Set up your workspace - Notion Tutorial

- [Instructor] Most people jump into project tools by adding tasks first, but that's like building a house without laying the foundation. Before you manage a single task, you need a clean workspace where everything fits together. Let me show you how to build your Notion Project Headquarters, which will be your central hub where everything lives. We'll create the structure now so that everything we build later has a place. Let's now start with a blank screen when I open up Notion, and click on New Page. New page will open up and it will ask me for a title. And let's call this Project Headquarters Justin. Now notice I don't have any templates. We're starting from scratch to keep things clean and flexible. We're going to build a custom system together. Now, let's add some top level sections. What I'll do now is hit Enter and I will push the forward dash, which indicates that I want to give a command, and I will choose Heading 1. And I will name this Projects. And then I'm going to do it again for whatever other sections I want to create. And in this case, I'm going to create one for tasks, Heading 1, one for meetings, for notes and resources. These are going to be my main categories. Think of them as folders that in a filing cabinet. Next, I want to take each of these and turn each section into its own page. So to do that, I'll hover over each item and I will click the six dots next to each folder, and I'll click turn into page, and now Notion recognizes it as its own page. And I'll do the same for the rest. Turn into page. And you'll also see here that I have them underneath the sidebar under Project Headquarters. I have those folders as well, so that now I can access each one of them conveniently. Let's go back to the project headquarters. Now this step is optional, but it makes each section visibly distinct from each other. Now I'm going to go into Projects and above here you will see an add icon button. I like to assign an icon to each one so that each looks a little bit different. You can click icons and click add icon. Okay, I'm good with the one it gives me. Notice that AI creates them. Notes, resources. Now these are just a little distinct here and here. Now it's very possible that I could start having, I could have multiple pages here. But what I want to do, since this is the one we're going to work with, I'm going to favorite this one, and I'm going to click Add to Favorites. And now that is going to keep my original here, but also sync it to my favorites here so that if I've got archived folders, those can be here, but the one that I'm currently working on will be visible here. Now you've got a clean structured space to build on. Again, most people skip this step, and that's why their systems fall apart, but now you won't. You've got the foundation in place, so let's keep going.