Check out the written guide here! thomasjfrank.com/notion-databases-the-ultimate-beginners-guide/ What other Notion tutorials would you like to see me cover?
My mind is absolutely blown by 1) your ability to create this type of content 2) your talent in teaching 3) how crazy powerful Notion is. I don't remember being this engaged in watching tutorial videos (maybe except for watching Webflow's tutorials).
Wow! This is definitely a full course. I spent 2 days watching it, going back and forth to my notion to make tweaks with what I learned. Now I'm obsessed with Notion.
You're my kind of teacher. I'm brand new to Notion (I learned of its existence days ago) and this is the first video of yours I've seen after watching a lot of tutorials. I really like how this flowed and you go into just enough depth without making things too complicated. So, as a brand new user to Notion, I'd say you're THE Notion guy. Thanks very much for this video! I'm looking forward to watching more and learning about the powerhouse that is Notion!
Man you're an example of a good youtuber, i really like your content and your approach. Well organized, time-stamp, don't waste time in intro, you get to the point right away and teach stuff in a structured step-by-step way. You ROCK Thomas
Excellent, excellent tutorial. Thank you. I run a college career services office and I recently learned that Notion provides students and faculty with free premium Notion accounts. I gave it a shot a few months ago, but it looked way too complicated. Luckily, I found your videos because I am now officially hooked. This application is so versatile and powerful. I'm working with faculty to introduce this tool to freshmen. I'm also planning to teach students how to use Notion for managing their job search pursuits. Our team will also be using Notion to plan our annual job fair. All of this came to fruition from your generosity here because I would have never been able to learn this on my own. I looked up several other tutorials, but yours are head and shoulders above the rest. Thank you again!
Thanks so much for the kind words Jeff! I'm so glad my tutorials have proven helpful. P.S. I used to work in my college's career services office too! (Though I was just the front desk guy)
I'm a complete notions beginner and first was a bit overwhelmed haha - what really helped was I just watched your video once and then tried to do it off memory and then rewatched the whole thing while pausing and making the database! Super helpful
This tutorial just blew my mind on Databases. I feel like I haven't done a thing right with the tools available. Now I'm curious on interactions with the API and other systems.
Wow, this Notion tutorial is amazing! It's the best one I've found on RUclips. Your clear explanations and step-by-step instructions made it so easy for me to set up and organize my Notion workspace. I've been struggling to keep track of my projects, tasks, and notes, but your tutorial has shown me how to create a customized system that works perfectly for me. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and helping me get my life organized! PS - I binge-watched all your tutorials
Thanks, bro, you are the perfect example of "Teach a man how to fish" The possibilities are endless with Notion and you just provided us the exact fundamental knowledge to build what we want!
Just wanted to say thank you for all of the videos. I am brand new to notion and haven't even set anything up yet, but have a million things I want to organize within it and your videos are teaching me, as well as giving me better ideas on how to sort my thoughts. As someone with ADD, I get distracted very easily and have a habit of not finishing what I start, so I'm hoping notion will be able to help with this. I look forward to more videos from you, as well as watching your previous videos.
how is notion working out for you?? since I also have ADD, I wanna know if notion actually helps out with finishing and tracking tasks, or does the ADD result in you never adding tasks to the notion page?
35:04 - it was this moment that I was looking for. Self-referential columns. It's like peaking behind the show at Disney a little to see how the magic actually happens, but a new found respect for the tool and your way of teaching it.
Man, I'm out of words to express how much you've helped me. Really excellent quality videos. I'm new to notion, I wanted to build my personal study tracker. What I was struggling was to create a task for a course topic which will automatically update my tasks page. Linked database section is the answer. But man, it was so hard to find out. Thank you mate.
Love this in-depth tutorial. Also: For anyone that can't see their database templates (in this video 30:35) when wanting to link databases (filter 'Where Project Contains...'): the only way I've been able to get around this is by creating multiple templates and manually selecting whichever template corresponds. And then of course making sure the databases have property views of the other. Yes it's annoying and yes I've tried everything including deleting all data and creating a template from scratch. If anyone has any other solutions please feel free to let me know
I was able to create everything I need for my content calendar and check-lists! I had to watch the linked Database several times especially how to put the tasks inside the template and link it because I have a template in a calendar not in my project lists, but I managed simply because I understood how it works thanks to your teaching skills. Thank you ! Liv
Such a useful video man. I saw this job tracking template video, and I wanted exactly that, but the purchase of that template kept failing. Now after watching your video, I feel very confident to be able to do that easily by myself. Thanks so much!
thanks for that, Thomas! I've used to use Excel to manage a data base that did not need any math to be done. Notion is such a better way to keep all on record.
Is there any Notion-Award over there? If yes, you have earned it. What a tremendous video tutorial and course. I'm really impressed by your capacity to teach. And also, thank you a lot for this tutorial
I clicked on this notification SO FAST. 🔥😍 Saving this for future reference! My main database is keeping track of my RUclips videos - a few too many still tagged "Scripting" 😂 I have attempted to make databases of anatomy/physiology/pathology notes but it is a Herculean task haha
Great & easy Video. Just don't get the difference between relations and categorizing them in tags. I can also add multiple tags to one task and ,in another view filtered by tags for example , it will show me the same task in both the task lists. Thank you!
Thank you Thomas! I bought your Second Brain template to support your great work. I have a request, I think it would be amazing if you did an in-depth tutorial on how to apply the Zettlekasten organization method inside Notion!
Thanks so much! I do have Zettlekasten on my list of potential topics, though I think it's pretty hard to implement due to the lack of an unlinked references feature like the one found in Obsidian or Roam. You can do a Luhman-style slip box manually though, and the page-level backlinks can help things somewhat!
Bless my heart, reincountering you here after CIG just when I need you most... Notion is another beast!! Both your new channel and this app are feeling like abundance-culture 2.0, it's a good day!
The key learning from today's session it was so gooddd you simplified sale so easily It has two components offer and pitch I never thought of it like this now when I heard this and thought of it in my mind it was so logical and point . For mee. Now I have clearity in my mind what is sale and how to improve sales. Thankyou so much Ansh bhaiya
This video was amazing I went able to set up my own workspace for handling personal projects and also job related notes 😃, it's really zero to hero Course investing less than an hour!
hello，Thomas, thanks for your guide video for notion tutorial. For me, a detailed video guide on "formula" is vital for my work. Anyway, i shall keep watching and learning from your video . And a big thank you from China.
Right on its name. Super simple to understand and replicate for beginners like me. I watch a bunch of videos already and this is where I got it, in 1-time view. Thank you so much, Thomas.
Awesome video, Thomas. Like many here, I am kind of new to Notion and this video is, by far, the best. You are excellent at explaining things and the video production (script, content, flow, examples, video editing, sound, etc.) is outstanding. I was able to replicate most of the databse creation right from the start with brief or no video pause or replay.
Hi Frank, thanks a lot for your explanations and many video’s. I like the way how you structure en explain very much! Learned a lot. Oh… if you don’t know what to do with your time :-) an explanation about how teamspaces work would appreciated very much.
Bro, thank you sooooo much. I've been watching videos about databases to implement it into the notion and here comes your video, which is insanely useful😅
Really great video Thomas. Appreciate it. I can see that Notion is far beyond powerful, you can literally build inside it apps like Evernote or Todoist and there are not much limitations to the free plan which is super strange and great at the same time.
At first I think it's a long video and I'm gonna get bored, but it wasn't slow and boring at all😍. It was amazing and you explained everything fast and clear and with mentioning all the necessary information. Thank you so much it was great!!
Just a note, I got very confused by the multiple pages being named "tasks" and "my tasks" I've resorted to labeling them with Letter values before the names to help me wrap my head around what's inside what. For instance "X my tasks" is a table that's kept inside "Z tasks"
What I like about your video setup is that it feels like we are sitting across the table from you and you are talking directly to us. This makes the video more personal because it feels like a one-on-one appointment with you Thomas Frank in that room and that "Thomas Frank Explains" outright feels like Thomas Frank explains to me.
I was kinda let down by how I couldn't assign a value to, say, each multi-select option. For example, option 1 is 100 points, option 2 is 1000 points, and so on. Just as I was looking for a solution, you introduced Formulas. I'm blown away now.
Yeah, you can totally do that with formulas! Try using the at() function for it; that way, you can define the point values by the positions of the options in the multi-select property's list. That can be helpful if you ever want to rename them.
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Check out the written guide here! thomasjfrank.com/notion-databases-the-ultimate-beginners-guide/
What other Notion tutorials would you like to see me cover?
A good idea would be Zettlekasten method to organize knoeledge and information inside Notion.
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My mind is absolutely blown by 1) your ability to create this type of content 2) your talent in teaching 3) how crazy powerful Notion is. I don't remember being this engaged in watching tutorial videos (maybe except for watching Webflow's tutorials).
100 agreed 👍
Exactly I did not know notion is this powerful
Wow! This is definitely a full course. I spent 2 days watching it, going back and forth to my notion to make tweaks with what I learned. Now I'm obsessed with Notion.
You're my kind of teacher. I'm brand new to Notion (I learned of its existence days ago) and this is the first video of yours I've seen after watching a lot of tutorials. I really like how this flowed and you go into just enough depth without making things too complicated. So, as a brand new user to Notion, I'd say you're THE Notion guy.
Thanks very much for this video! I'm looking forward to watching more and learning about the powerhouse that is Notion!
Man you're an example of a good youtuber, i really like your content and your approach. Well organized, time-stamp, don't waste time in intro, you get to the point right away and teach stuff in a structured step-by-step way. You ROCK Thomas
Excellent, excellent tutorial. Thank you. I run a college career services office and I recently learned that Notion provides students and faculty with free premium Notion accounts. I gave it a shot a few months ago, but it looked way too complicated. Luckily, I found your videos because I am now officially hooked. This application is so versatile and powerful. I'm working with faculty to introduce this tool to freshmen. I'm also planning to teach students how to use Notion for managing their job search pursuits. Our team will also be using Notion to plan our annual job fair. All of this came to fruition from your generosity here because I would have never been able to learn this on my own. I looked up several other tutorials, but yours are head and shoulders above the rest. Thank you again!
Thanks so much for the kind words Jeff! I'm so glad my tutorials have proven helpful.
P.S. I used to work in my college's career services office too! (Though I was just the front desk guy)
I love how excited you got when you were describing how much you can do with formulas. Makes me want to watch your video on that for sure.
This video solved all my probelms I've expereienced while using Notion as my main project manager. Thanks a ton!
My mind is blown!! Finally able to understand the Notion Databases.
I'm a complete notions beginner and first was a bit overwhelmed haha - what really helped was I just watched your video once and then tried to do it off memory and then rewatched the whole thing while pausing and making the database! Super helpful
This tutorial just blew my mind on Databases. I feel like I haven't done a thing right with the tools available. Now I'm curious on interactions with the API and other systems.
never taken Notion seriously before seeing your content. thank you for making everything so clear and systematic!!!!
Wow, this Notion tutorial is amazing! It's the best one I've found on RUclips.
Your clear explanations and step-by-step instructions made it so easy for me to set up and organize my Notion workspace. I've been struggling to keep track of my projects, tasks, and notes, but your tutorial has shown me how to create a customized system that works perfectly for me.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and helping me get my life organized!
PS - I binge-watched all your tutorials
Thanks, bro, you are the perfect example of "Teach a man how to fish"
The possibilities are endless with Notion and you just provided us the exact fundamental knowledge to build what we want!
This was an amazing video on Notion Databases. I literally was afraid of them until I watched this whole video. Thank you!
I think one of the best course in notion in the entire RUclips... this thing is also free!! Thousand THanks Thomas
Just wanted to say thank you for all of the videos. I am brand new to notion and haven't even set anything up yet, but have a million things I want to organize within it and your videos are teaching me, as well as giving me better ideas on how to sort my thoughts. As someone with ADD, I get distracted very easily and have a habit of not finishing what I start, so I'm hoping notion will be able to help with this. I look forward to more videos from you, as well as watching your previous videos.
how is notion working out for you?? since I also have ADD, I wanna know if notion actually helps out with finishing and tracking tasks, or does the ADD result in you never adding tasks to the notion page?
35:04 - it was this moment that I was looking for. Self-referential columns. It's like peaking behind the show at Disney a little to see how the magic actually happens, but a new found respect for the tool and your way of teaching it.
Okay, so far this is the most awesome video of the series. Now I know that all I need are databases for what I want to do. Thank you so much for this.
Man, I'm out of words to express how much you've helped me. Really excellent quality videos.
I'm new to notion, I wanted to build my personal study tracker. What I was struggling was to create a task for a course topic which will automatically update my tasks page.
Linked database section is the answer. But man, it was so hard to find out. Thank you mate.
this is the first time i watch youtube without fast-forwarding and I follow your sample task and it makes me feel smart after doing this lol
Love this in-depth tutorial. Also: For anyone that can't see their database templates (in this video 30:35) when wanting to link databases (filter 'Where Project Contains...'): the only way I've been able to get around this is by creating multiple templates and manually selecting whichever template corresponds. And then of course making sure the databases have property views of the other. Yes it's annoying and yes I've tried everything including deleting all data and creating a template from scratch. If anyone has any other solutions please feel free to let me know
I was able to create everything I need for my content calendar and check-lists! I had to watch the linked Database several times especially how to put the tasks inside the template and link it because I have a template in a calendar not in my project lists, but I managed simply because I understood how it works thanks to your teaching skills. Thank you ! Liv
Mind blowing content. You're one of the best teachers I've ever seen. Great content, thanks for delivering such high quality material for free.
I thank you so much! I watched 10 hours of Notion Videos till now and yours just made my brain click!
Such a useful video man. I saw this job tracking template video, and I wanted exactly that, but the purchase of that template kept failing. Now after watching your video, I feel very confident to be able to do that easily by myself. Thanks so much!
I dont know how to say thanks. your presentational and tutoring skills are next level.
thanks for that, Thomas!
I've used to use Excel to manage a data base that did not need any math to be done.
Notion is such a better way to keep all on record.
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Is there any Notion-Award over there? If yes, you have earned it. What a tremendous video tutorial and course. I'm really impressed by your capacity to teach. And also, thank you a lot for this tutorial
You expressed my feelings about it
Genius, I finally have the hope I can actually use Notion to get organised. Thank you 🙏
Thomas is the man with the best Notion. Amazing work!
I clicked on this notification SO FAST. 🔥😍 Saving this for future reference! My main database is keeping track of my RUclips videos - a few too many still tagged "Scripting" 😂 I have attempted to make databases of anatomy/physiology/pathology notes but it is a Herculean task haha
Great & easy Video. Just don't get the difference between relations and categorizing them in tags. I can also add multiple tags to one task and ,in another view filtered by tags for example , it will show me the same task in both the task lists. Thank you!
The way you correlated a Spiderman theme to your tasks was creative. Thank you for the tutorial. Cheers Thomas.
It's so helpful and nice that you teach us your knowledge for free, thank you Thomas
Thanks! This is the best notion RUclips video I have ever seen!!
Thank you very much for this. The best Notion Databases tutorial on RUclips!
Very very clear, even for a non English speaker ! Thank you.
Thank you Thomas! I bought your Second Brain template to support your great work. I have a request, I think it would be amazing if you did an in-depth tutorial on how to apply the Zettlekasten organization method inside Notion!
Thanks so much!
I do have Zettlekasten on my list of potential topics, though I think it's pretty hard to implement due to the lack of an unlinked references feature like the one found in Obsidian or Roam. You can do a Luhman-style slip box manually though, and the page-level backlinks can help things somewhat!
i can only imagine the work that you put into this video. so great.
Bless my heart, reincountering you here after CIG just when I need you most... Notion is another beast!! Both your new channel and this app are feeling like abundance-culture 2.0, it's a good day!
Just awesome! And professional teaching. I shared your channel and videos in my community.
I must say that this is one of the best step-by-step video tutorial on notion. Thank a great deal, Thomas. Cheers!
Thanks for this! I'm new to Notion and this was a fantastic survey of databases.
This was the easiest to comprehend and most informative tutorial I’ve ever watched!!!!! Thank you
The best notion guide i have ever seen! Thank you❤
Such a great and detailed explanation video on Notion databases. I've learnt alot from this.
The key learning from today's session it was so gooddd you simplified sale so easily It has two components offer and pitch I never thought of it like this now when I heard this and thought of it in my mind it was so logical and point . For mee. Now I have clearity in my mind what is sale and how to improve sales. Thankyou so much Ansh bhaiya
Thank you so much for the useful video. I really didn't know where to start, but now that I'm on track, I've learned a lot.
Thomas is this still the best video about DB in Notion? 2 years old. If yes, I’ll of course watch and learn.
This is next level. Notion is unstoppable
Thank you for this great video! I have dealt with this topic extremely intensively today, as I am in the process of creating my own ultimate brain.
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Phew, that's a lot of contents but great work btw. Thank you for uploading this video
This video was amazing I went able to set up my own workspace for handling personal projects and also job related notes 😃, it's really zero to hero Course investing less than an hour!
Using whiteboard to explain relations on database is really useful!
i never comment on youtube videos, but this one was truly mindblowing and well made. Keep it up!
hello，Thomas, thanks for your guide video for notion tutorial. For me, a detailed video guide on "formula" is vital for my work. Anyway, i shall keep watching and learning from your video . And a big thank you from China.
Right on its name. Super simple to understand and replicate for beginners like me. I watch a bunch of videos already and this is where I got it, in 1-time view. Thank you so much, Thomas.
Awesome video, Thomas. Like many here, I am kind of new to Notion and this video is, by far, the best. You are excellent at explaining things and the video production (script, content, flow, examples, video editing, sound, etc.) is outstanding. I was able to replicate most of the databse creation right from the start with brief or no video pause or replay.
Fantastic course!!!
I can finally use notion in productive way!
this video is mind-blowing. i'm amazed with the content you create. keep it up!
its your calm face for me. makes the lesson less scary. great tutorial!
This was a very helpful guide about Notion's databases! Thank you!
Excellent video! Helped me a lot, thank so much
Amazing tutorial. Straight to the point, clear, informative, educative and fun
wow, your teaching skill is superb
I can't wait for the formula course ! I learned so much thanks to you, so thank you :)
Hi Frank, thanks a lot for your explanations and many video’s. I like the way how you structure en explain very much! Learned a lot. Oh… if you don’t know what to do with your time :-) an explanation about how teamspaces work would appreciated very much.
Thank you so much!!! You help me have a very good start with Notion.
Bro, thank you sooooo much. I've been watching videos about databases to implement it into the notion and here comes your video, which is insanely useful😅
You are a living god among n, a legend worthy of praise. What you've uploaded here, will echo into eternity!
Beautifully explained, absolutely loved it.
Huge thanks Thomas, this tutorial was very helpful.
You're really the Notion grand master 💜
Thank you so much,I learned so much. I am finally going to start using notion effectively❤
Really great video Thomas. Appreciate it.
I can see that Notion is far beyond powerful, you can literally build inside it apps like Evernote or Todoist and there are not much limitations to the free plan which is super strange and great at the same time.
At first I think it's a long video and I'm gonna get bored, but it wasn't slow and boring at all😍. It was amazing and you explained everything fast and clear and with mentioning all the necessary information. Thank you so much it was great!!
Excellent overview!!! Thank you! 😊
I didn't know your channel but you are really a good teacher! Thank you 🙏
Fantastic training!! So so so well-made. You DO have a talent for teaching!
from Egypt , just want to say thanks
Just a note, I got very confused by the multiple pages being named "tasks" and "my tasks" I've resorted to labeling them with Letter values before the names to help me wrap my head around what's inside what. For instance "X my tasks" is a table that's kept inside "Z tasks"
YOU a LEGEND, thank you for your work
Thanks Man, Looking forward to Formula's tutorial.
Finally, we are done!
thank you Tomas :)
Thanks Thomas. This is great. how wonderful to be able to watch lessons multiple times. theres a lot in here
Thank you so much for this thomas! This is so helpful to me. You're such a good professor to me
Not even done with the video, but wow 🤯. This video is great! Everything is explained clearly and in a concise manner!
Thank you! Great explanation... As usual!
Greate explanation. It is very simple and understandable and free, thank you a lot :)
What I like about your video setup is that it feels like we are sitting across the table from you and you are talking directly to us. This makes the video more personal because it feels like a one-on-one appointment with you Thomas Frank in that room and that "Thomas Frank Explains" outright feels like Thomas Frank explains to me.
Excelent content. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Thomas!
There is just so muchhh about database!! 🤯
Love the soft glow.
You are the man. THANK YOU for making this video.
I was kinda let down by how I couldn't assign a value to, say, each multi-select option. For example, option 1 is 100 points, option 2 is 1000 points, and so on. Just as I was looking for a solution, you introduced Formulas. I'm blown away now.
Yeah, you can totally do that with formulas! Try using the at() function for it; that way, you can define the point values by the positions of the options in the multi-select property's list. That can be helpful if you ever want to rename them.
Fantastic tutorial! Super helpful, informative, and engrossing.
This was very helpful. Thanks a lot.
What The Heck, that's incredible, there's no limit on that thing !