Top 14 Notion Tips for Productivity!

✨ Is Notion even worth using if you can't make it look pretty? In this video I share 14 Notion Tips for Productivity broken down into 3 categories: (1) Time-saving tips, (2) Notion Organizational Tricks, and (3) Notion Aesthetic hacks.

Although synced blocks is a new feature, I immediately saw a chance to use it in my Weekly Agenda template, and now it saves me an extra step of copying and pasting to-do's over to the next week. I also like to set reminders within specific Notion pages so I can go back to that block directly. The Notion Web Clipper tool is simply amazing: It lets me capture notes and ideas down so quickly when I'm just browsing the web!

Of course, it wouldn't be a Jeff Su video without my favorite Notion Keyboard Shortcuts, and I share the ones I use everyday just to get things done a bit quicker 😉. Sorting your Notion databases correctly is also very important since Databases is such an important feature so I go through quite a few examples of my own Notion pages to (hopefully) provide you with some inspiration.

Shout-out to Thomas Frank for the Nested Columns trick as well!

TIMESTAMPS
00:54 Create Template Buttons in Notion
01:48 How to Create Synced Blocks
02:47 Set Reminders in Notion
03:21 Best Notion Keyboard Shortcuts
05:06 Use Notion Web Clipper Tool
06:32 How to Sort Database in Notion
07:22 Use Embedded Archived Pages
07:55 Create Nested Columns in Notion
08:58 Use Toggle Feature in Notion
09:22 Link to Specific Blocks in Notion
10:05 Use Custom Icons in Notion
10:36 Use a Consistent Color Scheme
11:01 Leave yourself a Comment in Notion

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👨🏻‍💻 WHO AM I:
I'm Jeff, a full time Product Marketer. In my spare time I like to tinker with tools and create systems that help me get things done faster - or as one of my friends puts it: "Get better at being lazy" 😏

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[JeffSu]

Any awesome tips I might have missed? 😉

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Notion.new to Open a New Page
00:54 Create Template Buttons in Notion
01:48 How to Create Synced Blocks
02:47 Set Reminders in Notion
03:21 Best Notion Keyboard Shortcuts
05:06 Use Notion Web Clipper Tool
06:32 How to Sort Database in Notion
07:22 Use Embedded Archived Pages
07:55 Create Nested Columns in Notion
08:58 Use Toggle Feature in Notion
09:22 Link to Specific Blocks in Notion
10:05 Use Custom Icons in Notion
10:36 Use a Consistent Color Scheme
11:01 Leave yourself a Comment in Notion

[egjowogopwro]

I "archive" my finished to-do's to look at them when I feel unproductive or like I'm not doing enough, I just look at all the things I have done throughout the past few months, which tend to be a lot, and I just feel better and energized to keep going!

[joaquintorres]

With that enthusiasm and charisma you could run for President, sir. Congrats! Loved the video.

[angelaw]

The more I watch your videos the more I am convinced you're literally the most organized and productive person in the world

[DataProfessor]

3:21 Yay keyboard shortcuts, keep 'em coming. You're a Notion ninja!

[ycxiurh]

I’ve been binge watching your content for the past few days, and I learned SO much! Thank you for all the productivity tips, I really feel like my work life has been improving!

[cm]

I love your funny spin on doing these videos! Notion is fun to play with, but so any tutorials get pretty monotonous. Thanks for the smiles! :)

[pablocuesta]

Best shortcut of all: on mac, Cmd + opt + number to change between the type of element. From 1 to 0 on your keyboard -> h1, h2, h3, checkbox, bullet, ordered list, tagle, code, page, paragraph

[daddydroii]

Man this guy can even make the notion logo look good

[nailkash]

Don't know if someone already mentioned it, but quick way to create toggle blocks is ">" + space shortcut. I use toggles a lot to structure large lecture notes, so it really comes in handy.
Love your vids, mr. Jeff, still using your Weekly Agenda Template and really enjoying it :)

[smartboy]

You srsly make some amazing vids man, I use your daily agenda template and its a just aweosme, KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BUDDY !

[aravdhoot]

I eagerly wait for Jeff’s videos. It’s literally a blessing

[lucas_teo]

I had no notion about Notion, but because of Jeff I now do.

[spiritopportunity]

CTRL + [ or ] to move between your recent pages. I use this all the time to switch between my weekly layout and whatever project page I need to work in.

[cindyfortuna]

Hi Jeff, thank you for making productivity tips simple. You help me a lot.

[visalinikumaraswamy]

Hey Jeff! This is super awesome. Here's a shortcut. Instead of downloading and again uploading the icon from flaticons, I always right click the icon image & copy image address (basically link to the image) and then paste it on the Link option of the icon change dialog in Notion. That means, no clutter on my local machine. Obviously, I'll be online while using Notion & it always works cool..!

[stereophotons]

A much awaited video. Still using your daily agenda templates with a few minor tweaks.

[NormanVsNorman]

I love your videos! Engaging, fun and lots of useful info. Right time since I'm just getting into Notion! Keep on the good content!

[jonasbiermann]

Thank you for this video Jeff. I've been looking for this type of video for Notion for some time. Great to see it now🔥

[AlisaShafira]

This video just made me fell in love with Notion all over again! Thank you so much, Jeff!