Using PARA to Organize Your Notion Workspace

[@crinpeecc2]

Thank you very much. You are the only person who has shown exactly how to work with Notion for building a second brain wihtout this insane speed of the video

[@cjazzist]

Thank you! This was the simplest video I've seen on how to create a database with multiple links ... in the space of 10 min in the middle of your video. So succinct and clear. Thank you again

[@justinwillard5622]

Oh my word, I can’t tell you how much this helped me!! So many others going into detail too quickly with all these well-established templates and databases and then even with their template it is just SOO overwhelming to start! This was clear and extremely helpful - and you’ve just gained another subscriber - thank you!

[@AimieKunyita]

Thank you, Marie. This is so much more helpful than the combination of all other tutorials I've watched to wrap my head around PARA. Your guidethrough certainly does the PARA articles justice so thanks for putting this tutorial together 🖤

[@saschacontes2305]

Usually the explanations in your other videos are way too fast for beginners. This one has a good pace. Thanks for sharing so much experience and knowledge about the usage of such an amazing product.

[@nattewaditep]

Thank you, Marie. I'm new to Notion and what you did really shows me the possibility how to use Notion for. This is very inspiring!

[@anupmunir6359]

Very helpful indeed. You have showed it in a very helpful way, everyone wasnjust trying to sell their courses making it over complicated. You are just on point. Thanks a lot.

[@b.salmon4194]

Brilliant video! I've sat here for the past hour and listened to and implement everything you said. I now feel in control and can see at a glance where everything is at. People, if you actually DO this rather than thinking about it or looking for something 'BETTER' you'd be amazed.

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@irasanchez1265]

Thanks for giving the progressions of this layout so it's not overwhelming.

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@sfield541]

My use of Notion has been a mish-mosh because I'm new to the platform, this method is an amazing way to make sure I get the most out of it! Wow!! 😃😃

[@StephanBechert]

the practical showcase of PARA Method. THANK You Marie

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@toolfinderhq]

What a smashing overview!

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@LorettaBangBang]

Big THANK YOU for this walk through!

[@AndresMontbrun]

Thanks a lot for your video, its encouraging... I will read the article and watch many of your videos... Great work.

[@anakaleflax]

This video is freaking awesome, great overview of PARA.

[@annabsavage5684]

Hi Marie, I have a questions I can't see answered in this chat (or on google). When I create a relational element between two tables, the second table doesn't show up the relationship column like it does in your video like at 08:10 - 08:13. Any ideas for a fix on this, or why this might be? thanks so much, and love this video thanks so much for making it.

[@teeI0ck]

showing an accurate and deep understanding; great perceptive. 💡 Muito obrigado for all the insightful information. 🤝

[@ShawnDuggan]

Great video - thank you! I've learned a lot. At around 10:00 you are showing your Projects and how you assign them a Type for organization. Why not just use the Area instead?

[@eastonpotokar6725]

I was wondering the same thing!

[@MariePoulin]

Because I have too many "areas", and that's not very helpful for me in a kanban view. The most important things for me to know are how many *clients* I have committed to vs internal business projects or house projects. Those kanban categories are almost like simplified areas. Also kanban doesn't allow you to organize by a relational database (if that's what you meant). This is simply what's more helpful for my brain and the way I think about my projects/commitments. The area doesn't matter (to me) for organizational purposes in a kanban view. But the beauty of course is that you can design it for your brain... :)

[@wettissimaw2ww357]

Great organization, thanks so much for this layout😉 I ve done myself something like that without even knowing the Para method..well.. mine it's a bit more messy than yours.. I m gona put all your advices into practice so finally my side bar will be nice & clean! I've also created different tables (notes, ideas, resources, main bookmarks, projects, areas, blog post drafts, my passwords..and few more) I also created related colums in each table as to see, for example, if there are already some resources related to that note or if I ve already written a post on that topic..things like that..what I was missing and trying to find was a way to organize in a neat & clear way all those tables and pages..I didnt want my Notion side bar look like a mess with all those tables spreaded all around.. finally I found your video that just definetly solved the problem for me so many many thanks!! Thank you and please bear with my english, it s not my first language😁

[@taruntius1]

Hi Marie, I'd love to see you do a video on the "flow" aspect of PARA as well. For example, how you move Projects to Archived (or Resources). Really struggling to envision how that would work and a guide would be nice. Thanks!

[@MariePoulin]

Walter White hey Walter, I have a whole course around this if you’re interested: mariepoulin.com/Notion-mastery

[@iminimueller]

Hello Marie, thank you so much for your videos, they are so helpful and clear! I'm in love with your processes and I'm trying to figure out what things work for me and what don't, but it's awesome to see all the things that Notion (and you!) is capable of. Now a question...in 12:00 you add a task and you have templates down below. What are those templates, where are they located, what for, etc? Thank you so so so much!

[@MariePoulin]

Those are the database templates for my tasks database! If you have similar items you add to a database over and over again, you'll want to create templates for these - i have them set to have different emojis and different "properties" for "type", assigned to me, etc.

[@cody2470]

Thanks for this Marie, with the current climate (self-isolation) I have a lot more time than I usually do, making me feel like I need to get everything organised! Been trying to get into Notion, but I'm still trying to find a way to work efficiently. I'm only 8:22 into the video, so apologies if you mention this later, but you know the pages you made for Client A, B for example? What would go into those pages? This may be obvious but as a graphic designer I'm not sure what information I would put in it.

[@abdulraffay8378]

Hi, If it wasn't for your videos I would have given up on Notion, great videos! One thing I didn't quite get in this video, you created all the projects and tasks on the areas page. How do you get to make a project and tasks page that shows on your notion? Do you create pages for projects and tasks and then move these there.

[@aureliomarty3079]

Very Insightful video Marie.I overhauled my use of database after watching your video.I used to have very separate and often redundant database. I noticed you don't have a dashboard anymore as in your previous videos. Since I am still keeping my Dashboard I treat it as my area folder then I link projects and tasks to it.I learned a lot here,

[@MariePoulin]

Aurelio Marty I still have a dashboard - it’s just private now and not in my main shared workspace :)

[@daveojeda]

@@MariePoulin Great video! At 13:52 you show the resources page. Could you clarify the difference between notes vs Reading + Listening vs Studies + Learning? I am guessing it is something like: Notes - references from articles from the web, Twitter, insights you want to save Reading + Listening - notes from specific books you are reading and podcasts/audiobooks you are listening to Studies + Learning - specific courses (online or in person) you are taking and not sure what “Learning” would be Also are all three in separate databases or for example all in the notes database but tagged to pull out the Reading + Listening & Studies + Learning separately? Fingers crossed you are still checking comments! :-)

[@daveojeda]

Great video! At 13:52 you show the resources page. Could you clarify the difference between notes vs Reading + Listening vs Studies + Learning? I am guessing it is something like: Notes - references from articles from the web, Twitter, insights you want to save Reading + Listening - notes from specific books you are reading and podcasts/audiobooks you are listening to Studies + Learning - specific courses (online or in person) you are taking and not sure what “Learning” would be Also are all three in separate databases or for example all in the notes database but tagged to pull out the Reading + Listening & Studies + Learning separately? @Marie Poulin

[@annarekahorvath8097]

Hey Marie, thank you for your fantastic videos, they’re super useful. 😊 I would have a question, bc I don’t know exactly how to separate my areas and my projects. I’m studying psychology. This would be an area, but in this case my whole master degree education should be a project (bc it has a start and an end date) and then my semester should be a sub-project and my courses should be sub-sub-projects but it would be unmanagable. I think maybe my actual semester could be an area and then my courses would be projects and my exams, essays and other stuffs would be tasks and they would have sub-task. How would you manage this if you were me? Thank you for your time☺️

[@simminglymel]

Hello, I hope someone has helped you on this. But if not, here's how I understand it if it was me: My semester would be an Area, along with all my course modules. Within those, any tasks with deadlines are considered Projects. So assignment, presentation, final report all fall under Projects. So I would suggest doing it Marie's way and list out all your Areas first, then identify the Projects under them.

[@AndresMontbrun]

by the way, I learn about the term Transhumanism mention many times in many places, and I feel attracted to the idea. if I could condense many of the thoughts I have had. Transhumanism contains many of them. Great I learn it from your videos.

[@arnold8139]

This is exactly what I am looking for. Done setting up PARA in my account. Thank you Notion Ambassadress.

[@daviddelgadovendrell]

Great application. How would you implement CLIENTS database within a template based on PARA method (such as the one Sarah build and shared). Should we consider them as a RESOURCE? or essentially a completely different DATABASE (like AREAS, PROJECTS, ACTIVE TASKS....)?

[@primetimepdx]

Great video. Have watched it twice! Just curious where you would put clients if it was your job to manage just four specific clients? Never get more, just those four. Overall goal is to grow the revenue with the four clients. Is this a project or an area?

[@MariePoulin]

We have an Area called Client Services, and each of those clients has a separate project :D

[@marcoberardini9728]

Nice video ! Quick question when setting PARA in google drive what goes in Projects and Areas. If Area are the over arching categories of projects do finished projects go into area or achieve. I am just not sure what I would put in Areas since resources hold all the reference material and project contain all there tasks

[@ritchiee1980]

Hi Marie! Thanks for such an insightful video. It was helpful to see the theory into action. I am a beginner with the PARA method and I was wondering if I have to create a separate task and project manager for each area.

[@MariePoulin]

OH quite the opposite! You only ever want ONE task database and ONE project database. Projects should be labelled with an Area (can be a single select) and that way you can filter our projects and tasks by area. It will get unwieldy to have more than one task and project database!

[@ritchiee1980]

@@MariePoulin... Marvellous! I will follow your advice. Thanks for talking the time to respond. Have a good day!

[@henricbarkman]

Great video! Will try this.

[@petrockspiracy3120]

I guess you could also make categories for areas when figuring out what you need. You could then filter by those categories, which is how I imagine you've achieved your layout. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of this great program :)

[@danfox2575]

Hey Marie, could you show us how you archive? That seems to be the missing piece for me. With so many different databases and pages, how do you archive constructively?

[@danfox2575]

@@pulkit4simpa823 That's a fine solution in the short term, but a database that perpetually grows will just slow down over time. It's not a long term solution.

[@lorenabezerradealmeida8512]

@@pulkit4simpa823 I tried doing that but as I have some relational databases and I want to keep track of my activities even after archived I duplicated my main databases and made them blank, but when I moved some tasks and homeworks, etc. to archive they actually lost their relation because they were related to the main database, not to the duplicated one.

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@justnealpatel]

This walkthrough makes it so much more understandable. As for resources, I also have a master content database. What else do you keep in the resources section? Thanks again for the great video!

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@billk6512]

You're amazing. Thank you for taking the time.

[@lisedale6767]

thanks for this! One note: can you set the audio louder? even with my computer and the video volume at max its pretty quiet!

[@albarleta2361]

You can download a Chrome extension called volume control to boost the audio.

[@paoloap.]

great pedagogic style!

[@agustin_sz09]

Very useful tips! Thank you!

[@franci-uz]

2:47 Projects have a start and a end date: all of my projects don't have it! because I work without deadlines with my clients. Is it area or project?

[@MariePoulin]

I gives projects without deadlines a size of "ongoing" (vs making them an area)

[@ThetinyhouseNet]

This is wonderful and mindblowing! Any tips on whether to consider something an ongoing project vs. an area? Examples that come to mind are... Publishing a weekly podcast, Hosting an online community, Writing a weekly newsletter.

[@SoerenGraves]

This is the essence of Notion and what I am struggeling with building my own Notion, I just have a bunch of pages and loose overview. Need to solve have to reduce redundance by a better structure, but I have never ever worked with databases or anything like that. I know I can use it for my TCM studying and acupunture, but it is a big chop

[@superlouie1]

Hi, new to Notion. This video was super helpful for the PARA method; thank you! Question though: you mentioned creating a kanban board by using 'group by' option, but when I tried it, there was no such option. How do I achieve what you created without this option available?

[@MariePoulin]

Louie Vitela you can “group by” any select or multi select properties you have available. If you want to group by effort or impact, you have to make a property for it first. Then in board view go to the 3 dots on the right hand side, choose group by (only on board view)

[@meghan1914]

Marie, thanks for the video. Does this make sense for me to arrange my areas in 4 categories as I am a human with 2 businesses and a day job? So essentially the categories are dayjob, coaching, photography, personal? My brain likes to quickly look for holes so that it doesn't have to move forward so this is why I ask.

[@MariePoulin]

It's really personal preference and how you like to think about your tasks/commitments, but that sounds like it makes sense! I have further sub categories under personal like leisure, beauty, health, permaculture, etc but you can keep it simple and expand if/as needed!

[@MariaAldreyGroovyWink]

Amazingly done! You’re the best.

[@mmmmhi5631]

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[@JohnCostanzo]

Marie, I would be interested to know what do you use tags for? Can I create a database of tags that other areas can use? Maybe there is a video on this?

[@MariePoulin]

John Costanzo I do have a video on using a master tag database :)

[@b.salmon4194]

Hi Marie, again thanks for the video. I’d be grateful if you could review here or perhaps in a future video the BASB course. I’m undecided on whether to purchase it as it’s costly and there seems to be limited reviews on the course despite it apparently having over 1000 members. I’m most interested in the value of the premium edition. I’m happy to purchase the standard edition right now but FOMO has me debating over whether the additional $300 is worth the premium materials. I understand I can upgrade at a later date but want to know if the premium is essential to get the most out of the course. It’s mostly the Nerve Bundle peaks my interest. Lastly (haha) is the forum very active? Are there lots of notion users in there sharing their setups and workflows? Lot of questions here but I’m sure I’m not the only one having these thoughts.

[@itsmewaldi]

Hey ! did you buy it? I find myself in the same position as yours :)

[@nnaenae]

What did you end up doing?

[@itsmewaldi]

@@nnaenae I didn't buy it. I bought a Praxis subscription instead, saved the articles and implement PARA and his other information on my own.

[@hamdanrejees3335]

Where did you keep your tasks for your projects page? Did you make a separate database on another page?

[@miguelstevens3042]

Hey Marie, How do you use the tags seen in your areas? Are they used in relations or just informational?

[@GiuVicente]

That's my question. I think because of Notion capabilities we can't use a relational field as columns. Sad!

[@HereSaysUsername]

Great video!, but were do your master Areas database lives?

[@pjpw2320]

Marie, you strongly advocate having a master database that everything is entered into and from which you can construct views to suit your requirements. Do you actually mean EVERYTHING that is entered into Notion, which covers a myriad of content types and data. To my mind a database is not necessarily the best medium for certain content. Or do you just mean for Tasks which I totally get?

[@MariePoulin]

Peter Wills just tasks. Content ideas and editorial calendar live in the calendar, and anything that is a “to do” that needs to get done goes in the master task database. The exception to this is clients who have their own Notion spaces...

[@pjpw2320]

@@MariePoulin Thanks, Marie. So by having separate workspaces for clients you do not use a master client database? Does that still work where you have say hundreds of clients?

[@davekardos9857]

Hi Marie! Great video, this helps a lot. One question for you is: for databases that have multiple saved views in a team workspace, if one User A selects View A, does that impact the way the database is seen for User B? For example, if User A prefers to look at the team's master task database on the team home page in kanban view, filtered by tasks relevant to them, and User B prefers to look at that same task database in say gallery view, would them viewing the database simultaneously interfere with one another at all?

[@BarryWallace68]

Hi Marie! Thanks for the amazing video! How do you handle tasks that are completed? Do you simply mark them as completed or do you remove them completely from the database?

[@MariePoulin]

Barry Wallace mark them as complete, and then at the end of the month/year, move them all into the tasks-2019 archive database.

[@BarryWallace68]

@@MariePoulin Thanks Marie! Makes sense.

[@goofansu]

Very helpful, thank you! I see there are multiple pages in Resources, what is the database do you use in Projects? Thanks

[@kalamarimuguruza3656]

Thank you for this!

[@sebastienbarre]

Thanks! Was watching a video about PARA by William Nutt, and he put his clients in the "Areas" section. You put them in the "Projects" section. I was wondering how you decided to store them in Projects? Thanks.

[@MariePoulin]

Sébastien Barré My Clients database is in Areas, but each client has a specific project, so I just name the project with the clients name. The client details and contact etc is all under areas, and all the project details and resources are inside the client-project.

[@sebastienbarre]

@@MariePoulin Makes sense! Thank you.

[@hamdanrejees3632]

Thank you!

[@lisagarbercoaching1356]

Super helpful. Thank you.

[@baibhavbistathegr8]

Thank you very much for the video!!! One question though. Do you manage tasks with projects or with areas? I currently have projects that my tasks relate to and these projects are linked to resources. Is there a way the tasks can be automatically linked to the projects's areas as well?

[@MariePoulin]

Baibhav Bista yes through database templates! Make a template where the area and project are already connected!

[@dibeja]

Great advice! But how do you manage Archives? I mean... in Notion once you put a page outside of a database the meta information (properties) are not visible anymore, so you can't keep track of what happened... Am I wrong?

[@KingDodoTzi]

This is one of my big doubts as well: how to manage Archiving with so much related databases?

[@imrannazir6931]

You are a godsend. Thank you for this 😁

[@stvvjbs]

Hi Marie:) There's a question that has been haunting me for so long, what's the "Sort Me" section in the resource page?

[@alexandriathera1153]

Her project 10:37 Her Area 11:15

[@ghazwanhasan6118]

Hi Marie, Thank u for amazing videos, but some of my blocks didn't appear in search when I want to add relation ? can u explain please

[@felipevianads]

Thanks for share. How can i add in a same board many database board/kanban? I' like to automatize others week tasks bia da in a unique calendar board. Thanks

[@quixoticfallcy]

What is the difference between on-going, active, prospective, idea projects? Thanks!

[@IAmRobertAndrews]

Thanks for this. Something I'm struggling with is... - You tag your Projects with a Select called Tags (eg. Business, Courses, Household)... but Projects also relate up to Area (ie. you already have a House area)... - Meanwhile, those Areas are *also* categorised with a Select called Type or Category (which also includes Business, Personal etc)… There’s a lot of categorisation going on there and it feels like it may be conflicting. I’m curious… Why do you let your Projects relate to a project Tag when they already relate to a parent Area? And why do you have database-specific Selects at all? Because, whilst I wish the Selects (eg. Business, House) could be shared across databases, they can’t. I guess a key question is how you deal with top-level Areas. Because, whilst I conceive of them as a nest, you can’t next a database, right? I guess that’s why you’ve gone with a Select? - Areas: -- *Personal* - Hobbies - Health Thanks!

[@MariePoulin]

Robert Andrews I only really use the select because it allows me to organize kanban style, or to filter views in diff ways or to add additional context.

[@carlos96h]

Amazing channel!

[@iminimueller]

Another question. What happens in your set up with projects that are not relevant any more? Like projects you already finished. Thank you!!!

[@MariePoulin]

I give them a status of complete or archive, and then at the end of the year, I start a new projects database, and move over any that are still in production. The old projects + tasks get moved into the archives page.

[@barefacedquestions]

I was wondering how to link life areas. Never though of embedding a database twice. Thanks for sharing, Marie. But do you still use PARA? :)

[@MariePoulin]

Trang Le I do but I’ve adapted it quite a bit :)

[@LaymensLament]

So PARA is just a structure/division thats lifted directly out GTD and called by an acronym?

[@LaymensLament]

I mean, I learned about GTD firstly through Tiago and his first Skillshare class. But PARA is basically what you get out of the book. You get the actionable/non-actionable split that reduces complexity (projects/ressources -- P, R) and you get the goal/meta-goal split that reduces complexity by giving direction (projects/areas -- A), plus you have a time component by having a lifecycle and laying information to rest in the archive (A). Maybe I should become a productivity mens too.

[@myafroisthecoolest]

Amazing!! Thank you:)

[@abielortega]

How do you do your sprints ?

[@taruntius1]

Excellent video Marie. This video of all videos is what made me stop watching videos and truly start implementing things in Notion. I have a question for you. I have a relationship between my Projects and my Areas. When a Project is completed, it most likely needs to go into Archive. Now, I could create a database "Archived Projects" inside Archive that's similar in structure to "Projects". I could furthermore create a relationship between "Archived Projects" and "Areas" so that the project continues to be associated with Areas. However, over time, I'm assuming that an existing Area, with its relationship to "Archived Projects", would end up showing potentially hundreds of archived projects which would be quite unwieldy. Is there a way to address this problem. Can you make a part two which explains how you archive stuff. I know you mentioned archiving tasks on a monthly basis to make sure your master tasks database doesn't become too bulky either. Really hoping to hear back from you on this since I spent quite a lot of time in Notion setting things up and don't wanna be stuck at this stage. Thanks!

[@mlnikon9434]

I was wondering if you could help me out with something I want to do with my databases and not even sure it is possible. I want to have a project template that will populate in it a view of my notes that shows all of my notes that are in the same area as the project but instead of going through each note and creating a relation, I want the project and notes to be related through the same property type like area so when I create a new say finance project, it will show all of my notes that are also related to finance. Would I need to create a third database just for housing all of the areas and have the Area property of both the project database and the notes database be a relation to the Area db? Is this even possible? Thank you for all your help.

[@staybalancedn]

Hello Marie, do you still use the okr and dashboard templates?

[@staybalancedn]

I found the answer to my questions in this building from scratch session. thanks a lot! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmKsZHufmJWoqLs&loop=0

[@CyrusMurphy]

Curious why you decided to split Projects and Tasks (and saw a glimpse of a Sub-Project table) into different tables instead of using one unified table? They are all, in essence, the same thing. You can create a self-relating table which creates parent and children columns. It is natively-supported. That way you can have an infinite level of projects within projects, you only need to make changes to one table, and can see different levels of projects within the same view. Then just create a Type column where you can specify Project, Task, etc and can filter on that. Coming from Scrum/DB world I use Initiative, Epic, and Project (=Story) types. I use checklists within Projects or independently for "Tasks" which I call anything taking under an hour as I want to keep the overhead to not outweigh the task.

[@MariePoulin]

Cyrus Murphy this feels like a nightmare to me personally... this feels cleaner to me. Esp since we both have many diff projects and diff types of tasks. It would require a lot of extra filtering everywhere we put that database. I also use very different project templates and task templates. Projects to me are information hubs, where tasks are one part of it, but there’s also resources, files, assets. The beauty of course is that there are so many diff ways you can set this up, but this carries a lot of ease for us personally as we track very diff properties for tasks than we do for projects. every business is diff of course, but this works for us!

[@CyrusMurphy]

​@@MariePoulin Yeah, seems your use case is different. The only other downside besides the upfront setup cost is that you can't do complex filtering based on a combination of ANDs and ORs (without jumping hoops with formulas) like you normally can with SQL and I need it for this way.

[@robreichjr]

Do you find it okay to leave personal and business in the same workspace?

[@MariePoulin]

Been doing it for nearly 5 years now - but that's because i'm the business owner!

[@robreichjr]

@@MariePoulin gotcha, same here I just wasn’t sure how grayed or well the single task list worked between business and personal. I have a pretty robust system for my agency, OpSys, with its own task list etc. how would you suggest navigating that? I was thinking to have one task list and only display the work or personal filtered view depending on the page I’m on? Thoughts?

[@knucleballfreedom]

Have you ever used a database or a section only for passwords in life and business?

[@MariePoulin]

Tim I use 1password app for all my passwords, I really wouldn’t recommend storing all your passwords in plain text like that!

[@knucleballfreedom]

@@MariePoulin ha, of course not. Was curious. I've watched how you have evolved, very nice.

[@codinginflow]

Wow, you have a lot of stuff going on

[@MariePoulin]

Coding in Flow haha, yes, yes I do. However... I think a lot of people have a lot going on but they just haven’t articulated all of it as projects. Many of the projects on my list are maybe 1-2hrs/week. Not every project shown is the priority in a single week. For example, consulting is like a project bucket that encompasses any 1-off consulting calls. I may not have a call every week. Some house projects are small enough that they are completed in an afternoon. My goal is to reduce my active projects, but for now, I still have some obligations I committed to long ago :)

[@codinginflow]

@@MariePoulin Yea since I use Notion I can plan a lot more stuff explicitly that I previously had to keep in my head

[@JohnCostanzo]

You never really went over to archive, what an when do you put things in there?

[@viery3654]

Probably the same databases for projects and areas with an 'active' property checked off

[@thilog5874]

How do you search PDFs?

[@freespiritkaro3414]

Can you embed links to videos or even upload your own videos into Notion and can you play them from right there ? I wanna create and organise my database of dance steps, some of them recorded by me and others uploaded on the internet by other people and I am trying to define if I could use Notion to create a multimedia library of sorts, even with audio if possible too. What's your verdict on it ?

[@MariePoulin]

FreeSpirit Karo yes you can absolutely do that- Notion would be perfect for that use case!

[@freespiritkaro3414]

Marie Poulin Thank You so much for confirming, I thought so ! What about mind-mapping software - does it integrate with any software such as XMind or Inclr (which is new but sooooooooo promising) that you know of ?

[@markbubb9902]

Should work, personal, church, and college all be in the same workspace and filtered or separate?

[@MariePoulin]

Mark Bubb that really depends - I personally would keep them all in the same database and just create different filters and potentially different dashboards for each context!

[@markbubb9902]

Marie Poulin Thanks! After watching a few more office hour episodes I have decided to just make each one an Area and go from there.

[@bodhi7945]

wow, this moves fast

[@tanaybhomia2784]

Can anyone help me with this 1. I have inserted the the areas of interest which are Finance Studying Fitness Mental Health Habits What can I insert in these areas. I have inserted a table for my expenses and biology classes and Topics in studying but the rest three are almost null Seeking for Help.

[@Lukimuc]

Hey what's the difference between projects and your tasks? Isn't it nearly the same?

[@MariePoulin]

Projects and tasks are different. Tasks are one-off activities, projects are longer in scope, have a defined start/end date, and desired outcome, resources, often many moving parts, more planning required. Projects *contain* a number of tasks, but have a lot more context and detail within them. Each database has fairly different properties that get tracked.

[@Sofo7575]

You did not say anything about the archive.

[@pjpw2320]

Marie, you mention in the video embedding the same content more than once in a page. Why is that?

[@MariePoulin]

Peter Wills because they each have different filters - one business, one personal, so I can have a more visual separation of the content

[@pjpw2320]

@@MariePoulin Thanks, Marie.

[@observistar]

Wow! Thanks Marie. Wish I’d watched this much much earlier

[@GiuVicente]

Great content! Question: On this view kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5OsZK17rcapaMU you recreate the "Areas" To have it as columns, they are not a relational field. Did you ask @notion to have columns based on Relational fields? Would be very handy!

[@AdobadoFantastico]

Audio levels are super low.

[@franci-uz]

2021: Are you still practicing this method?

[@irajatsolanki]

Your volume is very low please increase the volume

[@solusfides]

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