Creating To Do Lists in Notion with the new Sub-Item Feature! (Notion Tutorial)

Notion just released the ability to have sub-items and sub-tasks inside of a table database! This is GAME CHANGING for me and for many who use Notion to do task management.

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Please watch my Goal Tracker Video first if you can it will help lay this out

00:00 Intro
04:30 The new Sub-item setup
06:35 How to set it up (Parent items & subtasks)
12:35 How to apply it to your system
12:45 Dependencies Timeline View (Blocking & blocked by)
17:00 How I personally use it
17:35 Linking to pages in a task

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[WyldcardCa]

Thank you for sharing this, helped me figure out a few things, including that I didn't have to re-create my databases. In Table view -> layout, there's a toggle to turn on subtasks in databases that have already been created.

[sincerelym]

Thanks for the tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for.

[dariusb]

Thanks for the video Jenna. Although it's an improvement, it's still too overwhelming, confusing and time consuming to do task management in Notion compared to apps like Todoist or TickTick.

[specserge]

Wow! This is getting really serious about basic tavle view. Really cool feature. Sorting have never beem much structured😍

[Ranaunity]

whats the difference between your pillars and tags/ projects they seem like they are the same? also whats the difference between the project name in the beginning of the table vs project/tag?

[RossFinnegan]

Thanks for this video Jenna ! Such a cool feature !
I was wondering if you think it is possible to use the sub-item feature in conjunction with checkboxes so that when you check the parent item (Eg Morning Routine), all of the children items (Eg Make bed, brush teeth, shower...) also will check off? Have been struggling with this for a day or two. Any help would be amazing !!

[miscellaneousista]

Hi Jenna, thanks for the video. Just wanted to ask; How can you geet those horizontal views to be vertical under the main view?

[fabianabrandaoalvessilva]

Great! It is not easy to figure it out! Until now, I don't know how to do connections no timeline :(

[fictionplus]

Im gonna need a few days to get used to this parent and sub tasks thing. Feels so bloated for some reason.
Atleast sub items are trackable now, making regular to-dos sorta unnecessary

[annmariebarreiroart]

Do you know how we can do this within the notion app on mobile? Maybe we can't yet but I am having some trouble with it.

[thereadingmother]

So now it looks & works more like Asana? Why not just use Asana?