How to use Notion as an Issue Tracker
Tags: developertips
Published: 2021-01-27 14:19:19

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First off, this is a video on YouTube. If you like it and watch it, please head over to YouTube and give it a like.

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Alright, if you're reading this it's because you want to read the points in the video. Here are the two major topics:

- What is Notion
- Why I use Notion as an issue tracker

# What is Notion

[![Notion.so website before logging in](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/qyw9qg0ddu10nr5nc5ms.png)](https://www.notion.so/)

Notion brands itself as an "All-in-one Workspace" and as a major tool for teams. It's a web app that can be used to create a "wiki" style document. You can add links to other notion documents, photos, and website links as well. YouTube videos can also be put in to the documents, which is pretty neat.

# Why I use Notion as an issue tracker

The main reason I like to use Notion as an issue tracker is the database feature. Another reason I like using Notion is that I can share a page quickly to the web.

## Databases

![My issue tracking for iHog](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/4am0a59wbxdod44eb849.png)

This database can be setup with whatever properties you want. The choices I use are:

- Text: Enter whatever text you want
- Number: I use this to associate to a GitHub issue
- Multi-select: Think of these as chain-able tags
- Select: Think of these as non-chain-able tags
- Links: Put a link to anywhere on the internet

Another bonus to the database feature is that you can have different views to present the data.

![View options](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/icqxy2assdhqwlg1kktv.png)

Once you create a view, then you can sort and filter the data based on the databse properties. I have a property called progress and a Board view that has the columns based on the progress. The progress is a select since an issue can only be in one state at a time.

![Progress view](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/rzjkpyi9ew65ziizstgr.png)

Then utilizing filters and sorts you can quickly see specific issues for a release or any other property in the database.

![Using filters](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/2uyc9l3x9i6xjhaqme48.png)

These filters and sorting capabilities make Notion such a great tool for me.

## Sharing a web page

You can share a web page with the internet if you need to. Anyone can access it and click on links. This makes it quite easy to make a one page website and share to other places.

Another nice thing is on that page, you can add a linked database that can be filtered and used in the page. In the image below, I have 2 views of the issue tracker. You can click on the image and see it live.

[![Release notes page](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/q5wfxtz782x7cr2eschq.png)](https://www.notion.so/ihog/v2021-1-425b31a2f2684b1ba356ecf8dfbb7be4)

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That's what I have about Notion!

# Links as a thanks for reading!

- [Notion website](https://www.notion.so/)
- [Template of my issue tracker](https://www.notion.so/parttimedeveloper/51efdc27322e42e88df74ce6722bacba?v=fd70df00e81c4b19b3dab9b086e28ca6)

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