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Good stuff. I have watched many (dozens) great Notion videos. However, with very few exceptions, they don't provide the keystroke-level, step-by-step tips and how-tos that this video does. It can be overwhelming to try to dive into Notion when much of the content is of "finished" Notion examples but without the "how did I get here" steps that were required to reach this level of completion. Thanks!
Great to hear this one added that additional info you wanted, I tried to make this one accessible to anyone and start to introduce the skills needed for later videos. Thanks a lot for the feedback, super helpful to hear what's working.
@@augustbradley You did one thing greater for me; you want to make me understand (ever since your deep dive with Ali) on HOW to use notions, how to build and customise an amazing command centre like yours and all the sub-sections (applicable to me.) Rather than settle for pre-made templates, formulas and go from there. You sparked my curiosity, the most precious gift.
I guess Im randomly asking but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any tricks you can offer me.
I can only say CHAPEAU August !! As an entrepreneur, I have been using GTD methodology for years, and project manager and Evernote tools also. I started to use notion one year ago, but you explain so well, you go right to the point that I am arriving at the extra mile in my daily use of Notion. This is by far one of the most useful videos about Notion I have ever seen. Thanks, August
I've watched 2 hours or more of your videos today. Thank you for creating these videos, your videos are the definition of informative, I hope to model my Notion to your set up. I wanted to link all my habits, tasks, and projects to my goals, thank you for showing me how!
You don’t know that you were looking for exactly this until you stumble on this. This is the perfect role model for how to provide value for free and dominate the industry 101.
although I am 19 years old and I don`t know what to do what I want this course especially this Master helped me to improve my productivity at this young age so, thanks a lot from my heart
I just discovered Notion and your videos are a lifesaver. I have rarely seen such a well-organized, comprehensive and thorough video tutorial (with great production quality, too!) on youtube. Every time I go 'how am I supposed to embed this feature? how am I even going to google this for instructions?' your videos always has the answers and the detailed process. Also, the speed of your narration is very friendly and well-paced - I'm not a native speaker of English but was able to follow along really well without backtracking. Thank you so much!
1. Same 2. This is a perfect opportunity to start a life/business the right way! -> That's what I'm doing! -> I journaled about what I'd be doing in the perfect world and boom I have all the answers I need. Now I just gotta do the daunting task of making it 😅
This is what I was looking for during years. Brings light to the depths of my behaviour. Thanks so much August, following your advice with all my attention.
@@augustbradley I embedded this video in my Notion Upgrade page. Now I can easily track every step of the setup process and taking notes right below the video. It's like a tailor-made online class.
@@sebastianayala5143 Thank you so much for this suggestion! I was painstakingly copying out what August said word by word, writing opinions on word doc, editing them and then putting it onto notion. I split-screen RUclips and word doc to each side of the display and was taking notes.. it was time consuming and inefficient. Glad i was reading the comments!! Now its really like a tailor made online class!!
I honestly love you 😂. This really elevates my current systems and articulates what I’m trying to capture better. And to have a walk through of this amazing resource? I can’t, I’m ecstatic.
Thank you, August. I'm a fashion designer looking to organize my life and my business as I launch my brand and your system is helping me out a whole lot. As a creative, it can be very jarring to get the organizational part down packed and I find myself with lots of random notebooks and just a bunch of clutter but I think notion will be very helpful for me. I am following you step by step. Again, thanks bro.
All your videos re: Notion have been excellent. I am a homeschooling mom/homemaker, and I am using/applying your systems to these parts of my life. It's incredible. Thank you!!
Hey August. Just wanted to say that your tutorial was absolutley superb. I am so grateful. Thank you very much. I have just started up with Notion and your concise and logical tutorial was very very helpful. No disrespect to other channels with Notion content but most of the ones I watched left me more confused. It clearly can be a tricky subject to explain...BUT not for you and boy am I grateful.
THANK YOU Mr. August Bradley, for me you are a genius ! Of course Notion is an incredible application, but if you spend your time wondering, "how do you get to this page? "or "how do we integrate this database? "that can be a source of frustration. Now with your help I can use it in an optimal way. You've just provided me, in a very pedagogical way, the step-by-step that I've been desperately looking for Thanks again !
Wow, thank you Gwénaëlle! It is amazing to hear this, super happy it has been valuable to you. You stated the main issue with Notion very well. It's about how you apply Notion that matters. Lots more to come!
Well done! You are now in command -- or closer to it. Next, get the Task Database and Daily Tracking in place. Then put them together in the Action Zone (I have templates for all three of those, link in the notes under the video).
This is a phenomenal set of videos, thank you so much for sharing your effort! One chuckle, I was in a dark room watching and was blinded by that switch to light mode ;) Hooray for dark mode! New to Notion, and a new sub.
Ha! We can call that a blinding insight 😀. Awesome to hear this was helpful. Lots more to come, working on some cool new things for the channel and the community growing around it. Glad you've joined us.
Thank you so much - this series is exactly what I needed - I have been playing around with Notion for several months now but haven't been able to actually focus on what I want to use it for - unfortunately it has so many, many good things I have been like a child in a sweet shop! This weekend I will build my dashboard and create a folder to house my databases in, then start building from there. So looking forward to carrying on with this course.
I have been looking for a video like this for months. Everything that I had come across up till now was either too advanced, or too basic. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thank you! You're doing an amazing job. The way you relate life goals to daily actions gives a clarity that results in relief even in facing the busiest days. The word that most comes to mind after implementing Notion in the way you teach it is Gratitude. Thank you!
Thanks for this helpful tutorial. First one I’ve seen that doesn’t overwhelm with all the shoots and whistles Notion can do. Most other “expert” videos I stop watching halfway because I get more lost than when I start. On the other hand, yours I was able to complete and create my own Command Center after using Notion for 6 months. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
Thanks August, great video and thank you for taking the time to create it and post it. Nice and simple approach, I love it. Liked and subscribed, of course!
Very nice video. Something helpful for me is to view multiple notes, calendars, etc. in separate windows. File -> New opens a new window on the current node. Repeat for as many windows into your system as required. Ctrl-Shft-L in each for dark and light modes ....
Amazing series. Feels like this (understanding and use of not only Notion data storage and processing but also the "outer loop" - psychological and other real-world usage aspects) will enable and encourage my process of self-development and capability: a solid and comfortable car with which to hasten my life's journey. Thank you enormously 🙏
Thank you so very much for this!! You and Notion have changed the game for me!! I'm in the process of starting a small business and knew I needed "something" to house all of the intricate details versus the myriad systems I'm currently using. Can't thank you enough. You have a lifetime subscriber.
one of the best instruction videos I have ever seen. Thank you for going at the pace you did, explaining EVERYTHING you were doing, (this is HUGE and others should take note when they are teaching beginner videos), the keystrokes, and including different "options" in some areas. I def found my channel to learn Notion. With much gratitude from someone that didn't grow up with computers.
Love how simple and straightforward this video and series are, in terms of setting up the base pages and databases -- other systems charge a fortune! Also appreciate how encouraging you are in terms of people taking what works and leaving behind what doesn't apply. Thanks August!
**Video summary** 0:00 Intro The last video covered an overview of August's LOS in Notion. The following videos will start to go through each section and flesh them out in more detail. This video will cover the basics of how to build a Command Centre dashboard. This is a pretty simple page and will also be a good opportunity for learning how to use Notion. The basic functionality of Notion will be covered here and will be covered more slowly and is a good place to start for absolute beginners. The command centre is the main page to access the rest of the system. Aim to keep it as simple as possible, while giving you quick access to the most important areas, while organizing everything. August has Focus, Growth, Business and Home/Life as his main groupings on this page. 1:52 [image] Everything in this section is either text, headings or links with one weather widget embed. (2:45) Go to the new page, give it a title, add an icon and cover
3:40 Create Headings (3:30) Create each of the subcategory headings 2 methods to create headings, either enter text and adjust by using 'Turn into', or type' /h1' and select Heading 1 and enter the title. Adjust the text colour. Drag Headings into position side-by-side, using the indicators.
5:30 Create Layout (5:25) Change page layout to 'full width' (5:45) Change the background colour of headings (6:18) Switch between Dark/Light mode using settings or by using the keyboard shortcut 'Ctr+Shift+L' Try to use colour to guide, it's especially useful on a big dashboard such as the command centre. If you don't have a system at all yet, then creating the command centre is a really good way to start to lay out a general structure for the system you want. Type out all the sections you would like to ultimately have under each heading. You can then build them out one-by-one (7:50) Example
8:28 Create Linked Pages Essentially all we have in the final Command Centre is a page of headings and links to either pages or databases. Usually, you are linking to pages because dashboards are pages with collections of various types of content. (9:25) Turn the subheading you want to work on into a page.
9:50 Create Linked Databases Turn the subheading into a page, open it and then select 'Database' from the bottom menu on the page. When you create Pages and Databases in a page like this, they are embedded within this 'Command Centre' Page, which may or may not be what you want in the end.
10:36 Organize Sidebar August prefers to have links to pages and databases which are organized/housed elsewhere in the system on his dashboards. The organizational system of dashboards, pillars, pipelines and vaults exists on the sidebar and pages are grouped into each of those. (11:35) Example 'Daily tracking' database is something that directly supports the pillars, so that is where he would house it while linking it back to the Command Centre dashboard. (12:00) Links are created to those organized pages/databases after they have been organized. The key to remember is that there is only one place where a page/database is housed but you can create a link to them from anywhere.
14:47 Toggles Using keyboard shortcuts and commands is highly recommended, Notion's help centre has a list for you to pick and choose your favourites. Create a toggle on your command centre to house them. Type '/toggle' and you will create a toggle list. Open the toggle and you can paste anything you want in there. Drag into position using the indicators Link to keyboard shortcuts page: www.notion.so/Learn-the-shortcuts-66e28cec810548c3a4061513126766b0 Notions help wiki has a dedicated page for every single one of these functions (toggle, pages, databases, linking etc.) it's really clear and in-depth.
Create your dashboard with organizational headings and sub-headings specific to your needs. The next video will briefly cover installing a weather widget. The video after that will take an in-depth look at constructing a task database.
Thank you so much for your series of videos and great insights August! I've been watching your videos recently and I really learned a lot on life planning and system thinking!
My happy. I have been using Notion for a while - and I really enjoy your way of making these How-To videos fit such a broad audience. I learn a lot and will definitely keep up to speed with the great content you publish. My wife is also a fan :)
This one is the most basic, but a good starting point. I'm developing a course that takes everyone from a blank page to the system - that will be best for newer Notion users.
I love the way you simplify things that the software makers haven't! Such a great way to get an overview of things from within Notion. I'm still not 100% sure of the tasks management process but will review your vides on that. I still love @todoist - using it for over 5 years, and will continue to have that going until more functionality is built into Notion...including better iOS usability, offline use, and security.
Thanks Sachiv, I like Todoist a lot too, used it prior to Notion. Every tool has pros and cons, so you're right to do research and see which is the best fit for you. Glad you're part of this community and exploring new ideas with us.
It is easy to just do small experiments when uncertain. I just now did some and linked to (a page containing) them from my study-notes for this video. For example I discovered that the "page/sheet" icon of an internal (to page) link gets replaced when you give that page it's own icon. In some ways that is a disadvantage - a reduction in displayed information about link-type. Would be handy if Notion had a "reverse engineering" or "system maintenance" mode where link-type information was displayed regardless.
This was a great video! The slow step by step process you explain was perfect. Unfortunately, on my IPad Pro I cannot create vertical columns. I will have to make the dashboard on my MacBook and then access it on my iPad Pro.
Thanks Dave. Yeah, this one is for people newer to Notion. The rest in the series are more advanced and assume a higher level of Notion know-how. It’s more about a the system overall than individual feature usage. Thanks a lot for your feedback, greatly appreciate it!
Great Paco, awesome that this was helpful for you! I really appreciate the feedback, let me know if there's anything in particular you would like covered in the future, or any way I can make the series better for you. Thanks!
August Bradley : Notion Productivity I am interested in advanced handle of numbers. i would like to replicate the dynamic tables of Excel here in Notion to group the information by rows and columns like I want. I can do it currently with several tables but I don’t know if it is the method more efficient. Thanks for all.
@@BorcoECD Good points Paco. Many people describe Notion as having spreadsheet functionality, but that is not really correct. Notion has database tables, not spreadsheets. Spreadsheets hold fixed positional relationship across rows, databases do not. Spreadsheets can form formulas across rows and columns, database tables are extremely limited in this regard. Notion does a fantastic job of replacing much of what I used to use Google Docs for, but it does not replace Google Sheets or Excel. Spreadsheet functionality is not really part of Notion, except in extremely limited ways. However, you could potentially embed Google Sheets spreadsheets or charts in Notion. But for real spreadsheet work, I'd stick with a spreadsheet application.
I have watched almost all your videos! Thank you so much for all your incredible insight and ideas. I do have some questions about how you organize everything together. On another video we create an alignment zone, but I don't see where you store that on the right? Is it it's own page, is it nested into the Dashboard, or somewhere else? I would really love another video on how and why it's organized the way it is, and then also a practical "day use." I know you have done a lot already, but this would be amazing! :)
Awesome to hear that Joshua! Do you mean where I store it in the left-side navigation? Not sure what yo mean by "on the right". The new video gives a glimpse into this (ruclips.net/video/8iL1kJj1JkI/видео.html ), but I will be doing a more detailed video on this -- it's based on the Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults organizational methodology I am presenting. Pipelines are databases with action-oriented processes such as tasks, projects, goals. Vaults are stored information like books, media ideas., people/contacts. Pillars are lofty visions/aspirations and key structures of your life. Here is a snapshot of what;s in each folder: a.cl.ly/04uPvpxl
This is seriously good stuff, thank you so much! I am having difficulty putting the 'focus', 'business', 'growth' 'Home/Life' next to each other in one row horizontally. It won't fit at all. I have even toggled the ''full width' button but it still won't work.
Thank! In the video do you see where I show how to grab and drag it to the far right end to get the vertical line indicator? If you can put them side by side and they are too squished, make sure your window on your monitor is full width, Not sure what monitor you're using, but a very small one might be too tight -- in which case you can make two rows with two columns each instead of one row with four columns. Hope that helps.
Thank you so much. This was the first video that made a whole lot of sense. It was completely clear and I feel like I can get started. Thank you. I have a question. How do you get white font. My default is black and I've not managed to find white font yet.
Thanks! Awesome to hear this was helpful. Lots more to come, working on some cool new things for the channel and the community growing around it. Glad you've joined us!
August, I've been checking the entire playlist, going back and forth, slowly building it out from the ground up. I'm now encountering an issue/topic that was way too specific for you to address in your public video series, although I'm sure there would be a large and growing demand for it out there. I'm talking about stocks/fx trading, and how to incorporate cleanly, in your system, a trading journal & trading plan. I'm currently using Evernote & Excel, like probably half of the retail traders out there. My current plan to bring it over to Notion consists of making a Trading dashboard (on the Command Center), which would combine a trade database (located in.. pipelines?), maybe a calendar as well, a key summary of the trading plan, etc. Maybe making it an ongoing project as well, with goals per quarter. I wish I could pick your brain, to be honest! Is this a topic you are familiar with or that you've covered with clients in the past? Would you ever consider making a video about it, or is too specific? And thanks again for sharing all this content!
I'm really loving all you're sharing, August, and I echo all the expressions of Kudos & Big Gratitude! If I can get this set up and functional, it will be a game-changer for me, and a dream come true. I'm stuck on what seems to be a very simple procedure in your video. I've created the 4 columns on my dashboard - Focus, Growth, Biz & Home/Life, and the organization categories on the left menu bar - Dashboards, Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults. I created pages for Daily Action Zone and Daily Tracking, etc., and moved those under Pillars on the left. Where I get stuck is in creating a link to that page on the dashboard. After typing in 'link to page', the only pages that come up are the top-level pages. I see the Pillars page, but not the pages I put under that. What am I missing? I'm going to keep going just building out my dashboard without worrying about the organizational structure on the left for now, but I want to solve that. Thanks for any help you can give!
I get the same issue, but you can solve it by letting those pages be top-level when you add them as links, and then afterwards you can put them down to second-level again. For databases the same thing doesn't work as well, as it seems to generate a mini view of the db inside the command center as a result.
@@augustbradley Great. But what about linking a database in the same manner? It seems it's cut off in the video, as the selected database behaves differently than before?
Thanks Ioannis! Starting tomorrow I'm going to go through details on the Pipelines elements (in several videos), then a video the Pillars, then a few on Vaults -- after the detailed segments I will do an overview video tying PPV all together.
Surprised there are no distinguishing icons for page/database objects (having no icons of their own), but I guess databases cannot exist outside of pages, so every database is ultimately contained in a page (correct?). I'd call a page containing only a (page-filling) database a database-page in that case. Making my own terms up - of course I haven't read the manual yet ! I notice that some people (eg August) create their own icons to distinguish database-pages or even different use-intentions of different databases (like relatively static or dynamic). The specialised icon approach seems like a helpful form of self explanation/documentation, both for the beginner and the overwhelmed. A work-around really - maybe in lieu of that "maintenance mode" suggestion I made in another comment.
What a great demo - certainly looking forward to the next one in the series. I have found that link to a database on a page shows the actual database content and clutters the view and sort of defeats the intent of having a clean dashboard type layout. Not sure if this is a notion app on apple OSX thing only..
Thanks Ali! That's correct about linked databases. I was describing linking to a database, not the "linked database" that functions as an embedded database in the page. The demonstration in the video shows how to link to a database (and create that database) so that it keeps the clean uncluttered dashboard. Of course, in other instances it's valuable to embed a "linked database" directly into the page (I'll be showing many of these instances in upcoming videos). Depends on the intent of the page.
First, thank you very much for this series of videos. Really incredible, and incredibly kind to offer them for free. My question (and apologies if it is literally answered in this video--I'm slowly working my way through them): Having used some form of GTD for some time now, I'm used to employing a general "Inbox"--a quick dumping ground for every thought/Task that might come my way. Does this system incorporate something like that? If you're out and about, say, and you have something you want to quickly capture, do you take the time to add it to the Master Task Database right away, or something different. Many thanks again.
Hi, that's addressed in the second part of this video: ruclips.net/video/1Sk1TzHL2dw/видео.html Quick answer, you can certainly do that and it's easy to set up in Notion (just make an Inbox database, as discussed in the video link). But I personally don't like that approach because the extra hassle of processing the Inbox all the time is a chore I like to eliminate by just taking an extra two seconds to enter it in the proper destination at the outset. But each individual can make their own choice on that. If adding an inbox, I'd putt access to it at the top of the Action Zone Dashboard.
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This is by far the best series and channel I’ve found yet for Notion, here’s a comment to help you in the RUclips Algo! Love your stuff
Good stuff. I have watched many (dozens) great Notion videos. However, with very few exceptions, they don't provide the keystroke-level, step-by-step tips and how-tos that this video does. It can be overwhelming to try to dive into Notion when much of the content is of "finished" Notion examples but without the "how did I get here" steps that were required to reach this level of completion.
Thanks!
Great to hear this one added that additional info you wanted, I tried to make this one accessible to anyone and start to introduce the skills needed for later videos. Thanks a lot for the feedback, super helpful to hear what's working.
@@augustbradley Great work Mr. August Bradley
@@augustbradley You did one thing greater for me; you want to make me understand (ever since your deep dive with Ali) on HOW to use notions, how to build and customise an amazing command centre like yours and all the sub-sections (applicable to me.) Rather than settle for pre-made templates, formulas and go from there.
You sparked my curiosity, the most precious gift.
@@esmee6308 Awesome to hear this Esmee! Put it all to odd use :)
I guess Im randomly asking but does anybody know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid lost the account password. I would love any tricks you can offer me.
Outstanding beginner video! Your step-by-step instructions are so straightforward and helpful. THANK YOU!!!
I can only say CHAPEAU August !! As an entrepreneur, I have been using GTD methodology for years, and project manager and Evernote tools also. I started to use notion one year ago, but you explain so well, you go right to the point that I am arriving at the extra mile in my daily use of Notion. This is by far one of the most useful videos about Notion I have ever seen. Thanks, August
Loved the video, loved your energy. Looking forward to seeing more.
Excellent, Daniel! Keep up the great work.
Finally someone who doesn't explain things as if it was a speed competition.
I've watched 2 hours or more of your videos today. Thank you for creating these videos, your videos are the definition of informative, I hope to model my Notion to your set up. I wanted to link all my habits, tasks, and projects to my goals, thank you for showing me how!
You are one of the clearest thinkers and best teachers I have come across in my life. Thank you for helping people, and myself. Truly, you're a gift
Thank you Chris, really means a lot to me to hear this 🙏
You don’t know that you were looking for exactly this until you stumble on this. This is the perfect role model for how to provide value for free and dominate the industry 101.
Random finding of the month! Holy cow! Tremendous value here, Thank you. I look up to you. 😀
although I am 19 years old and I don`t know what to do what I want this course especially this Master helped me to improve my productivity at this young age so, thanks a lot from my heart
I just discovered Notion and your videos are a lifesaver. I have rarely seen such a well-organized, comprehensive and thorough video tutorial (with great production quality, too!) on youtube. Every time I go 'how am I supposed to embed this feature? how am I even going to google this for instructions?' your videos always has the answers and the detailed process. Also, the speed of your narration is very friendly and well-paced - I'm not a native speaker of English but was able to follow along really well without backtracking. Thank you so much!
This was great, as someone new to Notion I sat staring at the screen wondering where to begin..This video has helped! Liked and subscribed!
The only Genuine beginner tutorial I have seen so far.
Me: Watches hours of how others arrange their lives and businesses in Notion
Also me: Doesn't have a life or a business
1. Same
2. This is a perfect opportunity to start a life/business the right way!
-> That's what I'm doing!
-> I journaled about what I'd be doing in the perfect world and boom I have all the answers I need. Now I just gotta do the daunting task of making it 😅
Such a great place to start)
hahahah I feel kind of identify because i m 18. I don't have any business yet
Checking in. If you haven't made that progress yet, get back to it! Here's your nudge 😉@@huggingpuppy2613
This is what I was looking for during years. Brings light to the depths of my behaviour. Thanks so much August, following your advice with all my attention.
Super happy to hear this Sebastián, sounds like you are on a solid growth path. Lots more to come!
@@augustbradley I embedded this video in my Notion Upgrade page. Now I can easily track every step of the setup process and taking notes right below the video. It's like a tailor-made online class.
@@sebastianayala5143 Thank you so much for this suggestion! I was painstakingly copying out what August said word by word, writing opinions on word doc, editing them and then putting it onto notion. I split-screen RUclips and word doc to each side of the display and was taking notes.. it was time consuming and inefficient.
Glad i was reading the comments!! Now its really like a tailor made online class!!
I honestly love you 😂. This really elevates my current systems and articulates what I’m trying to capture better. And to have a walk through of this amazing resource? I can’t, I’m ecstatic.
Thank you, August. I'm a fashion designer looking to organize my life and my business as I launch my brand and your system is helping me out a whole lot. As a creative, it can be very jarring to get the organizational part down packed and I find myself with lots of random notebooks and just a bunch of clutter but I think notion will be very helpful for me. I am following you step by step. Again, thanks bro.
thank you so much for this. truly outstanding
All your videos re: Notion have been excellent. I am a homeschooling mom/homemaker, and I am using/applying your systems to these parts of my life. It's incredible. Thank you!!
Super teaching technique and so easy to follow. Thanks from new notion user from New Zealand.
Hey August. Just wanted to say that your tutorial was absolutley superb. I am so grateful. Thank you very much. I have just started up with Notion and your concise and logical tutorial was very very helpful. No disrespect to other channels with Notion content but most of the ones I watched left me more confused. It clearly can be a tricky subject to explain...BUT not for you and boy am I grateful.
That was extremely helpful. THANK YOU!! 🙏
Glad it was helpful! I'm a few weeks away from launching a full start-from-scratch beginner Notion course.
Yes! I think ive finally found a Notion program that runs the way I want to think - very integrative. thanks so much.
Fantastic video. Explains the basics and the potential of Notion in the best way I've seen - by far.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks Peter.
Watching this at 4am and wanting to create my own OS in Notion!!!
THANK YOU Mr. August Bradley, for me you are a genius ! Of course Notion is an incredible application, but if you spend your time wondering, "how do you get to this page? "or "how do we integrate this database? "that can be a source of frustration. Now with your help I can use it in an optimal way. You've just provided me, in a very pedagogical way, the step-by-step that I've been desperately looking for Thanks again !
Wow, thank you Gwénaëlle! It is amazing to hear this, super happy it has been valuable to you. You stated the main issue with Notion very well. It's about how you apply Notion that matters. Lots more to come!
After hours of searching, finally a useful video!!!! Thank you!
I just made my command center and it´s feels so great!!! Thank you a lot
Well done! You are now in command -- or closer to it. Next, get the Task Database and Daily Tracking in place. Then put them together in the Action Zone (I have templates for all three of those, link in the notes under the video).
This is a phenomenal set of videos, thank you so much for sharing your effort! One chuckle, I was in a dark room watching and was blinded by that switch to light mode ;) Hooray for dark mode! New to Notion, and a new sub.
Ha! We can call that a blinding insight 😀. Awesome to hear this was helpful. Lots more to come, working on some cool new things for the channel and the community growing around it. Glad you've joined us.
An excellent teacher you are. Thanks!
A very thorough video for beginner. Thank you, August. It is very much appreciated!
Bout to dive into this whole playlist.. 6/48 done
Thank you so much - this series is exactly what I needed - I have been playing around with Notion for several months now but haven't been able to actually focus on what I want to use it for - unfortunately it has so many, many good things I have been like a child in a sweet shop! This weekend I will build my dashboard and create a folder to house my databases in, then start building from there. So looking forward to carrying on with this course.
Thanks Sue! Means a lot to me to hear this. Very happy that it's been valuable to you. Lots more to come!
I have been looking for a video like this for months. Everything that I had come across up till now was either too advanced, or too basic. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Awesome Sarah! Very happy you've found our community here. Lots more to come.
Extremely well explained and the step by step details are much appreciated and often missing in other videos.
Thanks Hopeton! Great to hear this feedback.
Thank you! You're doing an amazing job. The way you relate life goals to daily actions gives a clarity that results in relief even in facing the busiest days. The word that most comes to mind after implementing Notion in the way you teach it is Gratitude. Thank you!
Incredibly helpful! Maybe just me, but I didn’t find Notion intuitive to use. Thank you :)
Wow great video, thanks for sharing
Thanks for this helpful tutorial. First one I’ve seen that doesn’t overwhelm with all the shoots and whistles Notion can do. Most other “expert” videos I stop watching halfway because I get more lost than when I start. On the other hand, yours I was able to complete and create my own Command Center after using Notion for 6 months. Thanks again and keep up the great work.
Best Notion content out there. Great job.Will recommend to others too.
Thank you so much for your support! 🙏
Concise. Pithy. Good one!
So helpful! Finally found a relevant, applicable Notion tutorial. THANK YOU!
Thanks August, great video and thank you for taking the time to create it and post it. Nice and simple approach, I love it. Liked and subscribed, of course!
Great Video. I have been struggling with organising Notion and this is the best series of videos! Thanks, August!
Thank you so much for this tutorial August! Your Notion ideas and techniques has really helped me use Notion.
Great to hear Jenric! Thanks for the feedback.
No problem August!
Very nice video. Something helpful for me is to view multiple notes, calendars, etc. in separate windows. File -> New opens a new window on the current node. Repeat for as many windows into your system as required. Ctrl-Shft-L in each for dark and light modes ....
Excellent instructional video....thank you!
Thanks June, I greatly appreciate the feedback!
Amazing series. Feels like this (understanding and use of not only Notion data storage and processing but also the "outer loop" - psychological and other real-world usage aspects) will enable and encourage my process of self-development and capability: a solid and comfortable car with which to hasten my life's journey. Thank you enormously 🙏
I am a Notion newbie. Your content is amazing! I also subscribed to your newsletter. Thank you!!
Thank you so very much for this!! You and Notion have changed the game for me!! I'm in the process of starting a small business and knew I needed "something" to house all of the intricate details versus the myriad systems I'm currently using. Can't thank you enough. You have a lifetime subscriber.
one of the best instruction videos I have ever seen. Thank you for going at the pace you did, explaining EVERYTHING you were doing, (this is HUGE and others should take note when they are teaching beginner videos), the keystrokes, and including different "options" in some areas. I def found my channel to learn Notion. With much gratitude from someone that didn't grow up with computers.
Thank you very much for the video, this finally gave me the right ideas to create my dashboard. Feeling much better now with Notion.
Thank you! This tutorial is very easy to follow, I wish I had found it earlier 😅
Love how simple and straightforward this video and series are, in terms of setting up the base pages and databases -- other systems charge a fortune! Also appreciate how encouraging you are in terms of people taking what works and leaving behind what doesn't apply. Thanks August!
Thank you, August. It is very much appreciated!
This is so good!
**Video summary**
0:00 Intro
The last video covered an overview of August's LOS in Notion. The following videos will start to go through each section and flesh them out in more detail.
This video will cover the basics of how to build a Command Centre dashboard.
This is a pretty simple page and will also be a good opportunity for learning how to use Notion.
The basic functionality of Notion will be covered here and will be covered more slowly and is a good place to start for absolute beginners.
The command centre is the main page to access the rest of the system.
Aim to keep it as simple as possible, while giving you quick access to the most important areas, while organizing everything.
August has Focus, Growth, Business and Home/Life as his main groupings on this page.
1:52 [image]
Everything in this section is either text, headings or links with one weather widget embed.
(2:45) Go to the new page, give it a title, add an icon and cover
3:40 Create Headings
(3:30) Create each of the subcategory headings
2 methods to create headings, either enter text and adjust by using 'Turn into', or type' /h1' and select Heading 1 and enter the title.
Adjust the text colour.
Drag Headings into position side-by-side, using the indicators.
5:30 Create Layout
(5:25) Change page layout to 'full width'
(5:45) Change the background colour of headings
(6:18) Switch between Dark/Light mode using settings or by using the keyboard shortcut 'Ctr+Shift+L'
Try to use colour to guide, it's especially useful on a big dashboard such as the command centre.
If you don't have a system at all yet, then creating the command centre is a really good way to start to lay out a general structure for the system you want.
Type out all the sections you would like to ultimately have under each heading.
You can then build them out one-by-one
(7:50) Example
8:28 Create Linked Pages
Essentially all we have in the final Command Centre is a page of headings and links to either pages or databases.
Usually, you are linking to pages because dashboards are pages with collections of various types of content.
(9:25) Turn the subheading you want to work on into a page.
9:50 Create Linked Databases
Turn the subheading into a page, open it and then select 'Database' from the bottom menu on the page.
When you create Pages and Databases in a page like this, they are embedded within this 'Command Centre' Page, which may or may not be what you want in the end.
10:36 Organize Sidebar
August prefers to have links to pages and databases which are organized/housed elsewhere in the system on his dashboards.
The organizational system of dashboards, pillars, pipelines and vaults exists on the sidebar and pages are grouped into each of those.
(11:35) Example 'Daily tracking' database is something that directly supports the pillars, so that is where he would house it while linking it back to the Command Centre dashboard.
(12:00) Links are created to those organized pages/databases after they have been organized.
The key to remember is that there is only one place where a page/database is housed but you can create a link to them from anywhere.
14:47 Toggles
Using keyboard shortcuts and commands is highly recommended, Notion's help centre has a list for you to pick and choose your favourites.
Create a toggle on your command centre to house them.
Type '/toggle' and you will create a toggle list.
Open the toggle and you can paste anything you want in there.
Drag into position using the indicators
Link to keyboard shortcuts page:
www.notion.so/Learn-the-shortcuts-66e28cec810548c3a4061513126766b0
Notions help wiki has a dedicated page for every single one of these functions (toggle, pages, databases, linking etc.) it's really clear and in-depth.
Create your dashboard with organizational headings and sub-headings specific to your needs.
The next video will briefly cover installing a weather widget.
The video after that will take an in-depth look at constructing a task database.
Thank you so much for your series of videos and great insights August! I've been watching your videos recently and I really learned a lot on life planning and system thinking!
My happy. I have been using Notion for a while - and I really enjoy your way of making these How-To videos fit such a broad audience. I learn a lot and will definitely keep up to speed with the great content you publish. My wife is also a fan :)
Awesome Martin, thanks for sharing this feedback! Lots more to come, let us know how your system progresses.
Very well done. Good approach to getting started with Notion. Looking forward to the Actions database tutorial.
Thanks Michael, greatly appreciate the feedback! I too am looking forward to diving deeper, this sill be fun.
This is just incredible content. Your stuff is the best addiction one can have
Awesome intro overview and some great "quick tips". Thanks!
Thanks Patrick! There are always so many little techniques and tips to learn, I love coming across those discoveries too.
Thank you for this video. Your step by step was easy to follow and straight to the point.
Awesome video August Thanks
I was slightly overwhelmed at the previous video, so welcoming this one
This one is the most basic, but a good starting point. I'm developing a course that takes everyone from a blank page to the system - that will be best for newer Notion users.
August Bradley : Notion Productivity I’m past this one now. Loving them. Just fantastic
You've got a Dashboard for your Dashboards to Dash forward in life, haha. Definitely think i'll incorporate something like this into my setup!
Yeah, you're right! Never thought of it that way. A dashboard dashboard, I like that.
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I love the way you simplify things that the software makers haven't! Such a great way to get an overview of things from within Notion. I'm still not 100% sure of the tasks management process but will review your vides on that. I still love @todoist - using it for over 5 years, and will continue to have that going until more functionality is built into Notion...including better iOS usability, offline use, and security.
Thanks Sachiv, I like Todoist a lot too, used it prior to Notion. Every tool has pros and cons, so you're right to do research and see which is the best fit for you. Glad you're part of this community and exploring new ideas with us.
Great video! Thanks for sharing it. I was looking for this kind of organization since I started using Notion.
Awesome Herman, glad you've found us!
It is easy to just do small experiments when uncertain. I just now did some and linked to (a page containing) them from my study-notes for this video. For example I discovered that the "page/sheet" icon of an internal (to page) link gets replaced when you give that page it's own icon. In some ways that is a disadvantage - a reduction in displayed information about link-type. Would be handy if Notion had a "reverse engineering" or "system maintenance" mode where link-type information was displayed regardless.
I love your approach to notion and overall organization. I also love your shirt collection :D
Great! My command center is ready!
Awesome video! This is exactly what I need!
Splendid!
This was a great video! The slow step by step process you explain was perfect. Unfortunately, on my IPad Pro I cannot create vertical columns. I will have to make the dashboard on my MacBook and then access it on my iPad Pro.
Nice video. Bit late for me, but this should be super useful for so many folks new to Notion. Thank you.
Thanks Dave. Yeah, this one is for people newer to Notion. The rest in the series are more advanced and assume a higher level of Notion know-how. It’s more about a the system overall than individual feature usage. Thanks a lot for your feedback, greatly appreciate it!
Love this so much! Thank you!
Awesome to hear you like it Raniera!
Thanks a lot by your explains!! Very clear!! Best regards!! Waiting for the next video! ;)
Great Paco, awesome that this was helpful for you! I really appreciate the feedback, let me know if there's anything in particular you would like covered in the future, or any way I can make the series better for you. Thanks!
August Bradley : Notion Productivity I am interested in advanced handle of numbers. i would like to replicate the dynamic tables of Excel here in Notion to group the information by rows and columns like I want. I can do it currently with several tables but I don’t know if it is the method more efficient. Thanks for all.
@@BorcoECD Good points Paco. Many people describe Notion as having spreadsheet functionality, but that is not really correct. Notion has database tables, not spreadsheets. Spreadsheets hold fixed positional relationship across rows, databases do not. Spreadsheets can form formulas across rows and columns, database tables are extremely limited in this regard. Notion does a fantastic job of replacing much of what I used to use Google Docs for, but it does not replace Google Sheets or Excel. Spreadsheet functionality is not really part of Notion, except in extremely limited ways. However, you could potentially embed Google Sheets spreadsheets or charts in Notion. But for real spreadsheet work, I'd stick with a spreadsheet application.
Fantastic, even as an advanced user I benefited from this!
Thank you! I appreciate the step by step instruction! This helps out immensely!
I have watched almost all your videos! Thank you so much for all your incredible insight and ideas. I do have some questions about how you organize everything together. On another video we create an alignment zone, but I don't see where you store that on the right? Is it it's own page, is it nested into the Dashboard, or somewhere else? I would really love another video on how and why it's organized the way it is, and then also a practical "day use." I know you have done a lot already, but this would be amazing! :)
Awesome to hear that Joshua! Do you mean where I store it in the left-side navigation? Not sure what yo mean by "on the right". The new video gives a glimpse into this (ruclips.net/video/8iL1kJj1JkI/видео.html ), but I will be doing a more detailed video on this -- it's based on the Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults organizational methodology I am presenting. Pipelines are databases with action-oriented processes such as tasks, projects, goals. Vaults are stored information like books, media ideas., people/contacts. Pillars are lofty visions/aspirations and key structures of your life. Here is a snapshot of what;s in each folder: a.cl.ly/04uPvpxl
This is seriously good stuff, thank you so much! I am having difficulty putting the 'focus', 'business', 'growth' 'Home/Life' next to each other in one row horizontally. It won't fit at all. I have even toggled the ''full width' button but it still won't work.
Thank! In the video do you see where I show how to grab and drag it to the far right end to get the vertical line indicator? If you can put them side by side and they are too squished, make sure your window on your monitor is full width, Not sure what monitor you're using, but a very small one might be too tight -- in which case you can make two rows with two columns each instead of one row with four columns. Hope that helps.
@@augustbradleyit helps a great deal, thanks!
Awesome work!
Thank you so much. This was the first video that made a whole lot of sense. It was completely clear and I feel like I can get started. Thank you. I have a question. How do you get white font. My default is black and I've not managed to find white font yet.
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Great stuff. Really appreciating the step by step example. Just curious what the benefit is to linking to a private page instead of the page created?
I loved your video, thanks for making it.
Thanks! Awesome to hear this was helpful. Lots more to come, working on some cool new things for the channel and the community growing around it. Glad you've joined us!
August, I've been checking the entire playlist, going back and forth, slowly building it out from the ground up. I'm now encountering an issue/topic that was way too specific for you to address in your public video series, although I'm sure there would be a large and growing demand for it out there. I'm talking about stocks/fx trading, and how to incorporate cleanly, in your system, a trading journal & trading plan. I'm currently using Evernote & Excel, like probably half of the retail traders out there. My current plan to bring it over to Notion consists of making a Trading dashboard (on the Command Center), which would combine a trade database (located in.. pipelines?), maybe a calendar as well, a key summary of the trading plan, etc. Maybe making it an ongoing project as well, with goals per quarter. I wish I could pick your brain, to be honest!
Is this a topic you are familiar with or that you've covered with clients in the past? Would you ever consider making a video about it, or is too specific? And thanks again for sharing all this content!
Timestamps Index
0:00 Intro
1:17 Command Center Dashboard Overview
2:55 Add Page Cover and Icon
3:45 Create Headings
5:24 Create Layout
9:22 Create Pages
9:50 Create Databases
10:20 Organize Sidebar (Linked Pages & Databases)
14:24 Toggles & Keyboard Shortcuts
16:57 Tips
18:42 Outro
This is fantastic!
I'm really loving all you're sharing, August, and I echo all the expressions of Kudos & Big Gratitude! If I can get this set up and functional, it will be a game-changer for me, and a dream come true. I'm stuck on what seems to be a very simple procedure in your video. I've created the 4 columns on my dashboard - Focus, Growth, Biz & Home/Life, and the organization categories on the left menu bar - Dashboards, Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults. I created pages for Daily Action Zone and Daily Tracking, etc., and moved those under Pillars on the left. Where I get stuck is in creating a link to that page on the dashboard. After typing in 'link to page', the only pages that come up are the top-level pages. I see the Pillars page, but not the pages I put under that. What am I missing? I'm going to keep going just building out my dashboard without worrying about the organizational structure on the left for now, but I want to solve that. Thanks for any help you can give!
I get the same issue, but you can solve it by letting those pages be top-level when you add them as links, and then afterwards you can put them down to second-level again. For databases the same thing doesn't work as well, as it seems to generate a mini view of the db inside the command center as a result.
Thanks Linda! After selecting "Link to page" start typing the name of the page and it will function as a search as you type.
@@augustbradley Great. But what about linking a database in the same manner? It seems it's cut off in the video, as the selected database behaves differently than before?
@@augustbradley Great, thanks so much for your rapid reply. I'll give that a try. Grateful!
@@augustbradley That didn't work, unfortunately. I applied Olof's fix and that did work. It's a bit cumbersome but no big deal.
Thanks
Great and detailed again! Keep up! I do not understand your PPV system i need a detailed review!
Thanks Ioannis! Starting tomorrow I'm going to go through details on the Pipelines elements (in several videos), then a video the Pillars, then a few on Vaults -- after the detailed segments I will do an overview video tying PPV all together.
@@augustbradley Great, can't wait to watch 'em! Congrats
Surprised there are no distinguishing icons for page/database objects (having no icons of their own), but I guess databases cannot exist outside of pages, so every database is ultimately contained in a page (correct?). I'd call a page containing only a (page-filling) database a database-page in that case. Making my own terms up - of course I haven't read the manual yet ! I notice that some people (eg August) create their own icons to distinguish database-pages or even different use-intentions of different databases (like relatively static or dynamic). The specialised icon approach seems like a helpful form of self explanation/documentation, both for the beginner and the overwhelmed. A work-around really - maybe in lieu of that "maintenance mode" suggestion I made in another comment.
What a great demo - certainly looking forward to the next one in the series. I have found that link to a database on a page shows the actual database content and clutters the view and sort of defeats the intent of having a clean dashboard type layout. Not sure if this is a notion app on apple OSX thing only..
Thanks Ali! That's correct about linked databases. I was describing linking to a database, not the "linked database" that functions as an embedded database in the page. The demonstration in the video shows how to link to a database (and create that database) so that it keeps the clean uncluttered dashboard. Of course, in other instances it's valuable to embed a "linked database" directly into the page (I'll be showing many of these instances in upcoming videos). Depends on the intent of the page.
Thank you so much!
First, thank you very much for this series of videos. Really incredible, and incredibly kind to offer them for free. My question (and apologies if it is literally answered in this video--I'm slowly working my way through them): Having used some form of GTD for some time now, I'm used to employing a general "Inbox"--a quick dumping ground for every thought/Task that might come my way. Does this system incorporate something like that? If you're out and about, say, and you have something you want to quickly capture, do you take the time to add it to the Master Task Database right away, or something different. Many thanks again.
Hi, that's addressed in the second part of this video: ruclips.net/video/1Sk1TzHL2dw/видео.html Quick answer, you can certainly do that and it's easy to set up in Notion (just make an Inbox database, as discussed in the video link). But I personally don't like that approach because the extra hassle of processing the Inbox all the time is a chore I like to eliminate by just taking an extra two seconds to enter it in the proper destination at the outset. But each individual can make their own choice on that. If adding an inbox, I'd putt access to it at the top of the Action Zone Dashboard.
@@augustbradley Many thanks for the reply! I'm going to continue watching the videos before deciding whether to include an inbox.
dear august - this looks nice - can you provide such a template...somewhere ?!
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