@FemaleFoundr He's given away so much information for his Notion templates over the years. It takes A LOT of work! For the ones he is charging for, it's actually worth the investment if it's what will work for your team. And he has a 30day return policy. For people new to him they might not realize just how long he's gone without charging any of us for the templates he makes.
Just started using Notion for a couple of weeks and I initialled loved it but after watching a lot of videos of what people are doing with Notion to get organised I now feel really overwhelmed at how to set things up correctly and noticed that I am spending more time playing around with it than actaully focusing on getting my work done! :(
facts! it is a scary tunnel and unless you do productivity for a living I suggest just checking in every couple of months to see if there are any little fixes you can make to enhance your workflow - other than that, just do you bro!
@@lailaalbuquerque5036 Thanks! Yeah, I had to take a step back and review things. I was following a lot of users who had high followings/subscribers but realised their way of working wasn't inline with my own thinking process. Found some more minimalistic approaches and now trying to build things out slowly in stages. Just setup my central tasks and projects databases and creating/updating them through a dashboards with linked versions filtered out for my main business (and separated dashboard pages for side projects). Next up is setting up a central resources database to insert linked filtered versions into their respective dashboards.
Man, just use the damn thing. Just start actually using it for what you need. And don't worry if you start with something that's way simpler than anything shown in the videos. The beauty of Notion is that nothing goes to waste. Whatever information you put in you will be able to transform into anything you want later on when you get better with the tool. So don't worry, start using it on a simplest level, and let the growth come naturally.
Honestly! My head feels as though it’s going to implode. There is so much information to take in on the different ways to use Notion it’s insanity! It’s a great tool for daily situations, but Jesus take the wheel…
Increible tips! I've been using Notion for almost a full year now and still feel like a beginner with learning all that can be done in Notion. The linked pages and customize page is my new favorite- thank you!
It's amazing how comprehensive is the content you put out about Notion. I think this could be truly one of the most helpful channels in the entirety of TH-cam. Thanks! P.D: What do you think about the privacy and data security of Notion? Do you think is there any reason to be concerned about putting too much content in the platform? (Employees having access to your account, data collection, etc)
Here are the security policies that Notion has in place: www.notion.so/Security-6c56b4854b624b0d8f36711018647f68#2969e6f12d75478cb932e2070c97c3e7 And here's their statement about employee data access: "Notion employees are only able to access your data with your explicit consent via an inbound inquiry, and are legally bound to keeping your data entirely private" - twitter.com/notionhq/status/1301708391522336768 I'm not super-knowledgeable about technical security or privacy law, but I will note that Notion does not have end-to-end encryption. They do encrypt at rest and in transit: twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1301708205311971329 My take on this: No system is perfectly secure, so you have to accept some amount of risk when you use any PKM tool. I see Notion as being the same acceptable-risk class as Slack, where there's a lot of security in place, but access to data by Slack employees is still only protected by legal agreements, not encryption (www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-messages-privacy-law-enforcement-lawsuit). For me, that's an acceptable amount of privacy for most things - notes, tasks, company projects. If I were operating in a much higher-security industry, I'd probably need something with even higher security. But for most everything my team and I do, it's acceptable. However, I do make a few exceptions. The main one is passwords - I would never store passwords in Notion or any tool without strong end-to-end encryption. For that I use Dashlane, though any reputable password manager like BitWarden or LastPass would be acceptable as well. I also use my password manager to store certain secure notes. If you do want a tool with an even higher level of security, Obsidian offers true end-to-end encryption. Note that if you're using Obsidian Sync, you need to choose their end-to-end option, and be sure to never lose your encryption passphrase, as doing so would mean losing your data forever. If you choose their Managed Encryption option, your level of security falls to the same as that of Notion's - "While we store your encryption password on our servers, we only use it to offer a more convenient way to manage your vaults. Obsidian will never access your vault without your explicit consent." help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy It's also worth noting that even Google Drive, which does use end-to-end encryption, manages encryption keys as well: www.businessinsider.com/is-google-drive-secure Ultimately, if your level of acceptable risk is much lower, you'll want to consider a true end-to-end encrypted tool where you manage your keys. The main ones I know of are Obsidian and Standard Notes: standardnotes.com/ Hope this helps!
@@ThomasFrankExplains Since you wrote this LastPass has been cracked and the crackers were able to download a great many vaults. Apparently they were not nearly as secure as their engineers thought they were.
This content is the missing puzzle that i've been looking for a long time for my workspace along with notion tips and tricks, finally🙏 . Great job everyone❤
If you delete a property which was in use within a Notion database and you decide you want it back, just add a new property with the same name and type and you'll find that the data is still there. In fact, if you open up a record inside a database and use a template to populate it with information in all the properties, and then remove that record or turn it into a page or another type of block, all of that DB data is forever stored on that block no matter what its current shape happens to be. Basically, the properties fields are 'sticky' to any block. If the block exists in a current form which doesn't display properties, they will be hidden from view and seem to have been 'lost'. But as soon as you bring the block back into an environment where that property and its data is visible again (e.g. another database, or restoring a deleted property field to the same database), Notion will once again display the data stored within that property associated with that block again.
The mistake I made at the beginning was the last one. I just deleted everything 🤣 and made a new version, with which I felt more comfortable with. Then, when I checked the deleted bin, I had a lot of databases and pages that seemed to be active. Part of my learning curve, I guess... Now that I discover your channel, I have a great resource to shorten that curve and work more efficiently. Thank you so much 👍
I'm getting to know Notion but clearly there are SO many complex things you can do that each one deserves a step by step tutorial. These 10 things were interesting but went by way too fast to learn. Thanks for all your Notion expertise though. I'm trying to follow it all.
This is incredible and clearly a very needed video based on comment and videos! Love your “dashboard” views and comments 🙃🙃 love the tasks inbox, especially on mobile.
Awesome tips! I tried making stuff over from the first time I tried using Notion, but just recently started using it again with help from your templates. I'm glad one of your tips is something I started doing.
Such great tips for someone starting out .. #7 .. that's why I bought your templates. I didn't have 2 years to figure it out .. such a great jump start to get started on Notion
Tbh, I am the type of person who has everything even the kitchen sink in their dashboard. I tried going minimalistic and separating them into their respective pages but that just drove me crazy because I constantly had to jump to different pages to plan out my day. In my current dashboard, I have an inbox task where I input tasks I think of doing, my goals setting (for the year, months, weekly and daily), calendar and schedule widget, and all my trackers like my habits, finance, projects, books and tv shows. You would think this will overwhelm me but it hasn't cause when I have everything I need in one place, it puts my mind at ease and helps me ensure I am meeting my goals since my progresses are in my view. For mobile use, I just use the toggles to hide the things I don't need and design my layout to make it very aesthetically pleasing for my desktop.
Yeah I like having a full dashboard as well on desktop! I just think it's worth considering how to make it more usable on mobile. Toggles are great for that, as are individual pages. I like pages personally because I can launch them directly from my homescreen widget.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Yeah, I definitely see what you mean especially on the longer scrolling on mobile. I suppose another solution is make dedicated pages for mobile use though not sure how that will look like
Thank you Tom, during my 3mo experience with Notion I lost myself in trying to reinvent everything from scratch. You remind me of para method and now I'm finally okay with my dashboard being not the most aesthetic dashboard in the internet.
Glad to help! I love how many of those aesthetic dashboards look and often get a little jealous myself when I see them. But many times, I'll study them more closely and realize there are significant UX limitations that would limit the way I want to do things. There's always a trade-off between simplicity and power!
The linked database trick was the key to have the same data showed on the same page with a different view. I tried with a relation, then with a sync block, but the solution was here in this video, waiting for me.
Yep! I've got a whole video on linked databases planned as well :) PS - you might have noticed I had a linked database inside a synced block here - that's another useful trick for showing the same linked db view in multiple places. You can also copy and paste, but using the synced block means you only have to make changes in one place.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Yes, I saw it. But I don't quite understand what a synced Linked database offers more than a simple linked database. I mean can't you just link the same database on different pages and have the same result?
I ALWAYS learn something new in your videos, even though I’ve been using Notion for a couple of years and would consider myself a power user. Thanks so much!
I _am_ so proud! I've discovered, on my own, this with creating a page where I'd put links to most needed places in Notion, and it shows as a page with toggles in the Favorites. Only... I didn't make those a Synced Block, bummer 🙂 Loads of great tips her, thank you!!!
I want to mention that if you're creating a personal knowledge management or note taking app and would like to continue using your notes even if one day Notion went down. You shouldn't use some features like Synced block (that just disappear if it's not the original), different views of databases (filters, different views, sorting) none of that stays when you export to markdown or html. I personally don't use sync block because of this.
hopefully notion will make a custom file format for exporting, so that in case notion went down, people could reverse engineer the format and no data would be lost.
Awesome content sir and thanks for making our notion doubts clear. But I just want a video on formula's notion cause it is very tricky to apply to their properties. *Highly recommended* 🙏
Anyone experienced team members being unable to access databases when permission level was changed to Edit Content? Happened to me, reverted to Edit for now, I wonder if it’s a common bug! Thomas, thank you for the video, as always ✨✨✨☀️
Amazingly comprehensive explanation and very informative, thank you so much for your efforts! The prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said : “ He who does not thank people does not thank Allah (God).”
Also, another nice little bug as of March 8th, but you can not move your page around in the side bar to reorder it, all that happens is it moves to the bottom of your list, and you will never be able to move it around. Notion is turning out to be one of the buggiest programs I have ever used.
My notion is way less complicated than this and it already runs slow 😣 mostly on my phone which makes sense, but can't imagine having as many pages as you lol
Great video. I don't make single mistake that you sad althought there is possibility for small improvements in my system. And since I use Notion just for myself advices for team users are not applicable for me.
Great job, but I might ask you to point out to your viewers that the Android version of Notion does not allow you to use markdown language. You could use LaTeX and an equation, I suppose.
Hi Thomas, thanks for the great content. I have a notion related question that is not related to this video though. I'm confused as whether i should use notion to upload documents directly or simply provide a link to them from dropbox/google drive. I used to scan documents into evernote and tag them for easy search but i would still create a rigid filing structure in dropbox. What do you think is the best way? Knowing that my previous practice stems from the fear of loosing files in case i had to move from notion to another application sometime in the future. Thanks in advance
Good Question.. I use Zapier, and Google Drive. I like that I can control document access in GoogleDrive. If document access is not an issue.. You can drag and drop directly from your scan page to the Notion Page..
Tried it once but the UI is just not pretty and unintuitive for the 21st century. Reminds me of a mainframe screen. Hadn’t seen that since the 1980’s. People do a lot of personal management with it though. Good explanations!
Hey Heath! I've created a beginner's series that goes in what I think is the most logical order: thomasjfrank.com/fundamentals/ However, what I'd personally recommend is to use it like you'd learn any other tool - try to accomplish something that interests you. I started out trying to use it to build a company wiki and a video project tracker. Since I was really keen on figuring out those workflows, I naturally learned what I needed as I ran into questions and sought answers. I've tried to accommodate that approach as well with my build guides. Here's a fairly simple one for building a habit tracker: th-cam.com/video/uyj3JDhE8HE/w-d-xo.html Going a step further, my task manager build guide uses some of Notion's more advanced features, like linked databases, formulas, database templates, and more: th-cam.com/video/32dLXdB4ozs/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps! 😀
Very helpful! I am wondering if you have any demonstration videos, thoughts, or written instruction on Notion Enhancer and the Save to Notion Chrome extension?
Great video! Do you have a video that covers how do you get such a variety of icons for your pages? I noticed some really interesting ones that don't seem to be standard emojis.
I'll add that to my video list! But for Page Icons, you can upload any image you like - just choose the Upload or Link tabs after clicking on a page's icon :)
I can't add a toggle the way you explained it, because your directions don't match with my page. The window menu with the style palette/ etc. doesn't pop up.
I'm not sure right now; my calendar is chock-full of projects at the moment - including starting work on a more team-focused version of Creator's Companion! So I have currently have a lack of time for additional coaching. I am working on fleshing out a list of Notion-certified consultants who can help people who need more than a standardized template, though.
I've got a question - and maybe this will be covered in the new productivity guide/template - Is there a way you would recommend for going through the 'design process' for a dashboard or something you want to use Notion for? I want to create a dashboard that covers all of my Toastmasters things (my member stuff and my leadership stuff; my current thinking is I might need two separate dashboards because there are scopes that are similar and different for each). I know kind of the basic or bare minimums I want to use.
Sometimes I think templates are good for inspiration, forcing yourself into a specific and detailed framework is restricting. I prefer designing my own dashboard according to my needs. However, templates are inspiring and sometimes can be very good to use
Huh, didn't know about some of the keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, some of them (namely non-letter ones, e.g. Ctrl+[ ) seem to only work on English keyboard layouts which kinda sucks for anyone using a non-English layout. Anyone know if there are alternates for these cases or if the shortcuts can be changed somewhere? A shortcut for going back would be super helpful.
Dammit, I love you. Please, Thomas: TALK MORE ABOUT THEORY AND METHODOLOGY I am achieving a new level of databases, organizations and building a second-brain; this theory is tottaly necessary. Loved the PARA reference, let's go deeper on that!
It's coming 😉 - don't tell Tiago, but I might have an improved version of PARA at the theoretical level (enabled by Notion's database-centric approach)
@@ThomasFrankExplains amazing! I work as PM in a tech company, I am kind of becoming a notion consultor inside the company; this theory is going to help a lot! Appreciate
Hey Thomas. Thanks for sharing the knowledge! I have one question about the mentioned pages that go inside the Toggle (8:34). Where do you keep the "original" pages? In your Dashboard there are only the mentioned pages with the toggle for filtered database view, which looks really good and efficient. I am trying to recreate this on my workspace, but having the "original" pages and the "mentioned" ones inside my Task Manager felt a bit redundant. Do you have a special page where you keep all of these "originals" or is there something that I didn't follow correctly?
VERY soon. The dashboard you saw in this video is part of a complete task/note/project system that uses PARA, and I'm nearly done designing it. Getting a good UX that doesn't become a mess once it's filled with a lot of content is a tough nut to crack
I have a questions on how do you backup Notion in case if the account is being hacked or disabled or if wanted to switch to other platform or access it offline.
Hey Thomas, poggers video as always. one issue though - I tried to put together a Quick Links page, but the link to pages aren't showing up in the favourites bar
Make sure when you paste your links, you choose Link, not Mention. If you choose Mention, you'll get an inline link that doesn't show up in the sidebar. Hope this helps! 😀
It strikes me that Notion is basically a less sophisticated/enterprise version of Microsoft SharePoint - it’s too bad it doesn’t also have the file libraries functionality of SharePoint as this has the unique ability to treat file libraries as lists and assign meta-data to files, treating the entire file library as a database - it looks like so far files in Notion are limited to file attachments but maybe this will come in the future
I've duplicated some of the templates, i'm confuse how can i use the same basic template again the next time in it's original duplicated form with no change? i currently duplicate the template and move the copy to the template required page, is there a short cut of doing this?
I use a 2-database structure: A Tasks database and a Projects database, which are linked by a 2-way Relation. My databases video covers this using a task/project manager example - here's the section on Relations! th-cam.com/video/mAJOpO73d8Y/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you for the reply. I watched your video on that and figured that was the best way to handle cross-referencing databases, but I wasn't 100% convinced :) I love Notion, but there are 1000 ways to do the same thing it seems!
Do you have videos on the mobile version of Notion? Can you advise how yo search within a document/note using the Android Notion app? It seems too limited to not be able to search within a note.
New Notion user here - thanks for the great tipes! Any chance you could show how you set up your notes database (18:03)? I'm a former Evernote user and would like to try this out :)
Sure thing - I actually made a video on that a while back! th-cam.com/video/qj9HeT-IaEg/w-d-xo.html I also just released a new template with an improved note-taking system. It also combines tasks, projects, and goals: thomasjfrank.com/brain/ Videos exploring this template are coming soon!
Which version of Notion do you use? Desktop app or a web app? If web app then which browser might be better at speed and power/cpu usage? I work sometimes on my laptop and discovered that Notion as desktop app and in Edge uses quite a lot of CPU and power. Is there any benefit in using one version over other? Is any of them less resource hungry, more stable, faster? On my PC I did not notice much difference, but once I started using my laptop on a lap I noticed that it gets much hotter when I use Notion over just web browsing and started to think which might be a better version. There are some posts that claim web version works better and faster, but as of today I do not notice much of a difference except this CPU usage.
I’m not sure about power usage differences - I’ve asked the Notion team but haven’t heard back yet. I use the desktop apps exclusively, but admittedly I only have pretty high end computers.
Got a response from one of their engineers! He said if anything, the desktop apps should be a little faster on slower connections because they maintain an SQLite cache of each page you've visited, which also helps them to (sort of) work offline. But other than that, he said Notion doesn't use any more or less resources in any specific browser. Between browsers, it'd be down to the browser itself. I know Edge is current faster than nearly every other browser except Safari on MacOS, though I'm not sure what each browser's resource footprint is like.
My Creator's Companion template is set up to do this: thomasjfrank.com/creators-companion/ I upload each video's thumbnail as the cover image, and Creator's Companion has a "thumbnail view" in the Channel template so you can see all your videos in a thumbnail grid. By default they're sorted by "video number" (a system I use), but you can easily change the sort criteria to Publish Date! After that, you can use Notion's grouping feature with the date or a simple formula to group by month if you want to.
Great content! I have been using notion for more then a year now, and i love it! But i think notion lack when i comes to reminders of todos, whats you thoughts about that? I have switched back to Things 3 when it comes to todos. Love your channel =)
It's definitely a feature that I'd like to see become more robust in the future. Currently you can at least set a reminder in the date property. Personally, I check over to-do's daily when planning my day, so for most things I don't need a reminder. I do occasionally use Apple Reminders + Siri to remind myself to do something though.
A question regarding the last, is there a max of properties? Or a point it gets problamatic. The pages in the table aren't used generally so scrolling isn't an issue. Reason I ask is since I have a database of ingredients, recipes and mealplan all linked (and then mealplan linked to budget) and especially on ingredients they're adding up since 'recipes' are anything from fancy to just some single/double ingredient side dishes to link to the meal plan. Also any recipe I delete seems to stick around in relation and I didn't bother naming them in the ingredient relation and it's a bit late now. (So many recipes and the properties are always hidden anyway.)
I'm not what the actual limit is - there probably is one, but if so it's not well-documented. I know there are more strict limits for the API but there's probably some large upper limit for properties or number of relations per record in the main app too. However, I doubt you'll run into problems with your recipe database. In our Creator's Companion, we currently have 70 properties in our main content database, and over 900 rows. That db is related to other db's, including Channels, Sponsors, Keywords, Research, and Tasks. Within Channels, my main YT channel's record is related to over 400 records from the content database, and the whole thing runs speedily enough that we never have an issue using it for our work.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for. Technically it'd have a limit somewhere but glad there's no realistic risk hitting it.
O my whole database is gone. I created a view at different location but when I click view database, it brings me to the database that only shows the title without the whole table. I am doing it on my android phone. Please help. Thanks 👍 I am new to this notion thing.
Hi Thomas! Thank you very much for this content! I don't know if I've seen right, but it looks like you use linked databases inside synced blocks; is there any advantage in putting the linked database inside a synced block? Doesn't the database content automatically update everywhere? Or is it just to sync the filters and sorting criteria?
Yep, that's precisely it! I'm syncing a specific view of the database in multiple places. In Mistake 3 I show why - I have an "Inbox" view on both its own page (good for mobile) and on a large dashboard page (good for desktop). You could also copy and paste the linked db without using a synced block, but I'm using one for now while I design this productivity system template just in case I need to make changes.
Thanks for this video! Quick question - do you have a video or resource somewhere to explain your nested Projects within Areas following Tiago's PARA system?
Question why have a quick link, when there is a quick Find? Unless you're running like 15 or more of these databases I don't see the point. Which I'm only probably going to do 2 at the moment. 1 for book notes, podcasts, movies etc. The other maybe as that juranl.
Quick Find often works great! But there are many times when I can't remember the exact name of the page I'm looking for, so creating a direct link in Quick Links works best for me.
Thomas for some reason my Quick Links Global Block page is not getting the same results as you so well demonstrated ? Is it possible I have some sharing function blocking the display of the links ?
@@ThomasFrankExplains Damn I thought I had done that properly , I had tried I thought as a link but I just redid it and made sure it was a Link and it worked perfect thank you mate , my bad , Thank you for the rapid fire response that i was not expecting knowing our time zones are way out of sync
They can create Relations, but doing so won't create the reciprocal property in the restricted database. This is quite interesting actually - I don't believe there's any other way of doing this! I'll follow up with the Notion team about it - it would actually be quite a useful thing to be able to do purposefully.
I cannot seem to get the links on my Quick Links page to show in the drop down in the sidebar - it still just shows "No pages inside". I used CTRL-L and selected "Mention Page", but it still does not work. What kind of page is your Quick Links page - just an Empty Page with icon?
There are two options when you paste a Notion link - Mention Page and Link to Page. You want Link to Page in order to create a sidebar link; it created an actual Page Link block that shows up in the sidebar. Mention Page creates what's called an Inline Link, which can be used in the middle of lines of text and inside other blocks. Inline Links are very versatile, but they won't show up in the sidebar. More detail on the difference here! th-cam.com/video/YO4HYhpR9zE/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasFrankExplains Ok, thanks - I totally missed that tidbit in the video. Thanks, I have it working now. Great video, lots of little nuggets in it.
You mentioned setting a specific title for a template. I've been trying to find a solution for this. Is it really possible to pre-populate the title of a template?
@@brendalg4 self-referential filters aren't quite the same thing. With those, you can have a database inside your template with a filter that references the Template's name. When you generate a page from your template, that filter will be updated to match the new page's name.
@@ThomasFrankExplains I did find one possible partial workaround. If you use forcing functions you can force the name of a newly created item, but I suppose you'd have to use a collection of views depending on which names you wanted to enter. Thanks for the follow-up! Always great content!
Small correction at 03:40 - it looks like you can't actually set a default page title in a database template. Sorry about that!
@FemaleFoundr nothing wrong with making money. not like he's scamming
@FemaleFoundr He's given away so much information for his Notion templates over the years. It takes A LOT of work! For the ones he is charging for, it's actually worth the investment if it's what will work for your team. And he has a 30day return policy. For people new to him they might not realize just how long he's gone without charging any of us for the templates he makes.
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Just started using Notion for a couple of weeks and I initialled loved it but after watching a lot of videos of what people are doing with Notion to get organised I now feel really overwhelmed at how to set things up correctly and noticed that I am spending more time playing around with it than actaully focusing on getting my work done! :(
facts! it is a scary tunnel and unless you do productivity for a living I suggest just checking in every couple of months to see if there are any little fixes you can make to enhance your workflow - other than that, just do you bro!
@@lailaalbuquerque5036 Thanks! Yeah, I had to take a step back and review things. I was following a lot of users who had high followings/subscribers but realised their way of working wasn't inline with my own thinking process.
Found some more minimalistic approaches and now trying to build things out slowly in stages. Just setup my central tasks and projects databases and creating/updating them through a dashboards with linked versions filtered out for my main business (and separated dashboard pages for side projects). Next up is setting up a central resources database to insert linked filtered versions into their respective dashboards.
Welcome to productivity tools 🤣
Man, just use the damn thing. Just start actually using it for what you need. And don't worry if you start with something that's way simpler than anything shown in the videos. The beauty of Notion is that nothing goes to waste. Whatever information you put in you will be able to transform into anything you want later on when you get better with the tool.
So don't worry, start using it on a simplest level, and let the growth come naturally.
Honestly! My head feels as though it’s going to implode. There is so much information to take in on the different ways to use Notion it’s insanity! It’s a great tool for daily situations, but Jesus take the wheel…
Increible tips! I've been using Notion for almost a full year now and still feel like a beginner with learning all that can be done in Notion. The linked pages and customize page is my new favorite- thank you!
It's amazing how comprehensive is the content you put out about Notion. I think this could be truly one of the most helpful channels in the entirety of TH-cam. Thanks!
P.D: What do you think about the privacy and data security of Notion? Do you think is there any reason to be concerned about putting too much content in the platform? (Employees having access to your account, data collection, etc)
Seconding the privacy question!
Here are the security policies that Notion has in place: www.notion.so/Security-6c56b4854b624b0d8f36711018647f68#2969e6f12d75478cb932e2070c97c3e7
And here's their statement about employee data access: "Notion employees are only able to access your data with your explicit consent via an inbound inquiry, and are legally bound to keeping your data entirely private" - twitter.com/notionhq/status/1301708391522336768
I'm not super-knowledgeable about technical security or privacy law, but I will note that Notion does not have end-to-end encryption. They do encrypt at rest and in transit: twitter.com/NotionHQ/status/1301708205311971329
My take on this: No system is perfectly secure, so you have to accept some amount of risk when you use any PKM tool. I see Notion as being the same acceptable-risk class as Slack, where there's a lot of security in place, but access to data by Slack employees is still only protected by legal agreements, not encryption (www.vox.com/recode/2020/1/24/21079275/slack-private-messages-privacy-law-enforcement-lawsuit).
For me, that's an acceptable amount of privacy for most things - notes, tasks, company projects. If I were operating in a much higher-security industry, I'd probably need something with even higher security. But for most everything my team and I do, it's acceptable.
However, I do make a few exceptions. The main one is passwords - I would never store passwords in Notion or any tool without strong end-to-end encryption. For that I use Dashlane, though any reputable password manager like BitWarden or LastPass would be acceptable as well. I also use my password manager to store certain secure notes.
If you do want a tool with an even higher level of security, Obsidian offers true end-to-end encryption. Note that if you're using Obsidian Sync, you need to choose their end-to-end option, and be sure to never lose your encryption passphrase, as doing so would mean losing your data forever. If you choose their Managed Encryption option, your level of security falls to the same as that of Notion's - "While we store your encryption password on our servers, we only use it to offer a more convenient way to manage your vaults. Obsidian will never access your vault without your explicit consent." help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy
It's also worth noting that even Google Drive, which does use end-to-end encryption, manages encryption keys as well: www.businessinsider.com/is-google-drive-secure
Ultimately, if your level of acceptable risk is much lower, you'll want to consider a true end-to-end encrypted tool where you manage your keys. The main ones I know of are Obsidian and Standard Notes: standardnotes.com/
Hope this helps!
@@ThomasFrankExplains Far more helpful than I actually expected. Thank you so much!
@@ThomasFrankExplains Since you wrote this LastPass has been cracked and the crackers were able to download a great many vaults. Apparently they were not nearly as secure as their engineers thought they were.
I started using notion because of your template and now I have started realising the potential
This content is the missing puzzle that i've been looking for a long time for my workspace along with notion tips and tricks, finally🙏 . Great job everyone❤
If you delete a property which was in use within a Notion database and you decide you want it back, just add a new property with the same name and type and you'll find that the data is still there. In fact, if you open up a record inside a database and use a template to populate it with information in all the properties, and then remove that record or turn it into a page or another type of block, all of that DB data is forever stored on that block no matter what its current shape happens to be.
Basically, the properties fields are 'sticky' to any block. If the block exists in a current form which doesn't display properties, they will be hidden from view and seem to have been 'lost'. But as soon as you bring the block back into an environment where that property and its data is visible again (e.g. another database, or restoring a deleted property field to the same database), Notion will once again display the data stored within that property associated with that block again.
The mistake I made at the beginning was the last one. I just deleted everything 🤣 and made a new version, with which I felt more comfortable with. Then, when I checked the deleted bin, I had a lot of databases and pages that seemed to be active. Part of my learning curve, I guess... Now that I discover your channel, I have a great resource to shorten that curve and work more efficiently. Thank you so much 👍
I'm getting to know Notion but clearly there are SO many complex things you can do that each one deserves a step by step tutorial. These 10 things were interesting but went by way too fast to learn. Thanks for all your Notion expertise though. I'm trying to follow it all.
I can‘t wait for your next video about your day-template
Synced Block is a life saver! Thank you for sharing how we can use Synced blocks in practice
This is incredible and clearly a very needed video based on comment and videos!
Love your “dashboard” views and comments 🙃🙃 love the tasks inbox, especially on mobile.
Quick links! Didn’t even think about that. Thanks
Awesome tips! I tried making stuff over from the first time I tried using Notion, but just recently started using it again with help from your templates. I'm glad one of your tips is something I started doing.
linking a unique view of a database in some other place - good God - so helpful! thank you so much!
Such great tips for someone starting out .. #7 .. that's why I bought your templates. I didn't have 2 years to figure it out .. such a great jump start to get started on Notion
Tbh, I am the type of person who has everything even the kitchen sink in their dashboard. I tried going minimalistic and separating them into their respective pages but that just drove me crazy because I constantly had to jump to different pages to plan out my day.
In my current dashboard, I have an inbox task where I input tasks I think of doing, my goals setting (for the year, months, weekly and daily), calendar and schedule widget, and all my trackers like my habits, finance, projects, books and tv shows.
You would think this will overwhelm me but it hasn't cause when I have everything I need in one place, it puts my mind at ease and helps me ensure I am meeting my goals since my progresses are in my view. For mobile use, I just use the toggles to hide the things I don't need and design my layout to make it very aesthetically pleasing for my desktop.
Yeah I like having a full dashboard as well on desktop! I just think it's worth considering how to make it more usable on mobile. Toggles are great for that, as are individual pages. I like pages personally because I can launch them directly from my homescreen widget.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Yeah, I definitely see what you mean especially on the longer scrolling on mobile. I suppose another solution is make dedicated pages for mobile use though not sure how that will look like
If we get a clear vision of what we want, it is easier! Thanks for sharing all this tips.
Thank you Tom, during my 3mo experience with Notion I lost myself in trying to reinvent everything from scratch. You remind me of para method and now I'm finally okay with my dashboard being not the most aesthetic dashboard in the internet.
Glad to help! I love how many of those aesthetic dashboards look and often get a little jealous myself when I see them. But many times, I'll study them more closely and realize there are significant UX limitations that would limit the way I want to do things. There's always a trade-off between simplicity and power!
The linked database trick was the key to have the same data showed on the same page with a different view. I tried with a relation, then with a sync block, but the solution was here in this video, waiting for me.
Yep! I've got a whole video on linked databases planned as well :)
PS - you might have noticed I had a linked database inside a synced block here - that's another useful trick for showing the same linked db view in multiple places. You can also copy and paste, but using the synced block means you only have to make changes in one place.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Yes, I saw it. But I don't quite understand what a synced Linked database offers more than a simple linked database. I mean can't you just link the same database on different pages and have the same result?
Man, those 3 eggs per day are paying off; you are slowly turning into Lou Ferrigno.
Yet another video loaded with great information. I always find something new in Notion when watching your videos. Thanks, Thomas!
An excellent & informative video - and you sound GREAT with that ICON Pro!
I ALWAYS learn something new in your videos, even though I’ve been using Notion for a couple of years and would consider myself a power user. Thanks so much!
I just signed up on NOTION and seeing your and my left panes side by side makes me intimidated. You've got quite some stuff on there, WOW!!
Ha, I've been using Notion for 4 years now! But most of my sidebar is just Favorites :)
I _am_ so proud! I've discovered, on my own, this with creating a page where I'd put links to most needed places in Notion, and it shows as a page with toggles in the Favorites. Only... I didn't make those a Synced Block, bummer 🙂 Loads of great tips her, thank you!!!
I put them in a synced block so I could also see them on my dashboard, but I'm not 100% sure I'll keep it that way!
Awesome content!!! I like how you explained every detail, thanks!!!
OH MY GOSH HOW COULD I MISS THIS VIDEO ON MY FIRST TRY USING NOTION?!?!!?!?!?!?
Quick Links and hiding properties!! Thanks for this! Going to incorporate them into my Notion right away 😅
I want to mention that if you're creating a personal knowledge management or note taking app and would like to continue using your notes even if one day Notion went down. You shouldn't use some features like Synced block (that just disappear if it's not the original), different views of databases (filters, different views, sorting) none of that stays when you export to markdown or html. I personally don't use sync block because of this.
hopefully notion will make a custom file format for exporting, so that in case notion went down, people could reverse engineer the format and no data would be lost.
Great video! Would love to see an in-depth video on formulas, they always mess with my head!
Working on that now!
Happy Birthday Thomas 😁
Awesome content sir and thanks for making our notion doubts clear. But I just want a video on formula's notion cause it is very tricky to apply to their properties. *Highly recommended* 🙏
Got a formula video in the works!
Awesome advice! The secret to getting ahead is getting started :)
😂
Notion seems so useful. I wish I was more computer savvy so it felt easy to use
First to say it's good to see you, Thomas. Was getting a bit worried about you, pal. :)
Been posting a lot over on the main channel - though I did put up a Short the other day here!
cant wait for "my day"
Thanks for every video. I am learning too many tips from you Thomas.
the linked database thing actually changed my life
Anyone experienced team members being unable to access databases when permission level was changed to Edit Content? Happened to me, reverted to Edit for now, I wonder if it’s a common bug!
Thomas, thank you for the video, as always ✨✨✨☀️
I haven't experienced this, but I did hear from Notion's team that several bugs were fixed this week. Hopefully this was one of them!
Thank you, Thomas, will try again! ☺️
The Notion Dashboard reminds me of myspace back in the day 🤣
Thanks for the tips, very useful!
Amazingly comprehensive explanation and very informative, thank you so much for your efforts!
The prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said : “ He who does not thank people does not thank Allah (God).”
When is your video coming out 😩
Also, another nice little bug as of March 8th, but you can not move your page around in the side bar to reorder it, all that happens is it moves to the bottom of your list, and you will never be able to move it around. Notion is turning out to be one of the buggiest programs I have ever used.
My notion is way less complicated than this and it already runs slow 😣 mostly on my phone which makes sense, but can't imagine having as many pages as you lol
Great video. I don't make single mistake that you sad althought there is possibility for small improvements in my system. And since I use Notion just for myself advices for team users are not applicable for me.
a detailed video on linked databases would be helpful
Like the story ön your t shirt.
Franken-Cat was a nice touch! lol
Great job, but I might ask you to point out to your viewers that the Android version of Notion does not allow you to use markdown language. You could use LaTeX and an equation, I suppose.
Thanks for sharing!
3:42 Ah, yes. Febraury is my "favorite" month too.
Years later and watching this over, I still can't understand how to implement the Para method in my work flow.
Hi Thomas, thanks for the great content. I have a notion related question that is not related to this video though. I'm confused as whether i should use notion to upload documents directly or simply provide a link to them from dropbox/google drive. I used to scan documents into evernote and tag them for easy search but i would still create a rigid filing structure in dropbox. What do you think is the best way? Knowing that my previous practice stems from the fear of loosing files in case i had to move from notion to another application sometime in the future. Thanks in advance
Good Question.. I use Zapier, and Google Drive. I like that I can control document access in GoogleDrive. If document access is not an issue.. You can drag and drop directly from your scan page to the Notion Page..
Tried it once but the UI is just not pretty and unintuitive for the 21st century. Reminds me of a mainframe screen. Hadn’t seen that since the 1980’s. People do a lot of personal management with it though.
Good explanations!
There's so much to learn with Notion. Any suggestions, generally speaking, on the order of topics/features/so on to approach this?
Hey Heath! I've created a beginner's series that goes in what I think is the most logical order: thomasjfrank.com/fundamentals/
However, what I'd personally recommend is to use it like you'd learn any other tool - try to accomplish something that interests you. I started out trying to use it to build a company wiki and a video project tracker. Since I was really keen on figuring out those workflows, I naturally learned what I needed as I ran into questions and sought answers.
I've tried to accommodate that approach as well with my build guides. Here's a fairly simple one for building a habit tracker: th-cam.com/video/uyj3JDhE8HE/w-d-xo.html
Going a step further, my task manager build guide uses some of Notion's more advanced features, like linked databases, formulas, database templates, and more: th-cam.com/video/32dLXdB4ozs/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps! 😀
Very helpful! I am wondering if you have any demonstration videos, thoughts, or written instruction on Notion Enhancer and the Save to Notion Chrome extension?
Great video! Do you have a video that covers how do you get such a variety of icons for your pages? I noticed some really interesting ones that don't seem to be standard emojis.
I'll add that to my video list! But for Page Icons, you can upload any image you like - just choose the Upload or Link tabs after clicking on a page's icon :)
I can't add a toggle the way you explained it, because your directions don't match with my page. The window menu with the style palette/ etc. doesn't pop up.
I can't either... how do you add a toggle by pressing the greater than key?
also, are there libraries of free and good notion pages that I could duplicate and use?
Will the Executive edition of the creators companion be coming back?
I'm not sure right now; my calendar is chock-full of projects at the moment - including starting work on a more team-focused version of Creator's Companion! So I have currently have a lack of time for additional coaching. I am working on fleshing out a list of Notion-certified consultants who can help people who need more than a standardized template, though.
I've got a question - and maybe this will be covered in the new productivity guide/template - Is there a way you would recommend for going through the 'design process' for a dashboard or something you want to use Notion for? I want to create a dashboard that covers all of my Toastmasters things (my member stuff and my leadership stuff; my current thinking is I might need two separate dashboards because there are scopes that are similar and different for each). I know kind of the basic or bare minimums I want to use.
Thanks for the video ! I'll try to use yours recommendations. One question - what does it mean : "ca" at the beggining of the database names ?
Sometimes I think templates are good for inspiration, forcing yourself into a specific and detailed framework is restricting. I prefer designing my own dashboard according to my needs. However, templates are inspiring and sometimes can be very good to use
agreed
Huh, didn't know about some of the keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, some of them (namely non-letter ones, e.g. Ctrl+[ ) seem to only work on English keyboard layouts which kinda sucks for anyone using a non-English layout. Anyone know if there are alternates for these cases or if the shortcuts can be changed somewhere? A shortcut for going back would be super helpful.
Notion doesn't have an official document about that.
Dammit, I love you. Please, Thomas: TALK MORE ABOUT THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
I am achieving a new level of databases, organizations and building a second-brain; this theory is tottaly necessary. Loved the PARA reference, let's go deeper on that!
It's coming 😉 - don't tell Tiago, but I might have an improved version of PARA at the theoretical level (enabled by Notion's database-centric approach)
@@ThomasFrankExplains amazing! I work as PM in a tech company, I am kind of becoming a notion consultor inside the company; this theory is going to help a lot! Appreciate
great video, can you share the link to the PARA methodology post.. Thanks
Hey Thomas. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
I have one question about the mentioned pages that go inside the Toggle (8:34).
Where do you keep the "original" pages? In your Dashboard there are only the mentioned pages with the toggle for filtered database view, which looks really good and efficient. I am trying to recreate this on my workspace, but having the "original" pages and the "mentioned" ones inside my Task Manager felt a bit redundant. Do you have a special page where you keep all of these "originals" or is there something that I didn't follow correctly?
I want this new template! =D
It's nearly done - can't wait to release it!
9:04 Why do you use a sync block? Doesn’t the content of the database stay the same as long as you link it?
Is there any short cut for printing from notion page,?
Thanks, this is very cool stuff ! Is there a reason why your “Quick Links” pages are in a synced block rather than standalone ?
Yep, it's so I can also see them on my dashboard page. I'm experimenting with that setup right now; not totally sure if I'll keep it that way.
I couldn’t find favourite in my notion
It should be right at the top-right corner! If you're on a mobile device, it's in the three-dot menu that's also in the top right corner.
Thank you verry much! Do you have a video on setting up the PARA method in Notion?
VERY soon. The dashboard you saw in this video is part of a complete task/note/project system that uses PARA, and I'm nearly done designing it. Getting a good UX that doesn't become a mess once it's filled with a lot of content is a tough nut to crack
@@ThomasFrankExplains you sir are awesome!
I have a questions on how do you backup Notion in case if the account is being hacked or disabled or if wanted to switch to other platform or access it offline.
Hey Thomas, poggers video as always. one issue though - I tried to put together a Quick Links page, but the link to pages aren't showing up in the favourites bar
Make sure when you paste your links, you choose Link, not Mention. If you choose Mention, you'll get an inline link that doesn't show up in the sidebar. Hope this helps! 😀
It strikes me that Notion is basically a less sophisticated/enterprise version of Microsoft SharePoint - it’s too bad it doesn’t also have the file libraries functionality of SharePoint as this has the unique ability to treat file libraries as lists and assign meta-data to files, treating the entire file library as a database - it looks like so far files in Notion are limited to file attachments but maybe this will come in the future
Was your choice of microphone partially because it kinda looks like Yoda's lightsaber handle?
I've duplicated some of the templates, i'm confuse how can i use the same basic template again the next time in it's original duplicated form with no change? i currently duplicate the template and move the copy to the template required page, is there a short cut of doing this?
Do you recommend using databases in a project to link tasks and other things or using the relations property to basically accomplish the same thing?
I use a 2-database structure: A Tasks database and a Projects database, which are linked by a 2-way Relation. My databases video covers this using a task/project manager example - here's the section on Relations! th-cam.com/video/mAJOpO73d8Y/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you for the reply. I watched your video on that and figured that was the best way to handle cross-referencing databases, but I wasn't 100% convinced :)
I love Notion, but there are 1000 ways to do the same thing it seems!
Do you have videos on the mobile version of Notion? Can you advise how yo search within a document/note using the Android Notion app? It seems too limited to not be able to search within a note.
Sadly it’s not possible. Quite an oversight IMO! I’ve mentioned it to the Notion team
New Notion user here - thanks for the great tipes! Any chance you could show how you set up your notes database (18:03)? I'm a former Evernote user and would like to try this out :)
Sure thing - I actually made a video on that a while back! th-cam.com/video/qj9HeT-IaEg/w-d-xo.html
I also just released a new template with an improved note-taking system. It also combines tasks, projects, and goals: thomasjfrank.com/brain/
Videos exploring this template are coming soon!
@@ThomasFrankExplains Great, thanks!
Where they love us, where they believe us!
Which version of Notion do you use? Desktop app or a web app? If web app then which browser might be better at speed and power/cpu usage? I work sometimes on my laptop and discovered that Notion as desktop app and in Edge uses quite a lot of CPU and power. Is there any benefit in using one version over other? Is any of them less resource hungry, more stable, faster? On my PC I did not notice much difference, but once I started using my laptop on a lap I noticed that it gets much hotter when I use Notion over just web browsing and started to think which might be a better version. There are some posts that claim web version works better and faster, but as of today I do not notice much of a difference except this CPU usage.
I’m not sure about power usage differences - I’ve asked the Notion team but haven’t heard back yet. I use the desktop apps exclusively, but admittedly I only have pretty high end computers.
Got a response from one of their engineers! He said if anything, the desktop apps should be a little faster on slower connections because they maintain an SQLite cache of each page you've visited, which also helps them to (sort of) work offline. But other than that, he said Notion doesn't use any more or less resources in any specific browser. Between browsers, it'd be down to the browser itself. I know Edge is current faster than nearly every other browser except Safari on MacOS, though I'm not sure what each browser's resource footprint is like.
Why do u use synced block and not just linked view of database?
Hi Thomas
How can I create a template to categorize my blog posts by date shoeing an image thumbnail....maybe displaying everything in a monthly view?
My Creator's Companion template is set up to do this: thomasjfrank.com/creators-companion/
I upload each video's thumbnail as the cover image, and Creator's Companion has a "thumbnail view" in the Channel template so you can see all your videos in a thumbnail grid.
By default they're sorted by "video number" (a system I use), but you can easily change the sort criteria to Publish Date! After that, you can use Notion's grouping feature with the date or a simple formula to group by month if you want to.
Great content! I have been using notion for more then a year now, and i love it! But i think notion lack when i comes to reminders of todos, whats you thoughts about that? I have switched back to Things 3 when it comes to todos. Love your channel =)
It's definitely a feature that I'd like to see become more robust in the future. Currently you can at least set a reminder in the date property.
Personally, I check over to-do's daily when planning my day, so for most things I don't need a reminder. I do occasionally use Apple Reminders + Siri to remind myself to do something though.
A question regarding the last, is there a max of properties? Or a point it gets problamatic. The pages in the table aren't used generally so scrolling isn't an issue.
Reason I ask is since I have a database of ingredients, recipes and mealplan all linked (and then mealplan linked to budget) and especially on ingredients they're adding up since 'recipes' are anything from fancy to just some single/double ingredient side dishes to link to the meal plan. Also any recipe I delete seems to stick around in relation and I didn't bother naming them in the ingredient relation and it's a bit late now. (So many recipes and the properties are always hidden anyway.)
I'm not what the actual limit is - there probably is one, but if so it's not well-documented. I know there are more strict limits for the API but there's probably some large upper limit for properties or number of relations per record in the main app too.
However, I doubt you'll run into problems with your recipe database. In our Creator's Companion, we currently have 70 properties in our main content database, and over 900 rows. That db is related to other db's, including Channels, Sponsors, Keywords, Research, and Tasks.
Within Channels, my main YT channel's record is related to over 400 records from the content database, and the whole thing runs speedily enough that we never have an issue using it for our work.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for. Technically it'd have a limit somewhere but glad there's no realistic risk hitting it.
O my whole database is gone. I created a view at different location but when I click view database, it brings me to the database that only shows the title without the whole table. I am doing it on my android phone. Please help. Thanks 👍 I am new to this notion thing.
Hi Thomas! Thank you very much for this content! I don't know if I've seen right, but it looks like you use linked databases inside synced blocks; is there any advantage in putting the linked database inside a synced block? Doesn't the database content automatically update everywhere? Or is it just to sync the filters and sorting criteria?
Yep, that's precisely it! I'm syncing a specific view of the database in multiple places. In Mistake 3 I show why - I have an "Inbox" view on both its own page (good for mobile) and on a large dashboard page (good for desktop).
You could also copy and paste the linked db without using a synced block, but I'm using one for now while I design this productivity system template just in case I need to make changes.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Got it! Thanks again!
Did you ever do a Notion vs. Airtable, Coda, etc.?
I'll do these at some point - right now I'm working on Notion vs. Obsidian.
@@ThomasFrankExplains thanks! Keep up the great work!
Thanks for this video! Quick question - do you have a video or resource somewhere to explain your nested Projects within Areas following Tiago's PARA system?
Working on that now actually! I've got a whole PARA template in the works.
@@ThomasFrankExplains 😍😍😍 excited and thank you! If I can help with anything (beta testing, etc) please let me know!
Question why have a quick link, when there is a quick Find? Unless you're running like 15 or more of these databases I don't see the point. Which I'm only probably going to do 2 at the moment. 1 for book notes, podcasts, movies etc. The other maybe as that juranl.
Quick Find often works great! But there are many times when I can't remember the exact name of the page I'm looking for, so creating a direct link in Quick Links works best for me.
Soo how to make template?
Thomas for some reason my Quick Links Global Block page is not getting the same results as you so well demonstrated ? Is it possible I have some sharing function blocking the display of the links ?
Hey Cameron - did you make sure to paste the link as a Page Link, not a Mention? If you choose Mention, the link won't show in the sidebar.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Damn I thought I had done that properly , I had tried I thought as a link but I just redid it and made sure it was a Link and it worked perfect thank you mate , my bad , Thank you for the rapid fire response that i was not expecting knowing our time zones are way out of sync
Does restricting database sharing to "edit content" prevent users from creating relations to the db from their own personal dbs?
They can create Relations, but doing so won't create the reciprocal property in the restricted database. This is quite interesting actually - I don't believe there's any other way of doing this! I'll follow up with the Notion team about it - it would actually be quite a useful thing to be able to do purposefully.
I cannot seem to get the links on my Quick Links page to show in the drop down in the sidebar - it still just shows "No pages inside". I used CTRL-L and selected "Mention Page", but it still does not work. What kind of page is your Quick Links page - just an Empty Page with icon?
There are two options when you paste a Notion link - Mention Page and Link to Page. You want Link to Page in order to create a sidebar link; it created an actual Page Link block that shows up in the sidebar.
Mention Page creates what's called an Inline Link, which can be used in the middle of lines of text and inside other blocks. Inline Links are very versatile, but they won't show up in the sidebar.
More detail on the difference here! th-cam.com/video/YO4HYhpR9zE/w-d-xo.html
@@ThomasFrankExplains Ok, thanks - I totally missed that tidbit in the video. Thanks, I have it working now. Great video, lots of little nuggets in it.
"People like to say there's no wrong way to use Notion".
Lulz. Those people clearly haven't seen my fiasco of a dashboard.
You mentioned setting a specific title for a template. I've been trying to find a solution for this. Is it really possible to pre-populate the title of a template?
Search self replicating filters
Actually, it looks like you can't! I think you used to be able to if I remember correctly, but I'm not able to now.
@@brendalg4 self-referential filters aren't quite the same thing. With those, you can have a database inside your template with a filter that references the Template's name. When you generate a page from your template, that filter will be updated to match the new page's name.
@@ThomasFrankExplains I did find one possible partial workaround. If you use forcing functions you can force the name of a newly created item, but I suppose you'd have to use a collection of views depending on which names you wanted to enter. Thanks for the follow-up! Always great content!
@@ThomasFrankExplains I think I read it wrong