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7 Day Notion Experiment Logs

Days

1 02/10

Notes

DevDuck notion video

• Page vs database
  • Different views for database
    • Properties

Examples

• kanban board for game tasks
  • different filters (type, due date, etc)
  • Active > not started
• video planner

Problems

• Load times
• offline

Ideas

Why do I want to use notion?

• Need an organized hub to help plan and organize
• Been using obsidian for a long time, and wanting to see if some of the things I do there are more conveniently done in other productivity workspaces

Ideas

• Project management and organization
  • different parts of my life
    • school
      • study plans, retrospective time tables
      • task management
    • video planner
      • misc notes when creating video, planning, scriptwriting
    • plans when learning new things
    • Revision timetable
  • sync
• Declutter my obsidian to keep it as knowledge management and notes
• Dashboards for the different areas in my life Questions
• How to connect/use it with external notes like obsidian and onenote

Drawbacks

• I need to make sure the things I want to do will only be needed when I have an online connection
  • Can’t use flashcards while transitting like I do with Obsidian

2 02/11

Notes

How I Study for Computer Science with Notion

• Emphasis on toggle
• Each of his notes are categorized using questions
• Said to not download templates and to make your own, so I did :)

Logs

• Just going to make basic skeleton structure of my plans from day 1

• Decided on PARA model

  • Gallery view to show the pictures as they look clean
    • Started decorating, going for dark cyberpunk theme
      • Randomly found images online
  • Unsure on what to put on dashboards?

• Created project template

• Todoist embed

• Plan is to finish up all the templates and views on saturday so I can properly plan on sunday during weekly review

• Create project note for notion? lmao

days for:

• school
  • Upload slides, onenote links, reference notes !
• content creation
• adding projects
• pillars/dashboard notes
  • reminders as to why i want to do things
  • long term goals cultivated from periodic reviews
  • main focuses in periodic reviews
  • no task stuff, will be put

Valorant???

• Sort by map
• Store lineups, playstyles, etc

3 02/12

Notes

how i organize my life & stay productive💡notion tour + free template

Area dashboards

• Academia
  • Current classes
  • Studio/creative
    • Idea dump/planning
    • Images and quotes

Content calendar

• Drafts and videos

Classes

• Properties
  • Name
  • Credits
  • Grade
  • Teacher
  • Quarter
  • School
  • Course page
  • Start date ? Video planning (table list)
• Properties
  • Video num
  • Status
    • Planning
    • Filming
    • Editing
    • Published
  • Sponsor
  • Published (check)
  • Date
  • Tags
    • URL
• content
  • brain dump
  • outline
  • script/voiceover

Chloe tan

• video styles
  • sit down and talk
  • do things and review
  • do cool things
• gallery view, just list of ideas

Logs

Found out about full width lmao

Plan today is to setup school hub

• tried embedding school calendar and importing assignments, but ended up being buddy and tedious
• setup main hub
• study plan template
• retrospective time tables
• task management

Track finances

pros and cons of using notion vs obsidian for planning

• wide view and different views pretty epic
• more view customization

Future stuff

• do 295 study plan + timetable
• create notion project
• finance thingy
• transfer weekly reviews into notion?

4 02/13

• Yeah idek what i want to do

Worked on transferring weekly review to notion

• Super happy with the dynamic customization, was able to turn what was originally a huge wall of text into a more pleasing weekly review

Databases help a lot with organizing :)

Projects

actual projects will be made in project database

• contain the kanban lists, the notes, etc !

hubsies will have a weekly section with page reference to future plan, inline weekly planner

• weekly planner will have reference to project note

areas will have an inline sorted to display relevant projects

school will have database for assignment notes for organization

Weekly Review

• I like the component-based nature of the databases to make it less linear
• Unsure on how I want to utilize the weekly planner
  • Use duplicates? or are they just reminders?
    • I could just highlight what I want to do on separate days
      • Just want it to be seamless
• just help remind me on what I need to do, link to the relevant project note

5 02/14-16 lmao

• Kept using it for schoolwork, nothing new added
  • Made assignments
    • Computing assignment 2
      • Notion starts lagging as I’m typing, rather annoying
      • unlike a more linear note taking app, I like how I can fill in empty space by moving notes to another column
  • study plan
    • templates make things much easier
• notion enhanced
  • themes, other features, wanted to try to see if it reduced lag but its about the same :(
    • need to troubleshoot xd

6

• Used it for taking notes and project management for a hackathon
• Was proficient enough to know how to implement the things I wanted to, using kanbans for different components of the program
  • Only problem is that my teammates could view but not edit, was over 1000 block limit

Finance planner? Learning a new thing roadmap? Notion mods?

• Tried a bunch of extensions
• Find it really laggy, scrolling is delayed, might have to just use online version

7

VALORANT notes

• Really a fan of gallery view, a nice change from linear note taking in Obsidian

Reflection

• Will make videos going in depth on all of my creations :)

• Like the wide variety of database views

Pros

• Features available if you’re using solo
• Only problem i had was uploading large images, other than that was able to do pretty much everything I wanted
• The ecosystem of content made it really easy to find inspiration and imeplementations of things I wanted to do
  • Can be really lazy and download templates
• Decoration
  • Way more customizable than other apps, with different colors, images, icons, covers, layouts, just a lot you can do
    • Unfortunately, this can also be a downfall
      • Spend more time customizing than doing work
      • Perfectionism

Cons

• Lag
• Forced online
• Lack of sharing

How will I use notion going forward

• I’m going to use notion for all the things I implemented throughout the 7 days
  • Dashboard for things
  • Planning
  • Weekly reviews

Backlinks

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list from 7 Day Notion Experiment Logs AND !outgoing(7 Day Notion Experiment Logs)

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Created:: 2022-02-10 22:42