⚡️ Get Things Done With Notion

Notion is a powerful tool that can help you organize your work and life more effectively. It provides a wide range of features that can be used to create documents, take notes, categorize knowledge and manage tasks with ease in one unified workspace. You can also use it to collaborate with teammates, share documents, and keep track of progress. With Notion, you can easily break down complex tasks into smaller chunks and monitor your progress as you go. Notion is a great way to stay organized, productive, and on top of your work and life.

Notion has applications for Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS; it also can be utilized in the web browser which is our personal favorite.

Managing knowledge within Notion is best when aligned to GTD. GTD stands for "Getting Things Done," which is a productivity system and time management method developed by David Allen and outlined in his book of the same name. The goal of GTD is to help people organize their thoughts, prioritize tasks, and reduce stress by helping them set clear objectives and action plans. It involves breaking down larger tasks into smaller, more manageable chunks and scheduling tasks in stages. Additionally, it encourages people to keep a regular “inbox” where they can capture all ideas, tasks, and commitments that come to mind. By taking a holistic approach to managing tasks and commitments, GTD allows people to focus on completing important tasks, while still leaving room for greater creativity and flexibility in their work.

An important element of GTD rests on the idea of moving all items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks, and projects out of one's mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items with known time limits. This allows one's attention to focus on taking action on each task listed in an external record rather than trying to recall them intuitively. Reducing such mental clutter, ultimately makes one more productive, less stressed, and a happier human being.

For most instances of personal use of Notion, it’s free. They of course have “Plus”, “Business” and “Enterprise” plans that have many more features like team collaboration, granular page history, higher file upload limits and more with the paid plans.

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TLDR: Mostly Yes. They have a SOC2 Type 2 report and pentesting report that can request if you are a customer. Their reports look fairly clean and they seem to be proactive with managing their security posture. Notion is also part of the Security First Initiative. That said, Notion isn’t perfect and the biggest downside is they do not natively support multi factor authentication; so it’s recommended you utilize their SAML SSO connector for businesses or Apple/Google oAuth SSO for personal accounts.

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Productive Dude has one of the best Notion tutorials for beginners, although it is missing just a few of the newer features that Notion just released in 2022. This is a great video tutorial to start.