if you're someone who struggles managing their work and time then this course will teach you how to use notion on both your phone and the computer for planning your daily work and priorities documenting all of your notes creating resumés or even portfolios and even social media carousals or stories after completing this course you'll know Notions Advanced productivity hacks like creating your own action buttons using inline databases making complex flowcharts and even Notions built in AI Tools in fact completing this course can also get you a certificate delivered right to your doorsteps my name is an mea and I educate businesses about design and technology so without further Ado let's get started now I want to make sure that I not only teach you the features of notion but also explain you how these features can help you man your work and time so we'll have three chapters in chapter one I'll Teach You How notion works on your phone and computer and explain how is it different from Apple notes or Google keepy in chapter number two I'll cover best techniques for managing your work and time in chapter number three I'll show you notion Ai and its best shortcuts along with free links to templates and resources let's start with chapter number one now to download notion for free you can you can visit notion.so on your desktop and you can download notion on iOS or Android phones as well I'll paste the mobile app links in description the basic plan is for free and it is good enough for a beginner now I'll do the first half of this demo on my phone because that is just simpler for most people see notion is basically a digital notebook the easiest use case is to document all of your learnings and thoughts on a day-to-day basis so you don't have to rely on your memory to just remember things in general for example I have a page here titled April 2024 and this has a bunch of different thoughts that I've had throughout my day throughout the month and look at the format basically you have a page title then you have a heading you can also add images and then if I scroll to the very down I have these actions like I can put something in a quod I can put something as a URL I can put bullet points so basically anything that I'm reading is not stored in my brain it is not written in a notebook or in a WhatsApp chat it is very well organized in this one single page now if I click here this is how my notion homepage looks like so on the very top I have all the recent pages that I've edited then I have all of my favorite Pages this is probably not how it would look for you for a new person it looks completely different so what I would recommend you to do is that open all of those default Pages click on the top right corner on this Kebab menu and simply click on delete that way all of your templatized pages would be off and you'll have a blank canvas to start from so what I will do is I will click on the bottom botom right corner and this is where I will have a new page to start now on the very top I can put a page title so let's just say I'll name it as notion notes if I swipe down I have an option to put an icon as well so I can basically select like a finger icon because I think that is the safest option and then if you also want to add a cover you can just click on ADD cover once I click on change cover I can just put like a simple gradient but before we move ahead I'd like to thank today's sponsor hero wired a part of the hero group family hero wir is of in an online certification program for students and professionals looking to upskill themselves in gaming and Esports in collaboration with nodwin gaming one of the world's leading Esports companies this six-month online course will have two specializations to choose from gaming and Esports for the gaming specialization you learn tools like Unity Maya Visual Studio Photoshop Adobe Illustrator and for Esports specialization you learn OBS studio and Adobe premere Pro and even receive an 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heading number three so if I click on heading number one I can say intro to the course then I can simply have one add Basics download the app start testing and then if I press delete I can add heading number three as well I can write exercise add details here so basically it's just your way of adding your notes onto a single page now if you click on the plus sign again you have tables numbered lists call outs quotes So call out is like this interesting bubble that can say add something cool here if you want you can also add pictures from your photo library or use your camera and the crazy part here is that they also have these AI features which I will cover in chapter number three but you can actually use AI to just expand your ideas to get more ideas if I click on plus again and go to this page option I can add a sub page and then if I were to click on this icon right here it will show show me that this sub page is a child inside my parent page which is notion notes so can you see if I click on this file icon I can choose any icon that I want and then I will have Pages within pages so this is called nesting of pages inside your notion now just to show you how amazing this can be for you if I go back to my April 2024 page this page is a part of my parent page which is called my quick insights on this page I have been documenting my insights since May 2021 so I can literally go to June 2021 and figure out what exactly was I thinking and notice the way in which I am writing my thoughts so I have heading number two then a small paragraph then this is me just using the text block and Bolding it out so if you select anything let's just say select this entire thing I can bold this if I swipe to the right I can add a link to it if I click on this option I can change the color and if I scroll more I can highlight it as well so these small small things really really matter a lot so imagine how amazing this can be for you because I have been documenting my thoughts for every single year and last year I have actually started a new practice where I had a page called 2023 yearly review where I went through all of my thoughts and I made a list of all the good things I did and all the bad mistakes I committed so that I can memorize them and be more conscious of them I created another page called 2023 top stories where I have just collected all the funny and comedy moments throughout the year in one single place so that anytime I'm speaking to someone at least I have all of these memories refreshed even if not for like an icebreaker anytime that I'm bored I would just open up the top stories page and just start laughing and it is such a nice hack to just relive all of your memories so it's crazy what you know documentation can do for you to be honest my quick insights is again a part of even a bigger page called learning where I have a 2024 subheading where I have made a list of things that I have to read next to watch next and what to spend on next which is my wish list then inside my health I have documentaries and shows where basically I've been watching this new Netflix documentary called hack your health where I've just made notes of all the cool things that I learned from them right so you can add a table as well you can add your notes you can add call outs so it just makes my entire experience so so good now as you can know people either achieve all of this in very unorganized notebooks or Whatsapp groups but then if I understand how to use notion it's a game changer for me now you're probably wondering an why can't I use Apple notes or Google keep for this and why not just use a notebook so number one Apple notes and Google keep do not have Pages within pages and all the advanced notion features like databases or built-in AI or even publishing it to the internet and we will cover this in the next chapter so don't worry and second searching through physical notebooks for the exact thing that you're looking for is very very hectic not to mention you cannot embed media in your physical notebook now because because of my habit of documenting my thoughts on notion I now have dedicated notion Pages for almost everything and I'll show three examples from my own notion Library so let me just switch to the web version now so here is a page that I have been maintaining since 2019 it's called design knowledge drafts where basically I've been writing down everything that I've learned as a ux designer because even in 2020 I realized that if I write this in my notebook eventually I will forget them or even lose the notebooks but now because I've been so disciplined about writing everything that I've learned I can access all my lessons and insights from the world of product design and marketing since 2019 and I've neatly organized every single thought in very well structured pages and this takes a lot of time it's not like you start from day one and I know sometimes it might get overwhelming but for me I kind of enjoy it I think I enjoy it when I have more pages with these nice nice icons so the thing is if I ever decide to launch a course or create a workshop or even write a LinkedIn article in fact even just help a friend or a junior all I need to do is open up these Pages figure out what topic my friend is struggling in open the page and quickly share the resource this means that my notion has become like my second brain in fact I also have a page called YouTube learning and to quickly jump to that I'll do command p and simply type YouTube learning and I'll click on this one so because I am learning about YouTube I've created a page just dedicated to resources for learning YouTube and I have pages is where I have categorized important YouTube channels so I have a page which is called YouTube channels to learn YouTube and I would put the heading I would paste the URL and take a screenshot by the way quick hack if you're on Mac if you do command Shift 4 take a screenshot and hold the control key the image is then paste it to your clipboard so if I do command V it would directly add my jpeg here rather than you know cluttering my desktop it's just very annoying in general so it's very very important for you that whatever you're learning whatever you're building in your company you just do document your thought processes because if you haven't written it it would be very difficult for you to scale when you have more people in your company and I learned this from this book called The E mythy visited highly recommended for entrepreneurs and people who are building a product or even in content I have one more page which is one of my favorite it's called ux learning resources for designers so I've added like a nice cover an icon and the crazy part about this page is that it has free resources across multiple domains in the field of ux that I have been collecting since 2022 so by the way this is just on the front end if I go to 2022 you'll see that there are tons of resources for any topic that you can ever imagine and people keep wondering how does anch get so many resources how does he remember what to share the truth is I rely on my documentation I never rely on my brain and if you've been watching a video so far you would be wondering that oh he's created so much of content to teach us and the truth is I have barely revealed even 10% of what I've written here just to give you a quick example if I were to go even to mockups there is a proper video that I can make on each of these tools explaining why they are so valuable in fact if I were to go to my design notes so if I were to go to design knowledge drafts let's just pick any page hero dog for medium for every single thing in the field of UI design I have written proper learnings and states that are so nuanced that are so detailed that nobody in this world has ever created something like this it's just that I'm waiting for the right time to build something which is really incredible so if you start doing this today after a span of 2 to 3 years no matter what subject you are in you'll just have a very powerful repository and then you can just share resources just like how I do in fact I regularly share free resources and articles on my free Instagram broadcast community so if you haven't joined it yet you can scan this QR code and join all of our discussions we a lot of interesting things there now imagine that I can search through any of these thoughts at scale if I go to my April document and to my Quicks sites document imagine if I had to keep these things in my brain and imagine if I were to keep this maintained for the next 10 years how powerful this second brain is going to be because with notion AI I can search through multiple domains and find patterns in my own thoughts and it may sound crazy but if you maintain your notion for the next 5 years we can eventually decide to fuse our Notions together and we would essentially have a combined second brain almost like a child created from our own thoughts because notion would eventually add voice to this and when that happens I will be able to speak to my own second brain and this is going to be my own personal search engine because when you search something on Google you get the best SEO result and this is something that I learned from abin of Chikara who runs 10K designers and when he told me this I was just completely shook here everything has been curated by me so after 10 years I can literally release my notion Pages as a personal search engine for designers because I have a page say of marketing right so if I were to go to web design and marketing inspiration after 5 years this will become so powerful and so so dense and valuable that I can just release this on the internet and give access to people and they will be amazed because nobody would be able to replicate this but let's not get to ahead I'll show you a couple of interesting features which are way more advanced than all of this text stuff right so it's extremely important to know that if you're logged on to the same account you will have access to all of your pages on your phone and your computer so I regularly use both my phone and my computer to do these things now if you press command T you would eventually open a new tab inside your notion window so I can have my marketing page on Tab number one and probably have many more resources in different tabs so I can switch between different tabs it's not like you're restricted and this is called a breadcrumb where you can just you know go back and probably like search through different things so this is actually my inspiration page where I keep collecting you know interesting things and notice how my headings are not very specific but my headings talk about what I feel about this right so the heading says looping the illustration feels like it's coming from the side walls now if I were to make this heading as secret stash.com I would never even remember the name of this website so my headings are actually the sensations And the emotions I feel about about the specific resource so that is very very important that you're writing your headings if you press command P then you can quickly search across your different pages if you click on ask AI then you can ask anything that you want this is still in beta so sometimes it gives a good answer sometimes it doesn't but I'm pretty sure in the next 6 months it'll become incredibly strong now if you do command F then you can search for anything within a specific page so I've put text nothing has come in uh but if I put something like sweet then you have this thing highlighted very very easily now as you are typing if you press slash then this is that same quick menu that we had in our phone when you click on the plus icon so you have your text you have your heading if you hover you'll be able to see all the previews on the right side so it's pretty straightforward you'll find everything important in this one single/ men now if you want to do edits very quickly you can literally have one hash for heading number one then two hashes for a subheading and then three hashes for your mini heading so this is just a nice nice way of you know organizing all thoughts now just to give you a quick example I was recently making a script on Chad GPT right so we had a video on the latest openi announcements so notice how I use my headings and text right so I write small small paragraphs I add gaps in it and this is when I do not have much time so when I was scripting my episode number one I had a notion page where I was recording my feedback my titles the thumbnail inspiration by the way learn by Leo incredible YouTube channel in case you're trying to learn about YouTube I had all of my hooks then whatever hook that I had written I had a page for the feedback to that hook so we have a small community where we have some very interesting folks Misha Shashank anel so they were giving me feedback so all of that feedback was also recorded just below the hook and then we had the script and look how I have been just organizing all of these things one by one right so it just becomes so easy for me to copy paste this and just put it in front of my teleprompter if you want let's just say you have a bunch of Pages here and there's one page which is in some other domain alog together if I press add theate I can select specific people I can add a specific date or link to a page as well so here I have not shifted the video editing course it's just a shortcut to any page from anywhere in your notion directory now when it comes to formatting your notes Let me just go to April there is a bunch of things that you can do so right now I've just added text right but what if I want to take this sentence and convert this into something which is way more important so I can can select it and just select call out so when I do that You' notice that because I did not press enter it apply to the entire paragraph now this is something very very important to understand in a platform like Microsoft Office or even Google Docs when you type something and press command a it selects the entire page but in notion they do something very subtle as soon as you press enter it creates a new block so if I do command a it does not select the entire page because to be honest it was never to select the entire page so here when I select command a this is actually one single block and I can drag this block so when I'm reading it might look like it's a paragraph with different sentences but in reality it's a block so if I select this entire thing I can go here into text and simply convert this into a call out and if I click on this icon right here I can choose any interesting icon you know whatever feels more relevant we also have a divider so basically if I press divider it'll just have like a nice visual relief we also have quot where you can just put something like this uh it's just a nice way to you know have emphasis the benefit of callouts and quotes is that when you're rescanning your notes it just becomes easy to sort of go through otherwise just having text becomes very mundane in fact I regularly use the mobile view to take a screenshot of my notes and then I would crop the UI out just keep the middle part with white edges I would go to my Instagram open up the story option and then just put that square in the center so Instagram would put a white box around my middle story right so then it becomes a very tall image with text in the middle and then I would download that JPEG and then I would do this for each and every PA so for example if I were to go to April my quick insights let's just say I go to October 2021 so this thing on the phone looks very very different because you have like narrower space right so I would highlight these things take a screenshot convert it into an Instagram story and then download it and just select one PA at each time right I would just crop out everything else and then I would make it into a LinkedIn or an Instagram kowal in fact if you go to my Instagram right now and click on the Highlight that is called my notion you would see my notes from 2021 and now that I've shown you this trick here is your first homework from chapter number one to win your certificate I want you to make notes of whatever you've learned from this episode or from any resource that you want format your notes very well and don't use chat GPT put your own thoughts this entire exercise is to make your writing and your thinking more clear and try to use headings if possible to kind of headings or you can just use bold text just as how I have done it take screenshots from the phone itself and see if you can make a neat gral out of it just following the same Instagram story process that I've showed you quick tip you can actually invert your images for a dark theme as well and you can take this dark image and use Photoshop or figma to switch the overlay mode from normal to screen that way all black parts of your screenshot will simply disappear now let me show you how we arranged this in our own figma files so we've created this very interesting figma file called Community posts where if I don't have much time I would simply take my thoughts and just put them this way so it is still loading but check this out so can you see what I've done here I have this image right here and it is still inverting so I have a dual image right here so this is the white one and this is the black one the black one is still loading but see what I've done here this was the original image and then I sort of inverted it and when I went from nor Al to screen it just removed all the black parts and then I have something that looks way way cool right so this is so easy it is like this was my original screenshot by the way so this is how it would look if you crop out all the UI and then I would take small small parts out of it have a cover page and then sort of design it together in figma so a very quick hack to get good-looking carousals very very easily because you can get so many images from unsplash and just make something cool out of it now once you have completed this carousal you will still need to finish the second task of your homework for winning the certificate so don't worry I'll share all the details in fact everything is already in the description and the print comment now that all of these Basics are clear let's begin with chapter number two now that I've explained you how notion is different from other apps let me teach you three of its most powerful features number one adding members and Publishing your pages online which is very helpful in making proposals resumés and portfolios second creating databases and lists that will help help you manage your daily work and resources and number three creating action buttons that will help you build templates and checklists for you and your team all three features are available on both phone and desktop but for now I will show you how they work on the computer first of all if you create any page let's just say I create this content saying hello and I want to share this page to anyone I have to go to the top right corner and here we have two options one is share where I can invite my own team members so I can select ad and as soon as I select her I can either give her full access where she can edit and share this page with more people or just edit where she cannot add more people but still make changes or comment when you just want people to review or simply view access where they can just read whatever you have but to access all of this Aditi would still need her own notion account so if she does not have a notion account it will not work but because her account is showing up her full name is showing up this is proof that she already has a otion account now if I go back and click on publish this is where Things become very very interesting because as soon as I click on publish I now get a URL that can also have an expiry date because whenever you're making resumés or portfolios or even a proposal you don't have the time to make a website you don't have the time to make a PDF so you can do everything in one single place on notion and create a public link out of it you can allow editing you can allow commenting and you can also allow people to duplicate this as a template and if you do search engine indexing your page will also show up on Google search results which is absolutely incredible so just to give you a quick example if I copy this link and go to Google Chrome and paste this URL it would come up like a normal website which is so powerful you did not have to pay for the domain or the design and this can run for any page that you create with all of the crazy features that we will just learn right now now one important thing to note here is that anytime you are adding someone you usually get this one single option where notion says do you want to add this person to your workspace so just make sure you click on skip for now because if you add a person with edit access to your workspace you will end up paying more money so you can just click on skip for now so that you don't get like an extra debit now just to give you a quick example we used to conduct a lot of meetups right and I wanted to create a sponsorship prospectus for my AI Meetup for people who don't know me so instead of creating a very very high-fi deck we literally just create a notion page with our images and pictures from our previous events so I no longer use docs or Adobe Photoshop to create all of these things because I can do this in just 10 minutes and post them on a URL now the alternative to this is a PDF but PDFs are very heavy in their size and they're not responsive right if somebody opens it on their phone the text is very very small but here the text is adapting to the phone size because it's almost like a website and if I make a change here it is reflected in the final outcome as well so whoever has the real will see the final text that I am updating here that is is impossible in a deck or any document that you've already sent as an email attachment in fact every single process that my team follows for our content is also documented on notion so let me show you these are such private pages but I think it's important to just show everyone how this really works by the way I have a page called what makes me happy I literally have made a list of things that make me happy so that anytime I feel low I can go back to it a lot of ways I've been using notion in all kinds of ways so we have this one page called YouTube checklist and you can see that it is a part of this page called uh team training for my brand management this year so what I've done is I've basically created a list of every single thing that adti my social media strategist has to do anytime she uploads a YouTube video so when you see a YouTube video you probably think that oh it's probably like a script and it's a thumbnail and a title but in reality there is so much that we have to take care of right and if you were to pause the video you would realize that there is so many things that we have to you know be very very specific about now if my team were not using notion either adti would have to rely on her memory or she would have to write this in some Google Notes some Google key something like that but now everything that we do is so well organized that all of my training videos all of my feedback videos all of our guidelines everything is very properly documented this thing right here is called a database and this is the next thing that I want to show you so let's just say I press enter I will press SL slash and type database now here I have a bunch of options coming in but we will start from database inline and the first thing that you do is you have to name your database so let's just say I call this as training material okay these are my columns if I click on a specific column I can edit the name and then I can edit the property as well now what do I mean by that let's just say I click on this back icon you can see that inside my properties panel I have names and I have tags now now if I go to tags you'll see that just below tags I have this thing called type which is currently at multi- select now let me explain you all of these options one by one text is your basic text number is when you can only add digits or currencies select is something where you can choose between multiple tags for example once I've selected this thing I can call this high priority okay I can call this low priority and then I can say I don't know what is high priority exercise okay what is low priority OT platforms right so this way what you can do is you can select any tag you want right and you can switch between these and these are your different different tags so it's just a way to like put a priority after tags we have multi- select where let's just say you can have multiple tags to choose from so you can probably call this home and then you have multiple options so sometimes you would have like a list of books and you can say high priority low priority fiction non-fiction Indian abroad so you might might need that case as well right then we also have status where you can have to-do in progress or complete and I'll show you how do we use this practically as well this is very very helpful when you're doing a project management so let's just say you have not started high priority low priority home in progress and done and you have four or five things to do today right so I'll tell you how do I manage my work and this was very very helpful if you get you know confused and you know just planning your day in general so let's just say today's plan okay I will call this thing as task and I will call this thing as my priority okay and this thing can become I'll choose status for this and call this actually status only and let this thing be just my select okay so now let's just say I have exercise I have OT platform I have to write a script and I probably need to go to the bank and maybe my mom just called me you know mom's stuff with the card some random card issue so writing a script okay could be high priority and as soon as I open that I see that there are a lot of unnecessary tags so I can delete these I can change the color for this as well so I can just you know keep this as high priority or low priority and let's just delete these and here what I can do is in my to-do I can simply go here in my status tag and in my edit properties I can double click on this thing and call this do today and do tomorrow and done right so I don't need something which is in progress so I can make this do tomorrow do tomorrow and in fact let's have one more category by clicking plus here and call this as this week and I'll simply select this week as well and maybe I want to fix the card thing this week so let me tell you how I use this in my day-to-day work I'm not going to show you my actual Todo list because that has a lot of private information but anytime I get a task instead of just act take on it I first put it on this table I don't act on things very quickly I simply put them on this list give them a priority and then ask myself do I really need to do this today or can I do this tomorrow now the crazy part is that if you click on this plus icon you can create views which basically means that let's just call this as today view okay and here in my filters I can go to my status and only select do today that way my original table has all of my tasks but as soon as I click on today I only tasks that I have to do today which is so so useful now just to give you a quick example I have this page called 2024 editing training where I am now keeping a track of every single important feedback call that I've ever had with my team who's editing my videos right so if I were to just show you editing training we have all of our training videos and see this database and Aditi has helped me a lot in maintaining this by the way but see how we are maintaining our own internal database so we have the video title we have the loom we have the category stage editor language now what I can do is I can literally go to plus and let's just say I want to see just our editing videos right so I will go to my filter I will go to my category and just click on editing so if I know that I am now onboarding an editor which is just terrible at editing in general that person only needs to see this kind of stuff no if I want someone to just learn about scripting then there's only one video in scripting if it is about sound then there's no video altogether if it is about visuals and there are three videos in visuals so imagine how powerful this can be and by the way this Loom is a software it's a screen recording software if you're not aware of it uh you can let me know in the comment section if you want a tutorial on loom it is this tool that allows you to put like your face in a circle and like screen record and put everything on the cloud it's very very seamless very expensive but in my opinion very very useful in fact my entire productivity stack includes four apps so we have notion we have Loom and todoist and structured and I've already made a video on loom before it was like a very small video I'll share that link in description and todoist is a daily task management app and structured helps me plan my day hour by hour I'll put their links in description let me know in the comments if you want a proper course on todoist and structured as well to plan your day because I just want to spend today's time teaching you how we are making things on notion for your own company in fact we also have one shortlisted soundtracks page where you know I've been collecting all of my interesting music because sometimes it just becomes so difficult to find good music right so this makes things very very organized now some important things to note you can do anything in life but not all at once so please make sure that you smartly pick the 20% that gets you the 80% of the results which is called the pitos principle so anytime I get these tasks my most important objective of the day is to figure out that in my notion database what is high priority and what is low priority that one single column is going to make the entire difference once you find that 20% ask yourself what are the best tools subscriptions books or YouTube videos that can help you achieve these tasks faster and if you have a friend who has done something similar then call that friend ASAP because getting advice from an experienced human being is way more powerful than searching on the internet then make sure you organize and batch your tasks and priority just how I showed you and finish your important tasks first in fact you can also label them so as I showed you different states right you can just put a multi- select column and put labels so I'll tell you how I put my labels I have meetings top priorities extra tasks personal tasks outside tasks and generic calls I'll explain you what they mean if there is any professional meeting or I have to speak to my team or if there's any important Google meet call that is on top priority it is in the meetings label then we have top priorities itself which is all the work stuff that I have to do and nobody else can do for me then we have extra tasks which are related to work but these are like small small tasks about work and I usually finish all of them one by one I never do one small task in the day then a big task then another small task I batch all of my small tasks together and my notion database guides me for that because I instantly look at my notion database and I know that these are the small small things these are 10 small things that I have to do today then we have personal tasks which is like you know taking a bath I don't know getting my haircut whatever it may be then outside tasks if there's anything that I have to achieve stepping outside my house could be to get groceries go to the the bank whatever it is I do all of my outside tasks together as well and then we have generic calls which is like work related calls or I have to wish someone or just you know put a greeting message whatever that may be now having your tasks in this specific order will really help you a lot in fact schedule time for your social media as well you know keep your screen black and white have your daily habits that help you maintain high energy at all times I've already created three videos on these exact topics the first one was on how to glow up and fix your life next one was on how I designed my my own environment and desk for maximum productivity and then in the end I had made a video on how I maintain high energy levels the thing is these tools are not going to help you until unless your foundations are right that is why this entire course is not just about teaching you how to use notion that anybody can teach you there is no value in you know learning how to use notion the real art is that how do you become more productive so it's very important for me to give you the right mindset behind this now databases can also have different views and I'm not going to get too much into detail here because notion themselves have created a free course explaining all of these features in utmost details and they hosted on this link called notion Academy it has really in-depth tutorials for every specific feature I'll put the link in description now the truth is none of these tools will actually help you until unless your physical and mental health is on the right path and that is why I keep telling people that anytime you create your notion priorities and your affirmation list and your goals list split everything into at least four buckets one could be professional one could be Financial one could be for family but minimum one group should be dedicated towards your diet sleep reading and exercise trust me it will help you way more than buying any course or certification and if you're a buing entrepreneur I would strongly recommend you to get buy back your time and the e- myth Revisited absolute gamechanging books for me if you've been following me on Instagram or if you're in our broadcast you already know everything that I've shared from that book and I wish every every entrepreneur reads this book as early as they can if you're a student in school or in college then these books might not make sense to you so like always I would recommend you to read top three books that have really changed my life and literally start documenting your learnings on notion like for example I'll show you how I have been learning so let me just show you one of my pages just to give you a quick example this is a page for thinking grage for me right and I have been making notes from thinking grage since 2021 to 2022 right and I had my own affirmations my own long-term desire statement like there was a lot that I wanted to write when I was reading these books right and it has really really helped me to grow in my life so make sure that you read Think and Grow Rich the almanac of Noel ravikant and rework and spend at least 30 minutes every single day documenting your learnings on notion I know you're not going to take this advice that seriously I think only 2% people will take this advice seriously but if they actually follow what I've just told you and write your learnings on notion for the next 3 years you will message me on my Instagram or email and tell me what a big difference this this combination of a great book and notion has done for you now the last feature that I want to cover for you is creating your own action buttons and I find very few people talking about this all right now to make this example way more practical I'm going to teach you how you can use action buttons to create templates so I am a YouTuber I have to regularly write hooks I have literally created a notion page where I have documented my process of writing a great hook and it has a six-part checklist now what I can do is I can go and click slash and create a button and I can call this button as hook template okay when the button is clicked do this and I can insert a block and literally say hook and then I can put three things right here intro Define what the video is about and how is it different okay then what is my thing uh why does the Target Persona need to do this so mention Target Persona add details What Fear will this video solve and I think you get the point right now the crazy part here is that as soon as I click on done I can share this button anywhere I want if I'm writing a script all I need to do is click on this button and boom my template is sorted and this will work for images databases no matter what you put in that button anybody can just click on this and keep getting those templates again and again so if you have a lot of checklists in your company or if you have a daily habit tracker this one single button can save you hours of time and let me know in the comments if you want more complex notion tutorials because I'm keeping things very very simple but to be honest you can use this tool to build crms and project management templates and there's a lot now before I move to chapter number three where I'll show you notion AI let's quickly revise what we have learned in chapter number two first we understood how to add members and publish your pages online then we created our first database and understood how to manage and prioritize your tasks and in the end I give you top book recommendations just to make you understand that just notion alone is not going to make any sense to you learning how to document is not the most important thing ever knowing what to learn from and then using documentation to become a better learner is the final objective and then in the end I showed you how to create an action button for speeding up your work if you're building checklist and systems for your company now this brings us to your second part of the homework make sure that whatever carousal or story or text post you create you upload it on LinkedIn or Instagram and tag me and notion once you have posted on social media copy the link and paste it in the comment section of this video if you are not on social media just write down all of your learnings and feedback in the comment section and paste a link to any of your published notion Pages the goal here is to make you do Hands-On practice and folks this certificate is not going to help you get a job please be real I give these to make sure that you have a very specific Target and a precise time frame to learn and deliver it's just me gamifying the process and it is just my way of appreciating your effort it costs us real money to design and print and ship these to you so we do take a lot of time to short lless people and the certificate is really well-designed so I know that once you have it your motivation to go further will simply get stronger now that this is clear let's move to the final chapter of this course now on top of everything that I've shown you so far notion now has introduced built-in AI if you are subscribed to notion you don't need to switch tabs for using chat GPT and you know going to a different browser and if you're working at anything and if you're feeling stuck you can use notion a to get ideas way faster and let me show you how so let's just say I click on slash and press Ai and I will say ask AI to write list of YouTube titles on productivity and time management and I'll say 20 ideas okay so now I'll have a bunch of ideas right inside my notion page and there is a lot that you can explore here I'm not going to waste your time your homework is to like just explore this thing because you can obviously see that you can continue writing you can make it longer you can try again as well and if I press slash again and just type AI you would realize that there is improv writing fix spelling make shorter make longer like literally everything is there easily available at this point like I know that most people are not even going to get impressed by this now the crazy part here is that you can actually create legit flowcharts so let's just say I want to make a flowchart for components of a YouTube video right the right prompt for this is to create a mermaid flowchart and mermaid is a JavaScript based tool for creating diagrams and flowcharts but you don't need to know about that and now because of notion AI you don't even need to learn mermaid you can simply prompt it right inside notion so let's just say I go here again and inside my AI I'll simply say create a mermaid flowchart that shows all components of a YouTube video script and I'll press enter now see the magic happen this is the code so this is basically mermaid code and can you see the graph at the very bottom it has actually created a legit flowchart so instead of split I can simply click on preview and would have the preview very very easily so it is like a pretty long one what I can do is I can also create a simpler one so let's just say I can again go and say create a mermaid flowchart to create user Journey for uh for buying a sneaker right which is again a very simple flop so now it would actually create a proper flowchart with the decision- making process and then you can keep asking for more and more things right in fact you can open the same page in two different windows and work on the same notion Page by typing on two different parts I know that just became very complicated but let me just minimize this and I'll do command shift n again and that would give me two Notions and I can scroll down and basically edit on the same page itself so sometimes what happens is that when I'm researching I would usually have a lot of my feedback and a lot of my notes on the top of the document I would have like my dump of ideas on the very top and then I would be writing at the very bottom so I can minimize all of this so that I have like a clean canvas so this makes writing very very easy because I can edit as a single user on multiple parts of the page and it is just so so accessible in fact you can have tabs on both of these windows so imagine I can switch between six of my pages and the amount of product AC ity that I can get here is absolutely immense by the way if you're wondering how do you get a page as a favorite just click on the star icon and then it would be easily accessible on the left side in this row right here by the way don't forget to subscribe and like this video if you've been enjoying these hacks so far now I personally love shortcuts and there's a very important list of shortcuts that notion has released I'll put the link in description but I'll tell you my most Ed shortcuts now goes without saying that I already have a notion page with my notion short short cut so you can just take a screenshot of this and try all of these but these screenshots are just a part of that really really big list that I would put in the description but learning these shortcuts would save you a lot of time like I personally use this on a daily basis and it has just helped me become a very strong power user notion also has a ton of templates available some are free and some are paid in fact there are a lot of notion users who sell notion templates and make decent enough money as a side Hustle you'll find templates for all different categories and use cases in the link I've shared in description let me know if you want a course on how to make and sell notion templates if that is something that you're interested in now there is a lot of basic stuff that we covered in this tutorial but the truth is notion is way more deep and vast than what I've shown you today if we get enough requests in the comments I'll script an even way more advanced notion tutorial where I'll show you how my team and I use notion in our company and content creation processes till then you can always check out Thomas Frank explains and the productive dude because both of these YouTube channels make a lot of interesting notion videos apart from this if you haven't seen our free YouTube courses on video editing figma product design chat GPT prompt engineering and even mid Journey then you'll find all of their links in description we've also launched a free platform called how to prom. in to learn about AI for free if you want to learn about ux you can always visit learn uiux doin as well if you're here for the first time then make sure you click on subscribe and hit the Bell icon because we regularly make content on Tech and design with that being said I hope that you're taking care of your mind and body this is your do an mea signing out if you enjoyed this video then do check out this video of the same series I am sure that it will help you even more