Check out the written guide here! thomasjfrank.com/notion-databases-the-ultimate-beginners-guide/ What other Notion tutorials would you like to see me cover?
My mind is absolutely blown by 1) your ability to create this type of content 2) your talent in teaching 3) how crazy powerful Notion is. I don't remember being this engaged in watching tutorial videos (maybe except for watching Webflow's tutorials).
You're my kind of teacher. I'm brand new to Notion (I learned of its existence days ago) and this is the first video of yours I've seen after watching a lot of tutorials. I really like how this flowed and you go into just enough depth without making things too complicated. So, as a brand new user to Notion, I'd say you're THE Notion guy. Thanks very much for this video! I'm looking forward to watching more and learning about the powerhouse that is Notion!
Is there any Notion-Award over there? If yes, you have earned it. What a tremendous video tutorial and course. I'm really impressed by your capacity to teach. And also, thank you a lot for this tutorial
Man you're an example of a good youtuber, i really like your content and your approach. Well organized, time-stamp, don't waste time in intro, you get to the point right away and teach stuff in a structured step-by-step way. You ROCK Thomas
Man, I'm out of words to express how much you've helped me. Really excellent quality videos. I'm new to notion, I wanted to build my personal study tracker. What I was struggling was to create a task for a course topic which will automatically update my tasks page. Linked database section is the answer. But man, it was so hard to find out. Thank you mate.
Excellent, excellent tutorial. Thank you. I run a college career services office and I recently learned that Notion provides students and faculty with free premium Notion accounts. I gave it a shot a few months ago, but it looked way too complicated. Luckily, I found your videos because I am now officially hooked. This application is so versatile and powerful. I'm working with faculty to introduce this tool to freshmen. I'm also planning to teach students how to use Notion for managing their job search pursuits. Our team will also be using Notion to plan our annual job fair. All of this came to fruition from your generosity here because I would have never been able to learn this on my own. I looked up several other tutorials, but yours are head and shoulders above the rest. Thank you again!
Thanks so much for the kind words Jeff! I'm so glad my tutorials have proven helpful. P.S. I used to work in my college's career services office too! (Though I was just the front desk guy)
Just wanted to say thank you for all of the videos. I am brand new to notion and haven't even set anything up yet, but have a million things I want to organize within it and your videos are teaching me, as well as giving me better ideas on how to sort my thoughts. As someone with ADD, I get distracted very easily and have a habit of not finishing what I start, so I'm hoping notion will be able to help with this. I look forward to more videos from you, as well as watching your previous videos.
how is notion working out for you?? since I also have ADD, I wanna know if notion actually helps out with finishing and tracking tasks, or does the ADD result in you never adding tasks to the notion page?
Wow! This is definitely a full course. I spent 2 days watching it, going back and forth to my notion to make tweaks with what I learned. Now I'm obsessed with Notion.
Wow, this Notion tutorial is amazing! It's the best one I've found on RU-vid. Your clear explanations and step-by-step instructions made it so easy for me to set up and organize my Notion workspace. I've been struggling to keep track of my projects, tasks, and notes, but your tutorial has shown me how to create a customized system that works perfectly for me. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and helping me get my life organized! PS - I binge-watched all your tutorials
Thanks, bro, you are the perfect example of "Teach a man how to fish" The possibilities are endless with Notion and you just provided us the exact fundamental knowledge to build what we want!
I'm a complete notions beginner and first was a bit overwhelmed haha - what really helped was I just watched your video once and then tried to do it off memory and then rewatched the whole thing while pausing and making the database! Super helpful
Thank you Thomas! I bought your Second Brain template to support your great work. I have a request, I think it would be amazing if you did an in-depth tutorial on how to apply the Zettlekasten organization method inside Notion!
Thanks so much! I do have Zettlekasten on my list of potential topics, though I think it's pretty hard to implement due to the lack of an unlinked references feature like the one found in Obsidian or Roam. You can do a Luhman-style slip box manually though, and the page-level backlinks can help things somewhat!
I clicked on this notification SO FAST. 🔥😍 Saving this for future reference! My main database is keeping track of my RU-vid videos - a few too many still tagged "Scripting" 😂 I have attempted to make databases of anatomy/physiology/pathology notes but it is a Herculean task haha
Such a useful video man. I saw this job tracking template video, and I wanted exactly that, but the purchase of that template kept failing. Now after watching your video, I feel very confident to be able to do that easily by myself. Thanks so much!
35:04 - it was this moment that I was looking for. Self-referential columns. It's like peaking behind the show at Disney a little to see how the magic actually happens, but a new found respect for the tool and your way of teaching it.
thanks for that, Thomas! I've used to use Excel to manage a data base that did not need any math to be done. Notion is such a better way to keep all on record.
I was able to create everything I need for my content calendar and check-lists! I had to watch the linked Database several times especially how to put the tasks inside the template and link it because I have a template in a calendar not in my project lists, but I managed simply because I understood how it works thanks to your teaching skills. Thank you ! Liv
Awesome video, Thomas. Like many here, I am kind of new to Notion and this video is, by far, the best. You are excellent at explaining things and the video production (script, content, flow, examples, video editing, sound, etc.) is outstanding. I was able to replicate most of the databse creation right from the start with brief or no video pause or replay.
Right on its name. Super simple to understand and replicate for beginners like me. I watch a bunch of videos already and this is where I got it, in 1-time view. Thank you so much, Thomas.
Love this in-depth tutorial. Also: For anyone that can't see their database templates (in this video 30:35) when wanting to link databases (filter 'Where Project Contains...'): the only way I've been able to get around this is by creating multiple templates and manually selecting whichever template corresponds. And then of course making sure the databases have property views of the other. Yes it's annoying and yes I've tried everything including deleting all data and creating a template from scratch. If anyone has any other solutions please feel free to let me know
Bless my heart, reincountering you here after CIG just when I need you most... Notion is another beast!! Both your new channel and this app are feeling like abundance-culture 2.0, it's a good day!
The key learning from today's session it was so gooddd you simplified sale so easily It has two components offer and pitch I never thought of it like this now when I heard this and thought of it in my mind it was so logical and point . For mee. Now I have clearity in my mind what is sale and how to improve sales. Thankyou so much Ansh bhaiya
Really great video Thomas. Appreciate it. I can see that Notion is far beyond powerful, you can literally build inside it apps like Evernote or Todoist and there are not much limitations to the free plan which is super strange and great at the same time.
Great & easy Video. Just don't get the difference between relations and categorizing them in tags. I can also add multiple tags to one task and ,in another view filtered by tags for example , it will show me the same task in both the task lists. Thank you!
Bro, thank you sooooo much. I've been watching videos about databases to implement it into the notion and here comes your video, which is insanely useful😅
Sir, I am so excited to tell you that i am trying to replicate your ultimate brain in my notion workspace because i loved it so much and since i am not able to buy the template. Only difficulty i am facing is that i dont know what are the different properties in the different databases and how are pages embeded in dashboards like taskmanager. I will definitely try to notify you once i complete my version of ultimate brain. Thank you so much for developing such a thing and uploading the explanatory video, that was just awesome! Have a great day ahead sir! Love from India
@@jortwiebrens8076 Sorry but i completed replicating the ultimate brain but i found that it was less friendly for individual usage according to me so i deleted the replica and have created something similar but different that suited me. Have a great day🤗
@@johntorres6846 Thank you so much but I found out that the exact ultimate brain is not my solution, the solution for me is a modified second brain that suits me. Thanks again for your kindness. Have a great day 🤗
hello，Thomas, thanks for your guide video for notion tutorial. For me, a detailed video guide on "formula" is vital for my work. Anyway, i shall keep watching and learning from your video . And a big thank you from China.
This video was amazing I went able to set up my own workspace for handling personal projects and also job related notes 😃, it's really zero to hero Course investing less than an hour!
At first I think it's a long video and I'm gonna get bored, but it wasn't slow and boring at all😍. It was amazing and you explained everything fast and clear and with mentioning all the necessary information. Thank you so much it was great!!
I was kinda let down by how I couldn't assign a value to, say, each multi-select option. For example, option 1 is 100 points, option 2 is 1000 points, and so on. Just as I was looking for a solution, you introduced Formulas. I'm blown away now.
Yeah, you can totally do that with formulas! Try using the at() function for it; that way, you can define the point values by the positions of the options in the multi-select property's list. That can be helpful if you ever want to rename them.
What I like about your video setup is that it feels like we are sitting across the table from you and you are talking directly to us. This makes the video more personal because it feels like a one-on-one appointment with you Thomas Frank in that room and that "Thomas Frank Explains" outright feels like Thomas Frank explains to me.
Thank you for your amazing video, very thorough and useful, well organized, and beautifully scripted! It helps with my understanding of Notion and completely changed the way I manage projects!
Just a note, I got very confused by the multiple pages being named "tasks" and "my tasks" I've resorted to labeling them with Letter values before the names to help me wrap my head around what's inside what. For instance "X my tasks" is a table that's kept inside "Z tasks"
Absolutely Amazing! This was exactly what I've been looking to manage my projects and workflow. Appreciate the work put into this video and the awesome templates you've provided for us! Time to check out that formula video! - My mind lit up once I saw what's possible! Thanks once again! ~Blessings!
Just wanted to say the table view name "Due This Week" (20:57) in the "MyTasks" database isn't entirely accurate. Surely the table should be titled "Due in 7 Days". If it were truly a "Due This Week" table view, it would show all tasks due by Sunday (Friday or Saturday) every week.
This is very helpful, thank you. However at 9:00 you went off trying to show how to make "multiple views from a single database", but all of the views you made were tabs on a single database with multiple views, and not "multiple views pulling from a single database". The distinction is that you have views on different pages linking from the master. Might want to add a text stating you can also click on the first tab of a database and click "Copy link to view" and then paste it to another location, then change the view type. It's really simple, I just didn't see any reference to it in the video. Other than that, video was fantastic! ty
I love your videos and am just starting to learn how to use Notion, but the biggest thing I have challenges with is actually using a template! You have so many great templates, but I can't seem to use them correctly! Can you please make a video about how to use a template without messing it up? Every time I go to edit the template aka add my own info aka the whole reason I got a template, something either doesn't change that was supposed to change or does change that wasn't supposed to change. This is probably something you handle on the support end when people buy your templates, but people like me would feel more confident spending money on templates if we could learn up front how to use them in a general sense. I am guessing there are probably a lot of other people watching your content with the same issue, so it might win you even more customers! I hope! Please help us!
