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excerpt: Have you ever wanted to take a minute and fix all the disparate lists that you have in so many places, and really start to focus on what is important? Notion is helping me solve this and I want to tell you how!
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start: October 28, 2019
title: Increasing Productivity with Notion
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# Productivity Weekend

While my wife was off to a Yoga retreat, my parents offered to take my son camping with a Halloween type of theme. So I thought "Wow I have a full day of uninterrupted focus!". I had lofty plans of finishing all the slides for our new [JAMStack Meetup](https://link.ajonp.com/jamstackgr), but then I started to realize that I wanted to instead jump back and focus on a couple of productivity things that I have been wishing I could handle instead.

## Notion.so

I searched high and low (okay a couple Google searches) for things that would replace AJonP's Trello Board, Google Keep, and OneNote. What I landed on was [notion.so](https://notion.so/) it provides me with a simple consolidated place that allows me to track the progress of all the videos I have in progress.

Notion has a great table view that allows you to quickly add any information just like in a Google Sheet.

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/39885cba-849e-44de-87d2-1ca2e53dccd3.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/39885cba-849e-44de-87d2-1ca2e53dccd3.png)

### Calendar View

I can then get better about sense of release dates and hard deadlines that I can push myself towards in the calendar view. Here is an example of the videos that I am working towards.

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/2d1eddbc-f137-450c-83ff-21d106aca6c3.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/2d1eddbc-f137-450c-83ff-21d106aca6c3.png)

The roadmap allows me to share out with AJ's Purr-fect Peeps that stats on changes that are happening on the site, something that I have not been able to provide in a public fashion up until now, so I really love this aspect. It allows a Trello like view into all the happenings for AJonP. Checkout [AJ's Roadmap](https://link.ajonp.com/roadmap)!

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636762/main-codingcatdev-photo/eb1f1d88-8fe6-4b75-980f-4711942040c7.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636762/main-codingcatdev-photo/eb1f1d88-8fe6-4b75-980f-4711942040c7.png)

One of my favorite features by far is the [Notion Web Clipper](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notion-web-clipper/knheggckgoiihginacbkhaalnibhilkk?hl=en) which you can direct to any page type within your entire Notion system. So let's say that I am out on [Tyler McGinnis's React Course](https://link.ajonp.com/tylermcginnis-react) and I want to keep track of it. All I have to do is be on the page and click the Notion Web Clipper, then load it directly into my Notion Reading List. After I can always see what I have not categorized and setup many views to keep track.

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636768/main-codingcatdev-photo/0ab7728a-4555-491d-9cc4-4186716667fc.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636768/main-codingcatdev-photo/0ab7728a-4555-491d-9cc4-4186716667fc.png)

### Markdown Export

The really big selling point for me is that Notion exports to markdown. Since it is available on every device that I own: MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android and works offline. It was pretty simple for me to choose! Now I can keep track of any notes export to .md and off it goes to my Gatsby Blog ????

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/4037adda-dca8-4f5a-b87a-7571638b89b0.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/4037adda-dca8-4f5a-b87a-7571638b89b0.png)

### Export to Markdown

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/7390132e-f6a5-4a93-af70-989ea946b521.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636764/main-codingcatdev-photo/7390132e-f6a5-4a93-af70-989ea946b521.png)

### Take Markdown (.md) Anywhere

![https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636767/main-codingcatdev-photo/2892934a-45e6-4b8b-b834-d8c202dfe5ba.png](https://media.codingcat.dev/image/upload/v1657636767/main-codingcatdev-photo/2892934a-45e6-4b8b-b834-d8c202dfe5ba.png)

### Looking for a job?

[Notion is hiring so why not go work for a cool compnay?](https://www.notion.so/careers)