Using Notion to Organize Life as a Software Engineer

Introduction

• Presenter: Thomas
• Background: Ex-economics graduate turned software engineer
• Notion: All-in-one productivity tool for organizing notes and managing projects
• Previous Notion videos contributed to channel growth

Purpose of Having a Management System

• Age of information overload
• Importance of transforming information into action
• Brain is not designed to store large amounts of information

Getting Started with Notion

• Create a Notion workspace
• Example sections and pages
• Templates available for various use cases

How Thomas Uses Notion

1. Planning Projects

• Creating templates for project descriptions, links, and to-do lists
• Suitable for larger projects

2. Taking Notes

• Using toggles to organize notes hierarchically
• Adding explanations, images, and code snippets
• Linking related pages to avoid duplicating content

3. Tracking Learning

• Open-source computer science degree template
• Tracking progress of online courses (e.g., not started, in progress, completed)
• Organized course notes accessible in one dashboard
• Additional programming notes (e.g., data structures, algorithms)

4. Expanding Knowledge

• Storing additional knowledge (e.g., programming languages, YouTube videos)
• Organized under relevant sections and pages
• Use of toggles and hierarchical structuring

Templates

• Templates for various needs (e.g., learning, planning projects)
• Modify templates to suit personal needs

Conclusion

• Mention of free and premium plans for Notion
• Encouragement to check out linked templates
• Video references for further details