Building a Minimalist Note-Taking System in Notion with PARA Method Organization

Building a Minimalist Note-Taking System in Notion with PARA Method Organization

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00:00 - Introduction

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00:00 - Introduction

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Building a Minimalist Note-Taking System in Notion with PARA Method Organization

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  1. 1 00:00 - Introduction
  2. 2 00:30 - Starting from a blank page
  3. 3 01:18 - Preview of the full build
  4. 4 01:58 - Setting the first page's icon
  5. 5 02:30 - Customizing the page settings
  6. 6 03:04 - Creating the initial databases
  7. 7 05:09 - Setting the Notes database icon
  8. 8 07:24 - Creating Notes database properties
  9. 9 09:24 - Changing the width of a database property in table view
  10. 10 10:25 - Relation properties
  11. 11 12:57 - Select properties
  12. 12 14:06 - Other properties in the Notes database
  13. 13 14:43 - File properties for screenshots and voice notes
  14. 14 15:48 - Finishing up the Notes database properties
  15. 15 18:39 - Customizing the layout for Notes pages
  16. 16 25:57 - Setting up default views for the Notes database
  17. 17 29:10 - Setting up the Tags database
  18. 18 29:52 - Using a Status property instead of a Select to allow for a default setting
  19. 19 31:15 - Tiago Forte's PARA Method
  20. 20 34:23 - Adding more properties to the Tags database
  21. 21 35:44 - Configuring the Root Tag rollup in the Notes database
  22. 22 37:15 - Finishing up the Tags database properties
  23. 23 38:01 - Customizing the layout for Tags pages
  24. 24 40:30 - Setting up views for the Tags database
  25. 25 41:14 - Adding views to the Ultimate Notes dashboard
  26. 26 43:25 - New Notion feature: conditional colors
  27. 27 44:13 - Continuing with the Ultimate Notes views
  28. 28 54:49 - Capturing things from the web with Flylighter
  29. 29 56:42 - Finishing up the main Notes view
  30. 30 1:00:12 - Adding the formulas to the formula properties
  31. 31 1:06:18 - Creating the Tags area on the main page
  32. 32 1:10:25 - Setting up a few convenient database templates
  33. 33 1:26:58 - Adding a button to quickly create new notes
  34. 34 1:28:30 - Turning the databases into separate pages and locking them to prevent unintended changes
  35. 35 1:30:04 - Ways you can further upgrade your new system

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