Notion for Beginners: Effortlessly Organize Your Personal and Work Life

1. Notion Class Trailer: You on the hunt for the ultimate productivity tool. Trust me, I get it. The struggle with features, ease of views, and cost. Hi, I'm Christine and I'm here to be your guide on this exciting journey. Armed with a marketing degree and years of industry experience from advertising to digital marketing, I'm ready to introduce you to the world of N. Juggling different projects can be tricky, right? That's where non comes in. The flexible teamwork friendly space designed to make your project management a breeze world full of project management tools. Notion stands out as a super tool that handles not thinking, task management and project organization. But I get it, its flexibility can be a bit overwhelming. Imagine personalizing notion to fit seamlessly into your work and personal life. Turning it from something complex into your most helpful tool. That's the goal of this class. To make notion understandable and empower you to use it to the fullest. We will guide you step by step. First we'll dive into a detailed introduction to notion, ensuring you understand every term and set up. Then we will explore notion 101, using practical examples to help you shape your workspace just the way you want. From building blocks to making your content pop with media. We will cover it up. Databases will become your best friend for organized information. We will unlock the magic of properties to customize your database. But wait, there's more. We will spill the beans on creating an aesthetic notion dashboard that suits your style. This class is for anyone aiming to so handle projects without feeling overwhelmed by notions, complexity conquer that fear. Learn the tool and watch your productivity soar transform how you manage projects. Collaborate effortlessly and elevate both your personal and professional life. If you're ready, let's dive in and get started. 2. Class Project: Hey there, welcome back. I'm absolutely thrilled you're here. I'm on a mission to make this class super worthwhile for you. The key, your active participation in this class. We are on a journey to create something cool. A live operating system dashboard, like a personal home page. Now here's the fun part. I want you to share your masterpiece in the class project section. It doesn't matter if it's fancy or simple. What matters is you sharing it. These projects are special because you get to see what your fellow classmates are up to. It's not just about soaking in information. You're actively working on a project. As you learn to make the most out of this class you got to get hands on. I highly recommend joining us in this exciting class project. How easy just share a link to your notion page or even a screenshot. That way we can all learn and draw inspiration from each other. Pop your work into the class project gallery and feel free to add a little story about why you made certain choices. Don't forget to check out what your classmates are doing. Spread some love and encouragement. I'm beyond excited to witness how you bring these class learnings to life. Wishing you the best of luck and most importantly, have a blast. 3. Introduction to Notion: In this lesson, we will get to know more about notion, where you can use it and other important tools and features that you should know about. Notion combines note taking, task management, and project organization. It is a versatile and collaborative work space for different types of work. First, project management Notion is a powerful project management tool enabling teams to create band boards, timelines, and to do lists. It helps in tracking tasks, deadlines, and overall project progress. Second, collaboration and communication teams can use Notion for collaborative documentation, meeting nodes, and communication. It centralizes information, making it easily accessible to all team members. Then content creation. Content managers can use Notion for drafting articles, blog posts, or any other written content. The block based system makes it easy to embed multimedia elements and create visually appealing layouts. Finally, knowledge base Notion serves as an excellent knowledge base allowing organizations to document and organize important information processes and resources. Now let's talk about how notion can be useful even in managing your personal affairs. First, task and goal management notion is effective for managing personal tasks to do lists and long term goals. It's flexibility allows users to adapt it to different productivity methodologies. Next up, habit tracking notion's database functionality can be utilized for creating habit trackers. Users can monitor their daily habits and progress over time. Then visual journaling, you can use Notion for digital journaling, keeping a record of thoughts, experiences, and reflections. The platform's rich text and multimedia support enhances the journaling experience. Finally, managing personal projects, whether planning an out of town trip, organizing personal projects, or maintaining a recipe collection notion can be customized to suit various personal needs. I'm sure just by mentioning how notion can be useful for work and personal stuff, you're getting super excited to get immersed with it. I know because I am too. Before we discuss that, I'll first introduce the key elements in notion, so you can be familiarized with them better. See you in the next lesson. 4. Setting up your Notion account: For this class. You don't need to sign up for a paid plan, you can just sign up for the free plan. You can still try out the awesome features of Notion even on the free plan. Also, you can access Notion through their web based app, desktop app and even mobile app convenient, right? You can use it whichever way you want. Okay, now is your notion account ready? Cool. Let's dive right in. First up is a page contains a variety of content. Think of pages like canvases, four blocks. To create a page, click this plus new page button, or press control plus n, or click this plus button right here. You can either begin with a template or totally customize your own. Next up we have blocks. Everything that sits on a page is called a block. Blocks are the basic unit of data in notion you can mix and match different blocks, such as texts, images, tables, checklists, databases, embedded files and more. This allows you to create unique pages and tools for you and your team. Notion allows you to add basic blocks, advanced blocks, databases, media and more. Then we have database. A database is a type of block in notion. Think of a database as a container and it lets you hold and organize multiple notion pages in a single structure. Now you can choose different views for your database to be able to best present your data. We have table view, board view, calendar view, list view, gallery view, and timeline view. Don't worry, you'll get to know each one of them later. Then finally, we have properties. Properties sit inside a database such as text, URL's, select status and more. These serves as a tool to keep your information organized inside a database. They're similar to rows and columns in a spreadsheet. It's a powerful way to manage and make sense of your data. Oh, by the way, since Notion is highly customizable, there are a lot of widgets you can integrate into your Notion page. Take a look at these websites that would be useful in building your notion. We'll be mentioning and using these websites a lot in the next demos. All of these apps have great free features to sign up using your e mail address. And you're good to go. I'll leave these links in the Resources tab so you can check them out later. In summary, Notion is a versatile tool that seamlessly integrate work and personal life. It's adaptability, collaborative features, intuitive design make it a popular choice for individuals and teams looking to streamline their workflows and stay organized. Now I think you're ready. In the next lesson, we'll begin immersing ourselves into notion. Make sure you have a fresh mind, a laptop, and your water within arm's reach because we will be diving into notion deeper. If you are ready, I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Basic Blocks - Text: Let's make notion super easy for you. We'll begin by checking out notions, cool features, starting with something called blocks. Think of blocks like the building blocks for your online space. They're super flexible and can be customized to organize team up and handle info. Blocks help you break down tricky info into easy parts. You can move them around, change the order, and group them together. It's like creating a neat and organized online space that fits just right for you. This part is a lesson and demo rolled into one. I made a dedicated page for Notion one oh one tutorial so that I can take you deeper into each feature and tool. You can access the Notion 11 tutorial in the Resources tab. So you can explore on your own. Just make sure to click Duplicate to make a copy and play with it so you can explore it better. Now if you're ready, let's start exploring blocks. For this demo, we will discuss the blocks that is available in non blocks can be divided into basic blocks and advanced blocks in No shan. As you can see, the basic blocks has different features under it also the advanced blocks. Don't worry, we will discuss each one of them one by one. Here we have the feature of the basic block and then the key features or what it does. Let's try to explore. Click the open to open inside Peak. This feature is for writing plain text. This is a sample of a text. To add a text in your notion page, just simply type. For example, hi my name is Christine. Now to change the colors of the text or the background, just simply click the six dots here to open the menu. Then go to colors. Let's choose, for example, blue. There you have it. The color is changed into blue. Now if you want to change the background color, let's go again. Let's pull up the menu and then choose Color. And then let's say we are choosing the yellow background. They have a roster of available colors in here that you can choose from. Just choose yellow background, the entire line will turn into yellow background. Now let's go back to the previews default color. Now for example, you just want to change the color of this word. For example, the name Christine simply highlight that specific word. Then a menu bar or a tool bar will open up. You can either turn it into bold or just click control B. You can italicize it, put an underline at the strike through or turn it into a code. It will look like this. Now let's go back. Our plan is to change the color. Just simply click this text color button here and click the drop down. Let's say I want it to turn into pink. Choose pink. There you go. You only change color, the text color of this specific text. Now I want to add an Mog. Just simply press and then type MG, click Enter. Then you will see the supported Emoges from. And you can choose from the roster here on which Mogi you want to add. But if you're feeling lazy, just like me sometimes, if you're in a hurry, just type the keyword of the Mogi that you are looking for. Let's say you are looking for a light bulb. Okay, once you enter the keyword, it will show up like this. Just click this, okay? There's a light bulb. Now, for example, I want to add a heart again. Let's press slash type, or mog, and it will show up like this. Then let's say I want to add a heart. Just type in heart. You have here different types of heart emoges that are supported by notion. Let say I want to add this one. Yeah, there you go. You have a heart mog. That is the text. 6. Basic Blocks - Page: Now moving on, we have here page. The key feature of a page is to embed a sub page inside a page. Let's talk about pages. These are all called pages just like this one. This is a notion page and also the notion one on one tutorial is a notion page for easy reference. I want to call it as a main page. Now for example, I want to add a sub page inside the notion one on one tutorial. This is how you do it. Let's pull up all about pages. Let's see when you create a page. This is exactly an example of sub page inside a main page. It will look like this in this database. Each of these are called sub pages. All of these are called sub pages. It will look like this. Now let's try to create a page or a sub page. You can simply type look four page, which is the second one. To create a page, it will pull up to an empty page like this. You can add a title page example, let's say. Then you can either start with an empty page or look for a template. Or choose a template. Let's try to start with an empty page. Now you have an empty page. You can add any type of block that you want to add in notion. Okay, let's go back to where we came from. This is what it looks like. If we add a sub page inside a main page, it will pull up like this. For example, let's say hello. This is a sample of a sub page. However, if you want to view it in full page, just simply click this button. If you want to change the font of your entire page, just simply click this three dots up here to open a menu. And then choose from the different styles. Now we have default, but I want this Serif. You can also choose this style, which is good for drafting and notes. Okay, this is mono, this is what it looks like. I want to choose the Serif. Now, as you can see, you are only occupying this part of the notion page. If you want to view it as full width, simply tuggle on this button and it will look like this. You can maximize the whole page. At the top here, you will see where you currently are. We came from the page and then inside we create the sub page, which is this one. If you want to go back, simply click which page you want to access or click the go back button. For now, let's click this one. That is a page. Now the default icon for a page is like this. It looks like a document. But if you want to change icon, just simply hover here and then click and then choose from different emojis or icons available in Notion. You can actually create a custom design for your icons by simply clicking this custom and then upload file or even paste the link to an image. Now let's choose the icons. Let's say I want to choose this bookmark. Once you click that, you can actually choose from different colors, which is nice. Let's say I want to choose the orange one. Your icon will look like this. Then once you open your page, your icon is in here at the top. And you can even add a cover to your page by simply clicking a cover. Now Notion suggests a cover page for your page, but you can change the cover by clicking this one. Then choose from the gallery. You can upload your own or base an image link. Or you can even view from the roster of Splash, let's say I want this one. Simply click there you have it. You have changed the cover. However, if you want to reposition your design, simply click this and then drag the image to reposition to which frame you want it. Let's say I want it like this. Then if you are okay, click save Position. So there you have it. You have styled your page. So that is what you can do to your page. 7. Basic Blocks - To-do List: Now let's go back to the notion one on one tutorial. Let's explore the to do list feature which is a basic block. Now To do List is for tracking tasks with a to do list. Let's try to open. Below is an example of a to do list just like this one. To create a list, just simply type and then type to Do, or look from the roster available here on Notion. Then click To Do List. Another way is by simply hovering the plus sign button here to add a block. Let's click that. Then let's look for the To Do list, which is this one. For example, my To Do list for today is shot the notion then shot the demo. Then lastly, the demo for just like that, when you want to add another option, simply press Enter and then a Checkbox or to do list box will show up. But if you are done adding the options, you can simply press the Enter again so that you can continue adding different blocks or content in your notion page. For example, you want to add text notes. Now this is your to do list if you want to highlight To do, let's say to days to do list. If you want to change the text, just simply highlight. You can turn it into bold. And then let's add a color blue. Now if you're done with a task, just simply press the Checkbox button and it will show up like this. To show that this task is already done and you can put in a check. Or if you aren't done yet, just click this to uncheck the item. This is great for tracking tasks, checking your daily habits. It's really nice to add to your notion page. That is what to do. List does. 8. Basic Blocks - Headings: Now moving on, we have here headings. It's simply to write headings for your notion page. Let's try to pull up, and then below are examples of headings. We have three types of headings. We have heading 12.3 Now there are three ways to create a heading. The first one is by simply typing. And then choose heading, and then choose which heading you want. I want to create a heading, one for a big section heading, for example, I want to say instructions. That is how you create a heading. The second way is by typing your text first, let's say ingredients. Say you are creating a recipe collection. Just simply highlight. And then a tool bar will show up and change the text into a heading. Let's say I want to create a heading two, there you go, it turns into a heading. The third way in creating a heading is let's first type the word. Let's say I want to add procedure. Then have your mouse at the left part of your notion page and the menu button will show up. The menu button looks like the six here. When you click it, a menu opens up. Let's choose the turn into and then change it into a heading. You can actually choose from different types of features here, but for this task, I want to choose heading three. There you go. That is what a heading one to three looks like. Yeah, feel free to explore on the headings, but for now, we will move on to the next item. 9. Basic Blocks - Table: Next is a table. Table is a simple tabular content for your page. Now to create a table, let's try another way. Simply click or hover here, and then click the plus button. And let's look for the table. This is a table. Then when you choose that option, it will first look like this. You can add in your data, let's say the name, the age. Now if you want to add column, just simply click this button here to add a column. Then if you want to add a row, just hover your mouse at this part right here, and then click to add a new row. Now let's say we want to add more info or more columns into your data. Let's say platform and then content. Then if you want to make it as a bold, simply highlight each one. Click one, click one cell, and then drag your mouse to the right to select the cells that you want to edit. Once it's selected, just click control B to change it to bold style. Now let's add the values, for example, the names Kathy 24 Saving. For example, you are tracking your influencers or listing down influencers and their niches. Then we have Christine 28 Tiktok, and then marketing. Then we have Matthew 30. He's on Tiktok and he's talking about fitness. Now what I want you to do is to highlight this part. As you can see, a menu opens up or pops up. Just click on the options. Then you can highlight the header row by clicking on this Togle button. If you want your table to look like this or if you want to highlight your header column, you can tuggle on this button to make it look like this. Let's tuggle off the header column. Since the data is up here, the data title is up here. That is how you create a table. Feel free to explore on tables. You can also type type table to create a basic block table there. 10. Basic Blocks - Lists: Now let's move on to the next item which is lists. Lists are bulleted or numbered lists. Let's try to explore lists here. Now There are two types of lists. We have here bulleted lists like this or numbered lists like this. The only difference is that for bulleted lists it has a bullet. For numbered lists we have here numbers. Now, if you want to create a bulleted list, you can simply start with a dash button and then to make it look like a bulleted list, then you can type in the items. For example, things to bring, sunscreen, brush oil. Now if you want to create a numbered list, simply type one and then type the dot and then press space. It will pull up to a numbered list like this. Let's say we have here list of participants, one is Rose, number two is Christine, number three is Paul, number four is Paul. This is what a number list looks like. Another way of creating lists is by pressing and then type list. Then you can choose from bulleted list, number list or Tuggle list. Tuggle list, we will discuss in the next item here, but for now you can choose from the two. Let's say I want to create a bulleted list. Again, I want to create top places to visit in the Philippines. I want to turn it into a heading, I simply highlight and then choose heading three. And I want to change the color and I choose purple. Then I want to create a numbered list I typed, then choose list, I choose the number list. For example, you are creating a round up or a top list. For example, number one in the list is Pa, number two is Cebu, number three is her Gao. That is how you use lists. 11. Basic Blocks - Toggle List: Next is a toggle list. Toggle lists can show or hide content inside. This is an example of a toggle list. As you can see, we have here client B, client Y, and then client B. Now, for example, I want to show the content inside client B. I have type services available, for example, graphic design and the content planning. I want to hide the content you have your client Y. And then when I press this toggle, you can see the services available like influencer marketing and content planning, for example. Now for toggles, if you want to show the text or open the text, simply click this one. It will show you the hidden text. If you want to hide it again, just simply click this toggle. Now let's try to create a toggle list. First you can click and then look for Toggle. Now as you can see, we have their toggle list. Toggle heading 123. We will first discuss this one, and then later on I will show you to create toggle heading one and so on. First, let's create a toggle list. Click then type in your item, for example, available services. Then you have here payment options, contract duration. As you can see, our toggles doesn't have any items inside it yet. The color is light gray. Now let's click this open. As you can see, it says empty toggle Click or drop blocks inside. Let's click here. And then we can add different blocks inside. Let's try to add a numbered list, a bulleted list. Let's say we have social media marketing, we have Facebook advertising, graphic design, and copyrighting. Let's see. Now let's start to add different blocks inside a toggle. Let's say I want to create a or I want to add an image. Let's upload file and then let's choose this one. Let's see if these items will be hidden once I click this button to hide the content inside it. There you go, the available services items are hidden when you click that button, let's try to open. As you can see, it will show up all the items or blocks inside your notion toggle list. Okay, let's try to add payment options. Okay. Before that, I want this to be bold so that it would be more noticeable. Let's highlight the text and then click to bold. Let's do this where other items as well. Okay, there. All right, Moving on. We have here payment options. Let's create a toggle. Let's try to create a call out. Don't worry, we will dive into call outs later. I'll just quickly run through this. For example, payment option, let's say the payment options are Paypal or Stripe. Let's try if it will be hidden. Once we click this button, there you go. You have hidden a content here in the payment options. Then finally, we have your project duration. We can add six months contract. One year contract, we can end six months. We can even add three months contract. Then we can add emoji here. Then let's look for a check mark here. We've added a check mark. I simply highlighted it. And then control C, and then press control V to paste. And then let's do it again. Highlight and then press control C on your keyboard. And then press control V two, Paste. All right, there you go. Let's see if we can try to hide it in the toggle list there. This is good to make your notion page more organized net. The next we will move on to toggle heading list. Let's try to create a toggle heading list. Let's press and then look for Toggle again. Let's say I am creating the heading three. Let's say I want to say, I want to name it as Company, Mission and Vision. That is a toggle heading. Then let's press this button here. And then you can even create a page inside. Let's say we will write the Mission Vision. Let's create a simply click this plus button. Look for a page. Let's name it as Mission. Let's create another page for vision. Simply type, then look for pet's, name it as Vision. Let's try to go back to your toggle list. It will look like this. The difference between the two is this is a page but it doesn't have any item or content inside. And this one, it has a content inside already because I press the Space button. Let's see if it will hide under the Tuggle heading. If we click this button there, this is good if you are using Notion as a knowledge base or team portal. So that you can show your company mission, vision, and other resources for your team. Once you click it again, you can see the page about the mission and the vision. If you want to click or access that page, simply click this and you will be directed into that specific page. There you have it. That is all about Tuggle lists and we will move on to the next feature. 12. Basic Blocks - Quote: Now let's move on to the code. Basic block nodes are used to capture a code or highlight words. This is an example of a code. I just pulled up a random code on the Internet and then I just pull it up like this, or I just entered it like this. To add a code, you can simply type and then look for code. And then choose this basic block. Let's say the best and most beautiful things in cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wow, that is a nice coat by Helen Color. As you can see, the coat looks like this. In here, it has a different color. I just simply highlight the text in the menu bar or tool bar will pull up and then let's change the text color to blue. If you want to change the style of this code, just simply highlight and then let's say I want to italicize it. Click this one to make it look like that. Now as you can see in our notion, tutorial one oh one, we have here a code feature also. I just want to add this to highlight certain words or sentences. In here I said welcome to this notion, one oh one dashboard tutorial that is an example of a code. Let's go back to the code. As you can see it, if it has one line only, it will appear like this. And if it has two lines or multiple lines, it will look like this. For example, I want to highlight just one sentence, search for code, then let's type in welcome to this tutorial. Let's say I want to change it into orange background. It will look like this. It's nice, right? It's good to highlight words or add a code into your notion workspace that is all about codes. 13. Basic Blocks - Divider: Next up, we have divider. Dividers are used to visually divide blocks. This is an example of a divider. I used it to divide this portion of the notion page and this portion of the Notion page. Another example is like this. This is a divider also, this is a divider. To create a divider, simply press the dash button three times and a divider will appear. Let's try 123 there, a divider appeared in your Notion page, or you can type in and then look for divider. Once you see it, press Enter, and then it will look like this. Another one is you can choose the plus button and then look for the divider in the roster. Here is the divider, that is an example of a divider. 14. Basic Blocks - Link to an existing page: Now moving on, link to an existing page. This is used to link to an existing notion page. Now, to link an existing page, simply type link to page. Let's choose this one. Then an option appears and then it says select a page. Let's say I want to select the Christine's nook. Let's click here. It will appear like this. As you can see, there is a slide up button. If the feature is linked to an existing page, it will show the Notion page title Also, you can see the icon in here. Let's try to click, then it will pull up to that specific notion page. Let's try to go back. This is great if you want to link other notion pages into your notion page. For example, for resources tab or tutorials or other resources that would help your notion page for your team or your clients and so on. Now I have an example here that says that I linked an existing page. Let's try another one. Press the plus button and then let's look for link to page. Then let's choose the Notion One on one tutorial home page, It will appear like this as well. As you can see there's the notion page title and as you can see the icon in here. As you can see, I chose moving icons. If you can zoom in your Notion page, you will see that it's also moving in here. It's really cute. Let's try to click this. Once you hover, you will see the cover image on the page title and also the initial content of your page. Here, the initial content is the navigation area. Let's try to click Notion 11 Tutorial, and it will show you the dashboard. So let's open in full page and it looks like this. Okay, now I want to go back. So simply click this Go Back button and you will go back to this view. That is all about linking to an existing page. 15. Basic Blocks - Callout: Call outs are used to make your writing stand out. Let's try to explore, this is actually an example of a call out. Let's try to create a call out, press and type call out, and then press Enter. That is an example of a callout. As you can see, you have here a space for your content, for your title. Then you have here an icon. Lets say what I want for the callout is I want to add my notes here. I want to change the color, the background color of the callout. Simply click this button here and then choose the color. Let's say I want to choose a pink background, it will look like this. You now have a pink background. Then I want to change the icon, just simply the icon here. And then let's put in the MG there. That is how you change an icon. Now if I want to add more info to this call out, I would simply press Shift plus Enter so that your call out expands. I can add different content or more content in here. Prepare for the upcoming for this. I can even change the text style. I want it to be bold and then italicized. Let's try if I can add or change into a different color. Let's say I want it to be color yellow. Oh, okay. If you want to change the text color, it will turn it into a default callout box and then the text color will change into what you've chosen, but I like the previews style. I'll press control Z. Go back to this option, that is all about callouts. 16. Advanced Blocks - Table of Contents: Okay, let's now move on to the advanced blocks. First we have table of contents. It is used to show an outline of your page. Let's try to open. This is an example of a Table of Contents feature in Not. This is actually an advanced block. It works when your page has a content and headings inside it. Table of Contents helps you navigate content faster. To create a table of contents, add your content. First, add your headings, let's say for beginners, then let's turn it into a heading one. Then inside, let's say part one. In introduction to the part two, let's one lesson two, like that. Okay, then let's say part two, navigating notion. Then let's add lesson one, lesson two. Now let's turn this part into a heading. Let's say we have here turn into heading three. Then this one it's turned into heading three. Again, to create a table of contents, simply type table of contents. Then it will show the table of contents in your page. As you can see, we have here previous content like this. It showed up like this. Then we also have a notion for beginners, which is this one we have here, part one, part two. It showed up like this as well. Let's try to press this. Let's try to choose the part one Introduction to Notion under the notion for beginners, let's try to press it is still in the same page and then it highlighted that specific information or content that you are trying to look for. Take note that it works when your page contains content and headings. All right, that is table of contents and let's go back to other features or other advanced blocks in notion. 17. Advanced Blocks - Block Equation: Next up is block equation. This is used to display a standalone math equation. Let's try to pull up, this is what an equation looks like. To add an equation, Simply type and then choose equation or block equation. And it will show up like this. You can add in your equation inside here and then press done. 18. Advanced Blocks - Button: Next we have a button. Buttons are used for custom automations with a click. Let's try to create a button. This is what a button looks like. In notion, what you can do with a button block is you can insert a text or block. You can even add a page to a new database. When you press a button, you can edit pages, You can show confirmation, or even open a page. It depends on what type of action you require in that specific button. To create a button, just simply type and then let's look for the button. We have here the button, and then press. Then it will show you what actions you can actually do with a button. We have here a space where you can name your button, for example, new content. Then you can even change the icon by simply pressing this one, and then choosing whether it's an icon or an MOG. Let's choose this alien new content then, um, when the button is clicked, what step do you want to make? Just simply press this, add a step. And then you can either insert blocks, add page two, edit pages, show confirmation, or even open a page. Let's say I want to insert blocks first. I will create a block here. For example, I want to create a new content template. Every time I have a new content idea, I will press this button and it will create a certain page that will hold all the information of the new content idea. Recapping the steps, I created the page by simply pressing and the page. Then I want to name it as Content Idea title. I just want them to remind that they need to create a title here. And then I'll choose the empty page. I can add content idea, then I can add a space, inspiration or references. Let's try to make it like a three. And then let's change the color into brown. Let's do the same turn into heading three, and then let's change the color into brown to make it like a section inspiration. And then let's add in the design brief for the instructions for the designer. Okay, let's turn it into brown background into heading three. Let's go back to the button then we have content idea title page that we have created. I want to change the icon, so let's add a thought bubble here, since this is an idea. Now that my page is ready, I will click this gear button here that says Edit button, and then I will simply drag the button here. Whenever I press this button, the New Content Idea button, it will insert a block, which is a page which is below. Then I can either choose Insert the block below the button or above the button. Let's say I want it to add below the button. This is you're editing a template in the button. This will serve as some template whenever I press the button. We have here more options here. You can add step above, add step below, duplicate, below. You can delete or even add another step. Let's click done. Let's try to test this one. Let's try to press this button. As you can see, it generated a page. Below you can see the content title or new content idea title here. Every time you press a button, it will show a page or create a page like this. Let's try to go back. I want to insert the blocks above the button. I choose above button and then choose Done. Now remember if you want to change or edit the template, always edit here in the edit button and always edit in this format or in this option. So that you can create a template and you will see that you're editing a template in a button. Let's say new content idea title. Let's try to click the button then as you can see, you have here new content idea title and you have a new page. There are a lot of actions that you can use, so feel free to explore the button options. 19. Advanced Blocks - Synced Blocks: Next are sync blocks. Sync blocks are used to sync content across pages. Let's try to open up. Now to create a sync block, simply press and then type sync block. And then you can type in press space for AI or slash for different commands. Let's say heading, welcome. Now as you can see, let's create another sync block. Or let's not add a content inside it. Says click or drag blocks here, then paste in another page to sync content. That is all about sync blocks. 20. Advanced Blocks - Columns: Now next we have columns. Columns are used to create columns of blocks. This is an example of multiple columns. As you can see, we have here 12345 columns in notion you can create 2-5 columns, I think. Let's try to explore columns here. To create columns, just simply type and then column and then choose how many columns you want to create. Let's create four. This is actually great if you are creating a board or a home page. Let's say we have here navigation content calendar. I'm hovering in the Notion page so that I can see how many columns are available. We have here 123 and then four. Just simply hover and then click to Add Content, Content, Calendar navigation, our client guidebook, let's say the team resources like that. Now to add a content below, just simply press Enter and then add your content like this. Then you can do it for other columns as well. There you have it. You can even change the head, turn it into a heading one, turn it into a heading, one heading on the. Okay, there that is, columns. Now let's go back to the notion one on one tutorial. As you can see, I have here two columns. I have one for the gallery and then another one for the clock in the widget in here. As you can see, you can also drag or the columns to fit your preferred look or feel of your dashboard or your blocks here as well. I'm using two columns. One, I created table here and another table in here. And I can even drag or move. Let's say I want to add another more column. For example, my content is here already. I want to add it as another column. I simply highlight and then click this. And then to move it, once it shows a line like this, I can simply let go or drop the item or the blocks, and it will create a new column or the fifth column. You can even add dividers per column, and it will show up like this. But this one, the divider is all throughout the notion page. If you want to make it like that, simply drag this divider and then see until it shows up like this, a full line and then drop and then it will look like this. That is all about columns. 21. Advanced Blocks - Breadcrumb: Now we have bread crumbs. Bread crumbs show current page location. Let's try to look at bread crumbs. As you can see, you are inside a sub page. For example, let's create another sub page in this bread subpages page. Let's name it Sample of bread crumb. Let's start with an empty page, then let's create a bread crumb by pressing the look for bread crumb to show the current page location. As you can see, we are inside the notion one on one tutorial and under the advanced blocks, then under the bread crumb and we are inside the breadcrumb, which is this one sample of breadcrumb. The main option or the main feature of breadcrumb is to show where you are in the notion page. This is good for navigation. You can simply click which page buttons or which page you want to access. It will serve as button, it will take you to that specific notion page. So let's say I want to go to the Notion one on one tutorial. Let's simply click Notion one on one tutorial and it will go to this notion page. 22. Advanced Blocks - Toggle Heading: Next up, we have toggle heading. Toggle heading. It's used to hide content inside the heading. We actually discuss this inside the toggle list. This is actually a part of the advanced blocks. As a refresher, a toggle list looks like this. Once you click this button, it will show you the hidden texts, which is this one. To create a toggle heading, press and then let's look for toggle. Let's say we are creating toggle heading three. And then type in your content welcome page. Then as you can see, it's color light gray because it doesn't have content yet. What we will do is press this. It will say as empty toggle and click or drop blocks inside. Let's create a to do list to Do okay sheet. Let's try to name it as Onboarding Client Onboarding. Let's say we are using this toggle heading list to list down to do lists that they need to comply for the onboarding. We have onboarding sheet, branding kit, social media access, and so on. Once I click this button, it will hide the text under a heading. Let's click this again to show the content inside. Again, this is a toggle heading list. 23. Advanced Blocks - Code-Mermaid: Now moving on to the last feature in the advanced blocks, which is code mermaid. This is used to create a diagram by writing a code. Let's click open, and this is what a code mermaid looks like. You can create a diagram by typing in or writing a code to create a code mermaid. Let's press and look for the code mermaid. Or simply and then type Mermaid. As you can see, it will look like this. To change the items or the info in the diagram, let's simply change the items in here or even write a full code. Let's change this to notion mastery. All right, let's simply say notion, then let's click or type in beginner. As you can see, it changes or creates a diagram and it shows notion and then beginner. That wraps up the first part of the Notion 11 tutorial. How was the experience so far? Did you get to know? Not a little bit more. Feel free to explore the notion page I shared with you. Take a quick break and come back to our next lesson for another exciting part of notion one on one tutorial where we'll discuss media. 24. Media - Image: In our next adventure, we're jumping into something cool called Media in Notion. Media. Here plays a big role in making things awesome. It makes your content pop, helps in better communication, and turns your workspace into a visual dashboard that inspires creativity. Whether you're teaming up on projects, jotting down info or sharing your ideas, adding pictures, videos, and other media files makes notion way more fun and useful. Just like before we are mixing lessons with demos. Get your laptops ready and open up the Notion 11 tutorial page. If you haven't grabbed it yet, no worries. You can download it in the resources section. All set. Let's dive right in. There are different types of media files you can add to your notion page. We will discuss them one by one. First up, we have image image. You can upload or embed images. Let's try to explore to upload or embed image, simply type and then type image. You will see this button. Let's try to choose this. You have here options. You can either upload, embed a link, use splash, or jiffy. As you can see, this is an image block. Whenever you see this in notion, you can upload or embed images here. Let's try to click upload file and then choose from your files on your laptop or computer. Let's say I want to add this ideas, that is what an uploaded image looks like. We also have an embedded image, which is this one. Let's try to embed an image First, let's look for an image on let's say Pinterest. Let's say I want to add this photo. Just simply pull up the link control C to copy in notion. You can add image, choose the image block and then embed link and then paste the link here. And then press Embed Image. That is what an embedded image looks like. You can even scale or move the sites to get the full image from Pinterest. You can even add the link, that is an example of an embedded image. Then finally, if you want to embed from Jiffy just like this, press slash and then look for an image. Let's go to jiffy. You can search from here, let's say on. That is how you embed a file from moving file. 25. Media - Web Bookmark: Next up we have web bookmark. A web bookmark is used to save link as a visual bookmark. This is an example of a web bookmark. Say goodbye to boring links in your notion page. You can actually add a link and make it as a web bookmark or a visual bookmark. This is what a web block looks like. This is empty, but let's try to create a new block. Just press and then type in Web bookmark and then paste the link in here. Let's go back to Pinterest. Let's say I want to bookmark the same item. Just simply copy the link and then paste it in here. And then press Create Bookmark, it will show up like this. This is an example of a web bookmark. 26. Media - Video: Moving on, we have here video in this block, you can embed from Youtube or Vimeo, Embedding a video, looks like this. You can actually play the video inside your Notion page. There are two ways to add a video in your Notion page. By the way, before we do that, this is what a video block looks like on Notion, but this one is empty. I want you to create a new block. There are two ways, actually. First one is we can get the link from Youtube. Let's go to Youtube. Let's say we are adding a resource for your team. We can give a title, team resources, make it as a heading three. Then the first way to add or embed a Youtube video is just by pasting the link in your notion page control V, it will show you three options. You can either paste the link as is, just like this. Simply dismiss or you can embed a video or create a bookmark. Let's try to explore the three. When I press button, it will show up a link like this. But let's do it again. If I want to embed the video, I simply choose embedded video. It will look like this, nice right now. Finally, if I want to add it or create it as a bookmark, to simply create a bookmark, it will show like a web bookmark this. Now, there's another way to embed a video. It's simply to press and then type in video. The video block looks like this. Then you can either embed a video from other pages or other websites, or you can upload your Ode. Let's try to embed a link. Click Embed Video. It will show up like this. Let's try to add in an original video. Again, video, then click Upload, and then choose a video from your desktop or your laptop. Let's pull up an example here, the demo videos. Let's say I'm uploading it like this. It takes a while since you are uploading an original video. There you have it. This is what an uploaded original video looks like. You can even play it inside Notion, you have the play button, the volume, the full screen, and other options. That is the video feature. 27. Media - Audio & File: Next we have is audio you can embed from Spotify, Sound, Cloud and other sources. To create an audio file, just simply type audio. You can upload your own or embed a link. This is what an empty audio block looks like. Then finally, you can upload files in not. You can either upload a file or embed with a link. This is what a file block looks like on no. So it says upload or embed a file. This one is empty, let's try to create a new one. Press and then choose file. Then you can either upload a file, let's try to choose a file. Let's say this workbook, just wait for it to upload. It will look like this. Let's try to open the file. And it will be opened like this on your website. There you have it. You can upload files on. No, let's try to embed a file. Since this is an empty file block, let's try to press and then choose Embed File and then Paste File Link, and then embed Link. It will show up like this. So let's try it opens up like this. Awesome. Right. You can add in files for your team, your clients, which is just make sure that what you add in your notion page would make sense for your notion page and for your objectives for that specific page that is all about media files in N. So there you have it. We have completed part two of our Notion 11 tutorial. We've build back the layers of non checking out the ABC's like basic blocks, the fancier ones called advanced blocks, and even how non handles media files. Now let's keep the momentum going by diving into the exciting world of databases. Ready for the next lesson? I'll see you there. 28. Database - In-line vs Full Page Database: All right, let's dive into the world of databases in notion. Think of them as super organized collections of information that you can easily shuffle, sort, and play with. Why are they such a big deal? Well, databases in notion are like magical tables, that can be tables or lists. Totally your call. This flexibility is a game changer, especially when you're dealing with things like project tasks, contacts, or even your inventory. They are your go to for keeping things in order, managing stuff, and digging into data. Whether it's a simple to do list or a mega project management, set up databases, let you customize properties, link data, and collaborate in real time. Let's head back to the Notion 11 tutorial page and get our hands dirty with some database action. Are you ready? Let's do this. Going back to our Notion 11 tutorial, we have databases. Let's now discuss databases. As you can see, there are different views available in the database option or block on Not. So we have table view, board view, gallery view, list view, calendar view, and then finally timeline view. Don't worry, we will be discussing and exploring each one of them as we go through this demo. First, let's define the difference between the inline and full page database. All right, in line versus full page database. In line, database means a database inside a page or inside this page. Meanwhile, a full page database means creating database as a sub page and it turns into a full page when you open it. All right, this is an example of an inline database. As you can see, you can see the database inside this specific page. Meanwhile, this is an example of a full page database. When you create a full page database, it will show up like this. Then once you click this one, it will show up as a full page. It will open up as a full page. On another tab of your notion, it will pull up or show up like this. This is an example of a full page database. All right, let's go back. First, let's try to create an inline database. Type in in line to see the options of in line database available on non. Let's select this one database in line. Then non creates an inline database just like this. As you can see, you can see the database inside this page wherein you are trying to create an inline database. Let's try to name this one sample database. That is how you create an inline database in notion. For the inline database, you can see that you have a default table view. But if you want to add more views in your database, you can just simply click Plus and then choose other views available such as board, time line, calendar, list, and gallery. Once you've decided which type of database you want to create, select and then press Done. Now you have two views available. You have a single inline database, but you have a table view available and also a board view version of this in line database. That is how you create an in line database. Let's now move on to the full page database. Just simply press and then search for full. And then choose the database full page. Let's click then it opens up or creates a new page with a database inside it. Let's go back to where we came from. As you can see, we have here a page block that takes you to the full page database when clicked. Let's name this sample full page database. Again, you have a default table view of your full page database. When you want to add another view, just simply click the plus button here and then choose from the available views in here. Let's say I want a calendar view, and then let's press done. Now we have for the full page database, a table view and a calendar view. This is what a full page database looks like. It appears just like this on your preview page where you created the full page database. You can even change the icon here just by clicking this. Then let's look for a file. Your link to your full page database will look like this. That is the difference between the line and full page database. Okay. Now that you know that, let's go back to the databases and available views for databases. 29. Database - Table view: First we have a table view. It's a table view of a new or an existing database. Let's try to open and explore just like our previous example. This is an example of a table view database. It appears just like this, It's in a table format. We have here some examples like customer name number checkbox created by and so on. Don't worry, we will discuss this in further later. Have here a scroll bar below. Then when you want to add properties to your table view database, just simply press this bottom to add more columns. Then when you want to add more rows to your database, just simply press this new button here. Below, it will create a new entry in the database. Now, table view database is great for content or data that is best viewed in a spreadsheet like view. Just like this, it looks like a spreadsheet, right? Let's try to create a table view database in Notion, press and type in table. As you can see, we have here a database under the database. Look for the table view and then press. Then you have an option whether to create a new database or select a data source from the available databases in notion. For this, let's try to create a new database. Then let's name your table table view database. There you can actually further customize your table to make it more aesthetically pleasing. You can simply click this and then click Rename. Let's name this as Information One. Then you can even change your icon. In here, we have a basic table icon in here. Just simply press that icon and then choose which icon you prefer. Let's choose this icon. As you can see, it changes the icon also in here. Then you can even hide the database title by clicking the three dots here. And then choose High Database Title, so that it looks more minimalist and clean, but it's up to you. Whichever you prefer. Then you have the basic name property here, tags. And then you can add more. Let's try to delete this first, Delete the property, then we can add whichever information, or property, or data we want to add. Let's try to add a plus sign. Then we can choose the number and say like contact number. Then you can choose the number format. Here, let's say we are, these are currencies and it can even choose percent number was, let's just choose the number itself. You can also change the icon in here, chose this phone handset then, and then you're done. For example, we would like to change this property, customer's name, and then change the icon here. And then look for a person or people for customers. Then you can add in the customer's names, then add the phone number here. Then you can even add more properties and later we will discuss it further. For now, that is the table view which is available in the Notion databases. This is what the table view looks like in the Notion databases. And remember that the table view is like a spreadsheet like view. 30. Database - Board view: Now going back to databases. Next we have board view. Board view is a ban board view of a database. Board view is great to check status of projects. This is what a board view looks like and we can even customize it to check status of projects. Let's try to explore. First we have here the statuses above we have to do in progress and complete. These are entries in the board view database. They name it as card 123. You want to edit the entry here, just simply click this one and it opens up a sub page. You can even change the information here, for example, on client. When you add content on this subpage, an icon like this will show up on your card. You can even customize it depending on your preference. For example, this is one of your to do list and you are currently on boarding your client. Just simply click and hold and drag it to whichever status this belongs, like in progress and complete and so on. Let's try to create a board view database. In notion, just simply press slash and look for Board and then choose Board View under the database. Again, you can either select a data source or create a new database. Let's try to create a new database. Let's say the title is Project Status. We can further customize your board view by clicking this three dots to open up the menu. And let's go to Group. As you can see we have here the default visible groups available in notion we have to do in progress and complete. Now if you want to customize this even further, you can do that by clicking Group by Status. Then you have two options. First we have the group option, which is the default to do in progress and complete. You have here the statuses that you can assign on notion. You can sort them by ascending, manual or descending. Let's choose the manual you can drag and drop on which way you want to customize the statuses on notion. As you can see whenever I drag it here it changes its order. It's up to you on how you want to maintain the order in the options in here. Let's go back to this option and then let's go to properties. Let's go to Status. In the status, we can customize the statuses. Say our project is clients on boarding. You want to track all your clients who are currently on boarding. Again, let's go back to the menu, Select Properties, and then let's go to the status. And let's further customize this. Let's say two on board. Then you can even change the color. Let's assign brown here on the answer on boarding questionnaire. For example, kick off meeting endorse media files, let's say and sign contract. Now I've added here a couple of options. I want to further change the order in here. Maybe we start with a signed contract and then answer questionnaire, and then endorse the media and files. And then finally kick off meeting. Then in the complete, let's say we have here client onboard. We can even add another option here like client offboard for example, or contract ended. Let's sign gray color for this then. Once you're okay, just click the X button here. As you can see, it's still messed up here. Let's try to group it and customize it to make it look better. Let's press this button here. Go to group. Then we have here the visible groups. First, let's move this sign contract again. Up and then answer questionnaire. And then endorse media until you go to kickoff meeting. Sorry, we missed another. Let's go to the properties again, let's go to the status and let's rename this client on board. And the other one is contract ended. Okay, let's go back to the group, and then we have here again the visible groups. First, we have to onboard. They need to sign a contract, answer the questionnaire, endorse media files, kickoff meeting, and then the client onboarded is done. For example, we have here the contract ended, and we want to tag that client as contract ended. But we want to hide it in this database. Just simply press this to hide a group. This is what it will look like as you scroll in your board view. You can see here the hidden groups. Let's rename this. You have a default, three cards, card 12.3 Let's rename this client, client B, client C. Now if you want to add or move your clients in here in this board view, just simply click hold and then drag again. Click hold and drag into the correct status of your client. For example, client, they need to sign the contract first, and then client B is done with the contract and it's time for the kickoff meeting and so on. To add more items in this database, just simply click the plus new button here and then type client D, or the name of the client. There you go. That is how you use and customize your board view. If you want to check out more options, just simply press this three dots here. It will give you a lot of customization available in notion you can even explore on the group. Then also if you want to add color in your columns to simply toggle this on to make it look like this. As you can see, this has a color brown in here. This one has blue. Since the tag is color blue, we have here a client onboard it as color green as well. It looks good, and colors help you categorize your data even better. So that is what a board view looks like. 31. Database - Gallery view: Moving on to another type of database view which is the gallery view. It basically just means a gallery type database view. Let's try to explore now. This is an example of gallery view database in Nan. It looks like this. A gallery type of presenting data or information we have here, photos or pictures like this. Let's go to Notion one oh one tutorial dashboard. I want to show you another sample of gallery view. This is another example of a gallery view. As you can see, you can add a photo or a moving GIF from Jeff. This is what a gallery view database looks like in here. We have 123456 cards in here, and you can add more by clicking this one. Let's go back to the gallery view in here. I have here a few instructions that you can check out, but we will go through this in this demo. To create a gallery view database, simply press and look for gallery until you find the gallery view option here, press that again. You can either select a data source or create a new database. Let's try to create a new database, we can explore better. This is the default view. When you created a gallery view, you can name your database like gallery home page, then you can even hide this if you don't like it. Let's rename this by clicking this And then choose Rename, Let's say welcome to my gallery. Then let's change the icon. Let's look for a sparkle. You have two options here. I want to choose this one, and there it changes the name, the title, name, and also the icon. Here we have here default 123 pages. When you press this one, it's actually a page or a sub page inside. Right now in the gallery view it shows the page content. But what if you want to change that view? Let me show you how. Let's go to the option or menu tab here. Let's click Gallery. Then in the card preview, it's currently showing the page content. Let's say you want to show the page cover, it looked like this. You can even change the card size, It's currently medium. When you open this one, there is no page cover yet. Let's try to add a covered. Let's choose from the roster. From again, you have a few options. You can select from the gallery, Upload your own, get it from a link, or even access on splash. Let's try to use the unsplash. Choose this one, then reposition, reposition. Then once your case save position, let's make it look like this. Let's do that for the other pages. Again, select a page, add a, change the cover, and then let's go to splash items that complement your gallery. Let's choose this one, same position, the next up. Let's look for skin gear that has a touch of green, since we are doing that in the past, a card, let's select this one there. Then we can add one more and then add a change the cover. Let's skin. Let's choose this one save position and you're done. That is how you customize your gallery view. Now if you don't want your page cover to be seen and you want the page content to be seen, just simply press this and then go to gallery. And then in the card preview, select page content. When you want your content to be seen, skin care, for example, we want to show it like this. For example, you're checking your habits Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and then Friday, Sunday. You can add page content here. You can even change the icon by clicking this one. Let's select an icon with a sparkle. Let's select this magic wand. You can even choose the color select here. As you can see, it show ups like this. Select this, choose icon there. Let's try to do this for the rest of the gallery view. That is gallery view. It's up to you which way you want to present your data. You have two options. You can show the page cover or the page content in presenting your data in gallery view. 32. Database - List view: Let's now move on to the next database view in notion, which is the list view. It's basically a list view database in notion. This is an example of a list view database. Let's try to create a list view database to simply type back and then type in list until it shows up as list view. Again, you can either select a data source or create a new database. This is what it looks like as a default. Whenever you create a list view database, let's try to name your database as a sample. This is a default we have here, page one, page two, page three. You can even rename your title, client B, x, Y. And then finally it pulls up as a sub page. For example, you want to list like 2024 client list. Then you can even change the icon here, change it to this icon icon, select the color. All right. That is a list view database. Each item in the list view database opens up into a new page and it looks like it's linked in the database just like this. This is how a list view database looks like in databases. 33. Database - Calendar view: Moving on to the next database, we have calendar view. It's basically presenting data in a calendar view. This is what a calendar view database looks like in notion. As you can see, you have here your month, the current month. You can change it or go to the past months to see your database in the previous months even you can look at the next months. Now to customize your calendar view database, simply press this menu button here. Go to Calendar and then show calendar by date, and then show calendar as month. Or you can even choose a week and it will show up like this. You can see it's from Sunday to Saturday. Then if you want to start on a Monday, for example, your work day is starting on Monday. And then you want to see your calendar view that is starting on Monday. Simply go to your menu bar here, go to settings and members, and then choose Language and region. The you can tuggle on the start week on Monday. This will change how all calendars will look like in your app. Tuggle it on When you tuggle that on, your calendar will start on a Monday and ends in on a Sunday. That's how you do it. Let's go back to your calendar view database. I prefer to show it as a month. There. It shows which day you are currently in. Today is December 19. It has a color red item in here. Now, if I want to add an item on that specific date, just hover your mouse in here and then click Add An Item. It creates a sub page in your database in calendar view. By the way, to create a calendar view, you can press then look for Calendar and then choose Calendar View again. You can select your data source or create a new database. Let's name this as Content Calendar. For example, let's say I'm creating a content for our last minute Christmas recipe. Let's say it will show up like this. Now, for example, I want to add a status in here. Let's say not started in progress, in done. Let's say this is in progress. I want to show the status in the calendar. Just simply press again the menu, Go to Properties and Hide. It's currently hidden. The status is currently hidden. Let's hide this. As you can see, there is a progress or status bar shown in here because we showed it in the property section. Next, if I want to add another item, let's say posting on the 23rd Christmas dessert. Round up the content creation. Let's say it's already done. Click Done, then it will show up like this. Now if you want to add more properties in your database for your calendar view database, just simply press this and then go to Properties, and then click New Property to add another property. Let's say we will add a URL and we will name it as Inspiration. And click Enter. Once you press this card here, you will see another property in here that says Inspo and you can add a link in this property. Calendar View database is great for content planning and even planning of tasks that are time and date sensitive. That is all about Calendar View database. 34. Database - Timeline view: Then finally we have here the timeline view database. Let's try to explore timeline view database looks like this. Timeline view database is great for managing multiple projects that has overlapping or different timelines. To create a timeline view database, simply press and then look for timeline. Again, you can select a data source or even create a new database. Let's say I want to create a new database, it will show up like this. This is the default view you can view. We're currently on December 2023. In here, you have options on different views. Now we are viewing it as a month. You can change it in hours, in days, in weeks, in by week, quarter and even year. Awesome. Let's select the month. You can view the past or previous months by clicking this, or view the future months or the next months by clicking this arrow here. Let's name your database, for example, team projects, let's say. Then let's select this. The card 123 pulls up like a sub page. When you click this, it will look like this. As you can notice in the date, it has a range. It's not a specific date, unlike the calendar view. Let's compare it to the calendar view. This is the calendar view. We added an item. Let's pull up the content calendar. Earlier we added some items in the calendar or the content calendar. As you can see, the date looks like this because it's for December 21. But for the timeline view, the date looks like this. It's, you can choose, for example, year end planning. It's from, let's say December 20. It's from December 20 up to December 30. If you want to add a remind option, you can click the drop down and choose on the day of the event, one day before two, or one week before. You can toggle on an end date or not. You can also include the time. For example, the time is 10:00 A.M. up to 06:00 P.M. on December 30. You can even customize the date and time zone. In this, we have here the date format, full date, this month, year, then time form 12 hour or 24 hour. And then you can choose the time zone, Search for the time zone here, or scroll down to see the options. Once you're okay, press Enter and it turns into color blue. It means that it will be sending you a notification or a remind on December 20 from 10:00 A.M. That is year end planning. Let's try to add another one. For example, holiday break. The holiday break will be from three, let's say for this we don't want to be reminded, let's keep it as is then. The date is color black because you don't want to be reminded for the date. It just shows up in your timeline view. But if you want to be reminded, it will show up like this in color blue. You can even drag your projects or your cards depending on which date you want them to be included. As you can see, I'm dragging it and it changes up above here, the date range, let's say. I want to place it here. That is how timeline view works in. It is great for planning for multiple projects with overlapping timelines. We've just finished up our journey into databases. In, we've learned how to use databases to neatly organize and showcase our data. We've added some spies with database properties to take our organization game up a notch. The aim to kickstart your notion adventure with confidence and a whole lot of ease. In our next lesson, we're diving into the world of properties. I'm so excited to see you there. Until then, happy notioning. 35. Database Properties: Now let's chat about properties in notion. In notion, a property is like a fancy term for the fields or columns you see in a database. These properties hold all sorts of info, texts, numbers, dates, check boxes. You name it and guess what? You can customize these properties to fit different types of data, making your database a personalized powerhouse. Want to see it in action? Let's swing back to the notion one oh one tutorial page and explore this magic together. Ready? Let's go welcome back to this tutorial. For today, we are to discuss the database properties. Let's look what is a database? Property properties give context to your database, such as task titles, descriptions, due dates, URLs, files, and more. To add a property, step one is to create or open an existing database. Pull up this one. Earlier we had created a database in table view. Then on your database, click Properties, or this three dots here. Let's look for the three dots. At first, you can see anything like that. Just hover on your table view database and then look for the three dots to open up the menu. Then go to properties. Currently, we have two properties, which is the customer's name and then the contact number. If I want to add a new property, I just select this plus new property. Let's say I want to choose the date. Let's name it as date bought. And you can even customize it into date format, time format, and so on. Now we have here the property. You can even change the icon or the name depending on your preference. Let's say date. And I want to choose a calendar here. This is another example. We have here a table view database. And it has a lot of properties available and added in this database one by one. We will get to know each one of them in this demo. 36. Database Properties - Select: Now next is Select. It's a drop down menu of tags that can be selected one at a time only. Remember, that can be selected one at a time only. Let's try to add a select property in our database. Let's try to add here by clicking the plus button and then go to Select. Let's say we are filtering them in platform. Then you can add an option here, like maybe we found them on Facebook, on Tiktok, on Instagram, on Youtube and more. You can even change the color for each option. Let's assign this as blue, Tiktok, gray, Instagram as purple, and then finally Youtube as red. You can even drag to change the hierarchy of your options. Once you're okay, just press X. Then in your database, let's say for the first item, we found them on Facebook. Next is Instagram, it will show up like this. Next is Youtube. As you can see, you can only choose one at a time. If I want to change it as Facebook, it will change like that, you can only choose one option. Also, you can either search for an option in here or create one. Let's say I want to add Twitter. Simply click Create, Twitter, or press Enter. Then you can change the color by clicking this. Then let's assign a yellow color there. That is how you add an option in the select property of your database. 37. Database Properties - Multi-select: Moving on to Multi Select. It's a drop down menu of tags that can be added more than once. Take note that you can add more than once. Let's try to explore again. We have here our table view database. Let's add an option or a property. Click plus. I will name it as Events and then can sort it as manual alphabetical or reverse alphabetical mode. To add an option, just simply press this. For example, participated in the Black Friday sale in the year end sale kickoff event. We met them at the kickoff event as well. That is how you add an option to change the color again, also the title. You can simply press this option and then change the color there and a sign, whichever color you prefer. Let's try to look at it. We created the events and just simply press. And then you can add Select on option or create one again, just like earlier. Press Black Friday Sale, Kickoff Event, Year Sale. Let's say they have participated in all these events for your business. It will show up like this example. Participated in the Black Friday sale and you met Paul in the kickoff event. Christine participated in all of them. So that is how you add multi select. 38. Database Properties - Status: All right, moving on to our next property is status. We have discussed status earlier. Status. This property is group by status. It's a drop down menu of the statuses. Let's try to explore it again again in your database. Let's go to the plus button, Select Status. Let's name it as Progress or Client Status. We have your options to do, not started and in progress, complete and done. This is the default. We can actually rename it, No interaction in progress. Maybe we had a client call with this specific client, for example. This one is for contract signing. We can actually add more options. And then finally, contract signed or even declined. You can change the color here, turn it to gray. That is how you add a status. Let's look for the status in this database. The default is no interaction yet or the first status in your property. And simply press it and then change which status this client is currently in. Let's say for client, this one signed the contract, this one declined. This one is no interaction yet, this contract signing again. All right, that is all about statuses. 39. Database Properties - Date: Next, we have date to add date timestamps or set reminders. We discussed date a while ago. Let's, I want to add in our database a date plus and then choose, let's say, delivered again. You can change the format in here when it's ready in your database view, simply click and then a calendar shows up and choose the date. You can even select if you want to remind on the date or a day before and include end date or include time, say 12:00 P.M. and choose the time zone date format. There you go. As you can see, it shows up like this. It's a blue color because it will be reminded on that specific date and time. That is all about database properties under date. 40. Database Properties - Person, Files & Media: Next we have Person. It lets you mention other people in your workspace. This is great if you are working with a team or a client in your database. You can assign a person, press and then look for person. Then let's say assign to, okay. Then select Search for a person that is currently in your database and assign it to that specific person. Next up we have files and media. It lets you upload relevant files to your database. Again, let's go back to your database to add files and media. Just simply press this and then look for files and media. And then let's say Aja file, audio clip. Then it lets you upload or embed a file. 41. Database Properties - Checkbox: Next up we have checkbox. Check box looks like this in your database. Let's try to add one plus and then choose check box. And then let's say approved. It shows up like this in your database. Let's try to click this one. For example, this is approved. This one is, it will show up like this in your database. 42. Database Properties - Email: Next we have e mail. This is great for e mail addresses. When you enter an e mail in your e mail property, click it. It will automatically direct you into your mail, laptop, or in your desktop, email, and then email address. You can type in your e mail in here, your client's e mail. And let's say I will type in my e mail. Okay, that. Then when I press it, it will open up into my e mail. And Google Chrome and Outlook and so on. That is how you use the email database property. 43. Database Properties - URL: Next one is URL. You can add a link to your website in your database. Let's try to add a URL in our database. Press and choose URL and then video in, let's say. Then let's go to Youtube to look for a video. This is great for resources, let's say I want to use this. Let's go back to your notion and under the video inspo, paste the link, and it will look like this. This is a clickable link. Once you click this, it will open up to your video that is all about URL. 44. Database Properties - Phone & Formula: Next we have phone numbers. This is great for phone numbers, mobile numbers. To add a phone number in your database, simply click plus button and then go to phone and let's say land line. You can add in the property in here. Next up we have formula. You can perform calculations or trigger actions to add a formula in your database, simply click plus button, Look for formula, and then let's say formula one. You can add in your formula in here. 45. Database Properties - Relation: Next up, we have relation, relation. It lets you add items from another database as a property to add a relation. Let's go back to your table view. Add plus and then go to relation. Then you can link a specific database in here, for example, this one. Then it is this property is related to the databases. And choose No Limit Show on databases and then add relation. It will show up like this link or create a page. Let's say I want to link the list view page here in here, the gallery view and so on. That is relation. 46. Database Properties - Created time, Created by: Next, we have created time. It lets you add the timestamp of the items creation. It looks like this. Now for example, you want to show your database on another tab of your notion page, just simply right click. And then you can open as a page, open a new tab, open in full page inside and more. Let's open a new tab and it will show up like this there. I have created the database last December 11. At this time, I have entered this specific item there. Let's say I want to add another item in the database. Let's go to the time created there. As you can see, I have created, or I have entered this item on the database December 19 at this time. Now by it records who created the item in the database. In this example I created a while ago, it shows who created the specific item in the database. It's made by me last time edited. It adds a timestamp of last edit. I have added that in the database already. Let us check the last edited of this database since I have been editing this database. In this demo it says the last edited time is today December 19. Then we have here the last edited by records who last edited the item. It was me again, and it shows it like this. Now to add those properties, just simply press plus button. If you prefer created time, you prefer to record created by last edit time, last edit by, let's try to create last edit time, it shows up again. It was last created or last edited December 19 records. When was that specific entry in the data has been edited in that database? That is all about database properties and we have a lot of database properties available in notion to best present your data. The goal here is to choose the ones that is best for your data, for your database to make sense of your data. In Notion, there we have finished the Notion 11 tutorial. We have finished the basic blocks, advanced blocks, media files, databases and database properties. Below here, I have included more resources for you because I will be filming more videos on Youtube for your free resources. All right, that wraps up our Notion 11 tutorial. We've unraveled the basics of notion such as basic blocks, advanced blocks, media files supported by not databases. To organize and present your data database properties to further organize your databases, the goal is to kickstart your journey with confidence and ease. Take your time to wander around the notion tutorial page. It's all yours to explore. Once you've had your fill, get ready for a little bonus treat before we call it a day. In our next lesson, I'm spilling the secrets on crafting a super stylish notion dashboard. I'll catch you there for some creative vibes. 47. Creating an Aesthetic Notion Dashboard: Imagine working in a space that's more like a fun canvas than a doll to do. List, envision effortlessly moving through tasks and projects. Not just getting things done, but doing it with a touch of joy. I was once lost in the sea of productivity apps, yearning for a space that not only managed my tasks but resonated with my style. Until I stumbled upon notion, it was like a creative digital epiphany. From the first timid click, bold strokes of customization, my notion dashboard evolved into a masterpiece. No longer was it a mere tool, it became a reflection of my creativity, an organized chaos that mirrored the dynamic dance of my thoughts and plans. In this lesson, I will teach you how to create an aesthetic notion dashboard where functionality meets artistry. But why invest time in crafting an aesthetically pleasing notion dashboard you ask. It's not just about visual appeal. It's about transforming your workspace into an environment that sparks inspiration, fuels productivity, and turns each task into a step towards a digital masterpiece. For this demo, I made this notion dashboard for you. This is available to download in the Resources tab. For today's demo, we will recreate this notion dashboard. You can also recreate this for your clients, team members, or even your passion projects. I will uncover useful tools and widgets that you can integrate into your notion dashboard. Finally, I will teach you practical tips in making your notion dashboard creative, fun, and useful. In this demo, we will create an aesthetic dashboard. As you can see, I have made aesthetic dashboards for you throughout this notion course. I also made an aesthetic dashboard like this. You have here your gallery for inspiration, your time, your clock, your navigation, your calendar, projects, playlists, and more. In this demo, I will be teaching you on how you can create an aesthetic dashboard like this. I also have moving JF in the gallery, photos and more. First, let's create a page for you to create a page. Go to the sidebar and then click the new page. It will pull up a new page for you. Let's call this a main page. Let's say your name no or dashboard. It's up to you. It opens up like this. But I want you to open in full page so that you'll be able to see all the elements in your Notion page and be able to customize it based on your liking. The first step in creating an aesthetic dashboard is to give your Notion page a name. Whatever you put in here, it will show up like this in here. Let's say your name is, we'll say Rose's nook or dashboard. Then what I want you to do is to click this menu bar here to pull up the options or the menu. Then I want you to toggle on the full width so that you can maximize the whole notion page. If you toggle this off, it will look like this and it will only occupy the middle or the center part of your notion page. But if you touggle on, it will occupy the whole thing. Then as a default, you will have this font style, but you can change it to Serif or mono. It's up to you on which style you prefer. Let's use the Serif first. 48. Adding GIFs to your Notion Dashboard: Now notion gives you an option to start with an empty page, to import, to choose a template to add tables and more for this notion. Tutorial, let's start with an empty page. First I can show you the step by step process. As you can see in my notion tutorial one oh one have here a moving GIF. The next thing that we can do is to add an icon to give this notion page a personality. You can either choose an MOG, let's choose this first. But if you've noticed my notion, one oh one tutorial page, you have here a moving GIF. And also in this Christine's nook, you also have here a moving dumpling, which is really nice right now. I will teach you on how you can add a moving GIF on your notion page. What I want you to do is to go to Jiffy.com That's Giphy.com I will leave the link in the resources tab. So you'll be able to access in here. You'll be able to find fun F that you can add to your notion workspace. What we'll do is to search for a keyword. Let's say I'm looking for a dumpling. You'd be able to see different GIFs about dumplings. But what I want is for you to go to stickers, click stickers, then you'd be able to see stickers moving stickers that doesn't have a background, that's what we are looking for. This is cute, it's a mochi, there are a lot of dumpling stickers available in here. Choose what's best for you that you think it's best for your notion page. For now, I think this one is good. The next step is to press right click, Then then save it to your desktop or laptop. You can rename it as. Now, let's go back to not however, in the icon here. Instead of going to MGs or icons, I want you to choose custom and then choose upload file. Look for the GIF that we have just downloaded. This one, is it? Make sure that this is a GIF file when you upload it in notion it will be moving great, right? When you look at the side bar, you would notice that it is also moving just like this notion, one oh one tutorial icon and also this Christine icon, since they are GIF files. It's also moving like this. Another example is when you link that specific notion page with a moving GIF, it will look like this. Let's say I want to add the notion one on one tutorial here. What I will do is to press choose link to page, link an existing page. Let's look for the notion one on one tutorial. Even though it's tiny, you can still see that it's moving. The icon is moving because it's a GIF file. That is how you can add a moving F in your Notion page. Okay, let's delete that. Comparing the Notion 11 tutorial page and also the Christine Snook, you would notice that in the Notion 11 tutorial, I also have a moving GIF as my page or cover image. But in Christine Nook, it is just a steel image or a cover image in Non. Now what I will teach you is how to look for moving GIFs for your cover image for non. All right, now we are in Jeff again and we will look for a moving cover image from here. The aesthetics that I enjoy is usually gib. Are you familiar with that? What I would do is search for Gib in the search bar and look for GIFs that is tagged as Gib. As you can see, you have here moving GIFs about Gible or studio Gib. Scroll down until you find the one that sparks joy. Ok, this looks nice. Let's try. If we can add this in our notion page. What I want you to do next is to write click Save Image As, then save it to your laptop or desktop. And make sure that the file type is GIF. Let's name it as Bus. Going back to your notion again, let's add a cover. It will choose a default cover, image and Notion. Let's change the cover you have here. A few options. You can choose from the gallery from Notion. You can upload your own Paste an image link or choose from Splash. Let's go to Upload and choose upload file. Look for the image in your desktop or laptop. Then let's wait for it to be uploaded. Now, it looks great, right? It's moving now, when you want to reposition this, simply click this reposition button and then drag image to reposition to see the best frame. What's your happy click save position and you're done. 49. Designing your Notion page: Now, another way to add a unique cover image is by designing your own in my Christine's nook. I have here an artwork that I designed in Canva. That is what we will be doing in this part. Let's go to Canva.com We will start designing. I already have a notion banner in here. If you want to create a design, just click create a design and look for notion. However, I have tried this specific size, but it doesn't fit in my notion page. I did a trial and error until I found the right size that is perfect for notion pages. The size is two for 60 pixels by 300 pixels. And it will look like this. Which is perfect for your notion pages that has a limited space for your cover image don't. I will be sharing with you a template so that you can just duplicate the size and make it your own. Add your own twist to your designs to make a unique notion page. If you've noticed, I have made different cover images in here already. What we will do is to create a new page by clicking this. Add a page, then incorporate your personality, your branding kit, your branding personality in this notion cover image. Let's say Rose's dashboard is more on pink. Let's look for a pink background under the element. Let's look for grainy pink. I found a super nice one already, but I'm not sure if it would look nice. Let's try to add this to our design. By the way, if you are seeing a crown that says pro in the specific element or Canva design, it means that you need to purchase this specific element if you have a free plan. But don't worry. Canva has an extensive library of free elements that you can add to your design. But since I've signed up for a paid plan in Canva, because I'm using it for courses, for clients and for personal projects, I will be using the pro elements. All right, let's add this right click and then replace background. Wow, I love the colors already. Then if you want to reposition, just double click and choose the best part that you like, since this is a grainy and also a gradient type of element there. Now I want you to zoom in a little bit so that you would know your canvas. By the way, if you are running low on inspiration, we have here the design part. And it will suggest a lot of different designs that you can use or tweak for your notion cover image. Now let's add a text to your design. Add a text box. Let's name it as Rose Dashboard. We can increase the size, make sure that it is in the center. You can even change the font style or add effects to your font. Let's try to explore a different font style. Then let's try to add an effect. Change this to white, and then add an outline. Then change the color of the outline to black. Let's see if it looks nice. I think this is good. You can add in like a banner type of design like this one. Let's try to add a banner like this. What we will do first is go back to our design. Add a text box and make it, and turn it into a simpler font. Let's say business, personal or travel, let's say. Then let's go to effects. Then let's choose a background. Let's turn down the roundness into zero, spread into just a little bit. Then let's change the color. Let's use a lighter color and then decrease the font size. Now if you want it to be like a banner type, I think this should be good. Or let's add another one. What you want is for it to be like a banner. You can actually add it here. It looks nice if it's in here, or if you want it to look like this, select your text. Take it like this a bit and then put it down here. It should look like this. It looks like a banner type. Right. Now, if you want to repeat the design, just simply select and then press Control if you're using Windows. And then control V or just simply select the duplicate button here to duplicate that. And then put it on the other side as well. Just a bit here, you can add more elements that you would feel would be best represent your brand, your personality, and your style. I think I'm happy with my notion cover image so far. Now let's save it in our laptop and just click Share. Go to download, and then choose PNG. Then make sure you are downloading the correct page, which is this one current page. And then select. And then once you're Ok, press download. Okay, so it's done. Let's look for it in the download section. Gross dashboard copy. And then let's put it in the right folder. Once you're set, let's go back to Notion and then let's choose Change Cover and then choose Upload. And then upload file and look for the Canva design that you just made. Let's double click, it will look like this So far. I'm loving it. How about you guys? 50. Creating a Mood Board: Now we will be adding a mood board in your notion page to encourage and inspire creativity. Whenever you look at your notion page, just like this, let's go to Rose's dashboard and let's add a gallery view block or database. Look for the plus sign or press slash, and then look for the gallery view. What I want you to do is to click New Database to create a new Moodboard. Let's rename this gallery view into Moodboard. Let's also rename this mood board. But what I want is to hide this specific database title. Press the three dots in here and choose Hi Database title. Then let's change the icon. Let's look for a gallery or a photo. I think I like this Lemon. There are two ways to make your gallery view database into a mood board. The first one is by putting it in the page cover. First, let's change the settings of your gallery view. Let's open up the settings and then choose layout or gallery Under the card preview page cover. It will display your page cover as a preview image in your gallery view. Now let's add a cover and you can either choose from Notion or you can create your own. Wow, the selections are super nice. You can add this, then repo, drag your image to reposition and then save. As you can see, it will preview your image in your gallery view. Let's change this other one ad for this, since you are using the cover image, you can still use this size in Canva, which is 24, 60 pixels by 300 pixels. You can still use this file. What I want is to look for something from slash n. Next, add a cover and then change. You can also reposition again until you found the best angle for your cover image. There you go. This looks super nice because it has a motivational code. Whenever you're feeling burnt out or you're feeling tired, you can just look in your Notion dashboard and feel the rush of creativity inspiration. You can actually add more photos in here. Just press then. What I usually want is to create at least six piles. Choose this one, Change. Click on Splash's, Look for the Pink again, this one. Let's choose this one. Add a cover again, change. We can actually add images from Pinterest to your notion page. What we'll do is first click the page. Let's go to Pinterest. Since we're looking for a pink aesthetic, let's search for pink in the search bar. I think I found what I like, which is this one. What I want you to do is to press right Click on the image and then copy image address. Then let's go to Not in the ad, Choose Change Cover, and then choose Link. And then paste the link in here. And then press Submit. You can even reposition to get the best view of your image there. You have added an image from Pinterest. Then let's finish up this one. I can teach you another way in adding images in your notion page. Another way is by displaying the photos you've added in your page content. What I want you to do is to go to. Menu Again, choose Layout. And under the card preview, check the page content again. It will look like this. But what we'll do is to add an image inside your page. What you want is to create original images. To do that, let's go to Canva and create a design. And then choose Instagram Post or Square. Then let's start creating your aesthetics. We can get different elements in the Canva library. I'm looking for a free photo. I can see that this one looks good already. But I want to see all of the suggestions from Canva. Let's click See All. Wow, it's so nice, right? Even though it's still on the free plan, Canva has an extensive library of options. You can choose to give your notion page a unique personality or unique aesthetics. Wow, I can't choose actually, let's start with this first. Let's add it to your design. Right click And then set image as background and then reposition if you want to choose the best frame, double click, then drag. All right, when you're done, just click Enter or done. Okay, now we have one. Our goal is to make six of this. Add a page, 23456. Let's continue adding different elements into your canvas design. I want to choose something plain but still creative. Let's put it in the second page. Then we can add more set images background. A little motivational code, Be wild, but stay soft. Thanks. Then we can add this one set image background. Now you have six designs. I want you to click Share to Export, and then download. Choose PNG, and then make sure you are selecting all pages because we want to export all of them. Click Click Download. Let's go back to Not to add what we have designed from Canva. Let's go to page one and then we will add image image. Then we will be choosing to upload a file. Let's get what we have created from Canva and it would look like this. It will appear like this on your notion gallery view. Let's continue adding it for your mood board. Okay, just keep adding it. Next, attach another one. Upload file four, then last upload file, and there you go. That is your mood board. But we're not stopping here. What I want is to change the icons to add more personality to your mood board. Let's change the icons to, I want to choose this one. I want the, let's choose this one with the pink heart. Looking nice, right? You can actually rename, since this is just a moodboard for your notion page, we won't be adding any more content in here. We can just rename this as a period. It will appear like that, It's super minimalist and looks aesthetically pleasing. Let's do that for the rest of the gallery view, for your mood board. Then let's change the icon to a heart, a pink heart. What's good about notion is that you can really make it super aesthetic if you want to, just don't be afraid to explore and add your personality into your notion page, click the page here again, and choose icon. And choose the heart. And choose the best color you want to add. There you have it. Your own moodboard. It looks nice, right? You can definitely add your personality on your mood board. This is girly because this is for my partner in this course. For Rose, I made this, her aesthetics are pink. So I added pink elements to the design. So mine, it's more on green. A touch of green, a bit of pink. Feel free to explore and express creativity in making your aesthetic notion. Dashboard. 51. Embedding Widgets: I will teach you on how you can embed a clock in your Notion page. And help, and also this helpful code widget from Notion. Now our next step is to add a clock. Let's go to widget box app and sign up for a free account using your E mail. I'm already in my account. And when you scroll down, you would see different widgets you can add to your notion page like clocks, calendars, phrases of the day, whether code button and more. For this, we will add a retro clock, which is this one. Let's press Create. It will take you to this view. You can tweak the background color, the text color. Let's try to do that. Since we have a pink aesthetic, let's, let's create a pink clock. Let's find the best shade of pink. Then let's adjust the text color, put it into white. Then let's adjust the rounded corners. You can choose non small, medium. Up to this, let's create the small rounded corners. Then in the clock type, it's up to you. If you want a 24 hour or 12 hour clock type, I prefer this 12 hour clock time. You can tuggle on and off to see if your colors are best viewed in notion dark mode or in the light mode. You can rename this as roses Lash board clock. Now once you're happy with your colors, with your design, just simply copy the link in here by pressing this copy button in here. Let's go back to notion. Let's add or embed a file by clicking and then type in Embed. You can embed for PDF, Google Maps and more. And then paste the link in here under the Embed link. Then press Embed link there. Your clock is there already. You can change the size. Your clock is already here. But what we want is to put it on the side like this to make your dashboard more organized and clean. What we want is to create two columns. We have your column one and then column two here. What we'll do next is to choose the gallery, and then select and then drag it under the column one. It will transform like this. Then you can adjust the size. Then now for your clock, just select it and put it under column two. It will look like this. You can adjust your columns depending on your preference. Looking nice. In here under Kristine's, I have here embedded my Google calendar. I can actually see the events in my Google calendar and it will be sync to this calendar right here. But take note, you cannot add appointments in here, but it just shows your schedule for that specific date. Like this one I have here my shot last November 28. But I don't have an option to edit my calendar in here. You still need your Google calendar. But it's really convenient to see what you're up to for the day, for the week. Let me show you how you can embed your, your Google calendar to your notion page. To do that, let's go to Df.com Sign up for a free account using your e mail adches. You can just use the free account for you to be able to use the widgets for your notion page. In here, you'll see Christine's Google calendar. But let's create a new widget. Then choose Google Calendar. Then create a widget, let's name this as Rose Calendar. Then what you'll do is you'll need to sign in with your Google account. Make sure you already have a Google account with your Google calendar available. Let me send my Google account as an example, press the e mail and then continue, and you're done. You should be able to see this login successful. You may now close this window, and then your Google calendar will preview on this side. And you can even choose the event color, but it's available in the paid plan. You have your default view options in month, week depending, or agenda depending on your preference. Let's choose this option month. You can tweak these items for the free plan, but if you plan to upgrade to the pro plan, it has more customization features available. Let's say we'll start week on a Monday. And then tweak the border color time indicator. Let's choose pink one and it shows color like this, set background color if you want a light pink and then calendar border color, choose this black text color. I think black is okay. Once you're happy with your design, just simply press this button to copy the link. Then let's go back to notion again. Let's go back to your dashboard. Then press and then embed again. Let's embed link, Let's paste the link here. And then press Embed Link. We can tweak the size, it will show up like this. This is your Google calendar available in your notion. I want to organize this and put this on the sides. I just drag it here. Just drag in the corners to make it look more nice until you're happy with your design. 52. Creating a Navigation Tab: Moving on, let's go back to Christine's nook. As you can see in here, we have a navigation tab. This is actually a tuggle heading list. When I open the contents inside, you'll see different items under. When I click this, it will take me to the project page. I can see the list of my projects. When I want to access Content Calendar, it will take me to my content calendar. That is what I will teach you today. First, let's add a divider in here to make it look more organized. Next, we will add in different database views to add in content or blocks to your notion page. Let's add a table table view and then create a new database. Then let's name it as 2024 projects. Let's rename it as my projects. Let's choose the flower tulip. It will show up like this. Let's hide this database title you can add in here. Then we will add a content calendar. To do that, add a calendar view database by pressing and then let's look for calendar. And then you can either select a data source or create a new one. Let's create a new database. Let's name this content calendar. Now you have contents inside your Notion page or not board. What we want to do is for you to easily navigate your notion page. That is what we will do by adding a toggle heading list, press and look for Toggle. And then let's choose the heading one, Then let's rename it as Navigation. I usually rename it like this, that you would be able to navigate your notion page. I hide it under a toggle heading list so that it would look more neat and nice. Again, if it's light color gray, it means the toggle heading is empty. Let's put a content inside. And then let's link your project database and then Content Calendar. Let's add a content inside your toggle heading list. Let's go to your Table View database and then choose this option button here. And then copy link to view. Then let's go up in here at the link here. You have an option to create linked view of database, mention, page or dismiss. Let's choose the mentioned page. Let's link your content calendar. Next again, let's go to the calendar view database. Open the menu and then choose Copy, Link to view. Then let's go up again, make sure you're still inside the tuggle heading list and then paste the link. And then choose mentioned page. If you missed adding it inside the Tuggle heading list, just simply press this and then drag to move until it shows up like this. It's under the toggle heading list. Now again, let's add an icon that looks more cohesive. Choose the tulip and then make it a pink color. It looks like that. Now when you close the navigation or the toggle list, it will look like this. It's cleaner, right? Whenever you want to navigate or pull up your projects or content calendar, just simply open the Tuggle heading list and then choose Content Calendar. And it will take you to your calendar view database of your content calendar. Now you can even add dividers. Let's create a divider in here by pressing the three times 123. You have a divider available in here there. You have it. Your own aesthetic notion dashboard that inspires creativity and is useful and holds all your personal and even your work projects. That wraps up this demo on how to make an aesthetically pleasing notion dashboard. How was the experience? Were you able to follow the steps that I have laid out for you? Feel free to rewatch this demo and make this as a guide whenever you're creating an aesthetic notion dashboard for your clients and other projects. In the next lesson, we will officially wrap up this class. See you there. 53. Final Thoughts: Huge. Congratulations on making it to the finish line of this class. We have taken a deep dive into the awesome world of notion, making sure you're on top of every term. And set up from mastering, building blocks to making your content shine with media and organizing it all with databases and properties. We've covered the full spectrum, but hold on, there's more. We've also spilled the beans on crafting an aesthetic notion dashboard that's not just functional but reflects your style. Completing this class isn't just a check box. It's like stepping into the world of organization and productivity. But remember, real mastery comes with practice. Don't hesitate to get hands on with notion. Now my friend, it's time to bring things to a close. Whether you had a blast or found this class super valuable or both, please consider leaving a review. Simply head to Reviews. Click on Leave, Review, Answer a short questionnaire, and finally hit Submit Review. Your thoughts help shape future classes and spread more creative joy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing this class to explore notion if productivity, content planning and digital marketing are your jam, hit that follow button to stay in the loop about new classes and giveaways. Oh, and don't forget to join the class project. 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