The Ultimate Productivity System: Notion

The Electronic Pen
7 min readDec 10, 2022

Take back control of your life and get what you need to get done — done

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With so many tasks, events, and routines to remember in our day-to-day lives, it simply doesn’t make any sense to force our brains(which don’t have the ability to remember 100% of everything) to keep track of it all when there are free and powerful online tools we can use instead.

Putting in the time to lay out our thoughts and to-do’s in another software frees up space in our mind to do what our minds were meant to do — come up with ideas and be creative.

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” — David Allen

In order for us to be productive and use our time as efficiently as possible, it’s important to have some sort of system in place.

The best tool for that is Notion.

Notion is a digital workspace that can be used for practically anything. You can compile text boxes, media, databases(more on that later), and visual elements like callouts to create systems for any of your needs.

Some use Notion to keep track of their finances and budgeting, others to manage every single task and make sure nothing goes forgotten. You can use Notion as a calendar, use it for work(although you need a paid account for that), track your habits — the only limit…

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