Welp, I'm laughing my ass off now because things got hectic and I've had a "read the documentation on recent Notion features" task open for over a year, so I had NO IDEA. When the new Status property came out I was like "well that's nice and all but I'm just so used to my dropdown and my done checkbox" (which is how I'd been handling it). TOTALLY missed the display as checkbox option. Huzzzzzah!!!
I love the sorting options that comes with this property. Before I would have to come up with words or ohrases I didn't exactly want to use/read (e.g. "Stowed Away" instead of "Archived") so I can sort "statuses" alphabetically. Now I can use any word and still have urgent stuff up on top. EDIT: The Status properties in your content calendar setup might actually be useful to me. Thanks for showing it!
Fab, Marie, really interesting. Is this like a more structured progress-orientated multi-select? way neater, and great to have Done (and other status properties) as tick boxes AND Titles too. love how you're using it, for daily tasks, plus creative processes too. Thanks so much for sharing - and helping cut down (my ADHD) overwhelm! x
Great video! This feels like a step towards native recurring tasks - if there's a specific change of status to "done" rather than just "checked", then that allows for further functionality tied to that trigger... Neat functionality in and of itself though, as you ably demonstrated! 👌🏻
Loved this! Definitely expanded on how I was considering using the status property in my Notion setup. I especially appreciated the behind-the-scenes of your content planner and how to use multiple status properties in the same database. :) Thank you for sharing!
I just discovered your content. Great stuff! I was wondering if you can offer wisdom on when to create a database and when to just filter the view. For example, I’m trying to decide if I should have a separate database for internal vs external projects. Or would it be better to have a single projects database that houses all projects together and create different views. What would you consider the building block databases? Tasks, projects, docs?
Is later the same as not started? I don’t understand when you would use later. Now next later is not very clear on when to use each. If I have not started now next do I still need later?
Now Next Later is self defined. For me, Next is anything within the Next week. Now is now/today. In-progress is i'm literally working on it. Later is something that needs to get done, but it's not urgent, it might be next week or next month, or next quarter. As I do my weekly reviews, I scan the categories and upgrade things to next or now depending on their importance. It keeps my lists more manageable, as day to day i'm only looking at Now/Next/In-progress, and Later is only looked at during reviews. That way stuff that's not urgent is not cluttering up my day to day productivity pipeline.
@@MariePoulin this is very helpful thank you. Wondering how this works with setting do and deadline dates? Or do you not used dates and focus more on the statuses?
Yes you can. You need to at a "Created at" or "last edited" property, as well as a number property to track time. You can do whatever you want, you just have to tell it what you want!
Thanks this is super helpful! I am curious if you hear anything about the possibilities for recurring tasks in the future.. that does seem like something that could be integrated into this function.
Now is "this needs to be worked on now", so that's basically today's must do tasks. In-progress is literally "i am now working on this". So my daily list is all my now tasks, and as i work on them one by one they get moved into the "in progress" pipeline and then done.
