Take a Peek Behind My Notion Curtain: How I use Notion as my Second Brain (and for genealogy!)

[@rebeccacorson]

I am watching you using Notion for Genealogy. I am attempting to use Notion for my genealogy also. I hate having all of my information on many different platforms. I also like the fact you can put information in so many different ways. I start by setting up a main page for my research subject with my research question on the top. I link the wife and other members of the family to their own pages with all of their information. I love the idea of also making locations database, people database and educational tracking database. I will have to be watching some Notion training videos to better utilize this program. I can't wait to start changing up my notion database to be a better research tracking tool and maybe breaking some of my brick walls.

[@JulieCahillTarr]

There are so many things you can do with Notion! I absolutely love it. Still trying to find time to work on my Genealogy Hub...I've worked on one project and made some adjustments, but I still need to run a bunch of projects through it to finish tweaking it. I love my Education Hub and use it all the time. It is so easy to find things. Red Gregory (www.youtube.com/@RedGregory) also uses Notion for genealogy and does tutorials (also for non-genealogy stuff). I also learned a lot from Thomas Frank (www.youtube.com/@Thomasfrank AND www.youtube.com/@ThomasFrankExplains)--I purchased his content and task management templates (gumroad.com/a/855392179 affiliate link), which made my life so much easier. I use Notion every day for just about everything. I hope these additional resources help with using Notion.

[@robinmccarthy9654]

I too have "stuff" in Trello, Evernote, Airtable, yada, yada, yada. Notion looks really appealing to consolidate everything in one place. It seems like the biggest challenge is deciding on the database structure. How did you come up with your layout? When working on a research project where do you keep all the related documents like your Research Notes, Proof Summary, etc. It doesn't seem that Notion offers the rich formatting available in Word to automatically create footnote annotations. So I would still have documents outside of Notion in Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. whose locations are referenced inside Notion. How do you handle those in your setup?

[@Bigburma]

I am excited to watch you fill it out and see how it turns out.

[@JulieCahillTarr]

You and me both!!