The Ultimate Guide to Notion

Everything you need to know to master Notion today (yes, seriously!)

Oscar Lagrosen
20 min readApr 22, 2023

So you probably heard about Notion by now. It’s this extremely popular note-taking app where you can take notes, organize your life (in great detail actually) and even use AI on top of it? By the end of this article, you will have everything you need to know to master Notion, and it’s simpler than you think.

How to get started

First of all, you can access Notion from any device, iPhone android, web, desktop, whatever. Once you have downloaded and signed in, you get an interesting onboarding here.

(Spoiler alert, the student and personal options are identical, probably because we are all students for life)

We’ll get to teams later but once you click either student or personal, you see this sample page over here. We got getting started with step by step instructions, a quick note, a personal home, a task list, a journal, a reading list and other task lists

Remember when I said that Notion is easier than you think. In all other notetaking apps, you would just see a blank void with no notes, but here in Notion you can just follow the instructions and know exactly what you can do with it, and can just use those notes. Or skip them right away if you…

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Oscar Lagrosen

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