How I use Notion as an Architect
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- 0Confused as to how to start using Notion for architecture? I share my Notion workspace + the templates I use as an architect to track my weekly schedule, tasks, and projects (both personal + professional). I've chosen Notion and its minimalist UI to store + organize all of life's information. In my studio, Notion has replaced Trello, Todoist, and Evernote...it truly lives up to its "all-in-one workspace" reputation.
As a productivity and project management tool, Notion is intuitive, capable and infinitely flexible. It's a blank canvas that can be almost anything you want, which is both a strength and a weakness, especially when you're just getting started and unsure of how best to set it up.
In this video I'll teach you how to customize your workspace to suit your needs and a framework to begin building your own. I start by walking you through the basics of Notion's visual editing tools and then move into more advanced functions to create intelligent task lists, meeting notes templates, SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures) + WIKI's to help save you time in the design process. The project track brings it all together in one dashboard where tasks, resources, schedules and meeting notes are collected and shared amongst team members, both in-house and remote.
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Timestamps to help you navigate:
00:00 - Setting my digital house in order
00:22 - Want your own kiXstand?
00:43 - Four types of pages I use
01:00 - Build a Weekly Agenda
04:24 - Easter Eggs (For careful observers, I hide things in every video. You knew that, right?)
04:53 - SOPs + WIKIs
07:16 - An Intelligent Task List
12:22 - Building a Project Track
15:00 - Meeting Note Templates
17:29 - Kanban Phase Template
19:18 - Wacken (someday)
19:30 - Notion for Life
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Amazing! Thank you Eric!
Thank you so much for this! It was extremely helpful ❣️
thank you so much!
Thank you very much Eric! I'm getting to know Notion! Where to find the Meeting Notes Template?
I`m in love with notion but I've run into the Issue of Printing your regular Gantt chart for the meetings with the Construction Crew. How do you set up your construction schedule or is this not done by the Architect in the US? I find that the Notion Timeline view is not up to the task. Greetings from Germany.
Awesome. I started using Notion a few weeks ago and I love it. Btw thanks for the amazing, helpful content and putting yourself out there as an architect!!! You inspired me to start my own channel 😊
Fantastic...will definitely check it out!
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Question for you both...It has been 2+ years, are you still using Notion? Or was joining notion just part of a trend a lot of youtubers jumped on that did not have actual longevity in the workplace?
I use it every day to run my practice. Updated Notion video here: ruclips.net/video/nzqQHqPP0ds/видео.html
Finally, a video from someone with a professional life that requires Project Management with Notion. I found this video extremely helpful. Thanks!
Who else loves this guy and thinks he is really inspiring
Nice to see how you use Notion! I've started using it about a month ago, and I love that I can now have everything that I was used to (Trello, Evernote, Todoist, etc.) into a single platform. Definitely going to check your templates! :)
Eric absolutely Love that, I’ve actually been doing a similar version of this on trello...but linking back to files in Dropbox and linking to improvement notices which just become part of a master trello check list template. Like the fact you can do everything in one place...
I love your channel! So neat!
I use Trello, used to use Monday before for project management, I am intrigued, never heard of notion before! Thank you for the introduction.
"Never use final or new for files again" made me smile, like any architect, I can relate to that!
I always use R00 (revision zero), R01 (revision one), etc. And dates right at the beginning of the filename, written in YYYY-MM-DD format, for the newest files be top on every list.
Haha.. Final.. New Final... Final New Final... Final New Final-a ... 🤪😂
I simple use 1, 2, 3, 4.... after the file name
@@nestoreleuteriopaivabendo5415 This is the correct way to do it
i use lol, lolo lolol, lololol.. .
It is so satisfying seeing your notion pages. So well organised and functional. Opens up a new world to me!
Absolutely phenomenal use of Notion. Even though it's a start, you've molded it to your workflow perfectly so much that it seems this app was just made for architects. Thanks for sharing your workflow setup and giving a glimpse of its potential. This seems to be a very powerful tool for architects. Cheers.
I'm glad to see you smile. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I wish you the best on everything. Congrats on having everything that's important to you, organized
Was introduced to Notion a couple of weeks ago and productivity has been through the roof!
This is a really great explainer! Thank you so much. It was key that you started from the blank template because I used to worry that there would be too much restriction like a spreadsheet or a paper planner. Great video!
I've used a lot of notion templates over the last 6 months and yours is still my favorite. Great job with it!
Thanks this video was extremely helpful! I have been using notion since 2019 for other aspects of my life but just started using your template for work in January 2021. The video is very insightful, but going through the process of dissecting and understanding your template gave me incredible insight into ways of using Notion that I had not even considered.
Wow, I’ve seen the Notion icon in your dock many times, and wonder how you use it, yesterday I was looking for tutorial, and boom you upload this today! Thank you !
Glad I could help!
Eric, I've been following you for a while now and I absolutely love the editing and color grading you're doing!
Cheers Eric, Notion is exactly the thing I was looking for. I definitely owe you one. Stay safe & prosper.
This video was so helpful! I would love to have more videos on techniques within architecture and how to perfect your skills.
Lovely organizer for the projects control center. Thank You for the sharing.
Thank you, you are a live saver. I just start my career as an architectural assistant, so everything was jumble up in my head. I was thinking to myself is there a better option, and behold your video pop up. THANK YOU, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
Ok... Yo no hablo inglés, pero estoy segura de que este es el mejor canal para arquitectos o estudiantes que quieren aprender más y tratan de conseguir los mejores materiales, eses genial!
Thanks for these awesome impressions! It would be nice to see an update one day with your new impressions and workflows!
By far the easiest and most intuitive tool for note taking. Love it !
Although I haven't started using it for schedules and stuff, yet. Will have to try them out.
I mostly take class notes with toggle tabs.
its so seamless, it can use it on my windows PC, my Mac, my iPad, my android phone. You name it. Comes handy especially during quarantine time, when you are sharing devices with family. Its less concerning when it happens, since the interface remains the same on all platforms.
Thank you so much for all this info!! Our team will be using this and your run through of ways to use it is so helpful.
Love the video, got me excited about Notion. I'll try to use yuour tips to manage myself to learn how to manage my own office, wish me good luck! Great video, Eric! Thanks again!
Thanks Eric.....as always, great video, keep them coming!
I just downloaded Notion Wow!! What a program. I just have to let you know that I just registered for classes for a cad drafting program. Lots of math and CAD drafting classes. I am going all the way too Architectural Engineering. I know I can do it. Have been doing something architectural since I was 8, in class, I was drawing floorplans of vacation homes that I visited during the summer with family. Never stopped. I watch your channel all the time. Thanks for you information.
Wow, this video was so helpful. You did such a nice job explaining it in simple but effective language and your video was excellent. Thanks.
Great video. Thanks for sharing your templates. This is really helpful especially coming from someone in the profession
Wow! You really have mastered Notion! I, too, am a new user of Notion and a new subscriber to your channel. I am really enjoying your channel and blog! Thanks for sharing. 😊🙌
You're so well organized! I'm amazed!
I loveeee your channel sooooo muchhhh I am so happy I found it. Am a junior college and an Architectural Studies major 😍😍😍😍
Fascinating. I think the key phrase here is “hard to know when to stop”
Is anyone else actively using Notion as a sole practitioner?
Templates is perfect to parlay a fusion program of architecture & engineering in a 3dprinting machine. Awesome
idea & plan!
You made all those beautiful icons I guess. Pretty neat and inspiring as always!
I Love the way describe the idea, thanks Eric Sir.
Great video, and fantastic Notion setup.
Notion + architecture... I think I just found the best video on RUclips I've ever seen. 🖤
Just started using Notion! I've been using it to stay on top of Architecture School
Wow this is a very interesting way of organizing information. Thank you for sharing this tool. I had not heard of it before
Always good productive contents, many thanks
I appreciate a lot your efforts to help others, thank you from my heart! I wish you all the best! Iso
Thank you for telling me about this! I love NOTION!
I find this video, the templates extremely helpful. I started using Notion but I can’t seem to streamline all design/productivity process. This made my day!
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We've been using Notion recently to setup our school so the timing of this video was serendipitous.
Enjoying the experiments and soundscapes.
Cheers Eric
Would love to see an updated version of this and see where this year has taken you with Notion!?!
I think you have organised the rest of my degree....no life, thank you! +Your Audiobook has defiantly given me food for thought into how I want to proceed within architecture.
Eric just wanted to say I found this extremely useful. I started diving into notion about year ago +-. I was exploring this in school and I found it was vast and endless, so I had to stop because I was creating in notion and not so much in the class...I think many will find this beneficial especially from a small business aspect as well and incorporating into one’s workflow. During the video you had mentioned your network. Have you thought about doing a short video on that in a small business setting? Do you keep it separate from home or is it all timed together? Look forward to upcoming content. Ps. How was the Slipknot Unsainted? They are from around my hometown area so I have been a big fan for some time, same with Mudvayne.
this great video! this what i needed to leave evernote and trello, i love that you can have everything in one app
Fantastic tutorial. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful way to use Notion. I really like how you use it!
Great video! So cool looking at how other people use the app. I have been using it for over 2 years and am still learning new ways to use this tool. I have shared some things on my YT channel but I am always looking to learn.
In your YT-page, I've noticed -t-shirts are unique the design itself putting sign which by the way for us architect-engineers has non existed
. Is cool to have to purchase a couple them!
Thank you for the templates ,you are awesome!
Your templates will be really helpful for me... Thank you!
This is awesome!!! It's been three weeks since I downloaded Notion, coming from Trello, but I could have the time to profoundly understand it. As an architect myself, this video is a HUGE boost in my life, professionally and personally. So THANK YOU very much. ❤
Sooo cool! I am using Notion to help me organize my interior design workspace too.
Congrats on joining the gabl media network ! This is very inspirational u have started and stopped motion a couple times but know it will help.
Good presentation for getting initial understanding of notion
Eric,, excellent information as always. As an architect sole proprietor myself, I understand how all of the necessary tasks need to be organized, prioritized and addressed. To be honest, I am old school, and though I find Notion intriguing, I still rather write tasks in my notebook with a pencil or pen, 70's- 90's style. Notion would just drive me crazy having to spend so much time with the fussiness and meticulous detail. I rather spend that time just doing the task. I enjoy your thoughtfulness and insight, keep up the good work.
Seems like a great organization tool for us. Cheers!
Never hear of this program before, great content! Might have to give it a try now
hey i am an Architect , Your videos regarding architecture or an architect's Life are very relatable as well as useful.keep it up.
Thats amazing! great video.. !
Thankyou for the templates!
Thanks Eric - super post (as always!)
Thanks so much for this video. I use Google keep presently but from your video, I can see that I can do so much more with Notion. I'll give the free version a try. Thanks.
Always exiting your topic..very informative,
Thank you very much for the video! You helped me a lot. God bless you, my friend
I have been using notion lately to build a database for everything, I love it for study notes and managing projects..
This video made it much easier thanks man
I use notion to review construction drawings for permit. It’s an excellent tool to add structure to workflows, keep consolidated and consistent records, and adapt with changing criteria. It really clicked after I learned how to nest databases.
This came at a perfect time, refining processes and looking to make my day to day more efficient. Thanks for continually sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience.
Thanks!! I just discovery your web page and I find it very useful!!!
"Clean/Disinfect Mosh Pit"...perfect.
Hello Eric,
I'm really glad I have discovered your channel and hope I can learn the most from it.
I'd like to reach out to you (through this comment hopefully) simply to express my concern as a third year undergraduate student in architecture. Basically, I feel that, as a student in this program, there are truly a lot of competences to acquire in order to succeed both academically and professionally. I mean: hand drawing, computer drawing and modeling (rhino, revit, adobe suite...), model-making (maquette), oral presentation skills to perhaps the most important, problem-solving... And I can't help myself from thinking that I must master all of those skills to perfection or otherwise it means that I failed. When I have a new project to tackle for school, I become so overwhelmed with all of those thoughts that anxiety takes over and prohibits me from performing well. So what I'd like to ask is maybe, how can I become confident about the decisions I make when I start working on a studio project in order to move ahead? I hope that my question is clear enough and that maybe you'll see it.
Again thank you for all your efforts and advice!
Best regards!
Was just watching vids about note-taking. Really helpful !
Kyle Andrew have you checked out Marianas Study Corner or Ali Abdaal?
@@jeffrice4347 The Valentin Perez deep dive was great. His topics forest are really interesting! Stuart Carter is also worth checking out.
Awesome I will thank you!!
Very helpful video, thanks :)
I've been playing around it since you posted this, It's overwhelming at the moment. Using Evernote for years, this feels like another language. Not giving up on it. Thanks for the post Eric!
Stick with it! I felt the exact same way in the first few days...build some wiki pages and you'll see the visual organization system (I think) is cleaner and more useful than Evernote (I was a long-time user too)...good luck!
You are not alone with that. I have helped many Evernote, trello and asana users move over to Notion and it takes time to get your head around how things link up. Very multi-dimensional.
@@30by40 Im seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks to your templates which I purchased. It cut down the learning curve drastically. Thank you Eric!
@@DannyHatcherTech I'm liking it. Thanks to Eric's templates. It has helped me snap out of the Evernote ways of doing things.
Good video! Looking forward to the Outpost update ;D
Nice intro, thanks. I highly recommend the bullet journal method for personal use. It’s far more like sketching and it’s a great way to capture the listen and watch list, and it’s far easier to manage over coffee before work. Also great for morning pages, etc.
I rely on Revit as the project database as much as possible, but ms word is indispensable once the For Construction set has been issued. I tried to make Revit act like notion but that’s taking things too far from an OCD perspective, as well as for the team - not everyone is Revit savvy
Best Notion template ever
So interesting! It looks like this would cut so much clutter from my work files!
Amazing video! Your templates are well customized and organized according to one's needs. Congratulations on your channel and content! One question regarding the Weekly Agenda template: are the tasks that you spread out over the days of the week parts of a larger task that is contained in the embedded "Upcoming tasks" table or are they reminders of the tasks that are in the "Upcoming tasks" table?
Thank you for this 😁🙏🏼
Really helpful thank you! 🤗
Good video!
Such a helpful video/channel, found your channel through searching for Notion tutorials (I'm a graphic designer) and now I'm currently watching your Outpost series videos - so interesting. I do have one question though, I've built a master task list, and then linking to that in project pages and filtering to just that project, which works fine. But I'm trying to build something like you've got for the weekly overview, but I notice that doesn't pull in any tasks? So my question: do you look at your task list, then manually add tasks again into your Mon-Fri/making managing section? Also, the idea of separating making and managing is a great idea, definitely going to steal that too.
I was just about to ask if combining your life tasks with work is difficult but I see that it's not. Thanks for this! This is really helpful.
You can build what you want in Notion which is it's biggest pro and con. Where do you start then where do you stop aha.
thanks for sharing.
This is gold.
I looked into notion a few years ago, I settled on Airtable. It does the job, mostly in table form if you use the free version. This looks great and I need to look into notion again. I am curious to see how this looks from your contributors side. How much can they see/how do they see it/ how much control can you give them?
This was cool! However, I'm doing architecture and structural engineering and I'm 12. So could you please do more with pencil and paper as well as electronics?
Thanks for showing your process, I was wondering if you ever print your meeting notes and if it’s easy to get a nice looking print that you can share with your clients directly from notion?
Thanks for sharing this, Eric. Great channel with outstanding content. Started with Notion just over a week ago so this vid is heaven-sent.
I'd have question regarding the project property in the SOPs Meeting Notes: For some reason, no projects are shown to chose from (as it does in the Task list), just a blank field opens up. Would be great if someone could point me in the right direction here, thanks.
I just wanted to start using Notion but don't know how. Thanks sir for the video!
There is a bit of a learning curve at the beginning but stick with it, I think it is worth it 😁
Hi Eric, it's possible to drag the tasks from task list to the days you create in the agenda ? That would be amazing and it would be much easier organize the task for the week.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ORGANIZATION SYSTEM! Thanks for the time and energy you've sent in order to share it. However, i would like to ask you these:
(1) What will happen to you if, in 5 years time (for some reason), Notion is not available anymore?
(2) Do you have any "exit" (backup) plan for all these information?
Valid points and true of any software, right? You can export a whole workspace as HTML, PDF, or Markdown & CSV.
thank you for sharing! quick qn: how do you set up the archive for the weekly agenda? is it a table that stores the weekly pages?