Notion is surprisingly versatile, especially when people know how to push this “electronic notebook” beyond its basic limits. Here are some fun ways to use Notion effectively to help people boost work and study productivity.
Fun ways to use Notion effectively
Use Notion as a daily planner
Productivity tools become most useful when people combine them, but updating each tool can be difficult. Learning how to embed a calendar in Notion is a great way to minimize this stress.
Before people can embed a calendar, they need to take the following steps to adjust their Google account settings:
- Visit the Google Calendar website.
- Click icon Gear in the menu bar, then click Setting.
- In the menu Settingclick the calendar you want to embed in My calendar settings.
- Scroll down Calendar integration and copy URL in The public URL to this calendar. Everyone will use this feature soon to embed their calendars in Notion.
With that URL, people can now embed their Google calendar into a Notion notebook with these steps:
- Click where you want to insert the calendar and enter /embed.
- Paste the URL from Google Calendar settings and tap Embedded links.
Not all websites allow embedding of their content. If you receive a Failed to Load error, it may be because the website you’re trying to access has restricted embedding.
Progress tracking tool in Notion
One of the most frustrating parts of working towards long-term goals is the ambiguity. By creating a progress tracker in a Notion notebook, people can keep track of how well they’re doing. Notion makes this simple with support for progress bars and progress loops through its database feature.
Players will need to set up some database math to create a seamless progress tracker for their Notion notebooks, but anyone can do so in just a few steps:
- Click New page in the leftmost navigation column.
- At the bottom of the page, click …More to expand the options, then click Table to change view mode.
- Click New Database to initialize the database in the table.
- Add a new column named Progress and set its data type to Number.
- Next, create a type column Formula name is, has a name which is Completion.
- When prompted to edit the new Formula column, select Edit on the right Completion.
- Click Progress to add to the recipe, then press Done.
- Select Bar or Ring in the selection section Show as (this option can be changed later).
- Finally, enter the sum (denominator) by which you want the progress divided in the properties Divine by.
Now that you’ve created your database, you can access the progress bars it generates by creating a view on any page in your Notion notebook. People can follow these steps to insert their new progress bar:
- Click + symbol to embed new content, then select Linked view of Database.
- When prompted to select a data source, Select the created database progress bar formula inside.
Users can make their table view more aesthetically pleasing by right-clicking on any column in the table they don’t want to see and clicking Hide. Now, everyone will be able to track all their tasks by their completion status.
