🏆 Learn How To Be More Productive With Notion 🏆
Notion is not at all an unfamiliar name, as it has been countlessly praised on social media for its aid in productivity. For me, I heard about Notion about a year ago, but only until last week that I started trying out this application (after hearing praises from my boyfriend nonstop) and I have to admit, I’m hooked.
So, what exactly is Notion? And why should you start using it asap?
Simply put, Notion is a note taking application, just like Evernote. It impresses users with its minimalistic interface and a whole lot of tools waiting to be discovered. But, Notion doesn’t stop at being “just a note taking application”, it’s a solution to better productivity, an all-in-one tool that you need for your personal life as well as your career.
2️⃣ What does Notion offer?
For me, Notion is like an online computer, where you can create an unlimited amount of folders and files. The only difference is that you can access to this computer anywhere you want as long as you have internet.
These are, generally, what Notion comes to offer it users:
- Unlimited pages & Blocks.
- Infinite Hierarchy - Pages within pages within pages.
- Tables & Databases - Categorize your data exactly how you want, and reference data from other tables or projects.
- A web clipper browser extension.
- A lot of premade templates.
- Sync data between devices.
- Native Android, iPhone, Windows, and Mac apps.
3️⃣ Why you should use Notion:
- Not just a note-taking application: You can journal, manage projects and time efficiently, etc. Almost everything is possible with Notion.
- Simple, clean, unlimited: You can create unlimited amount of folders and files and everything is navigatable through pages’ map.
- Quick reference with @: At any point in your typing, you can enter an @ to create easy references to pages, people, and dates.
- Easy embeding with /: The forward-slash ( / ) character works just like the @, but for embeds. You can perform nearly 100 tasks with the forward slash.
- Teamwork 24/7 with a click: You can add people and change members’ roles in each page (same thing as Google Doc). You can also keep a record on all the changes made in each page.
- Drag and drop blocks: In Notion, each paragraph, each header, each picture is consider a block of information. You can drag and drop these blocks wherever you like.
- A lot of templates to choose from: It’s great if you can design your own template, but for someone who knows nothing about designing like me, templates are my life saver.
- Available on all devices: From Android to iPhone, from Mac to Windows, Notion is available everywhere.
- Import/export data easily: Notion allows users to import from various sources (like Evernote, Trello, etc.) and export data as HTML, PDF, or Markdown.
- Reasonable price: For most people only upgrading to “Personal Pro” plan is enough. And this plan is only $4/month, a pretty cheap price compare to what you can get out of this application.
4️⃣ Free Personal Pro plan upgrade
Now that I have done my part introducing Notion to you, I’m going to share a tip on how to upgrade your Notion Personal plan to Personal Pro plan FOR FREE.
However, this tip only works for those who have university emails. For example, my university email is halley*****@kookmin.ac.kr so I am eligible to get the Personal Pro plan for free from Notion.
All you have to do is sign up or sign in with your university email. Then click on “Settings & Members”, on the left side, choose “Upgrade”. Skip all the promotional stuffs about all the plans, scroll down until you see “Students & educators”. Click “Get free Education plan”.
If your email is eligible to get the plan for free, you just have to hit confirm to finalize. But if your email is not eligible then… I’m so sorry it doesn’t work out for you :<
5️⃣ My personal opinion on Notion
I actually started to read a lot more after using Notion’s “Reading List” template. The reason is because I can save the articles I read and kinda… decorate them the way I like. So I read to collect information and to create cool looking archives as well.
I also made a list including all the movies I watched and all the movies I want to watch. Took me a while to list everything out but the result was unexpectedly neat and satisfactory.
Lastly, I planned this post by Notion. From research, draft to official posting, I went through all the stages with Notion and I am 100% satisfied by how much help Notion offered me. I usually draft in Note, which is a mess because sometimes I cannot distinguish the main ideas I wrote down and the ideas that were still in consideration. Notion gave me a template that is clear and easy to follow, my writing had never gone to smoothly before, istg.
My conclusion is, just give Notion a try, I’m sure you will fall head over heel for it soon.
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