Notion’s modular and customizable project management approach aims to redefine the productivity space. Many people use Notion to organize work schedules, life goals, manage projects, and more. Even students can use Notion to check grades, schedule exams, term schedules, create resumes, manage daily tasks, and more. If you’re a student and just getting started with Notion, read on to check out the best Notion tips and tricks.
You can create a database from scratch or choose the built-in templates to start with Notion. To save some time, we’ll mostly focus on templates and other tips for students to use Notion like a pro. Lets start.
Before we begin, GT strongly recommends that you check out and master the basic Notion commands. We will use some of them in the examples.
1. Use Colorful Background
A highlighter can be very helpful for marking important texts or excerpts from lecture notes. Notion lets you use a variety of backgrounds instead of using a standard highlighter with a yellow background.
Place the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to highlight and use the ‘/’ command to search for different colored backgrounds.
2. Create a Weekly Agenda
Notion offers a built-in Weekly Agenda template to help you plan a busy week. This can be helpful for students to plan their schedules to manage assignment submissions and exam deadlines. Meanwhile, don’t forget to use the colored background trick to mark priority tasks and separate them from other tasks.
3. Use Reminders
Notion also advertises itself as a dedicated task management application. While Things 3 isn’t as feature-rich as competitors like Todoist, Microsoft Tasks, and more, you can use Notion’s Reminders function to get notifications for specific tasks.
For example, you can use the ‘/remind’ command in the Weekly Agenda template and get notified about a task at a specific date and time.
4. Use Code Blocks
Are you studying computer engineering or learning a new programming language? Notion provides a code block function to distinguish code from other elements on a page.
When you want to add a code string type ‘/code’ and a special code block will appear for you. It’s a nice way to create a page with notes and code information for a potential project.
5. Create Custom Templates
With custom templates, you can easily duplicate content combinations you use frequently in Notion.
For example, you want to create the same to-do list at the beginning of each week. You can also create a custom finance monitor based on your uses and reuse it every month.
For more details we will ask you to refer to our dedicated post on how to create custom templates in Notion.
6. Explore Google Drive Integration
Google’s suite of productivity apps plays an important role for every student. The good news is that Notion works perfectly with some popular Google services like Google Drive and Docs.
Type ‘/Google’ and the app will open Google Drive. You can select document, page or even any image from cloud storage and add it directly to Notion with beautiful structure and detail.
7. Use Widgets in Notion
By default, Notion does not offer any widget functionality. However, you must have seen these aesthetically pleasing Notion homepages displayed by users across the web. So how do they achieve this? The answer is third-party widgets.
8. Curriculum Template
As the name suggests, the syllabus template is all you need to organize upcoming articles and assignments in a classroom.
You can also use it to set exam details, and teachers can plan their day by adding different classes to attend, integrating relevant topics to teach, attaching files, and more.
9. Create a Resume in Notion
While creating a resume in Microsoft Word is no longer in vogue, you can use Notion to create a cool resume for yourself. Notion lets you create a perfect Resume with all the bells and whistles.
Instead of starting from scratch, you can choose a resume template and make the necessary changes to save time. Don’t forget to add colorful backgrounds and widgets to make it attractive. Once you’ve completed all the changes, just create a share link and start preparing for the interview.
Plan your studies with Notion
Using Notion, students can comprehensively plan their week, assignment deadlines, semester syllabus and exam preparation. If you found more ways to get the most out of Notion, do share it in the comments section below.
Next: Templates play an important role in the overall Notion experience. Read the post below to learn about the eleven best Concept Templates for students and teachers.
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