413: How to Use Notion for Organization and Productivity With Sandra Halling

Sandra Halling is a business strategist who knows how to get the best out of technology. She’s been working on optimizing and organizing systems for just about everything for the last 20 years. Now she brings her corporate experience and strategic thinking to help small businesses and individuals implement Notion, an app I’ve been using and loving lately. If you haven’t heard of it yet, definitely check it out.

Many experts say Notion is a total game changer for how we organize and use information. I’m still learning Notion but I love the clean, visual layout and endless flexibility. I’ll definitely be taking notes on everything Sandra has to say!

Episode Highlights With Sandra Halling

• What Notion is and how to use it for organization and productivity
• How to create a daily journal in Notion
• What a daily homepage looks like
• The difference between tables and pages and how to use them
• What OKR is and how you can use it to reach goals
• How I (Katie) use Notion to keep track of summaries using the Feynman Technique
• What the momentum method is in Notion and how to use it
• Using templates for maximum productivity
• Ideas for using Notion to organize the home, family, and meal planning
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Sandra Halling Website | Twitter
• Notion
• Otter app
• Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done by Charles Gilkey
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Paths to God by Ram Dass
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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