The Most Powerful Productivity App I Use - Notion

Y'all have asked for it, and here it is. Today I'll be giving you a tour of my Notion setup, which I use to organize, plan, and execute every stage of my video production process.
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[@Thomasfrank]

I put my whole video project system into a Notion template that you can duplicate and use for free: thomasjfrank.com/templates/notion-video-project-tracker/ I've also created templates for note-taking, task management, and more: thomasjfrank.com/templates/

[@Canon7D365Project]

Thank you!! I'm just getting started and this video was incredibly helpful :)

[@fortunateone9414]

Hi how do you add a comment area on notion?

[@Thomasfrank]

@@fortunateone9414 highlight any text, and you'll have the option to add a comment!

[@MohnishD]

Saved my time by 100x

[@gilkruger]

Thomas, thanks for this video. I would love to see what your podcast template looks like

[@Notion]

Thank you so much for creating this fantastic video Thomas! Appreciate everything you do.

[@expertseries]

Grateful for Thomas' overview and the Notion team -- this video (and the Notion platform) now has me massively simplifying my workflow -- migrating everything out of Evernote, Scrivener, AirTable, Apple Notes, Things App, Excel, and Word.

[@legzz187]

Please fix the Android app. It's so slow :(

[@NazzarenoGiannelliCG]

@@legzz187 Yeah it's freaking slow. It's a pity because everything else is just amazing.

[@pennryan970]

Aww cute

[@mepravi]

Any news regarding the offline functionality?

[@lateolabrax3155]

KZbin Video Project Tracker 2:15 In The Templates 8:20 How Frank uses Script 10:50 B-Roll List 11:25 How the team makes videos 11:47 Merge with CSV 12:53 Efficient Video Making 13:24 Tags, Gatherers, Fixes 15:52 Relations and Rollups 19:22 Updating Templates 22:16 Tools and Learning #philosophy #didactic 23:01 Sponsor 23:46 Ending 25:32

[@mohammedk.7380]

卢哲磊 Thank you!! Very helpful👌🏼

[@EricaRasha]

Bless you!

[@drcool763]

卢哲磊 Thx

[@pierrebernard142]

Really cool video ! "As a way to constantly improve the tools you're working with", maybe you could try adding this time stamps directly into the progress bar

[@carlitoxb110]

how to tame llamas 3:16

[@MedSchoolInsiders]

Been very happy with Notion. Started using it after watching one of your other videos about it. Thanks for sharing Tom!

[@nellyb743]

You and Thomas should totally do a collab Dr. Jubbal!

[@Zetsuke4]

MSI on Tom Frank? Awesome!!

[@wideopenblog3527]

Same. Thanks Tom! Notion helped me to get more organized and self aware

[@cloudybrains]

What do you use it for?

[@jmsmusicita]

Could you please show us what’s the best and most productive way to use notion: 1. as a college student; 2. for personal growth (to do lists, short and long term goals , projects, achievements, journaling..) ? Greetings from Italy!!

[@carolinejudith1718]

I agree with the college student part. It seems really neat, but I don't know how to make it that useful and worth the effort.

[@adnanalam]

You should check out Mariana's Study Corner's video on notion. She made one on organization system video for students using notion also put some useful templates in the description

[@Busterblade20]

I agree, until then. Check out the landing page of notion for students they have many templates and examples or what notion is capable of. Really amazing.

[@funastacia]

Thomas, thank you so much for making this video. I took a year off KZbin because of grad school, and now that I’m done and ready to go back I felt overwhelmed by having to redesign all of my work processes from scratch. But I’ve been watching your video and working with your template for two straight days, picking up sth new every time I rewatch it, and I can’t believe it, but I have a functioning system in Notion (Notion used to paralyze me 😅)! Thank you so, so much, Thomas 🌸☀️☺️🙌

[@brightart4628]

Ооо, Настя, я только что смотрела ваше видео, потом включила это, а тут тоже вы) капитан очевидность из меня отличный, просто приятное совпадение)

[@DerekMakerFitness]

This video has me blown away. I've been spending so much time trying to find a way to plan my videos but I work on a plane and most of them don't let you edit offline. All your behind the scenes secret sharing is incredibly helpful and generous

[@heimerscott]

This is honestly the best Notion video I've seen to date. How you are using is incredible and very well thought out.

[@jazzgabrielle]

perfect timing! i just started using notion a few days ago and i'm still learning the ropes

[@vitorjacinto3922]

I have been using notion for about a year now and I can tell you guys: the learning curve is worth. Completely change my perspective about productivity apps and help me so much with university. It's just awesome 🚀

[@cecisaia]

This is insane in the best possible way. Thanks for taking the time to explain and share the template!!

[@SamFerro]

Thomas this is the video I've been trying to find for SO long. THANK YOU for sharing your youtube workflow - been struggling for years to plan and consistently maintain a content schedule w/o getting overwhelmed by all of the details. This is huge - appreciate the wealth of knowledge and can't wait to binge watch more of your videos 🙌🏼

[@cocoariche]

Thomas Frank and Co... you all are some of the most valuable people on the internet! I cannot believe you all give away these templates and the accompanying instruction! This is SO invaluable. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You all ROCK

[@ItsCaputo]

I've been intersted in notion since you demo'd it on you top productivity apps. I appreciate the deep dive into this part of your process.

[@Calumrussell88]

This is amazing! The fact you also included the template is overdelivering value in a HUGE way, it's off the scale, thank you so much!

[@abj136]

This is the video i needed. I've seen how-to do sutff with Notion, but until now i had never seen a motivating example of really using the tools available. Now i get it!

[@doodledoodle7033]

This is the beat video on NOTION compared to all of the others. the description is balanced and detailed but also explanatory without being overwhelming. thank you for making this video !!!!!!

[@enchantology]

I just got into Notion and have been watching alllll the Notion videos. The timing on this upload is incredible!!

[@edubs9828]

I could be mistaken but the terms you agree to with Notion are pretty hardcore. While I would have no problems with using it to organize stuff like my schedule or task list to get groceries, buy tires, or plan a vacation, I would not be comfortable doing any intellectual project or business on the platform. Everything you use on their site is now considered their property that they can for whatever they want, including selling. I quote from the Terms & Privacy page: "As a condition of your use of the Service, you grant Notion a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, sub-licenseable license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, modify and adapt and create derivative works (either alone or as part of a collective work) from your Content."

[@EmmaVB82]

Evan Wilson 😲

[@laurabenitez1936]

I'm not lying. This video came at the right time. I just exported all my notes from Evernote to Notion last week because Evernote has some things here and there that are becoming an inconvenience for my productivity. I've tried several times to start using Notion, but I've been using it for a week (the longest I've used it for) and it truly has proved to be a good fit for my workflow. I love these tips you have given here, Thomas. I will surely use some of these! Plus that new student login with the free premium for a year? YES!!!

[@utoob3004]

I really like how your videos are clear, concise, take an honest look at the pros and cons, and provide a lot of actionable, useful, information, etc. Thanks for not wasting our valuable time with "content filler"! I'm sure a large part of that is the work you do in the iterative process involved in combining, editing, etc. I just want to make a broad comment on what I seem to be observing over the years. There seems to be some re-invention and rediscovery. The powerful things in Notion seem to be leveraging things which have been around a long time in SQL-based Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS). -table merging. -aggregation. I think applications and interfaces like Notion seem helpful in making the common work and maintenance in RDMS's a little easier. But it does seem to be the case that the manual aspects still haven't gone away. You still have to manually "maintain" your template (like a database schema you wish to instantiate). You still have to manually (via those toggle switches) create/set your views: the database fields you want to join on and see, etc. And I see that people STILL haven't been able to get around/past using csv to interface with other systems. Then, often, one ends up creating a somewhat monolithic structure which can be hard to change/modify for a new purpose. Simple note-taking apps/systems seem to have acknowledged that people don't, in practice, seem to want to take this time in maintenance (which, I would agree, ultimately pays off in other time savings). That seems to be why things like Keep or Evernote arose. Anyway, Notion seems to have a basis in an old tabular model, which is easy for people to understand, and is conducive to relational systems. Other apps (e.g. Roam Research, etc., like you made a video about?), seem to be using more of an object model (think NoSQL like MongoDB), more conducive to ad hoc web scaling, graph representation, and maybe things like GraphQL. But, for those, it can take time to create efficient/easy functions to systematically relate data. It seems like things which can, say, be serialized to json (vs csv) might give the best of both worlds: ad-hoc association, via key-value "objects", and "arrays" which contain things easy to iterate over (for aggregation, etc). Anyway, this comment has been a bit disorganized, and probably TMI. I've worked in neuroscience, data science, and always thought about what are the most effective ways people learn, organize, store, and transfer (share) information. So I guess your videos make me think about that. Thanks!

[@UchihaItachi-mq3eb]

Wow! Thank you for the insight to the intricacies of your workspace. I never thought that you were this meticulous and the amount of effort that it takes to produce just one video. As always great content :) I came across Notion yesterday itself via your previous video and immediately installed it in all my devices. I have to say, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed and confused by it's versatality and how to go about it, this surely helped clear a lot of my confusion. Thanks a Ton!

[@itsoniamatos]

WOW this video was awesome! I've started my KZbin adventure about a month ago and my biggest pain point has been how to organize everything - THIS was priceless, thank youuuu!

[@Zetsuke4]

I wanted to use my remaining 1% battery to express my humble opinion to this, although the

[@tristanreddy5353]

Underated comment

[@dawpps5270]

@@tristanreddy5353 Nope. Copied spam comment from Facebook.

[@tristanreddy5353]

@@dawpps5270 I'm not on Facebook so I thought it was cool sorry🤷🏽‍♂️😂

[@dawpps5270]

@@tristanreddy5353 Fair enough

[@dsmk-orev-7344]

You would not be able to send the message if you didnt press send before you phone dies. But still its funny. Good try.

[@AshBeecheyVideo]

Having recently started making content again, I've always struggled with productivity and getting a good workflow going. THANK YOU SO MUCH for this. This is genuinely the best thing I have came across in regards to producing video content and organising it.

[@VioletEmerald]

This was the first introduction to Notion I had, a couple months ago i think i stumbled upon it and I've been planning to probably start using it when I had tonne to start exploring. This week i really started to get ready to use it and watched a lot more of the basic tutorials and i was frustrated by how much emphasis so many tutorials had on note-taking and how few people did nearly any of these cool things with Notion that are really advanced and a lit of what i expect to find useful or even seemed to understand them themselves. Thank you for introducing it in this kind of powerful and impressive way.

[@alzibaba]

Wow, this is fantastic, thanks so much Thomas! I've long been a database user, but online solutions that work easily between devices has previously been expensive and quite complicated. Finding Notion - and in particular the fact it can create relationships between databases - is really awesome. Thanks too for the templates, it's a great help in getting started quickly. I really appreciate it 🙏👏👏👏

[@andreasurban6795]

I was just wanting to express my gratitude for you sharing your outstanding setup, and was planning to write an essay about how impressed I am, but now looking back at the number of superb feedback you have already received let me just add, 'WOW!'

[@dorianchristensen9096]

I came to learn about Notion and this video does not disappoint, BUT the real gem is their video production management workflow. ABSOLUTELY EPIC! Thanks for the template, great work!

[@codinginflow]

Setting up my Notion workspace right now. I am already impressed

Hi Thomas, at 19:58 could you please guide me how to input formular to count all of spots for each client? Is it count automatic or input number manually? Thank you.

[@DanielZat]

I've stopped using Evernote two years ago and now put markdown notes in dropbox and use things 3 otherwise but using Notion seems like a big step up from my workflow! Thanks so much for making this video!

[@catedoge3206]

I just started college a week ago. I talked to a counselor and we made a weekly planner. I've never really used one but I believe that if I do, my life will be more organized and better. I will try this app. :D

[@TimeFliesTimeManagement]

Very nice use of Notion for your videos projects, I love it! I might give it a try for mine! Thanks for this powerful video as always! ✅✅

[@BenettGraezer]

Thanks a lot for this video! This was really helpful!

[@Tisha.SaludIntegrativa]

I loved your video! And I’m super grateful you provided the template! I just started with Notion today so I REALLY appreciate getting that from you. 🙏🏻🙌🏻

[@sanketss84]

Absolutely love your setup . I was looking for one place which would help me track all my ideas and being a developer i was thinking of creating a custom solution but notion has exactly what i had in mind and at the same time being super flexible. Thanks a lot for making this and sharing your process with us.

[@JCKRGB]

Fantastic video Thomas. I’ve been using Notion for a while now, but I never realised how powerful it could be! Will be checking out your template and using it in my workflow. Thanks for sharing it!

[@razk7163]

Hey man. What you do really inspire me to do more. Thank you for helping me to be more productive in life.

[@sveeny]

Hey, just wanted to tell you I've been using your Task Manager for two months now and it's so powerful. It helps a lot and works very intuitively and is so practical. Absolutely love it! Thank you very much!

[@turbo2ltr]

Thank you for this. I've spent the past two days learning Notion. Years ago, when trying to wrangle personal information management, I had come up with the concept of being able to have differnt building blocks, like they have done, because not all data is the same and can't be handled by one construct. I opted to build something super simple, but they have taken that initial concept and stretched it way beyond what I imagined. As with a lot of these types of services, the docs are great for showing how to *do* things but fail to give a clear picture of the underlying *concepts*, which is especially important when it comes to being able to create hierarchy and relationships such as in Notion. I am using your video template (modified for my much smaller channel) and also created a todo template that has a todo as well as a budget database and a note area. I'm liking it! The one thing I don't get is half my "blocks" on the free version are already taken. Deleting almost everything I didn't go below 50%. If I continue to use it (i've been known to quit things like this because it doesn't become a habit), it's certainly worth the price to upgrade.

[@jaimanlive]

Wow, what an incredible video Thomas! This app is absolutely amazing. I downloaded Notion months ago when watching one of your best app video. Please make a course on this for everyone who is ready for optimizing production.

[@creatownia]

We’ve been waiting for this day ❤️

[@gatebuildr]

I already use Notion and am just starting to use it to manage my small business. That template for pages in the projects DB is 🔥

[@AaroHuttunen]

Thank you Thomas! Had this video on my "Watch later" for a year or so... What a mistake. Going to use this template! It's awesome!

[@annsmahboob3495]

As I write 2349 people have viewed this video and there are a total of 0 dislikes. Speaks volumes of the quality that this man is producing on KZbin

[@travislrogers]

Great video, thanks for the detailed walk through of your process! It’s always enlightening to see how others hyper-organize their workflow using these great tools.

[@ZukunftBilden]

This is how I found Notion. My favourite software. Thanks

[@theIkiGuy]

Also, I highly appreciate how you kept the sponsor video at the end. Smart move there. Thank you so much for the wisdom you shared with us.

[@thesuccessmountain342]

Pure GOLD! Thank you so much for doing this video, and for giving us the template!!

[@FutileGrief]

I've seen this video like 7 times and I always come back for another brilliant idea. This is how this project manager should be used! Hell yeah. Thnk you so much for sharing

[@MarkusEicher70]

Hi Thomas. Thank you for this post! That is a great way to manage projects. Best thing is the flexibility of Notion to adapt it to my needs. Your video convinced me to invest in learning and setting up my own Notion Template. Thanks for sharing your template for free! Very generous, I appreciate it! Take care and have a good time.

[@Sahilvstheworld]

Man I love you! This is so good, I'm just starting my channel and this is really helpful! I recently subscribed to Nebula using your link, and I sent them an email specifically to tell them about how much I want to support you. Thank you for what you are doing for the world.

[@hopecha1788]

Yes!! Been using Notion for half a year-ish, and it's been super helpful for different sorts of things in my personal life and projects

[@SachinGanpat]

Really helpful Thomas. Been looking at both Notion and Coda and been playing with them both but the learning curve was a bit challenging and the use cases unclear. This gave me some really good ideas.

[@salome10011]

Hi from Spain! Your best video so far. Thank you for such a generous behind the scenes look into your great work.

[@MarleyPeifer]

It's obvious you're really enjoying geeking out on the efficiency of this systems cause of the way you keep smiling! Thanks for the review.

[@minqu1356]

“... and that really reflects one of my core philosophies: when it comes to tools and learning, I’m always looking for a way to do things because even if the way I’m doing something now seems to work, there’s probably some kind of improvement that I could make that would bring an unforeseen benefit. And the exact same thing goes for just reading widely and constantly exposing myself to new ideas and trying to learn new things on a daily basis. When you do this, you tend to combine ideas in your head and find solutions that you would not have otherwise came across." This paragraph is a masterpiece. I put it in my iPhone reminders and reminder myself on a daily basis.

[@imcurtispenner]

I just discovered Notion. It's amazing. Thanks for sharing your set up. Very helpful as I was looking for a way to organize my own video production.

[@bricetrophardy]

23:45 that transition was so smooth man. ^^ Great video, thank you so much for taking the time to show us behind the curtain. Very useful for me to start grasping how I can use Notion. The best tools take often more time to master.

[@SeanCottrell]

This is an outstanding video and incredible valuable. I have tried/used ToDoist, Evernote, Asana, Notion, etc for my business and personally and a lot of this issues raised and addressed are ones we have been looking to address. Thank you Thomas for this is an extremely well thought through video and explanation of your workflow.

[@Slenka]

I love way how you are organised, I'm really enjoy this kind of videos, thank you for sharing, now I'm testing todoist and I'm absolutely blown away!

[@briantoro3946]

WOW. There is a ton of work that goes into a video. I knew it was a lot but nowhere near that much. Great video as always. Notion is amazing. Working on building out a giant my life dashboard.

[@HackingIELTS]

Thank you Thomas for being so generous; this project management system is brilliant! Appreciate your content and its impact!

[@HaroArtist]

Dude, you are super organized. This program is off the hook! I'm drooling here.

[@wesseljansenvandoorn7957]

This video really helped me a lot, I discovered so many things in notion and have so much more yet to discover Thank you!

[@Sato5h1-Nakamoto-iam]

Thanks a lot, you without a doubt one the best You Tube educators I've come across. I appreciate everything you do between You Tube and Skillshare. Keep it coming.

[@joselenetenis]

OMG im obssessed with notion, just found this video and im even more in love with the app, learnded a lot

[@tomhollins9266]

Very well spoken. A natural speaker. I just watched a video in normal speed, for something I wasn't looking for but you made it so interesting, that now I need to look at the product. they should pay you for this vid. Kudos. I use OneNote bc its on my iPhone too. I get ideas all the time and need to add them to a list somewhere to explore later and expound upon. The curiosity stream commercial was also well done. I've see it before, but now it interests me more due to this content.

[@TheAudioJourney]

Wow. This is exactly what I've been looking for to organise my videos! Thanks so much.

[@elettraarazatah5999]

Thank you so much, it's one the best videos you have, it makes me so enthusiastic every time I see it and now I'm actually creating my own system on Notion. And thank you for the podcast as well, you and Martin and keeping me company these lockdown days :)

[@Anime-uk1ns]

geyr

[@martialbodiestv5041]

I would love a "walkthrough" on how to recreate your video production template. You've provided a lot of information, and at the same time, I keep staring at my notion account with no idea where I should start.

[@mishelly]

wow this app is going to be a real game changer! I like how you described how you use A roll and B roll and how you put together your videos.

[@JengibreRallado]

I love this! My favorite KZbinr using my favorite new app. But the most awesome thing about this video, is that smooth intro.

[@TheKermit2110]

Your approach is a great combination and balance of guidance, knowledge transfer and technical know how without ‘over-egging the pudding’. I’ve subscribed because of you more than the subject matter, although Notion looks like an exceptional combination of powerfully linked tools - I’m just too deep into either the Apple or m365 ecosystem to migrate. But you style has drawn me in. Brilliant!

[@beccasocial]

This has been incredibly helpful. I'm going to adapt this for a podcast I'm launching soon. Thanks for sharing Thomas!

[@ShyEnkai]

This is incredibly helpful. Thanks for sharing the template!

[@simpleedge]

Very helpful - thank you for sharing your process. It’s official, I’m going to try Notion out... it seems like it may solve a lot of pains with Asana but more so it just seems so much more flexible and customizable - It’s super powerful!

[@RJRonquillo]

I just switched from Trello to Notion after your last video, so thank you for this.

[@adipurplishchic]

So well thought out. You should do a video on setting up business systems.

[@fififinance7469]

amazing - i know it wasnt meant to be a tutorial but its taken me about two hours to watch this. Have been playing with notion for a couple of months now using it for work and my own channel, and it was (and still is a little) finicky. But stuck with it, and this video today has changed my world lol. My brain is exploding with ideas on how to use it better, and actually fried my brain! Thanks Thomas!

[@quadrosbr]

It strikes me too see the amount of project management it takes to produce high-quality videos. Very nice video about Notion!

[@PhoenixBlade538]

This was so interesting to watch! I'd love to see some setups for students, and I think it'd be really helpful if you linked the templates that you've made for people to use in Notion.

[@misterl9850]

Thank You! finally I got normal video about Notion. I know that the Notion has massive potential but it needs to be understood.

[@AlyD247]

I’ve never even heard of notion until your video! Thanks for the new info love your videos!

[@richmonroe2903]

Thanks for the great video Thomas. I just discovered you and have already added many of the resources you're using. Looking forward to sifting through more of your awesome content!

[@michaellopez2237]

This is amazing. Had no idea about Notion. Thank you for this video!

[@marcpitman]

This was great. Thank you for showing us more advanced but still approachable ways to use Notion!

[@likeyoumeanit5425]

Thanks for making this video bro!! I now use Notion and it's helping me a ridiculous amount. Thanks again!

[@tobias-arturnegrui7330]

This is the exact thing that I was looking for. I was considering Confluence but I wasn't happy with their server experience. Thank you

[@rachelhuang_sdg]

This video is extremely helpful and inspiring, thank you Thomas!

[@adoltc1]

Thanks for a great video and a template! I have been looking for something similar to handle my video work! I can't wait to watch more of your videos! Cheers 🤗

[@colecorbett255]

love the transparency in this video

[@samanthad708]

Sweet baby Jesus! Watching this video has my mind blown at how amazingly BEAUTIFUL notion can be for every aspect of life… I didn’t have a clue about and I’m definitely going to incorporate it in my life daily! Great video!

[@EffortlessGentTV]

I bookmarked this video SO HARD, excited to try this out for YT planning ;)

[@visakeswaran3620]

Thanks for the video Frank, it gave a head up for me to get started with Notion.

[@pacio49]

Hey Thomas, Thanks for the videos all around. I noted when you were bringing your B-roll CSV in, you mentioned filling out the database, and then you proceeded to go row by row clicking into each task. Have you explored using Kanban for a more efficient sort? Create a board with the minimal information on each card in the view. And then change the "Group by [------]" to any of your select or multi-select properties. The Kanban view will create the "No [property]' box to the far left. Go through each 'Group by' option and drag and drop each of the unassigned bucket to their proper tag. Just a quick sort through. Then stay in the same view but update your 'Group by' to the next property or multi-select. Flip through each of the 'Group by' options and drag and drop any unassigned until you have a clean "inbox" as I conceive of it. When nothing is left, flip back to your Table view, and you will find all of those columns filled out, which generally gives a huge head start to filling in the variable data fields that are left. If you have a large group of selection options in the select and multi-select fields, break them into logical sub-groupings. To very quickly queue things up for scheduling, when I process all of my to-do tasks in Notion, I set up specific properties: 1. Relative Priority: Overdue, Emergency, High, Med, Low, and Hold 2. Relative Effort: Like Marie Poulin's system, but I add time to the choices: Minimal 7pm a selection. With kanban sort flipping, if I do Priority first, then Effort, then Day, I can jump right into action from there by sorting and filtering the Table or any other views to surface priorities in descending urgency and ascending Effort length. Then tackle the urgent but simple lift items first, or reverse the time investment and 'swallow the frog' as your context demands. It allows me to skip the full record-keeping if I'm in a rush, which might seem like a bad habit, but actually means I'm so much more likely to stick to this system even when deadlines loom and everything is hectic. If I'm looking to play around with my schedule for the day, I use three different Kanban Views to limit the Hour and Half Hour increment columns to just show Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. I don't replace my actual work calendar, but if I'm trying to play Tetris with my workload for the day, this is my scratch pad. The Kanban view shows me all of my tasks for the day, and if I show urgency as well as effort, then I can drag them as cards into the correct time column. Since I have assigned the Effort based on discrete units of time, I can get a good sense from 10k view how much time I truly need to block out on that calendar. And since this is all drag and drop sorting of cards, I save a lot of clicking into the table column and selecting the option from the dropdown. And it's all from the Kanban flip sort based on serial card-sorting of every Selection and Multi-selection property in the database! Give it a shot if you don't already. Tremendous time-saver and makes the daily discipline of tracking and planning easier to stick to. Thanks again for the great videos. (You know, with your media presence you should be able to get a local llama farm to do you a solid in exchange for the commercial exposure, too. I'm down for watching you wrangle llamas and try to turn it into a metaphor for productivity. I think we all are.)

[@1ofus]

Your videos are very informative. I appreciate that. Notion is my favorite productivity tool. Thank you for this!

[@armanithurman8267]

I would love to see a journal setup and a reading setup within notion. How would you use a database to stay organized with the two?

[@byamberkri]

Love this!! I started exploring it a week ago but it was too overwhelming so I gave up. I may have to check it out again 😁

[@AayushKrishnan]

@Shreyas Annagiri how'd u learn it?