✨ HOW TO SPY ON YOUR TEAM IN NOTION ✨ mobile-building tips, Ghana link-up & vision boardz + portfolios
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✨ Notion x Calendly ✨
One of my favourite things about Notion is that you can literally embed (almost) anything. I went on TikTok live the other day as a social experiment to see if I’d find anyone to nerd out about Notion with (turns out I did, so I’ll probs be doing this more regularly!). One of the questions I was asked was ‘what’s your favourite Notion widget?’. I’m not so much a widget gal BUT I how a lot of website links/urls will embed right into the page as a scrollable live preview.
Calendly links are not an exception to this - your appointment dashboards will embed right into a Notion page! Reduce the friction of clients booking with you in a client portal or sales page hosted in Notion. A great tip for any coaches out there!
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Valentine’s Day is coming up so let’s dive into love - specifically self-love. We all like to experience love in different ways and before we can fully accept other forms of love - romantic or platonic, it’s important we love ourselves first.
I’ve hand-flipped this article containing 60+ ways to approach self-love into a mini Notion quiz dashboard. Take what you resonates with from the list and add it to your love language calculator- read the post.
Use this layout as a fun self-discovery exercise during this ‘season of love’ 🫶🏽 And love goes beyond Valentine’s Day, of course. So don’t feel pressured focus on this now. This is something you can do year-round as you continuously tap in to ‘you’.
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✨ SPY ON YOUR TEAM✨
Okay, so things just got SERIOUS. At least for enterprise customers lol.
Notion just rolled out workspace analytics for anyone on the enterprise plan, so you can see information such as who’s visited the page, how often they’ve visited the page (and is using the workspace overall) and more.
What does this mean?
This is great for the ‘Notion people’ on teams to see who’s not using the system enough/might need more support and highlighting any pages that no one uses and honestly might be worth deleting.
Bad news for coasting employees thoughhhhh - next time your boss tells you to read the Notion page in a meeting, you can’t bluff your way through it - they’ll KNOW if you read it
Are you excited about this feature??
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✨Vision board party!✨
I spent my Friday night in the most wholesome way possible - at a vision board party, hosted in Notion! It was hosted by Regine, another Certified Notion Consultant who runs Transformnotion (check out her course!) and can verify it was some of the most wholesome 90 minutes I’ve spent in a while.
As a group, we were guided through thinking about our goals for the year and ultimately visualised this in our pre-made vision board templates. Good people, good music, good vibes - can’t complain.
Thanks again Regine for running the workshop!
✨ Make it mobile-friendly!!!✨
You get the most out of Notion and when you start to think like a product/UX designer. That means taking mobile into consideration while you’re building. Some quick tips for mobile-friendly building
Add quick links to things you’ll need toward the top of the page
USE TOGGLES to decrease scroll time
Thing about a ‘control centre’ toggle navigation bar containing urgent views for task databases etc. Make it a synced block so it will follow you around the workspace 👇🏾
Use the contents block to pick up headings on the page so you can jump to page sections quickly on mobile
Avoid too many large images,
PAY ATTENTION TO COLUMN LAYOUTS
✨ Portfolio buildinggggg✨
Building a portfolio is an exercise that most of us put off. Not because putting it together takes time - in fact, the less clutter/information on the page the better. But because summarising our entire existence, ESSENCE into a single page/few pages is an overwhelming experience.
Notion is a great place to build your portfolio based on how flexible and easy to share the pages. I actually got my last day job because I built my portfolio in Notion (you can see the layout I used here)
Loving that more people are jumping on this trend! I intended my MySpace-themed Notion course to be a fun course to build a 00s-esque social profile page - it’s been could to see a lot of people use it for their portfolio too!
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