August. Sorry, lame...Anyway, I was intrigued. Committed to not deep-diving but to take my new relationship slow; I watched casually, while at my daughter's soccer practice. Feedback-loop, emergence, fractal patterns! I knew I had found something valuable. My caution, anxiety, and fear slowly drained as I hesitantly but optimistically proceeded to watch video #2. I've already written a book so I won't go into the rest of the story, but needless to say; I've jumped in. No straddling the line. Reviews will become a way of life, and I'm going to track my daily habits and routines. Here's where I'm stuck... Categorical or "Type" of Pillars. Just prior to watching my first video from August I'd been watching how Marie Poulin nanja"d" (verb) her way through problems and creating systems for people. I was still missing something. Then, "Thank you, Tiago Forte!" I'd found PARA (mentioned by Marie in one of her videos.) However my struggle to set up a system still wasn't clear. Maybe I'm not defining the Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives specifically enough? Slowly, I began implementing his idea with my Notion setup. It was working way better than my previous set-up but I continued my struggle. And thats when I found the Life Operating System (LOS) vids. Since that time, I've tried using tags and or categories to describe my Projects, Area, and Resources. One of the "LOS" vids you mention a drawback of PARA and using it for a comprehensive system in Notion, was that PARA seemed to be designed to create an organizational hierarchy of information; but strictly adhering to a PARA framework in Notion, actually limits the success of a comprehensive integrated ecosystem. I'm certain is too long, but I'm really struggling to define my struggle adequately. I'm hoping the context might better assist you understanding my questions, especially since I'm having a hard time clarifying it myself. 1) I feel like I need more flexibility in my "Types" of Pillars you've identified: Personal, Health, Biz (I think thats what they are) 2) I'm still unclear as to how the Master Tag database effects the existing tags you've used throughout. 3) Conceptually, I'm missing the nuance as to why a Pillar couldn't be a tag; this hiccup probably stems from the way I've been treating the relationship between the knowledge vault and pillars. 4) I don't know but, I'm stuck...it feels like I'm missing something really simple; but for some reason it hasnt "clicked". I don't want to just keep watching your vids without being able to implement into my system.

[@vitalis]

Just use ClickUp for project management and notion as knowledge hub.

[@jared2730]

The Areas and pillars part of the workflow had slightly confused me solely due to the fact I can complicate things beyond belief. When I look at my life from an outside perspective, I know I really only have a few different areas... and although it may seem simple, it was kind of a b**** to outline them at first because each of my Areas have multiple pillars and I felt like I was missing something to centralize the information by the overarching categories that make up my life. At first I used multiple relations, leading to a potentially endless amount of Areas/Pillars, all inside of one database. I just recently tweaked it just like Mr.Bradley has it, except I have created dashboards for each of the main categories... which after doing some research and reflecting, I call my “Life Territories” or groups. Displaying this with a select property, I can roll up all of the projects, tasks, habits, resources or any other database that I chose to connect with the Area/Pillar database. The added benefit is in almost finished simplifying the way I work with Notion by creating contextual dashboards for each Territory... as well as one master Dashboard that outlines my system & another one for the sole purpose of interacting with Notion and executing on things I’m currently focused on You could potentially chose to make Areas/Pillars a tag... but I feel like you may run into the issue of having various amounts of relations or roll ups that may lead to them becoming blurry in the long run. I used to actually have an Area/Pillar database that stood alone back when you couldn’t hide properties, solely for the fact I was relating and rolling up so much info that it was easier to use tags and then filter things into an Area/Pillar Dashboard. It looked cleaner lol I feel your pain trying to get Notion and your system setup in a way that actually promotes productivity. I have two pieces of advice that I’d share to anyone getting started setting up their workflow on Notion... 1. Keep things simple beyond belief. - I’m resorting to creating custom dashboards for managing my personal, business and learning/growth areas... as well as utilizing a minuscule number of contextual dashboards (via google chrome shortcuts on my laptop’s start menu/desktop) so that once my system is fully outlined... I solely interact with the pages and don’t have to interact with my entire system at all 2. Outline your system & make a rough draft first - this lets you see what actually needs to be included inside of your workflow... and what may be better going without if it’s not needed I wish you the best of luck man!

[@1ststepcoaching]

absolutely brilliant!

[@maetl0]

A little off-topic, but I'd love a video about your approach to transferring content in your resources into the actual structured notes under each of your knowledge vault categories.

[@Andrew_LaRice]

"Better Notion Web Clipper" 😂 Yes. Yes please.

[@augustbradley]

Ha! That one had some nice features, but had some even bigger limitations. It will improve I'm sure.

[@Andrew_LaRice]

@@augustbradley - Have you taken a look at the unofficial API's that are out there? The python effort seems incredibly impressive. Any idea what the Notion team thinks of such efforts?

[@augustbradley]

@@Andrew_LaRice I have not looked at it, the real api is so close doesn't seem worth messing with a less reliable or more short-term version. But there is some very cool experimentation going on with it until the full api comes!

[@pranjalshah9225]

Check out this chrome extension: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-notion/ldmmifpegigmeammaeckplhnjbbpccmm?hl=en It doesn't exactly replace the web clipper in that it doesn't pull the entire page contents (as far as I can tell) but it does make it a lot easier to make entries into a database

[@camilabricenogomez9825]

Amazing 🙌🏼

[@productivityirl8572]

I might be doing something wrong.. but my global tagging system gets pretty messy when I start getting dozens of other 'notes' tagged with the same tags in my global tag data base... in Evernote, I sometimes have hundreds of notes with a master collective organization tag - but not sure if I can pull off that same functionality in Notion. For example, the current project I'm working on has 2800+ notes in it... every one of those has a master project tag - now yes, many notes are a part of sub projects and have their own sub-project tag - BUT that master tag has 2800 entries.

[@augustbradley]

With notes in particular, I pull them into the main body of the Knowledge Vault and then archive or delete the note itself. As this scales we are going to have to trust that Notion will roll out the ability to collapse property tags. That functionality is coming, we just don't know. After the API it is probably by far the highest requested feature. They know it is needed.

[@jeremysilva82]

This series is incredible August, thank you so much! In your vaults system, do you have a master "People Vault" that you use for tracking people? I was going to create one within your system and wondering your thoughts on that.

[@tejasrao5372]

Update on my personal Knowledge Vault: I found my 'Topics' under Knowledge Vault starts getting unruly and included a lot of scrolling once I dive deeper and deeper into a certain topic. Took care of this issue by adding a database under each topic with a Gallery view and I also add tags which I then use for various views to serve as my table of content. (I generally use a minimum and a maximum of 2 tags for a card to keep things simple) Micro-Level Database design: Has just 2 attributes. 1. Tag (Multi-Select): I ensure that each card has at least 1 tag. The tag serves only 1 purpose: What 'view' would this card show up in? (I use various views as Table of Content, filtered by the tag) 2. Source (Text): This is where I use backlinks to the original source of where I captured the information from. Why text field rather than relations? Simple, you don't want to end up with a new attribute for each topic in your master Knowledge vault. And using the text box gives me further granularity to lead me right to the original block of text where I got the information from. (copy the link of the block and paste it to a text within Source field) This works particularly well when the article explains something with an analogy/example. I don't need to include the example in my knowledge base. But for future reference, Its available. Pros: Granularity. Can dive as deep as I want to on topics, or shallow. It doesn't matter since each 'concept' within a topic is partitioned into its own card/page. Taking advantage of backlinks: I can use backlinks on each card which then happens to act as a table of content for the notes that I have generated on the original article I have read. And I also Cons: As your databases grow, they start loading slower (Personally I haven't faced any issues as of yet) Suggestions if you decide to take this approach: Keep your micro-level database as simple as you can possibly make it. Reduce complexities to reduce traction.

[@brianhartger]

I wonder if @mentions could be used for subtags. They are essentially just links to pages. These pages could live inside of the logical parent topic in the knowledge vault or a subtag database. And because they are pages, they could easily become a parent topic by simply moving them to the knowledge vault with the other parent topics. The other benefit is that they can can used both in database fields and in wiki style where you link to the subtag in a sentence. I'm still trying to work out any limitations to this idea. But I think it could work.

[@brianhartger]

So far so good. I created a Subtag vault with a relation field that connects to the topics in the Knowledge Vault. This adds a subtag field to every Knowledge topic page. I also added a link to the subtag database to my new topic template and filtered it to only show subtags for that topic. I then made my subtags visible on my topic cards in the knowledge vault. Each card now shows Mama topic with all the babies right beneath it. I like having all these sub pages in a vault instead of scattered among different pages. Don't forget you can @mention any of the tags or subtags anywhere, even in database fields. The only wrinkle I have found is that you can't click directly into a subtag from the parent card. It takes you to the parent page, then you have to click the subtag. No biggie. I hope this makes sense and is useful to someone else.

[@brimmedHat]

"By killing two birds with one stone, you make both of them more powerful" golden

[@Mark4Jesus]

OK newb question... so @9:00 how do you get the gallery cards that small? I made a gallery view with 4 items and set for small, and my cards are like 4x taller than these, even with just the name as content.

[@Mark4Jesus]

Nevermind found it. Have to make Layout / Card preview = None.

[@iyengarshyam]

Master tags are really helpful though you only have a 1:1 relation, It would be great to have a 1:many relation between topic and master tags..

[@MartinLichtblau]

😀 Your data-structure increasingly looks like mine (which I created a year ago, before I wrote you in twitter, without having told you about it).

[@carriolan1]

....... Thinking there are two global attributes that come to mind: 1. Tags, and 2. Time. I wonder whether or not it would be productive to do something similar with time?

[@rogofever]

Hello August can you help me out with one notion gallery related problem, gallery database looks good on desktop but when I view it on mobile they appear in a single column. Can I fix it is it even possible, I use notion +super.so for my web pages. Please help

[@princehrb]

era isso que eu queria pra organizar minha vida

[@2nice79]

I feel like this may be one of the focus areas that notion is on. While recent added backlinks are nice for convenience, they really are not that much better than what master tags have always provided. I hope they have not stopped trying to improve "note connectivity". The only thing backlinks do is pretty much not clutter fields in the database table of origin if multiple tags are preferred. Have you found other added benefit? On the connecting/receiving database/page, they still appear as only displaying the title of the note. I think where the real stride will be is when we can start to see excerpts of the surrounding text wehre the backlink was applied. As a short term remedy, I am considering applying a full sentence within the double brackets so I can get a better idea of what the backlink is in reference to. Otherwise, I am sitting on the connecting page clicking one note after another trying to see how everything connects exactly. The only problem is that if notion decided to improve by giving us inserts, I am worried that my multi-word backlinks will screw things up. What do you think? Do you advise against my remedy?

[@DannyHatcherTech]

It is interesting to see you take this approach. I have been using this approach for about a year but I use my areas database which I guess is the same as your knowledge vault. I mentioned this in my conversation with Marie last Friday and someone in chat said "no tags database, what?" then I tried to explain aha 😅

[@augustbradley]

If you're Areas DB is anything like the PARA "Areas" then it's very different from the Knowledge Vault (Knowledge Vault has a much larger, more expansive and growing range of topics than the small set PARA defines). Areas is also different than the PPV Pillars, which is a common misunderstanding that I will elaborate on soon in an upcoming video. But to the chat comment you received, of course you can get along just fine without a tag DB!

[@DannyHatcherTech]

@@augustbradley I built my area database before hearing about PARA but it does have elements that are similar. For my area database, anything that doesn't have an end date goes in there. A topic of learning, an Area of work or development, and any other area that is ongoing. For me, an area page is more of a dashboard for that topic, with tasks projects and notes associated, so I can see the information I am capturing and what actions are done about it.

[@ydip05]

Meetings - do you maintain a people database that would be related to your meeting notes?

[@augustbradley]

Yes, certainly for your internal team if it's of any meaningful size. But need to account for the many people you meet with also that are not worth entering/tacking in a DB -- I just note them in the template, not in properties. Good question Yves!

[@daryldyer]

Hi August, thanks for sharing great videos and tutorials. I was wondering how PPV can be applied to a work team?

[@Enacaus]

I like that dark shirt. This suits you August, the dark blue thumbnails were nice btw, plz go back to those dark blue thumbnails.

[@_sonicfive]

Few times have I spent so much time on a single tool. It concerns me somehow my notion account gets either hacker, corrupted etc. And all of those crazy hours get lost.

[@frankensah]

As little as I understood your method, I loved it. I would love to be able to watch your videos subtitled in Portuguese so I can fully understand the system. It's possible? Please!

[@augustbradley]

It's open for anyone to add subtitles, I would love to have more languages added :)

[@jarle53]

Will there only be live lessons on the course? Cause the time difference might be an issue then...

[@augustbradley]

All live sessions will be recorded and available after the session. Many people will of course prefer to watch the recordings. This will apply to both the presentations and the Q&A sessions, all available to participants via recordings in the learning platform we're building. Hope that helps!

[@freespiritkaro3414]

We must be telepathically synced or sth! When I was stuck on Master-tag DB, you put a video on it. Now, I am stuck on Pillars now, can’t wait to see the new version, bang on time, thanks August 🙏🙏🙏. When is it coming ?

[@labulabuland]

✅watched

[@morrisgetman9827]

Am I the only one who understood how cool the master tag database is, but didn't get the slightest idea of how to actually make one?..

[@iandravid]

this. is. brilliant. Zettlekasten much?

[@MaHmoodOom]

💗

[@aethereal100]

Please sloooowwww dowwwnnnn! :(

[@m3rcurus]

yo, imo it shouldn't be called a Master Tag database or Knowledge Vault. The other word you keep using that makes the most sense is Topic. But the thing is software is also a Topic (especially for programmers like myself). The biggest difference between your Tools-Skills-Services database and Knowledge Vault is a multi-select or two. Well that and you keep people in it. The actual "Knowledge Vault" you've built is everything you gathered in the Media, Topics, and Notes databases. Personally I've gone ahead and merged Tools-Skills-Services into Topics and created a separate People database (which links to the others). Then I added a multi-select to Topics for further categorization (focused on software terms). What's the worst that can happen, a blank field? My last change is that Notes now includes code snippets. But then you start to notice that since we're all making the same kind of system we're sadly creating silos of knowledge. What would really make it shine would be to have a communal database of this stuff. Give each person in the People database a user login (with private notes and permissions). Add in a forum and recipe sharing and baby you've got a s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶n̶e̶t̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ stew going. That could be really cool - like Wikipedia but everyone is more involved in building and digesting the knowledge. Maybe it could even stay in Notion as a communal workspace? But then Topics would probably need to cross between workspaces...

[@armandomlb498]

*Slow clap*