If you are just hearing about Notion, you are in for a treat. This guide sums up everything you need to know to understand this tool and how you can leverage it to better manage and track things.

What is Notion?

It’s an online space where you can think, plan, write, create and track things. It’s a place where you can manage projects, tasks, goals, clients and much more. It’s a tool that has the capability of helping you change the way you work and live by helping you work smarter and live more intentionally.

Notion is a productivity tool that differs from the likes of Asana, Trello and ToDoist just to name a few in that it does not come ready to use or right out of the box. Rather, it’s something you build and customize.

Notion lets you create pages that are made up of blocks of various content type. Some examples of what you can build with Notion include: 🔸 Goal tracker 🔸Journal 🔸 Meal Planner 🔸 Event Planner 🔸 Bill Manager 🔸 Project Management Tool 🔸Portfolio Site 🔸 Client Portal 🔸 Client Proposal 🔸 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool🔸 Training Development Framework 🔸 Team Hub 🔸Roadmap🔸 Customer Onboarding 🔸 Vendor Directory 🔸 Sales Management Tool🔸 Company Intranet 🔸Team Directory 🔸 Goals 🔸 New Hire Onboarding 🔸 Brand Management Tool🔸 Resource Planning Tool

Watch the video below to see Notion in action

https://youtu.be/gp2yhkVw0z4

Let’s get started! Here are the 5 things you need to get started in Notion.

1. Sign Up & Download the Notion Apps and Extensions

<aside> 💡 The first thing you will want to do is to sign up for an account. Notion is web-based but you will find it easier in the long-term to work from the desktop as well as the mobile app. Notion is great at helping you capture or organize existing content from the web and other sources. The Share menu option available from your Chrome browser’s mobile app and the Notion Web Clipper from your Chrome browser’s desktop app can help you easily capture and transfer content from the web to Notion.

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  1. Sign up for a Free Notion account. A Free Personal account is all you need to get started.

  2. Download the desktop (Mac or Windows) app

  3. Install the Notion Web Clipper Extension for Chrome on your desktop device

  4. Download the mobile Android or IOS app

  5. Sign in to your Notion account (preferably from the desktop or mobile app) and get to know the Notion interface

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