Increasing Productivity with Notion
Tags: productivity, notion, markdown
Published: 2019-11-04 17:12:10

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title: Increasing Productivity with Notion
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date: 2019-10-28 04:00:00 UTC
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# Productivity Weekend

While my wife was off to a Yoga retreat, my parents offered to take my son camping with a Halloween type of theme. So I thought "Wow I have a full day of uninterrupted focus!". I had lofty plans of finishing all the slides for our new [JAMStack Meetup](https://link.ajonp.com/jamstackgr), but then I started to realize that I wanted to instead jump back and focus on a couple of productivity things that I have been wishing I could handle instead.

## Notion.so

I searched high and low (okay a couple Google searches) for things that would replace AJonP's Trello Board, Google Keep, and OneNote. What I landed on was [notion.so](https://notion.so) it provides me with a simple consolidated place that allows me to track the progress of all the videos I have in progress.

### Table View

Notion has a great table view that allows you to quickly add any information just like in a Google Sheet.

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.37.09_AM.png)

### Calendar View

I can then get better about sense of release dates and hard deadlines that I can push myself towards in the calendar view. Here is an example of the videos that I am working towards.

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.38.57_AM.png)

### Roadmap

The roadmap allows me to share out with AJ's Purr-fect Peeps that stats on changes that are happening on the site, something that I have not been able to provide in a public fashion up until now, so I really love this aspect. It allows a Trello like view into all the happenings for AJonP. Checkout [AJ's Roadmap](https://link.ajonp.com/roadmap)!

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.39.17_AM.png)

### Web Clipper

One of my favorite features by far is the [Notion Web Clipper](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web-clipper/knheggckgoiihginacbkhaalnibhilkk?hl=en) which you can direct to any page type within your entire Notion system. So let's say that I am out on [Tyler McGinnis's React Course](https://link.ajonp.com/tylermcginnis-react) and I want to keep track of it. All I have to do is be on the page and click the Notion Web Clipper, then load it directly into my Notion Reading List. After I can always see what I have not categorized and setup many views to keep track.

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.46.27_AM.png)

### Markdown Export

The really big selling point for me is that Notion exports to markdown. Since it is available on every device that I own: MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android and works offline. It was pretty simple for me to choose! Now I can keep track of any notes export to .md and off it goes to my Gatsby Blog 😸


### Notion Post

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.48.03_AM.png)

### Export to Markdown

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.48.16_AM.png)

### Take Markdown (.md) Anywhere  

![](https://res.cloudinary.com/ajonp/image/upload/w_1200,f_auto,q_auto/ajonp-ajonp-com/blog/productivity_wknd/Screen_Shot_2019-11-04_at_8.49.26_AM.png)

### Looking for a job?

[Notion is hiring so why not go work for a cool compnay?](https://www.notion.so/Work-at-Notion-e7aeb157238a4603a2964b28c646f07f)