Notion's Timeline View (and 3 Other New Features!)

[@erinw8509]

Me: needs a timeline so I can deal with all of my projects Notion: adds feature Me: gets lost Thomas Frank: i gotchu

[@hadie1257]

The quality of this video is amazing! And the video itself is also really good. I’m impressed how you’ve been making good videos here while also on your main. Keep it up 👍!!!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Thanks! We've had a lot of practice 😁

[@lorenzomion9220]

I started using Notion because of you and it has really helped me! Try doing a complex habit tracking database next. I thought of some ways to do it but they never have all aspects of habit tracking I would like. Thanks!

[@Z-add]

what is habit tracking?

[@manager-businessdeniserdrc7018]

Oh my goodness!! It never occurred to me that my checkbox property can be shown right on the Timeline View! What a difference to not have to worry about filtering them to Complete!!!! I then tried it on the Calendar view which is newly available to my iPad, and WOW so great!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@Curt15x]

Man these are great really appreciate you uploading these

[@SajjadFarajollahi]

Thank you very much for chaptering your videos dear Thomas. This makes it really easy to jump back and forth between different segments of the video and save lots of time.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

You're very welcome! I figured the chapter feature would come especially in handy for the content on this channel

[@S_AIINT]

I really appreciate the fact that you go in depth with what you are passionate and I would like for you to improve production and I believe this could help yourself with a bigger audience and inspire people to become something similar and have a bigger perspective

[@CatalleyaStorm]

I know I said this before but seriously, thank you for captions!!! Means a whole lot!!

[@ed32568]

As a uni student I will definitely be using Timeline View to set tasks / revision sessions weekly.

[@okamichamploo]

I’m actually glad you put the timeline in the overall tasks section. As a person who regularly works on multiple projects at the same time, having to hunt down my tasks from various timelines was always a bit of an annoyance for me.

[@AnjaliMallampooty]

Thank you for teaching me Notion, Thomas sensei

[@gab7828]

I love your notion videos this tips help me a lot.

[@mauricioaugustin6301]

8:10 - I think it is great when u have a task that doesn't show on the timeline if it doesn't has a start date. You can plan that activity and look for validation of someone else not compromising the current view of the project Besides that, I LOVED every new feature

[@gatebuildr]

oh my god I can finally hide the 20 different formula properties that are just smaller components of the formula I actually care about

[@mangoe2076]

Nice Webcam Box, Pretty Cool At 2:37 you can't see part of the head phones lol

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Lol yeah that chroma key doesn't play nice with those thin headphone bands

[@mangoe2076]

Yeah lol

[@casperx9]

Hello, thomas! Do you know how can use the “start and end date” criteria in the timeline view now 2023? I can not find those options (timeline by) in the table now 😭

[@ivince7o0o]

I found it, you can separate the dates when you go to: - View options - Layout - Separate start and end dates * you need to have 2 date properties for the database in order to set it up like Thomas showed

[@TheToobNube]

Looking forward to the Deliberate Practice Episode! 🙌

[@HippieP629]

Many thanks, Thomas

[@giuseppegiorgio9185]

Hi Thomas, your videos are Always great I'm starting to use timeline in notion and i was wondering if there Is a formula that allows to link the end date of task to the start date of the next task, so when a date changes every other task automatically gets the new date. Thanks

[@coopersamp6002]

following

[@laszlomattern]

Hey, could maybe make a video on habit tracking? I found that all the available notion habit trackers are always week specific and you can't get an overview of your results, which is something that really encourages me... Thank you

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yep, that'll be the next big free template I make!

[@LuCkYLaToRrE]

Love the new hidden properties!

[@epictrundling4639]

How do you get the list of task down the left and the timeline to the right?

[@ONeill01]

Gantt chart is a welcome edition but it is disappointing to see that it is limited to 3 timeline views for the personal plan

[@saraicoronadomolina6943]

Really? So sad 😢

[@dillonmderosa]

How does the global checklist work? Is there a video on that you explained?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

What's the global checklist? Is that a feature of Notion, or something I made? I'm just not familiar with the term.

[@dillonmderosa]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Hi Thomas, you mention it at 11:59, and on your page it says "Global changes should be made to the Master Checklist." I was wondering if you figured out a way to have a "global" master checklist. So when creating each new project/video the checklist would be updated automatically if you ever added or changed stuff to the Master checklist. Perhaps, this isn't an exact feature and you just wrote yourself a reminder but I was wondering if there is more to this.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

​@@dillonmderosa ah, now I know what you mean! This is something I'll cover in more detail in my course, but yes - I have master checklists in our wiki, and then I have template blocks inside my video projects that can generate up-to-date copies of those checklists. It's simple to do - just create a template block, then use the Link to Page slash command to place a link to a page inside it. Do it that way, and the template block makes a copy of the page. Note that if you use the inline-link syntax (double brackets), it'll just generate a link to the original page.

[@JoshuaFbref]

Five things Thomas cant live without :- Notion Notion Notion Notion Notion Honourable mention : Notion

[@christycasey2469]

Is there a way to update your templates? Or would I need to add the new features manually?

[@danrose9397]

How do you hide / avoid weekends?

[@RifatErdemSahin]

A complex template can be done there ?

[@safieawaad]

Thomas please tell us how do you have emojis on your desktop, The Last Video when you were talking about task manager i had problems with them because they were shown as a box in my computer .. I am a Windows 7 user

[@BediGamer]

Is it possible to integreat more Databases like Projects to your Dashboard?

[@nivithaabnikarnavnivitha5404]

Nice !!

[@DarylSamsoodeen]

When are you going to launch the course.. I'm really looking forward to that..

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Working on the course outline and site now! While also preparing to move to a new house... 😅 What specifically would you like to see covered in the course? I'm currently wondering if I should do both an advanced one for teams along with a foundational one...

[@DarylSamsoodeen]

@@ThomasFrankExplains that would be great. I'm pretty new to notion, but I've learnt a lot about it from your videos but having a proper foundation would be good. I'm a designer and video editor trying to create a social media presence on multiple platforms at once.. 😅 So something to help with that would be great.. maybe something that can help me manage that along with my tasks. I've recreated your ultimate tasks and note taking database but I'm having trouble linking those to other databases that I've created. Sorry this was long. Keep up the great work and good luck with the move.. 😅

[@Tomary]

Hey Thomas! I'm a fellow content creator and my team and I have used your Video Project Tracker for a year now ! Like you, I'm always on the search for THE perfect to-do & project-management system so I was stoked to see your Ultimate Task and Projects Template. How do you and your Team use these two Templates together? Did you integrate the Video Project Tracker into the Ultimate Task an Projects Template or do you just use hyperlinks? I would love to hear more about that workflow from you! Cheers, Thomas

[@mauricioaugustin6301]

I have the same question here!! I would also love to hear the answer

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Right now, I've added an additional relation our own All Tasks database called Content - this lets me associate tasks with pieces of content. I've also updated our content templates to include a Linked DB view of Ultimate Tasks, so we can add tasks within the project (much like it's done with the Projects view in the public version of Ultimate Tasks). This will be covered in much more detail when I finish the Notion for Creators course 😉 I'm also exploring what benefits there might be to merging these two databases - but that's a slower process because there's an even bigger question it brings up: What if nearly everything was in one database?

[@manager-businessdeniserdrc7018]

@@ThomasFrankExplains I look forward to the merging DBs!! I am on the fence on whether to link and roll up between them or create one huge one because one is Calendar & Tasks, the other is financial, and yes, those definitely connect and share tasks, so right now trying to decide- do I relate and rollup or do I try to merge? And how do I do that?

[@zakariatebbai1090]

hi everyone. how do I ensure that from the first of the month to the seventh for example there is a task in all months without having to do it manually?

[@moris8152]

thank you

[@AymanAlSayed68]

Hey Thomas, thnx very much for the informative vide. One question though: Why can't I download this new template? When I click on the below link it takes me to the Template page with no Duplicate Button, any reason? I had your Ultimate Task template earlier, but I can not get to this template

[@milunyang4678]

how you guys make brainstorming or mind map in Notion?

[@DavidEsp1]

Folding text (toggles) - though can only branch hierarchically - but could use synched blocks to have same text in more than one place

[@giuseppegiorgio9185]

Good morning I have a problem with formulas with the timeline. What I did was link the beginning of one activity with the end of another, but what happens is that it allows me to link only two pages, the third one doesn't work anymore, can you help me? I leave you my template below

[@_HMCB_]

The limiting rows returned is a big deal for me. Probably my fave new feature.

[@khalib1239]

Dear Thomas. I just started using Notion. I did a timeline with projects. These pojects have more detailed To-Do Lists which are limited in time for example: Project "Illustration"-> Inpiration April 2nd, Drawing April 3nd. Do you have a suggestion how I can let the main projects AND detailed to do list of the project shown in one timeline? I worked on it a lot already but couldnt find any solution.

[@sirirond1990]

i have a question, how would you go about creating a class schedule with notion using the ultimate task dashboard? i was thinking about copying the project database and make classes as if they were projects, so they are attached to the main all tasks database as well, that way i could create a calendar view on the main dash board to see which classes are for today and are upcoming but at the same time i can archive the assignments on the all tasks database; would it be better to have them on their own space and not relate them to the all tasks? idk, i think i just want to know how you would go about it, as a student thats also doing personal projects

[@bluedragon2000305]

I just started using notion, and couldn't imagine having to see 20 relations when using a gallery view

[@Luxxen101]

Great features. I bought it. But I NEVER use it for anything important. Just a holding area. Why? Because the HTML export only works down ONE subpage and then you're screwed. Been working with computers over 30 years. Learned the hard way: the FIRST thing you do with any new software is make sure you can backup and/or export your stuff!

[@poisonedpawns-chess1291]

You can do a markdown export as well

[@timl.211]

Hi Thomas. Great to see these new features... and knew that you'd have an update on them for ease of understanding. Thank you! I'm new to using your Ultimate Tasks for Notion template and unclear the best way to use or incorporate your updated template with the earlier version I began using last week? I'm also new to Notion. Do I simply copy over the 'Timeline View' to my existing copy? Duplicate a new copy of your updated template and copy my db's over? I'm pretty sure I'm overthinking it. =)

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Great question! I should probably write something up about this. If you're not going to switch over to a fresh version of the template, then you'll need to do the upgrade yourself - copying over pieces of my template wouldn't work, as those pieces would have Linked DB views targeting the wrong database. To do the upgrade to your own space, do the following: 1. Add a Date property to All Tasks called Start. 2. Duplicate the Today page (or any page, but I used Today) 3. Rename that to Timeline view, then recreate the Linked DB views I have in my Timeline view. I did this by duplicating Table view (to keep the filters), then changing that duplicate to a Timeline view and renaming it. I then deleted all views except Table and Timeline. 4. Set Timeline view to timeline by separate properties (Start and Due). Customize the table and timeline views how you like, or set them how I have them. 5. Adjust the filters of Timeline and Table view to match mine (there are some small tweaks, such as making sure Done tasks don't disappear from timeline view) Hope that helps!

[@timl.211]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you for the detailed reply of switching over. It's appreciated! If I were to copy over a fresh version of the template, would I simply export and import my data into the All Tasks and same with Projects? I'm not opposed to switching over to the new template entirely, with the obvious concern of ensuring I have all the data in the new template. =) Again, Thank you.

[@cestycinou]

Great video as always. But not fan of the green screen talking head. The circle was much better.

[@daltonmatthews4903]

anyone know a good way to use the timeline with spaced rep for school

[@draculezoro7445]

How to view the timeline as a viewer or whatever is called

[@manchineel]

Why not just use the end date on the date property. There must be some reason why you need to separate into two properties. Very helpful video! I love the Timeline View.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

There is: When filtering by date, Notion ignores the end date. So in a "Today" view, tasks with a start date of Today and an end date of next week would still show up as "due" today. The only way around this currently is to have different properties for start and end dates.

[@ad1tyachaudhary]

Hi Frank, I never managed to inculcate Notion into my workflow. It's your new channel so I was thinking to have high quality beginner tutorials series from you. Is it feasible?!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yep! I'm working on foundational course that will have everything a beginner needs to know in one place, and I'll also be working on free beginner videos for this channel.

[@mattk2531]

Hey Thomas - Are you using Mmhmm to film this video??

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Nope; I actually hadn't heard of it until today! I did the screen recording in OBS and filmed separately - the key is done in Premiere

[@mattk2531]

@@ThomasFrankExplains got it. Great Notion content. You should check out mmhmm... For any “screenshot” heavy videos, I think it could add a bunch of value to viewers (p.s. not affiliated with them at all)

[@JulianaSantos-gc8ij]

Hi Thomas, love your videos! I tried to update my notion template and when I put the timeline view it doesn't show the table view on the side, neither the >> sign and in the properties as well. Do you have any idea why? And also is there a way that I can duplicate and transfer my existing projects to the new template you realeased? I tried but all the data from the projects were gone.

[@kaitlynk2145]

I’m kind of sad it’s not another hour long video....you’ve spoiled us😂

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Don't worry, there will be more hour-long videos haha

[@zapy422]

Hi guys Is the API finally there?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Not yet, but it should be going into private beta this month.

[@cosmologyclassesinactive954]

How can students access the premium version? P.S love your productivity videos🥰🥰

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

If you're a student, you can sign up here to get the Personal Pro plan for free: www.notion.so/students

[@cosmologyclassesinactive954]

@@ThomasFrankExplains OMG Thank you

[@initialdtakumi]

FRANk you musk share two pages of your knowledge database: Known Premiere Pro bugs and crash causes and the known after effects bugs and crash causes. I relate so much to those two

[@shravannair8939]

Is it just me or does anyone else also think that the circle Tom used to come inside looked a lot cooler and was way better than the new green screen background? xD

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Sometimes you gotta think outside the circle haha

[@gatebuildr]

Limiting timelines to paying members feels especially obnoxious when the one thing really worth my money, the API, still isn't available yet.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

API should hopefully going into limited beta this month, so I'm anticipating the public release won't be far behind

[@gatebuildr]

@@ThomasFrankExplains that's fantastic news!

[@michielwils8401]

Little advice for your tutorial part of the video, slow down the mouse movement. When I work I also move the cursor at a high speed. But when watch someone explain something, the fast movement of the cursor is a distraction instead of a direction. This is a example of a tutorial where they use the cursor as a direction instead of distraction. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYqoqqCwpdmhfsU

[@savannawitt5566]

Anybody else scream a little when they saw you can finally do stuff by hours in notion?!?!

[@aldorodriguez7310]

🙌

[@ZpecialClippingGrillogoDept]

Hiding properties > timeline view Same hype train

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

100% 😁

[@gaizero]

Ждем перевод на русский язык от наших любимых ребят :)

[@BiselGuy]

We're all still waiting for the "How to tame llamas video". Just saying.

[@georgeseletski718]

👍👍👍👌