Notion Calendar Is Here: Everything You Need to Know Notion Calendar will become your go-to calendar app. Switch now and start enjoying it today.   It is accessible from the app and the browser, it’s fast and comes with tons of powerful features. You’ll need a Google Account to log in as only supports Google (not Outlook or other) for now. Access it now from this link!   Google Calendar 2-way Integration: Connect Several Google Accounts and Manage It All from a Single Place Notion Calendar works side-to-side with Google. This means you can connect your Google Account and manage your calendar and appointments from the Notion Calendar app. Plus, you can connect various accounts, such as your work or personal account, and see it all from a single calendar. If you need to block time (i.e. doctor appointment in your personal account that you want to block in your work account), just block it. No more double bookings! So freaking useful.   Mac Toolbar for quick visualization & access: the feature that goes unnoticed but that I like the most You don’t need to open the calendar app to know what you should be working on or what’s coming next.     You’ll see in the Mac toolbar all the info you need: the current appointment + when it’s happening. And if you want to look into what’s coming, just click on it for a quick overview. Notion Calendar comes with tons of cool keyboard shortcuts to make it easy and fast to work with. Meeting starting? Just press Cmd + J to join!New meeting? C These are just some of them:     Notion 2-way Integration: View your Tasks, Projects & More from a single placeNow, this one is new! Notion acquired Cron a few years ago. Cron already existed as a calendar app and, if you were a previous Cron user, the prior two features would already be familiar. But the 2-way integration with Notion is a new, and powerful one!     Now, you can sync and visualize any Notion database (up to 10) that contains a Calendar or Timeline view. This means, if you have a tasks database, or a content database in Notion, you can visualize these from the Calendar itself! Incredibly useful for time-blocking! How does it work? Image your tasks database containing tasks with a date property. This task will appear at the top of the Calendar app, as no time has been specified. Now, every day you just open your Calendar app and drag-and-drop each task for effective day planning. Pretty cool, huh? If you don’t have a Notion account, create yours from this link!     Share availability through a link: no more back-and-forth emails to schedule a meeting Hear me out: if you’re still using emails to try to get a meeting scheduled, you’re living in 2023 With Notion Calendar you can select specific timeslots from your calendar and it will create a sharing link for you to share with those you want to meet with. They will be able to directly book a meeting with you from the link. Sharing availability with emails like doesn’t give a good look anymore and is a hustle. Plus, it’s totally fre If you are not convinced by now I don’t know what else I can say. Ok, just one more thing. Notion is a great tool and the team is continuously improving the product. So the same is just to be expected with Notion Calendar. Hi, I’m Triz! creator of bodegalaabs and I’m a Certified and Recommended Notion Creator.If you need help setting up your Notion Workspace for success.   If you’d like that

Notion Q&A: Your Second Brain like no other Have you heard? Notion just launched Notion Q&A! But, what is it? It’s a revolutionary feature that’s going to change the way you are using Notion. It’s your own, and the only one, Q&A assistant that can answer your questions by understanding your business, decisions, procedures, and meetings. Wait… what? Yes, you read that right. It has access to your Notion Workspace, so, if you keep your Business Strategy in Notion… it knows! If you had a meeting… it knows! It’s an AI tool ready to act as a Second Brain, which no other can do.   What does it mean for you and your team? Imagine the time (and money) savings it’ll provide by quickly retrieving information, reducing repetitive questions, and summarizing your docs. Not only you will be receiving relevant answers, but links to the Notion Pages in case you wanna dive in. IMPORTANT: Notion AI protects data privacy and only references pages users have access to.   Some examples of when this Q&A assistant is New Employee Onboarding: just when I think about this use case… Imagine joining a company and having an assistant to ask: How do I get a Microsoft Office account? How can I apply for a company credit card? How do I request holidays? If it’s documented, it knows. Personal Assistant: You wake up, have your coffee, open Notion, and ask: What were the action items coming out of my meeting with my manager last week? — see? You don’t even need to go and look for the meeting yourself! Knowledge Master: Now picture you having a customer support team, and you tracking customers’ issues on Notion. When a new issue arises, your employee doesn’t know how to answer. He can just ask the Q&A AI: Has this issue happened before? If so, how was it solved? And voilá! They get the answer instantly. Notion Q&A Screenshot Level up today and change the way you work forever! If you’re interested in trying it out, join the waitlist to get early access: Sign Up for Notion AI If you’re already a Notion AI user, you can get started today with Q&A already in your Notion workspace.   Hi, I’m Triz! creator of bodegalaabs and I’m a Certified and Recommended Notion Creator. If you need help setting up your Notion Workspace for success, book a free discovery call with me and save your time (and money)! If you’d like that

The One Thing Your Project Management System Might Be Missing Upgrade your Project Management with this simple yet overlooked strategy   Project Management is a core activity of every business. And making it effective is crucial for successful operations. You can have the best team in place, or the most disruptive technology, but without proper management, even the most promising projects can quickly run into roadblocks.   1. Common Pitfalls A common pitfall is failing to understand the role of the different stakeholders that participate in a project. Lots of businesses focus on having software that allows them to create and manage tasks, and that’s great! But, is this enough? Many stakeholders, especially those from the leadership team, will not have tasks assigned to them and want to avoid going through each task to understand how the project is developing. And as a project owner, you want to have them as engaged with the project as possible. In the end, if an important decision needs to be made, you’ll need them informed and by your side.   2. The Power of Effective Communication Again, the key aspect of successful projects is effective communication. Providing regular, clear, and concise information adapted to the needs of each stakeholder will ensure that everyone understands their part, role, and what’s needed from them.     3. The Missing Link Ok, understood, agreed. But, how can we ensure this? Apart from having projects and tasks defined? Super easy! -> Status Updates. Providing regular Status Updates for each project will ensure that everyone involved understands the project’s current status, challenges, achievements, and next steps. However many of the current project management tools don’t incorporate this ability. They give you the ability for great task management but just fall short in looking at the big picture of a project. And this hinders your decision-making process.     4. How ProjectOS Pro can help As an Operations Project Manager with over 7 years of experience working for companies like Amazon or Accenture, and a certified Notion Creator, I decided to leverage my knowledge to create the ultimate Project Management Notion Template. With ProjectOS Pro, it’s super easy to access and visualize every project status. As you can see in the image below, the latest status update date for each project is shown. So everyone knows when they need to update a project status. ProjectOS Pro screenshot — Project Management Notion Template But not only that, because UX and ease of use are also important for implementation. You can directly access the latest status update of a project just by clicking on the status link, and a new page will open up. ProjectOS Pro — Project Management Notion Template And this is just one of the cool features of this Project Management Tool. But there’s more: OKRs management, meetings, tasks, etc.   Hi, I’m Triz! creator of bodegalaabs and I’m a Certified and Recommended Notion Creator. If you need help setting up your Notion Workspace for success, book a free discovery call with me and save your time (and money)! If you’d like that

What Makes a Good Notion Workspace The reason many fail at building a growth companion tool and what to do instead. Notion is trending, everyone wants to give it a try, maybe even you did, but at some point it feels like… the relationship is not working anymore. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash I get you. There are some common mistakes that many beginners make when building their Notion Workspace and here I want to teach you how to successfully avoid them. Just so it helps you scale your business… instead of holding you back. 1. Too many top-level pages It doesn’t matter if you’re using Teamspaces or just pages to organize your content, but one of the most common mistakes is creating a main page for each and every new aspect you want to integrate into your Notion. Now think about it this way: if you were trying to build a mind map or a flowchart, you don’t position everything at the same level, right? You create a hierarchy that helps you navigate and find the correct box quickly. The same applies to your Notion Workspace. Think of the structure and hierarchy you want to achieve first, thank yourself later. 2. Abuse of Databases Notion Databases are so cool. I know, they are beautiful, their properties make everything look so organized, it’s just hard to resist the temptation. But you shouldn’t be using them to organize your pages. Why? Here’s how the sidebar looks when you create sub-pages from a parent page vs when you use a database to create new pages: Do you know what’s inside posts? No… you have to navigate to the page, and see the content inside each database page by opening it. With the use of sub-pages? Just at a glance! So make your life easier and use databases the correct way. 3. Same problem, different cause: Use of Inline Databases Look, I promise you, I’m a fan of databases, I really am! But they are tricky, and can easily make your workspace a nightmare to navigate if you don’t use them mindfully. And here’s the thing, I only use Inline Databases 1% of the time. On certain, super specific moments when I am 100% sure it will be a small database, without relations, allocated to a page that will not have any children, ever. Now my tip: for each top-level page, create a subpage called databases. Create all the databases you need there and use linked views to visualize the content you want in each of the pages. bodegalaabs Was I dramatic enough? I hope so. Remember, you want your Notion Workspace to grow with you, not against you. And this is a must if you don’t want to go crazy finding your stuff. It’s supposed to save you time! bodegalaabs.com So, what makes a good, scalable, Notion Workspace? Hierarchical Navigation Use of pages to create content inside them Use of full-page databases and placing them on a specific page. Hi, I’m Triz! I’m a Notion Creator with over 7 years of experience working as an Operations Project Manager. I’m an expert in optimizing workflows and business systems to foster growth and make them scalable.   If you’d like that

4 Tools for Brainstorming and Mind-Mapping that Integrate with Notion One of the many Notion superpowers is to be able to seamlessly integrate with other great software. Today I’ll show you four different mind-mapping tools that have a generous free plan, run directly on the browser, and are super easy to integrate into your Notion pages. 1. Coggle Coggle is an easy-to-use and free mind-mapping tool. It allows real-time collaboration among different team members and the resulting charts can be directly embedded into Notion. It allows for different customization options such as colors, and shapes and it includes a library with pictures and icons ready to use. 2. FigJam FigJam is a Figma tool. It’s super easy to use and offers LOTS of customization options. You can include shapes, colors, icons, post-its, images, and anything you can imagine. It offers a collaborative workspace to work as a team and comes with some ads-on as this little widget with a timer, ambient sound, and a voting system. 3. Miro Miro is another great tool for creating your flowcharts and mind-maps, among other features. It comes packaged with lots of beautiful and useful templates for a quick start and allows easy sharing and real-time collaboration. Offers lots of customization options and it definitely should be among your selected tools for mind-mapping or schematizing, whether you are working alone or in a team. 4. Whimsical Whimsical — How We Built Whimsical Whimsical is my favorite (). You can create beautiful flowcharts with everything you need really quickly. It is just super easy to use and while it offers lots of customization options, you don’t get lost and find them in one click. I choose Whimsical 80% of the time, as it’s perfect when I want to build something functional, but not super complex. Their embeds on Notion also look perfect. Have you tried any of these tools? Would you add any other one to the list? Let me know in the comments! Hi, I’m Triz! I’m a Notion Creator with over 7 years of experience working as an Operations Project Manager. I’m an expert in optimizing workflows and business systems to foster growth and make them scalable.   If you’d like that