Brief Summary
Alright, so this video is like, your ultimate guide to Notion in 2024. It starts with the basics – setting up your account and getting familiar with the interface. Then, it moves on to more advanced stuff like creating pages, using blocks, and mastering databases. The video also covers relations, rollups, and formulas to connect databases and perform calculations. It's designed for beginners but also has tips for more experienced users.
- Account setup and basic settings
- Pages, blocks, and databases explained
- Relations, rollups, and formulas for advanced users
- Tips for productivity and organization
The video is a comprehensive Notion tutorial for 2024, starting with basic topics and progressing to advanced concepts like databases, relations, rollups, and formulas. Beginners can watch the whole video, while advanced users can use the chapters to skip to specific topics.
Notion is versatile, good for note-taking and word processing, and creating mini-apps like task managers, book trackers, and CRMs. It can replace tools like Google Suite and Microsoft Word with added features.
If you want a more hands-on learning experience, you can check out the creator's Notion All Access Pass. This gives you access to a private Notion community, premium templates, and a flagship course on Notion for productivity.
The tutorial covers five main topics: settings and account creation, Notion pages, Notion blocks, Notion databases, and advanced concepts like formulas, relations, and rollups.
To create a Notion account, go to notion.so and sign up for free with an email address. After entering the verification code sent to your email, you can add a photo, name, and password. You'll be asked what you're using Notion for; selecting "for life" allows you to follow along with the tutorial.
After creating your account, you'll see a "Getting Started" checklist. You can either go through this tutorial or delete the default pages and start with a blank page.
To access Notion's settings, click on "Settings and Members" in the upper left corner. You can enable two-step verification for added security. In "My Account," you can change your name, photo, email, and password. You can also grant Notion support access to your account if needed.
In "My Settings," you can change the appearance to dark mode using the toggle or the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L (or Command+Shift+L on Mac). You can set a default page to open on startup and install the desktop app. Date and time settings can be set automatically or manually. Privacy settings allow you to manage cookie preferences and profile discoverability.
Notification settings allow you to enable mobile push notifications (if you have the app installed) and Slack notifications. You can manage email notification settings, such as turning off the email digest. In the "My Connections" tab, you can manage connections to apps like Slack, Google Drive, and Figma.
Language and region settings allow you to set your language and change the start of the week to Monday. Workspace settings allow you to change the organization name, icon, and domain. You can add allowed email domains for automatic workspace access. You can export your content or members as a CSV. Workspace analytics can be turned on or off.
Notion offers Plus, Business, and Enterprise plans. Plus is recommended for most users, offering access to 100 guests, 30-day page history, and unlimited blocks and file uploads. Notion AI is a separate add-on. Education plans are available for educators and students, providing a free Plus account with a one-member limit.
The "Sites" tab tracks published sites from your Notion account. Security settings are mostly for Enterprise-level accounts. The "Connections" tab allows you to add member-level or workspace-level connections. The "Import" tab helps you import documents from Word or Evernote.
The sidebar on the left can be toggled open and closed. It displays all your pages, which can be organized into nested lists. You can change the icon and title of your pages. New pages can be added in multiple ways, such as using the plus button or the "New Page" option.
Notion notifications can be accessed via Ctrl+Alt+U or by clicking the inbox button. The search function can be accessed via Ctrl+K or by clicking the search bar. Notion has its own calendar app that can be integrated with Google Calendar or Outlook. Team spaces can be created for different divisions of your team.
Templates can be accessed via the "Templates" button. The "Import" feature opens the import settings. The trash button shows deleted pages, which can be restored. You can toggle between different workspaces by clicking the button in the upper left corner.
To create a new page, click "Add a page" on the sidebar, give it a name, and add an icon. To add a page within another page, hover over the page on the side and click "Add a page inside." You can also type "/page" within a page to create a new subpage. Pages can be organized into toggle lists.
Add a cover photo to your page by clicking "Add cover" at the top. You can choose from Notion's gallery, upload your own images, link to images, or search on Unsplash. Add comments to a page by clicking "Add comment" at the top. You can mention other pages, people, or dates using the "@" button.
You can start typing directly on a page. To change text settings, highlight the text and use the formatting options (bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, code, equation). You can also change the text color or background color. Use "@" to mention people. Highlight text and use "Ask AI" for AI assistance.
To share a page, click "Share" in the upper right corner and invite people by typing their email. You can change their access level (full access, edit, comment, view). To add someone as a guest, hit "Skip for now" when prompted to add them to the workspace. The sharing hierarchy works so that access to an outer-level page grants access to all pages within it.
To publish a page, go to the "Publish" tab and toggle "Publish to the web." You can allow editing, commenting, and duplication as a template. Enable search engine indexing to make the page appear in Google search results. Copy the link and share it.
The "View comments" button shows all open comments on a page. "View all updates" shows everything that's happened within the page. Analytics show the number of views. Favoriting a page changes its position in the sidebar.
Clicking the three dots in the upper right corner provides page customization options. You can change the font, enable small text for a more compact layout, and toggle full width on or off. You can lock the page to prevent accidental changes. Customize page settings allow you to turn off top-level page discussion and backlinks.
You can import or export your page using the "Import" and "Export" options. Edit page-level connections to manage integrations. Use Ctrl+Z (or Command+Z on Mac) to undo actions.
Blocks are the building blocks of Notion pages. To create a basic text block, just start typing. To create separate blocks, click below the first one and start typing. Blocks can be dragged to create columns.
The slash command ("/") is key to accessing different block types. Type "/" and then the name of the block you want to use. To-do lists, bullet lists, numbered lists, and toggle lists can be created. Sub-items can be added to lists by hitting Enter and then Tab. Lists can be turned into different types of lists by highlighting them and using the "Turn into" option.
The table block is a simple table, different from Notion databases. Type "/" and then "table" to create a basic table. You can add columns and rows and type in information. The header row and header column can be toggled on or off. The table can be expanded to fit the page width. Columns can be dragged and double-clicked to snap to the longest content.
Dividers can be added to break up your page by typing "/" and then "div" or by typing three hyphens.
The callout block can be used to divide up pages or add a special header. Type "/" and then "call out" to create a callout block. You can add an emoji and a title. Content can be dragged into callouts. The color of the callout can be changed.
Other basic blocks include headings, quotes, and link to page. The link to page block allows you to link to other pages in your Notion workspace.
The table of contents block creates a table of contents that dynamically updates on your page. Type "/" and then "table of contents" to create it. Headings (H1, H2, H3) will show up in the table of contents.
Breadcrumbs can be added to show the page hierarchy. Type "/" and then "breadcrumbs" to create it.
The "@" command allows you to mention a person, page, or date. Type "@" and then start typing the name of the person, page, or date.
Media blocks allow you to share various forms of media, including images, web bookmarks, videos, and audio. A code snippet allows you to type in code and will give you the syntax. A file block allows you to upload a file. If you're using Notion as a free user, it's recommended to link to files on Google Drive or Dropbox instead of using Notion for file storage.
The synced block allows you to create a block that is synced across multiple pages. Type "/" and then "sync block" to create it. Synced blocks are great for menus.
Buttons allow you to take an action with Notion just by clicking a button. Type "/" and then "button" to create a button. A button has a trigger (when any of these occur) and an action (do this). The "Insert blocks" action allows you to insert blocks below or above the button. Buttons can have multiple steps, including confirmation steps.
Mermaid code allows you to create diagrams in Notion. Type "/" and then "mermaid" to create a mermaid code block.
Notion databases allow you to track tasks, notes, books, people, content, and more. There are two ways to create a Notion database: inline and full page. Inline databases are created within a page, while full-page databases turn the entire page into a database.
It's recommended to create databases as full pages and then link them to other pages using the "/link database" command. You can create a page as a folder to store all of your databases.
Databases are made up of pages, which are represented by rows in the database. Each page can have properties associated with it.
To add a property to a database, click the plus button. There are different types of properties, including text, number, select, multi-select, status, date, person, checkbox, files and media, URL, and ID.
Text properties allow you to add a summary or description. Number properties allow you to add numbers, which can be formatted as currency. Select properties allow you to create a list of options to tag items with. Multi-select properties allow you to select multiple options from a list.
Status properties allow you to track something between to-do, in progress, and complete stages.
You can change the icon next to properties by clicking into the property and hovering over the icon.
The difference between the select and multi-select property is that with the single Select Property you can only select one at a time, but with the multi select you can select multiple items.
To hide a property, right-click on the property and click "Hide in view." To bring back hidden properties, click the three dots, go to "Properties," and re-enable them.
Status property allows you to track something between to do, in progress, or complete stages.
To snap the column size, hover over the border of the column and double-click.
Date properties allow you to add a date, which can be formatted. You can add a reminder for a specific date.
To copy information into the rows below, go to the corner and drag vertically.
To create a tasks database, add a page within the databases page and turn it into a table.
Person properties allow you to assign tasks to members in your account. You can limit the number of people per task.
To Mass change something, highlight the rows and click on the property to change.
Checkbox properties allow you to mark something as done.
Files and media properties allow you to upload files.
URL properties allow you to link to something. You can show the full URL or a preview.
To create a CRM database, add a page within the databases page and turn it into a table.
Email and phone properties allow you to add email addresses and phone numbers.
ID properties allow you to create a unique identifier for each item in your database.
Dynamic database properties include created time, created by, last edited time, and last edited by.
You can add icons to pages by opening them and adding content or by manually adding an icon.
Button properties allow you to automate actions within your database.
Automations allow you to automatically update something based on a trigger. This is a paid feature.
Templates allow you to create a page with pre-filled information. To create a template, click the drop-down over by the new button and click "New template."
To set a default template, click the drop-down and click "Set to default."
To have a template repeat weekly, click the drop-down, click the three dots, and click "Repeat."
Filters allow you to only see specific items within your database. Click the "Filter" button and filter by any of the properties in your database. You can create Advanced filters with multiple conditions.
Sorting allows you to order your data. Click the "Sort" button and sort by any of the properties.
Views allow you to have different saved views with different filtering and sorting. Click the plus button to create a new view.
It's best to create views that help you with different tasks, such as viewing tasks that are past a due date or tasks that are specifically related to one person.
Grouping allows you to chop up your data. Click the three dots and click "Group."
The table database is the default database and is easier to work on your databases when you can see all of your properties in a table format.
The board view allows you to view your data in a Kanban-style board.
It's recommended to edit your databases in a table view.
The calendar view allows you to view your data in a calendar. You need a date property to use the calendar view.
The list view is similar to a table, but more lightweight.
The timeline view is similar to the calendar view, but more free form.
The gallery view allows you to create a gallery.
The video transitions to more advanced topics, including relations, rollups, sub-items, dependencies, and formulas.
Relations connect two databases, while rollups reference properties within those related databases.
To create a relation, you need two databases that you want to connect. Examples include tasks and projects, authors and books, and ingredients and recipes.
Rollups access information from related pages and can perform calculations like percentages, counts, and sums.
The video demonstrates how to create a completion percentage rollup to track the progress of tasks within a project.
The video shows how to create a project view in a gallery format, displaying the progress bar and project details.
Sub-items relate two rows within the same database.
To create subtasks, click the three dots, go to "Sub items," and click "Turn on sub items."
Dependencies show that tasks are dependent on each other and need to be completed in a certain order.
Formulas allow you to perform calculations and create dynamic content.
Formulas in Notion are not the same as formulas in Excel or Google Sheets. You can't reference any cell with this formula.
The first way that you can use notion formulas is for basic math operations.
The IF function checks if something is true, and if it is true, then it spits out a certain response, and if it's not true, then it spits out another response.
You can also chain if functions together with nested if functions.
The let function allows you to assign a value to a variable, and then you can reuse that variable anywhere within your expression in the formula.
You can style your formulas and make them look amazing.
If you want a shortcut to being more productive with Notion, it's recommended that you join the creator's all access pass.
The video concludes with a thank you and encouragement to explore more Notion content.
Transcript
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0:00 hello and welcome to the ultimate notion tutorial for 2024 in today's video I'm going to teach you everything that you need to know about notion so that even if you're a complete beginner right now by the end of this video you will be a notion Pro we're going to start with the more basic topics and notion like creating pages and adding text and then we'll work our way into the more advanced topics like databases relations rollups and formulas if you are a complete beginner I recommend watching this video all the way through at least one time but if you're more advanced or you've already watched it through you can come back and use the chapters below to skip around the video and find exactly what you're needing help with so what can you use notion 4 well it's great for taking notes and word
0:46 processing but it also has the ability to create powerful mini apps like task managers book trackers crms recipe trackers and so much more and that's why I love notion so much it's replaced the Google suite for me it's replaced Microsoft Word it's replaced all of these Legacy apps that you use and added powerful new features now you may like learning in a more handson interactive way and if that's the case for you then I recommend checking out my notion all access pass this gives you access to my private notion Community all future and current premium notion templates that I've created and my Flagship course notion for productivity which goes goes the extra mile to teach you the secrets
1:32 of the top 1% notion users so if you would like to join hundreds of others who are advancing their careers advancing their businesses learning future proof skills and achieving maximum productivity using notion then you can click the link below this video to check out the notion all access pass if you decide to join I look forward to welcoming you and serving you inside of our community now let's get into the value packed notion full tutorial we're going to start with settings and account creation then move on to notion Pages after that we'll talk about notion blocks finally notion databases and then at the very end I'm going to go into some Advanced notion Concepts such as formulas relations and rollups let's start by creating your notion account
2:18 and setting it up for the first time to start you're just going to go over to Notions website notion.so and once you hit enter into your address bar and you're on their site you can just hit get no for free from here it's just going to ask you to sign up with a simple email address so I'm just going to enter my email here and hit continue at this point you'll have to head over to your email and grab that verification code that it just sent you I have that code right here so I'm just going to rightclick and paste it now I'm going to hit create new account at this point you can add a photo a name and a password for your notion account all right I've got this all filled out here and now you're going to see this little box here that just says I agree to notion marketing Communications if you don't want to see
3:04 their marketing Communications then you can uncheck this and hit continue now it'll ask you what you're going to be using notion for to start I'm just going to say for life this isn't going to set my notion account on a path that doesn't allow me to use notion for work or for school but if you use for life here then you can start out and follow along exactly as I do hit continue and now we've created our notion account I'm just going to hit okay and right off the bat you'll see that we have this getting started checklist so this is going to give you a basic understanding of how to use notion and if you want to you can go through this quick tutorial and check these boxes as you complete the items in the list as for myself I'm going to delete these default pages that we start
3:50 with here and then I'll hit add a page so that we have a blank Untitled page to begin with next let's take a look at Notions settings and pricing plans in case you do want to upgrade or alter your notion account I'm going to click on settings and members in the upper leftand corner to get me where I need to go right out of the gate if you want to make sure that you have maximum security for your notion account you can hit enable twostep verification right here and go through that process in this case I'm just going to close close that because I don't necessarily need to do that as of right now and then I'm going to go to my account in the upper left
4:36 hand corner here I can change the name and photo that I added from the beginning I can change my email here I can set a new password if I closed that two-step verification window you can always come back here and alter your two-step verification settings if you're ever speaking with notion support and you want to grant them access to your notion account you can do so by toggling this switch right here they may request that if they're trying to work on your account you can log out of all of your other devices and you can always delete your account if it comes time where you don't want to use notion anymore next let's look at my settings so under my settings this gets a little bit more interesting we can change our appearance of notion here and I actually prefer working in dark mode so I'm going
5:22 to use dark mode for the rest of this tutorial just by toggling the switch to dark it's just light mode by default with the CL classic notion branding but I'm going to switch to dark mode now and that's going to be much nicer on our eyes another way to toggle between dark and light mode is to use control shift L on Windows or command shift L on Mac so I'm just going to hit control shift L and control shift L to toggle back to dark mode this open on start setting allows you to set a page in your notion account that you want to open by default since we haven't gone over Pages yet this might not make sense but you can always refer back to this after we've talked about Pages if you want to set it to last visited page or top page in sidebar
6:07 you'll understand what this means after watching this tutorial now if you want to install the desktop app for notion then you can actually install that by clicking this link right here and if you have this checked it will open links in your desktop app when you're using notion next we have the date and time settings you can set your time zone automatically just by toggling this on but if you want to control the time Zone that you're using in your notion account you can turn this off and select your time zone from all of these options here I'm just going to turn it back on to automatic now for privacy settings you can change your cookie settings in notion they will have certain settings on here that you don't necessarily need like this targeted marketing and targeted advertising one you can turn that off if you don't want them tracking
6:52 you so that they can do their marketing you can also turn off analytics you can turn off functional but some of these things you're just going to want to leave on I would probably leave functional on and analytics probably doesn't hurt to have it on um strictly necessary these ones are cookies that you just can't turn off or else the app just won't work once you change your cookie preferences it will reload notion so I'm going to hit okay I'm going to go back to settings my settings and I'm going to scroll down so profile discoverability this is the final setting so users with your email can see your name and profile picture when inviting you to a new works space if you don't want them to be able to see you by typing in your email and you don't want your picture and your notion profile to pop up then you can turn this off but if
7:38 you're okay with anyone in the notion ecosystem being able to type in your email and see your account pop up then you can leave it on I'm just going to turn this off for this particular account next let's take a look at the notification settings you can get there by going to my notifications here you can decide if you want mobile push notifications you will need to install the notion app on your phone to get these and this will notify you if you're mentioned in an ocean workspace or a comment if you work in slack then you can turn on slack notifications as well and that will notify you when you're mentioned in a page database property or a comment I'm going to leave that off because I'm not using slack then we have the email notification settings here this email digests one is going to give you a digest every 8 hours so I'm just
8:25 going to turn this off cuz I don't want to be getting a ton of emails about my notion account but if you are using it for teams this might be helpful this top one is good to leave on because if you are getting invited to a page or you're getting mentioned in something important then you're going to receive an email about that if you want to edit the settings for new product launches or marketing emails that notion sends then you can hit manage settings right here on the announcements and update emails next you can go to the my connections Tab and this is where you're going to be able to manage your connections there's going to be a ton of connections that you can add in notion when you hit see all but the main ones are slack Google Drive and figma you can scroll through and see what else they have to offer as well next let's go to language and region
9:10 settings and here you can set your language and you can change if you want the week to start on Monday by default it starts on Sunday but some people wonder how do I change it to Monday I'm actually going to change it to Monday because that's just how I roll so those are sort of your personal notion account settings but what if you wanted to change your workspace settings so I'm going to click on my workspace settings and here I can change the name of my organization so this is how others are going to see my notion account when they try to join this community or when they try to install something in this workspace so if you have a company you're going to name it after your company name I'll just name mine productive dude and you can change the icon for it here you can select an emoji a notion icon or a custom upload here you can change the domain that you have
9:56 associated with your notion account by default they're just going to give you a random domain so I recommend actually changing this to your company name if it's available here you can add allowed emails so if my email domain is hello productive dude or Carter productive dude I can just add productive dude as an allowed domain here and then whenever somebody signs up with that email they're just going to be automatically added to my workspace if I have a Plus account I can add a public homepage here and if I ever want to leave notion and I want to export all my content and take it with me or even if I just want to back up all the content in my account I can export my content right here if you have a business level account you can export all of your members as a CSV as
10:41 well so if you get up to hundreds of members in your notion account you can export them here here you can turn workspace analytics like page views on or off I'm just going to leave it on because it doesn't do me any harm once again there's a delete button this is different from deleting your account it's just deleting your workspace so if you want to delete your workspace you can do so right here once you're done here you can just hit update and then go back into settings and members and we'll take a look at this people tab right here on the people tab it's going to give you an invite link that you can send people if you want them to join your workspace this will show you all of the members in your notion account you can also toggle over to guests and groups groups and members are members of your team and members of specific groups within your team I
11:27 actually invite my members as guests it's a lot more economical that way you can Silo things off if you create teams but then you're going to need a team notion account and you're going to be paying per seat what I recommend is just using the guests feature whenever possible notion has to make money somehow so they make a lot of their money off of teams now let's take a look at notion pricing if you hit upgrade within your workspace settings you can upgrade to plus business or Enterprise what I recommend for most people is just using Plus if you do want to upgrade plus will give you access to up to 100 guests 30-day page history and it's going to give you unlimited blocks and unlimited file uploads if you're getting more into the team usages then you can upgrade to business or Enterprise now notion also
12:15 introduced notion Ai and notion AI is a special add-on that you can add to your plan by clicking right here notion AI is charged separate from plus business and Enterprise if you want to see more of what these plans have to offer you can just hit comp all features here and you can scroll through this table to see what these different plans offer notion works great with Educators and students so if you want to you can use the get the education plan button down here and that will actually give you a Plus account for free except you just have the one member limit so keep that in mind if you're a student or an educator under FAQ you can hit the plans billing and payment link if you want to see more or you can hit message support if you want to talk to somebody on the sales team this sites tab is going to keep track of all of your published sites
13:01 from your notion account so these are basically just pages that you publish and you have a link to that you can send to the public here you can edit more security settings most of this is for Enterprise level notion accounts identity and provisioning again is mainly for business and Enterprise accounts the connections tab is going to allow you to add member level connections or workspace level connections if you have different apps that you want to connect to notion and finally the import t tab can get you started if you're trying to import let's say like a Word document or you're trying to import Evernote notes once you're done editing your settings you can just click out of this window next I'm just going to explain the overall user interface for notion so that you know where everything is first and
13:46 foremost we have the sidebar on the left hand side of the screen here you can toggle this open and closed just by clicking this button in the upper left hand corner with the double arrows so I'm going to close it then you can hover and open it back up and that will be there at all times including all of your pages and you can even drill down into your pages and see Pages within those pages you can change the icon of your page here and you can even add a title of your page so I'll just name this homepage and now as you can see that page is here on my sidebar if you want to add a new page there's lots of ways to do that you can hit this plus button if you want to add a page within the homepage you can hit new page right here you can hit add a page right here as
14:33 well so there's lots of different ways that you can add a page in notion you can see all of your notion notifications by hitting Control Alt U and that will pop open your inbox where it has all of your notion notifications or you can just click the inbox button in the upper leftand corner if you want to search within your notion account you can search right here or you can hit contrl K and that will open up the search as well and then you can just search for any anything let's say I wanted to find my homepage I just type in homepage and even though I spelled it wrong here it still found it right here so that's pretty amazing notion search is one of its best features notion is very serious about their searchability so you can even click on this show filters right here and you can filter by different things here notion even has their own
15:19 calendar app so if you want to integrate your notion account with a calendar application and you want to plug it in with Google Calendar or Outlook then you can do so by hitting the this calendar button right here and that will take you to notion calendar I have some more videos on that if you're interested in checking them out this created team space button will allow you to create a separate space within your workspace for a specific division of your team this is where you're going to start opening up a can of worms where you have to start paying for Notions so I typically don't recommend this if you're just getting started and just learning it from the ground up but later on if you want to add a team space and you want to siphon off different divisions of your company then this is a good way to do that the templates button right here will take you to a huge database of notion
16:05 templates that you can search from and use right out of the gate but a lot of them are quite generic so I recommend checking out our premium notion templates over on my website productive dude.com purchase our all access pass if you just want to get all of my premium templates the cool thing about my templates is I give installation guides with them and I show you exactly how to use them to enhance your productivity the import feature is just going to open up the import settings that we showed you earlier so that you can quickly import different pages and let's say I wanted to get those pages back from earlier I can hit this trash button right here and it's going to show all of those pages that we used to have and I can even restore them by hitting this button right here and as you can see it brings that reading list page back that we got right out of the gate I'm just going to delete it again
16:51 because we don't necessarily need that in this example if I want to toggle the workspace that I'm in I can click on this button in the upper left hand corner and I can change which workspace I'm a part of I'll need to get invited to different workspaces or added to different workspaces via my email to see the workspaces that show up here and this is also where people will be able to come if they want to see your workspace if you've already invited them as a guest or as a team member next we're going to be diving into notion pages and notion pages are a foundational concept and a foundational component of your notion workspace so I'm going to show you how you can create new pages edit page settings and share pages with others if you want to create a new page you can just hit add a page right here on the sidebar and that's
17:38 going to add a new page I can just give it a name and I can add an icon here if I wanted to add a page within this give it a name page there's a couple ways that I can do that first and foremost the easiest way is just hovering over this page on the side and hitting add a page inside from there it's going to open it up in a popup and it just says add to give it a name up top here so I'm just going to say give it another name and I can add another icon here then I can click away so now we have this link to give it another name inside of give it a name and on the sidebar here as you can see this is putting it into this little toggle list
18:23 where I can hide the pages within it or I can open it up and see all of them so this is a good way to organize your page you can use one page like this given a name page as a folder and I'll just rename it so that we have some good conventions here so that you can understand what I'm doing so let's say that's a folder and then within it we can have as many of these Pages as we want and I can even drag new pages in there or I can hit the plus button on add a page inside and as you can see you can add as many pages within here as you want and then if I click on the folder they're all just going to be in here another way to add a page within a page is to click into said page and type in slash page and then hit enter and now it's created
19:09 another page within this folder so I'm just going to call this one quick page and click back to my folder using the breadcrumbs here and now as you can see we have all of these different pages within our page you can add a cover photo to your page by hitting add cover at the top right right here right under the icon so if I hit add cover it's just going to open up the cover photo and then I can hit change cover and by default notion has a gallery of images that you can use from the James web telescope they've got some colors and some gradients here they've got some NASA images all kinds of neat stuff here so you can add some of these beautiful images by default and once they're added you can hit change cover right here if
19:54 you want to alter it again and you can even upload your own images link to images or you can go to unsplash and search for any image that you'd like so if I type in Mountain I'm going to get a bunch of images of mountains that I can use as my background here if you want to you can also add a comment to a page so if I hit add comment at the top of the page here I can leave a comment for anyone who has this page shared with them so they're going to see this comment from me if I type it in right here I'm just going to say hey guys this is the folder you can check out our awesome Pages inside you can mention
20:40 other Pages people or dates by using this app button right here and you can even attach files with this attachment so I'm just going to send this off and now that comment is going to live on the page people can react to it with an emoji or you can hit resolve if it's something that you want to see dis disappear and then you can see your resolved comments by clicking into them another cool thing about pages is you can just start typing in them so let's say I just got rid of all these Pages by clicking and dragging over them and then hitting backspace to delete them now our folder is empty I can just click anywhere and I can just start typing in notion I'm just going to type in this folder is empty and it's important to note that even though I've named this folder it's still considered a page but
21:27 you can treat a page as a folder that is if you want to store other Pages within it if you want to change the text settings just highlight the piece of text that you want to change and then you can actually add bold italics underline strike through you can mark something as code you can create an equation so like let's say I have 2 + 2 I can highlight that and if I hit create equation it puts it in this fancy equation text you can also highlight your text and change the text color or the background color of your text so let's just say I wanted this to have a yellow background and let's say that I wanted to at myself here so I could just type in at and then Carter srirat now it's
22:12 going to at me and notify me you can also highlight your text and you can hit ask Ai and then from there you can go with one of these General prompts or you can type in your own prompt in relation to this text right here and I'm just going to type in what does this mean and hit enter and as you can see it's going to give me an AI answer I can choose to replace the selection if I want to with this AI answer or I can insert it below continue writing or make it longer I'm just going to insert it below and now I have an AI response just populated directly in an oce telling me what this means I'm going to highlight and delete the content on this page now and let's go ahead and share this page with someone so if you want to share this page you can hover above the right hand
22:58 corner and hit share I'm just going to invite my demo workspace here by typing that email in and then clicking on it now this next part is important to pay attention to if you want to change the access level that this account has you can hit full access right here and you can change the access level if you just want them to be able to edit but not share with others you're going to need a Plus account for that but if you're okay with somebody having full access just comment abilities or just viewing abilities on that page then you can change to one of these options if I hit can view and then I hit invite it's going to ask me if I want to add this person to the workspace at this point this is where you hit skip for now if you want to add them as a guest if you want to add them to the workspace you can check this and hit add to workspace
23:45 from there it's going to want to bill you for a team space so just make sure that you hit skip for now if you just want to add them as a guest and now you can see all of the people with access to this said page and they're also going to have have access to any pages that you add within this page now the way that this sort of works is if I add a page in here just type SL Page hit enter page within folder that person is going to be able to click into this page within folder and they'll be able to see it now but if you have this page shared directly then anybody that has this particular page within folder shared with them will not be able to access the outer pages so it works in a high hierarchy whatever page on the furthest
24:30 outside they have access to they're going to have access to all of the pages within but if you only share one of the pages within that folder or that page with somebody like this page right here let's say I share this one with my other demo account and I invite them now you'll see that that demo account has access to this page this one has access to this page but if I go out to the outer level page here and hit my share settings you'll see that that new demo account that I added doesn't have access to this page it only has access to the page within so that's how the sharing hierarchy Works in notion now let's say I wanted to publish this page so that I could just send people a link and they'd be able to see it from the web if I go to the publish
25:16 tab here and then I hit publish it's now going to allow me to just copy this link and share it with anyone on the web and it will be a public page if you want to allow anyone to be able to edit this page which is typically not advisable then you can turn on allow editing you can also allow commenting if you want people to be able to comment on any piece of this page and if you want somebody to duplicate your page as a template you can have this turned on right here that will add a duplicate button in the upper corner if not you can turn that off if you want your page to show up in Google search results then you can turn on search engine indexing and it will actually create a Google listing for this page and put it out there for the public to see then you would just copy this link and you can send it off to anybody that you want or you can add it to a button on your
26:02 website and people can come and look at this notion page just to show you a preview of what this will look like you can hit view site and as you can see it just says built with notion in the corner if I had duplicate on they'd be able to duplicate up here but it really doesn't allow you to do much with this page other than look at it with the current settings that I have added let's go back to our folder page and now I'm going to be looking at the view comments button in the upper right hand corner view all comments allows you to see all the open comments on a page so if I add a new comment I'll just say new comment and hit send as you can see it gets added right here and then once it's resolved it will disappear from these comments you can also view page updates
26:47 by hitting this view all updates button and this is going to show you everything that's happened within the page you can also go to the analytics if you want to see how many views this page has gotten and you can change the date range right here if you favored a page it's going to change its position in the sidebar and it's going to add this favorites tab here so that all of your favorite pages are showing up first I'm going to unfavorite this page and if you click in the upper right hand corner on these three dots you're going to get some page customization options so you can actually change the font that you're using so they have this siif which is good for publishing and word processing and they have mono which is good for Drafting and notes I prefer to just stick with the default most of the time because that's how I use notion if you want a little bit more space then you can hit small text and that will
27:33 actually make your workspace a little bit more compact a little bit harder to see but you are going to be able to get some more on the page you can also change to full width if you don't want this boxed layout but if you want it to just stay within this boxed layout then you can turn full width off you can also lock the page so that nobody makes any accidental changes so if the page is locked I can't highlight this and delete it I can only click on it I'm going to turn lock page off and then if I go to customize page here it's going to allow me to change a few things so top level page discussion I can turn that off if I want to and that will turn the comments off in that section backlinks if there's a link to this page it will show up here it's not showing up right now but I can turn that off I can make it expanded I
28:20 can change a few settings in the back links and then I can also make page comments minimal if I want to see them a little bit less you can import an export your page by hitting import right here and that will bring you once again to the import data if you want to import any of this data into this particular page or you can click on export and there's numerous ways that you can export your data right here and it will give you a downloadable file with all that data within that page here you can edit your page level connections so these are different Integrations different API calls that are going to be made to notion so what you can do is you can change which ones have access right here and this is just changing it on the page level if you want to undo something on your page you can hit undo right here you can also
29:07 just hit contrl Z on Windows or command Z on a Mac if you want to go back and undo something next we're going to look at notion blocks and you can think of blocks as the building blocks or the components within your notion Pages let's go ahead and start creating some blocks so I'm here on my notion homepage and just as I showed you before if you want to create a basic text block you can just start typing something and from here we have a block I know this is a block because I can hover over it and I can drag it to move it around if I wanted to create separate block I could click below this one and I could start typing something else and now I have two blocks so this block and this block you can tell they're separate
29:52 because I can highlight both of them and there's this little thin line between them and you can drag them from the side right here so if I drag this one I can even drag it to the side of this block when I get that little blue line as you can see now this block is on the right and this block is on the left we have two separate columns I'm going to drag to highlight and hit backspace to delete those and now let's talk about some other useful blocks within notion if I hit slash this is going to be the key to getting access to all of the different block types within notion so just write this down you're going to using this a lot the slash button and now you can just start typing the name of the block that you want to pull in so I'm just going to type list because this is the first type of block that we're going to
30:37 look at not the database list view that's different but if I scroll down to basic blocks this is where we're going to be starting out so we have a to-do list a bullet list a numbered list and a toggled list that's right you can create list in notion so if I hit to-do list it's going to start populating in these little check boxes so if I just start entering little to-dos I can do that here I can just write morning routine let's say I want to do my morning routine and then if I hit enter gives me a new one I can write feed the dog walk the dog make a notion tutorial can really just keep hitting enter and typing as many of these as I want if I hit enter and then I hit tab
31:23 it's going to add a sub item to this list so making the notion tutorial might contain other parts like creating a script filming and then editing and as I go I can check these different items off within my list if I highlight my entire list and then I click on the upper block at the very top of it what I can do is I can hit turn into and then I can select a different type of list that I want to turn it into so if I'd rather this be a bullet list a numbered list or a toggle list I can do that so let's just turn it into a bullet list now as you can see it turned all of these highlevel items into a bullet list if I highlight the ones below I can also turn those into a bullet list and that
32:09 will make them sub items within this list let's say creating a script had multiple hierarchical levels to it if I wanted to I could just hit enter underneath creat a list and then tab and I could add as many levels as I want here just by hitting enter tab enter tab enter tab I can even turn it into to a toggle list and this is a unique setup for notion that allows you to basically have these little toggle items that you can put content inside of so let's say my morning routine had the sub items but I didn't want to see them all the time I could actually put them in a toggle list so now that I have this open let's just go ahead and add my morning routine items as a checklist so drink water shower meditate and let's close that and
32:54 now they're all hidden but if I want to see them I can open this back up and I can check them off same goes for these other items within the toggle list you can put different content Within These and it's a good way to keep notion Compact and clean next let's look at the table block type this is different from a notion database if you've heard of notion databases we're going to be getting into those later in this guide and they're kind of like tables but tables are just a bit simpler so if you just want to add a basic table in your notion account then you can hit slash and you can type in table and then you'll get this basic block table not to be confused with table view or table of contents table will just create a simple table for you you can add columns you can add rows and you can just basically
33:41 type in anything that you want here so let's just go name address phone and then you could put different information in here I'm just navigating this by hitting tab to go sideways or using my arrow keys on my keyboard or hitting enter to go a row down if you click on your table and go to options you can also change the header row or header column toggle on if you want the first row and the First Column to become a header so I'm going to turn header row on and as you can see it just bolts this and changes the color behind it if I want this table to fit to the page width I can click on it and hit this little expand button right here and that's going to fit it to the page width if I change this to a full width page like I showed you earlier you would have to click this
34:27 again to get it fit to the full page width you can drag these columns around and you can even double click on these columns if you want it to snap to the longest content within it let's say I wanted to change the color of a row or a column I could just hover over the side of it and I could click this color button right here and then I could select the color of it this will change the text this would change the background let's just change the background if I click on a row I can also hit insert above or below or I can duplicate that row so I'm just going hit insert above as you can see and then I can duplicate this empty row if I want it to Let's highlight this and delete this table next we'll look at adding dividers to break up your page so if I just have a bunch of content here and I
35:12 could just type a bunch of content but actually what I'm going to do is I'm just going to hit slash Ai and I'm going to ask AI to write I'm just going to write some laurum ipsum and hit enter and it will just write out some gibberish for me just so I have some basic text content I'll make it longer and I'm going to hit done now this will serve as a good way to show how the divider works if I wanted to divide this content from some other content on my page I could just hit enter below it and then I can type in slash div and that will give me the basic block divider I can hit enter another way that I can do this is by typing in a couple hyphens and after the third hyphen it's going to create a divide div so that's a quicker way to
35:59 create dividers if you want to and then I can start typing something else down here and I can drag this divider underneath it let's just duplicate this lauram ipsum a couple times and we'll put these dividers between these different pieces of text next we're going to look at the call out block and the call out block can be great for also dividing up your pages or just adding a special header to your page so I'm going to type in slash and then type in call out and hit enter and it's going to create this box with an emoji and a title right here so I'm just going to call this lauram ipsum and
36:45 I'm going to highlight that title make it bold by hitting contrl b or just hitting the Bold button and I'm going to select this little call out icon and we'll just go with the word bubble and I can either just drag this above my laurum ipsum or I can even drag some laurum ipsum inside of this so you can drag content into these call outs and it makes for a great way to divide up your pages I'm just going to duplicate this call out now or I could have created another one with SL callout but I'm just going to duplicate it and now I'm just going to drag this text in here by copying it with contrl C highlighting the old text and then pasting with contrl v or command V
37:30 command C if you're on Mac and now I'll just change the title to start typing bold it and I can add in an icon here then let's delete this information here and as you can see now we have these call out separating things which I actually prefer this is my favorite way to create notion pages is to separate them with call outs and then you can drag this call out to the side of this other call out here and you can drag them wherever you want this is just a good way to make your pages more modular you can even click on the call out block and you can go to color and then you can change the color of everything within your call out if I change it to say a purple background it's going to make the background of the overall call out purple as opposed to if I went in here
38:17 and I highlighted some specific text and changed the background of that to yellow in that case it would make that yellow on a purple background within the call out let's look at some other blocks so if I hit slash and I scroll through these basic blocks here you'll see that we can also create headings which these are similar to text these are basically just bigger forms of text you see the simple table all the lists that we've gone through the divider the call out now you can also add a quote so if you hit the quote button right here it's actually going to just give you some fancier text for a quote so if I just wanted to write something I could enter a quote here so notion is the best productivity and as you can see it basically just adds this line to the side of it if it's a quote if I hit enter now I'm outside of the quote but
39:05 if I wanted to stay in the quote I would just go back into that block and I would hold shift when I hit enter and that would actually extend this quote down further so I can keep quoting along and then let's say I just wanted to highlight this and make it italic and here I could just write the name of the person underneath the quote let's go ahead and delete everything here and I'm going to hit slash again now there's one more basic block that I wanted to go over and that is the link to page so if I insert link to page it's going to allow me to link to any of my pages within this page now that doesn't mean this page is now contained here as it would if I just hit SL page and added one to this page it just allows me to link to another page in my notion workspace so if I wanted to link to the
39:51 folder I could do so and the way that I know it's a link to that page is by this little arrow here that shows up next to the icon now if I click on that folder link it's going to bring me to my folder page over here let's look at a few of the more advanced blocks within notion one of the blocks that I really like is the table of contents block so what this is going to do is it's going to create a table of contents that dynamically updates on your page so if I hit slash and type in table of I'll get table of contents here I can click on it so if I type in slh1 and hit enter it's going to create a link that says Untitled but once I give it a name like dog breeds it's going to show in this table of contents right here as dog breeds I'm
40:36 just going to ask AI to write a list of dog breeds and this will serve as a way for me to show you how this table of contents works so now I have this list of dog breeds I'm going to highlight it and I'm going to turn into H2 and H2S are going to show up a level down from that H1 same with H3 it's going to be another level down the hierarchy and I can add content Within These so let's say I wanted to add some content about the French Bulldog here I could just write in ask AI to write write something about French Bulldogs obviously I'm just using AI to write as examples here but you can write
41:23 your own content just as you would if you were using like a Google doc or something like that now if I hit done it has some information about the French Bulldog and if I scroll up to our table of contents and I hit French Bulldog it's going to drag me down to that part of the page it's not doing so because I can already see it but if I enter down a couple times and then I hit French Bulldog it will actually pull me down the page and it now has created an anchor link to this heading now similar to the table of contents I can also add breadcrumbs as a dynamic block so if I have a page within this homepage here then I can actually add breadcrumbs on that page showing me how I got to that page so let's just click into the homepage and add a new page with SL page and I'm just going to call this page cat
42:10 breeds and here if I enter into the page and type in slash breadcrumbs and hit enter it's going to show me the page hierarchy for cat breeds and now I can just click right back to my homepage and I can see cat breeds within this page I'll just drag that down to the bottom and now whenever I click on it I can see where I came from now I mentioned this briefly earlier but I wanted to go more in depth on the at command so if I type in at it's going to automatically pull up this mention box so here I can mention a person a page or a date so if I just wanted to type something like I created this page on at it even understands natural language so I could
42:56 type in something like today here and then I could hit today and it's just going to automatically link that to April 10th because that's the day that I'm recording this tutorial if I click on this I can even change the date that it's linked right here and I can add reminders for that day I could also add my folder page and that would be another way to link to the page now inside of notion there's all sorts of media blocks that you can add as well so if I type in slash and then I scroll down you'll notice that that we have all of these media blocks so I can share various forms of media within my notion account and I can really spice up my pages so you can upload images web bookmarks which show you like a little preview of a website if you just pop a link in there videos from YouTube Vimeo Loom
43:44 audio from SoundCloud or Spotify which all of these are either an upload or a link but then we also have a code snippet so a code snippet allows you to actually type in any form of code and will give you the syntax here you can even create notion formulas just by clicking on notion formula and now I can type out a notion formula if somebody wanted to copy this they can hover over it and hit copy or you can even add a caption explaining what this is all about the last form of media is file so if you click on file here it's going to allow you to upload a file and if you don't have a Plus account it's going to limit you to 5 megabytes you can choose a file on your computer or you can embed
44:30 a link if you're using notion as a free user I recommend just linking to your files on something like Google drive or Dropbox if you already have an account somewhere that way you don't have to use notion as your way of storing files you can use a different platform for storing the files then you can just link to them however you need to from notion this is definitely the more economical and practical way of file management notion is graded a lot of things and you may want to access your files in notion but in my opinion it's not the best place to store The Source version of your file because one it's an extra expense and two it's not as intuitive as something that's made for file storage like Google drive or Dropbox the next block that I wanted to share with you is called the synced block so if I hit slash and type in sync
45:17 block you'll see this Advanced block called synced block and when I click on it you'll notice that it just adds this red box around what ever block I'm editing or whatever blocks I'm editing I should say and within that I can type anything or I can add any type of block so let's just say I wanted to put a call out in here one of the great things about synced blocks is you can use them for menus so if I hit slash and then I type in call out I could create a call out and then my synced block is still here if I hover it I can just drag this block within that block and now you'll see that the syn block has contained this entire call out within that I can name my call out menu and then I can
46:04 change the icon and then if I hold shift and hit enter I can start adding information in here so let's say I wanted to add a page in my menu like my folder so if I just add folder and click on it now I have this synced block as a menu but why would you want to create a menu as a sync block well to show you that I'm going to at the current page that I'm inside of as well so I'm going to add the homepage and Link that page as well now I have the homepage and the folder linked here let's say I wanted to navigate between these two seamlessly to do that I could actually put this synced block on both pages so if I click on the overall block and I hit copy and sync and then head over to my folder I can add it on my folder page and now I have that same sync block on both Pages if I
46:51 go back to homepage then go back to folder I can toggle between the two in the sync block Remains the Same if I add information in here like let's say I add some text this is my menu it will also update on the folder page or any other instance of this block that I paste like so this is my menu and this is me adding text to it so as you can see the synced block can be very useful as something like a menu because now anywhere or any time that I add a page I can click to that page and toggle back to the other page if I highlight the synced block and I delete it now I can delete and unsync copies if I go back to the folder you'll see that these are still here but they're no
47:37 longer a synced block so if I delete these they're basically just treating themselves as a normal block next let's look at the notion button block buttons allow you to take an action with notion just by clicking a button that you can program right inside of your page so if I enter into my homepage and I hit slash and type type in button and then I click on this button block right here basically a button has a trigger when any of these occur and an action do this so by default the trigger is just button is clicked so you don't have to worry about messing with that trigger but the action can be changed and the action can have some different results when this button is clicked so if I hit add action I'm going to be
48:22 focusing on the insert blocks action add pages 2 and edit pages in are both more advanced and those involve databases so we'll talk about that a little bit later in this tutorial but in this case I'm just going to hit insert blocks and what this can do is just insert blocks right below the button or above the button so let's say I just wanted the button to automatically generate a morning routine every time that I click on the button so I can name the button add morning routine I could make the icon here a sun let's make it a sunrise and now I can add blocks within this button so if I add let's say a to-do list like drink water meditate
49:08 shower walk the dog read my book and I hit done now when I click this button it's going to insert this checklist into my page so I can just check these off and then if I hit add morning routine again it's going to add those tasks again right under the button and you can do this as many times as you want to generate items there's lots of creative uses for the button but this is basically how it works you can edit the button by hitting the settings and you can say what you want it to do you can also have a button take multiple steps so if I wanted to add another step in here like a confirmation I could do so and I'll just drag the confirmation above the text right here and I'm just going to enter a confirmation message are you sure you want to continue is fine and we'll leave continue and cancel
49:56 now if I hit done and hit add morning routine before it adds it now it's added this confirmation step and it wants me to hit continue to make sure that I want that action to take place so if I hit continue now it's going to take the Second Step which is adding my morning routine for the day so edit this button and you can add as many of these steps as you want you can change them around you can change the order of them and overall the button is a very useful tool if you find yourself copying something over and over again another neat block that you can access in notion is mermaid code and mermaid code allows you to create little diagrams in notion so you can visualize things better so let's say I wanted to create an org chart or a flowchart of some type I could just type in slash
50:42 mermaid and I have this mermaid code block if I click on it and then I add a graph it's just giving me this example graph here I'll just type in my example code and you can split it to view it or if you click this button right here here and you just go to code you can just see the code or I can even go to preview and that's just going to show the org chart alone so now I have this org chart here and it's great because I can just visualize this if I wanted to see how something is Flowing if you want to learn more about the mermaid syntax and how you can create more advanced diagrams then you can go to mermaid.jpg features notion databases
51:28 you can use notion databases to track tasks notes books people content and so much more it allows you to take a notion page and then treat that page as a database item you can add different properties to that page so that you can filter and sort by those properties and you can even relate those databases together and use Advanced formulas that we're going to be going over later in this tutorial for now let's get into the basics of notion database bases so there are two ways that you can create an ocean database the first way is just to hit slash and then you can type in inline and that's going to give you the inline database option I'm just going to hit the inline database option and that's going to create a table block
52:14 within my homepage here I can keep typing underneath this and it's basically just treated as a block I'm going to delete this and I'm going to show you the second way that you can create a database and this is distinctly different because it's actually going to alter the type of page that you have you can actually turn an entire page into a dedicated database so we don't want to do that to our homepage but let's say we wanted a page that's just a database of books if I hit Plus on the ad page and I type in books then I can click on this little table button on the bottom here if you don't see this you can click these three dots and you should see table in here these are just different types of databases that you can create but we'll get into that in a little bit
53:00 for now we're just going to use table so if I click table it's actually going to turn my whole page into a database so now I can't edit the page all I can do is use the database within it so I'm going to rename this to books since it took the name off of that and I can add an icon in a cover photo just like my other pages but the only difference here is is now this whole page is a dedicated database so I can't add further blocks here but say I wanted to add this books database on my homepage to do that I could go to my homepage and I could type in slash link and I'm going to get this linked view of database I can click on this button right here and then I can search for a data source and since I
53:46 only have one database in my whole workspace it should show up here it's taking a moment to load so I'm just going to type in books and I'll see that page load in books so I can click on that and now it's going to pull in my books database I'm just going to click on the only existing View and I'm going to click away now my books database is here and my books database is also here now this view of the database is like the parent database it's the kernel of this database so if I were to delete this page now and I go back to my homepage it'll say the original database has been deleted and cannot edited if I hit view database I can restore that page but here's the difference if I go to my homepage now
54:32 that this book's database has been restored I can edit this database from here but if I want to delete it that's totally fine I can just go back to my books database on the full page and now I can see this database and it's still here deleting the view of it didn't delete the whole database but deleting this whole page would this is why I strongly recommend creating your databases as full pages and then keeping that full page stored somewhere in your notion account then if you want to add that database in some instance to one of your other Pages you can just link it using the SL L database I also prefer this method over using the slash inline database that I showed you first slash inline database can be fine if you're
55:18 just using a database for a specific instance and you can still link to it but the most organized best way that I found to create and store your databases is to create them as full Pages like I did with this books database and then if you want to organize your workspace a little bit more you can add a page as a folder like we did in the very beginning of this tutorial and you can call it databases I can add an icon like the database icon and then I can just put all of my databases in that page by dragging them in now my homepage could be a view for multiple linked views of databases like this and I could show my books database here I could show other databases here and all of my databases would be stored internally in this databases page over here that way I
56:06 don't accidentally delete them and they're not cluttering up my whole sidebar and the beauty of this is I can always reference them on my homepage or whatever other page I create within my notion workspace now databases are made up of pages so this right here this row represents a page in my database it doesn't have a title it's blank but if I were to give it a title like a book name let's just say Great Gatsby and I hit enter now I have a page called The Great Gatsby within my book's database and I can highlight it and hit open let's go ahead and close this and just to show you how this works I can drag it out of that books database and now it's just a loone page without properties the difference is when I drag it into my book's database it then gains the functionality of having properties like
56:52 tags so whatever properties I add to this database that this page is in it's now going to have those properties associated with it so by default databases get this tags property which is basically just a multi Select Property it allows me to add multiple options in a list and I can add them as tags to this item so The Great Gatsby we could add different tags like favorite or haven't read or wishlist I don't have the book yet and having all of these tags here wouldn't necessarily make sense so I could just delete specific ones and keep others the name property is a default property and it's mandatory you can't click on it and delete it you have to leave this in here because without pages that have a name you
57:38 wouldn't be able to have a database overall so this is the only mandatory column that you can't delete in a database what you can do though is you can delete this tags property that you get by default just by right- clicking it and hitting delete property it's going to ask you if you're sure and then just hit delete and now going to teach you all of the properties that you can add to an ocean database I can add a property here on my linked view of this database or I can go back into my databases go into my books database and as you can see it's updated dynamically with the Great Gatsby because I added it over on my homepage in the linked view if I hit the plus button right here I can add any property that I want so here are the different types of properties we have a text property very standard you
58:24 can just add a summary or a description let's say I wanted to add a summary of This Book I could just hit text so let's just call this summary and hit enter and now I have this summary property so now I can create a summary that's related to this book and if I add a new book in here let's just say like The Catcher in the Ry I can now add a summary that's unique to each of these pages in my database or each of these rows the way these databases work is they have these properties and they are specific to this exact row that they're in so it's basically just different ways of describing the information about my books so for the name I could change this to book name if I wanted to and we could just add a summary for each of these books I'm just going to paste in a
59:11 summary of the great gadsby warning spoiler alert here we come all right so now I have the great gadsby summary and now I can also add in a summary of The Catcher And the ride just by typing it if I want to or I can just copy and paste it which is what I'm going to do here here we go I'm going to paste that and now we have these summaries and I can drag this however I want and see the information how I'd like to if I click on summary I can also change this wrap column setting and if I turn wrap column off it's going to make it so that I can't see the text unless I click into it the next property we're going to look at is the number property so if I hit the plus button right here I can type in pin number or I can just find it in the
59:59 list just click number and this is good for any sort of number that you're going to add so we can actually represent the number of pages in the book by typing in total Pages here as the number and hitting enter Then I can add the number of pages I'm not going to get the exact number for these I'm just going to enter some generic numbers and as you can see that's basically how that functions you can also duplicate columns so if I wanted to duplicate this total pages I can right click it and hit duplicate and then I can enter current page if I want to track what my current page is so let's say I have read the entirety of The Great Gatsby say I am on Page 250 and I'm on page 95 in The Catcher And
1:00:44 The Ry I could do that I'm going to duplicate this number property again because I want to show you another way that you can use number properties if I click on this number property and I hit edit property there's a few settings that I can change in here the number format is the one that I want to focus on right now and I can actually change the formatting of the number to a currency or a number with commas I'm just going to change it to the US dollar and I'm just going to put in price and now I can enter a price of this book let's just say it's $25 this one's 15 right and it's going to add that US dollar symbol in there and give me the cents so it's it's going to just format it differently now if I wanted to change the icon next to these properties I can
1:01:32 also do that by clicking into the property and you can just hover over the icon right here and you can change it so I'm going to select the dollar icon here for the price and for current page I'll select the bookmark and for total pages I will select the book now this has a
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