10 Ways to Make Notion FASTER

[@keithyap297]

I bought the Ultimate Brain Notion Template. I MUST confess… it’s a banger and worth every penny.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Thank you so much Keith! I'm glad you're finding it useful 😁

[@keithyap297]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you, Thomas! The amount of thought you placed into the template is truly impeccable. I must say, it truly shows the engineer in you ;) If you are reading this comment, you should check out his video on the Ultimate Brain and see for yourself!

[@AleemKhan-ru8hb]

( Win + Shift + S ) shortcut for snipping tool. Hope it helps. Thanks Thomas. I owe my progress in notion to all of you. A life saver !

[@jugodu]

The keyboard shortcut for the Snipping Tool on Windows is: Window key + Shift + S, no need for a third party software! You can also enable a feature to take several screenshots and keep them in your clipboard, so when you Ctrl+V to paste you can choose the screenshot you want.

[@shanshanyt]

It's the Win Key + V to get the clipboard history :)

[@andreiluizf_]

I use a Logitech mouse with a customizable button for action, and I use it for snipping tool.

[@NerdSyncProductions]

Your templates and this channel are so immeasurably helpful! Especially for someone like me who recently found out I have ADHD and am trying to learn better skills to organize my life. Thanks for all your work and for sharing all your knowledge!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Thank you so much Scott! I'm glad they're proving to be helpful!

[@nickmuntendam8821]

Hey Thomas, been using Notion for a while now because of you and it has really helped me to set my chaotic head (and therefore chaotic life) back in order. So thank you! You're the man

[@EarthworksAudio]

Stellar work! And you sound great too :) I've only just gotten into Notion, and videos like this have been a huge help

[@billwebster8165]

I'm brand new to Notion & going to your Fundamentals. Thank you for your teaching.

[@nomadcurator]

You may have the best setup and designed set on the Internet. Great work!

[@owenmurrayflows]

So excited to see how I can efficiently connect my otter to notion and love when you put these tips and tricks together!

[@marya4632]

Oh wow! I thought I knew a lot about Notion but I learned some fabulously useful tips today - especially how to see 2 Notion pages at the one time. Thanks Thomas!

[@sktr12forever]

The multiple windows one is going to be an absolute life saver!! Thank youuuu

[@sktr12forever]

If you're on mac the CMD+SHT+4 is the easiest way to take a screenshot, especially since you can take the screenshot and just drop it into Notion

[@drikusconradie2758]

For the /turn command you can actually just press ctrl+/ and type 'tog' for a toggle, or 'bu' for a bullet point, or 'h3' for heading 3 etc. Technically faster.

[@FJgenieter]

typ a > then a # for a header toggle. bulletlist is just a -

[@AliciaGuitar]

I have been doing /tog then ## for a heading lol

[@СрегейВасильев]

Perfect one with a complete step by step details u had shown.. thx u !!!

[@PattyBlogs]

Jam-packed with information, literally mind-blown by some of these. Thanks Tom, hope to see more from you whether on the main channel or this one!

[@vichitra-yt]

Frankly speaking...You are my official documentation, changelog and hackbook for Notion. Thanks for the quality content and the knowledge you provide. I am very grateful 🙏🏻 Love from India ❤️

[@rwittmers]

For some reason, I find the Desktop app to be much slower on both my Windows Desktop and macOS laptop. It's not like its a hardware constraint either...I'm running a M1 Pro laptop, and a i7-9700k w/ 16GB of Memory on an m.2 NVMe desktop. I use a Chromium-based browser on both, and it loads and runs so much faster in a browser. Anyone know why?

[@jacksandberg6673]

Love this video! Thank you so much!

[@charlotteice5704]

From Windows 10 onwards, you can also just press [Shift]+[Windows]+[S] to drag a screenshot like you would in snipping tool (additional functionality is included as well) and it'll be in your clipboard, and you can press [Windows]+[Print Screen] to screenshot your entire screen(s) and have it saved as png automatically.

[@Aliocantinea]

You can also allow windows to keep more than one item in your clipboard, I like to snip a few things than [windows]+[v] which will show you the clipboard items you have saved! So nice for multiple items that you want to keep for quickly pasting! You can even pin items and on windows 11 it also has the emoji keyboard too and other items

[@h1dz257]

Argh quick links for favorites! Adding to my notion right now!!! Thanks

[@maldziewa]

You are making my life so much easier. Thank you.

[@kapiljain9736]

Good tips Thomas, But for screenshot on windows you can in built shortcut : Win+shift+S (you need to load OneNote first, then you can choose to save in clip board ) Also you can toggles Windows in built clipboard manager and take all the screenshot and reuse with Win + V (ctrl + V ) I hope this helps 😊

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yep! Snipping Tool is great - I mentioned it briefly. I don't think you actually need to load OneNote for it. I just prefer ShareX because it can do a lot more. Specifically, the annotation tools are a lot better, and there's also OCR you can use to parse text from images.

[@Vicente_Bravo]

Excellent video, the zapier integrations absolutely blew my mind 🤯

[@ashanidiwangani3295]

Amazing tutorial

[@winstonbicklebert1989]

Would be really cool to see some videos about the design considerations that went into building your templates. I was a big fan of UT, but I made a LOT of changes to the workflow to make it more gtd'ey. Now with UB I am once again making lots of adjustments, and it is surprisingly difficult to design adjustments without lots of kinks or leaks on the workflow. For example, you explained this a lot with "cold tasks", about how there was a particular issue with low priority tasks clogging the workflow, and how you resolved that with the "cold" category. It would be awesome to learn about other issues that might commonly occur in people's custom workflows, and mechanisms to address them.

[@jenanddoug]

Thank you for this great video! Question about your to-do list. What is the benefit of using Todoist vs. opening your notion app and create a to-do task in there?

[@joaogritti2199]

Here early!! Just would like to reaffirm my appreciation for your work, I really look up to you. It's funny when you tell a sotry with your father, seemed mine shared a lot of the same philosophy with yours

[@JimShingler]

Your Timing is amazing, ... I have been resarching how to speed up Notion, ... Thank You

[@DoctorAzmain]

These are some fantastic tips Tom, will definitely implement them! Your videos always remind me how much I have left to learn - about Notion and just life in general haha! P.S. I love the glimpse at your muscle physiology notes, and your alternative thumbnails for video 029

[@hpkvelos]

Thanks Thomas, another super helpful video 👏

You are a GOD. Thank you Thomas Frank

[@camerafamilyikinderfotogra6808]

Thank you 🙏🙏. Some shortcuts are super helpful and some I wish I could use on my macbook pro. It would be great to know the alternatives like for the HOME button.

[@tavaroevanis8744]

How did you get that extra black dark mode? Your app appears significantly darker than the vanilla dark mode.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

I don’t have anything special going on, so either I recorded this before they tweaked dark mode, or it’s just a quirk of the screen recording software

[@andrewbern9115]

About one year ago, I purchased your Ultimate Brain and the companion program. Recently, you indicated that you had updated the programs that I purchased. How can I tell if the update was integrated into my original purchase?

[@aleksandrasaskamitrovic]

So excited about the speech - text - notion tutorial. This will be so valuable for my psychotherapy practice. 🙏🚀

[@DanKnowlson]

I'd love to see how that's set up

[@labulabuland]

14:20 link to page (appears side bar) vs mention page (not). 18:39 speech to text. ✅N

[@samuelitooooo]

Would like to add that having a ton of content on a single Notion page makes it lag a lot if you have a potato of a computer, but putting that content into toggle headings actually speeds things up. I guess Notion doesn't load content inside a toggle heading until it's opened, which has been helpful to me. I appreciate the turn command. Though it doesn't work on the mobile app (slash commands don't work at all 😟). Thanks!

[@bOokWorM17]

It is truly fascinating exploring these, sometimes, mind-breaking Notion features and hacks. I personally started using Notion, like, 10 days ago from your videos and recommendations, and I appreciate it. Thank you, Thomas And sorry for my bad English, if it is

[@ryan18462]

Oh yeah these tips are elite

[@Mzaid82]

Thanks for The awesome video @Thomas, Frank. I need ur advise on something, so have a notion desktop app, that has tons of screenshots, getting slower by the day, becoming very difficult to use, is there a way that I can bulk choose the images and decrease their size, one by one is not an option, also is there a way when I taking a screenshot and pasting in notion to control the size instead of manually decreasing it? Many thanks in advance

[@croppixelmedia]

The multiple windows trick is clutch. I had no idea you could do that! I legit had to go try it 😂 The toggles are game changers. Changes the whole way I put scripts/research into Creator’s Companion.

[@jaseem7]

New snipping tool in windows is very good actually. You can press Windows + Shift + S to activate it. No need to install any third party application.

[@jackytsz]

I don't see the transcript of recoding tutorial, am I missing the video? Or it hasn't been posted yet?

[@maniecronje]

Great content as always! nice job!!! option to create quick screenshot select WIN+Shift+S (Windows only)

[@shaebulkley3451]

I know this is an old video. I set up a CRM for my health ins business in Notion. Mainly with your videos. Then when I started using it the 2nd day I went to add a new client and Notion just bogged down and wouldn’t load the page template I needed. This was insane. Exactly what I needed to do wouldn’t work. I can’t have this at all. The page had no cover image, the page loaded, but the template did not. It was NOT a complicated template only 3 toggle lists. I really wonder if I should junk this for a spreadsheet crm.

[@johnroman8322]

Appears you can't do split screen using the APP, only on the web Notion?

[@adannnachik6739]

I have a question do anyone now about tye to search that you can put on page I saw it in someone's notion template but I can't found it

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

You can’t embed Notion search directly on a page (though databases have search fields). But you can hit Ctrl/Cmd + P to bring up the search window instantly!

[@gem2148]

But what about uploading videos to notion it takes ages & most of the time it didn't get uploaded at all after i come back to the page????

[@ecopsorn]

Is this simple Todoist Integration free or does it need a paid Zapier subscription? Would be cool to know how you set it up

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

I believe this requires a paid Zapier account because it’s a multi-step Zap (since the date has to be formatted), but it should be free to do with Make.com. I’ll have a guide on how to do it with both tools soon!

[@vichitra-yt]

Thanks for sharing this resource, I was looking for a good alternative to Zap 👍🏻@@ThomasFrankExplains

[@ecopsorn]

@@ThomasFrankExplains cool thx

[@ThePlantParadigm]

While that todoist feature is pretty cool, now you're paying and using a whole other program that's kind of just double handling?

[@Intenzity]

Okay NotionMan, I can't find the answer to this any where. I want to do what the Notion WebClipper does - when I add a page it not only creates a database entry (for its URL) it also makes a web block containing the URL in the page body. How does that happen? Is it a Make/Zapier thing or is there a where for me to go through my database and say "if URL in fieldX make a web block with that URL". How does one do that?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

This isn't something you can do in the native Notion app, but it's possible using the Notion API. I haven't tried replicating the web clipper in Make/Zapier yet, but you'd either use one of those tools or code a custom integration (probably a browser extension in this case). It'd probably be best to try it in Make/Zapier if you're not an experienced developer - I'm only just now learning JavaScript so I can try to build my own API integrations in the future. In this particular case, you'll also need some kind of tool for actually sending the web page to Notion. The web clipper is a Chrome extension, but to do it yourself you'd probably want to use something else. You could perhaps use email (just email the URL to Zapier), or try to integrate a service like Pocket with Notion via Zapier/Make. (Also, check out Save to Notion - I prefer it to the web clipper! chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-notion/ldmmifpegigmeammaeckplhnjbbpccmm?hl=en)

[@Intenzity]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Thanks! I poked around some more and it looks like either Save to Notion or diving into the API are the way to get there. Thanks for the pointers, love the content and have found it very helpful, brand new to Notion but have already connected it up to do some cool things.

[@SamuelLegrandCox]

I'd really like a keyboard shortcut for the New button or +New line in database tables. Any suggestions for quickly adding entries to tables without having to actually click New or +New?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Yep! Just hit Shift+Enter; it'll add a new database entry on table views.

[@irfanbhuiyan620]

There's a personal automation that I made, I tag a specific email (newsletter) that I like, then that gets imported into notion

[@thescienceofit]

How can you confirm notion is using the largest resolution options from Unsplash? Does it tell us somewhere?

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

You can see it if you open Developer Tools (easiest way is to right-click and hit Inspect Element anywhere), then go to the Sources tab. Here's that tab from a test page in my workspace with an Unsplash image attached - you can see that my header photo is 3.9mb! i.imgur.com/66bzYUS.png At smaller screen widths, Notion tries to pull a scaled-down version of the image, which should help performance. But at full width, I'm getting this unnecessarily huge image.

[@skubydubydu]

I learn so much from you. The return on time investment is high.

[@schololo-blog8762]

What about notion on the android phone? It takes forever to load

[@jamesontravick9760]

Thanks for your content!! I have a few questions about the new Cron acquisition by Notion. Any thoughts? If they are going to do a pilot or Beta, I would love to be able to participate!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

The details on that are pretty light right now. I did just get an invite to Cron so I've been playing with the app a little (though I may not make a video on it for a while - I'm deep in another HUGE project). For now, I know Notion plans on keeping the Cron app running on its own, and exploring connections between it. Beyond that, we don't have any info. I can speculate that maybe they'll use it as a bridge between Notion and other calendar apps. Or it could possibly be more of an acquihire situation like with Automate.io...

[@jamesontravick9760]

@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank You!!!! I hope that I get an invite because I want to start looking at it in my daily workflow at the office too.

[@mjarkk]

squoosh is a great tool for reducing image file size :)

[@roxtendo]

Just in case someone wants to try the ultimate brain, sees the price of 99$ and think this is too much. Believe me, this is cheap if you think how much time and work he spends in this project. Im using notion like everyone else, to store all my infos, plans, ideas, projects in one app. And I can tell you when I see this template that this is totally worth it.

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you're finding the template to be helpful :)

[@raywhy1934]

Love your videos, finally got me get off my ass and do something!

[@chiragsharma_]

Nothing related but if I could get help, I want to have a 6 hour work session, tried breaking in 2 sessions of 3 hours each but the questions are difficult and discouraging, I end up leaving work many times Something similar to motivation when I go to gym, the environment there!⚡ Beeminder cannot use, Habitica- not enough motivation Online working sessions - gets wierd

[@chiragsharma_]

I get I have to work hard to get started, but these questions are like Thanos and I am Dobby, just cannot think how to solve them, I look at solution I feel guilty about not solving them on my own

[@melodyvaleska6708]

notion on desktop makes my computer run hot lol

[@LocustDay]

The solutions mentioned are not real solutions. I work with Notion from Germany. The program runs perfectly in the morning but after lunch it starts to lag. I think it's because many people from the USA access the servers. Maybe someone could tell Notion to put more power into their servers. That's annoying.

[@beyondabove]

18:29 voice to text

[@viscep5393]

I just wanted to make a to-do list bro how did they even manage to make a text editor lag on modern hardware 🤦

[@mukul98s]

Thomas, one warning! Just read the privacy concerns of otter. I bet you'll never use that app again.

[@prateekbhardwaj9943]

i liked notion, but found now its toooo slow! :(

[@clairepimpa]

Ok, I take advantage of the early comment. Please 🙏 invest some more in marketing your products. I follow your newsletter, regularly check your website, I follow everything you do but Twitter. And it took me a while to discover Ultimate Brain Template, even if I followed the video with Tiago Forte. If you don't put put too much content, at least try to make it a bit times more visible!

[@ThomasFrankExplains]

Interesting - which newsletter are you on? I sent a launch email to my Notion Tips email list back in April, and posted a full video on the template a couple weeks ago. The main thing I haven't done is market it to my main College Info Geek list or to my main channel - but that's actually on purpose. I'm trying to avoid a gigantic influx of sales that would overwhelm my support team (just one person at the moment) and harm the customer experience. One thing I'm trying to keep in mind is that I'm in a non-typical position; most products have to grind hard to build their marketing channels, but I'm doing it backwards. I already have the marketing channels. So I run the risk of overpromising and underdelivering due to the scale of things. That said, once we're comfortable with our support processes, I'll be starting to market more on the main channel :)

[@clairepimpa]

@@ThomasFrankExplains I'm subscribed to Notion Tips as well! Thanks for taking the time to explain :) and thanks for all the quality content you provide!

[@jasonwilliams7053]

Hey,

[@minghaokong7547]

missing my ti line sir.

[@sigma4433]

bs

[@CeibeProyecto]

I cant find the tutorial of using siri and todo