Achieve Notion Mastery: 5 Tips & Tricks

ByEditor Team

Notion is one of the many applications – where if you invest more, the gains are more.

Many people spend hours adapting their Notion to help secure the best look or feel, but in reality – it’s normally the widgets, navigation and databases that make a Notion account go the extra mile.

Here are some useful tips about going into a new realm with your Notion and how to take it to the next level.

1. Know Your Needs

  • Notion is a very open ended book, a paper canvas to design what you want
  • Setting intentions of what you’d like a Notion database to do can help with framing your need
  • Use a piece of A4/A3 paper to sketch the concept out and how you’d like it to respond
  • Even a shortlist of outputs will help (eg. I’d like it to show active projects, time on project, which team are currently backlogged)

2. Reduce Replication

  • Database templates were designed so you can reduce replication in Notion
  • Think about the small and medium sized situations that you use in Notion – eg. scripting lists, editing checklists or maybe even morning routines and use replication/database templates to solve this
  • The more database templates you apply to the routine things, the better
  • One 10-minute session template building session could help save 2-3 minutes each day

3. Budget Tweaking Time

  • Set aside 30-minutes to 1 hour a month and dedicate it to sorting Notion
  • This time is better than 10-minutes here and there that can stop your workflow and ease of productivity
  • Bulking this time is better than stopping work happen, plus it’ll give you time to accumulate issues

4. Seek Advice

  • Use the Notion FB group to ask for advice
  • Notion experts and users love sharing ways they’ve done something
  • Well worth asking someone versus hours of over-thinking or complicated set-ups

5. Think Long Term

  • You want to use Notion in the long-term, if this is your base
  • So remember to approach each database build for the long-term
  • Ask yourself, will this be suitable for new employees in 1 years time or will this work when I’m on maternity leave?
  • Try and proof yourself out of administrating each database every day

Thanks for reading along and feel free to share this with your fellow Notion neighbours!

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