How to Organise My Notes on Notion?
6 recommended templates for your study
What is Notion?
Notion is an all-inclusive workstation. You may use it to manage projects, take notes, and do other tasks. If you can manage using Notion, it will certainly boost your working or study efficiency. Let’s start your note-taking journey with Notion!
Visit Notion user guide to know more about the basic commands before you begin. Here to start.
Benefits of using Notion?
1. ONE for ALL
Notion is more than note-taking, it is a thorough workspace for you to manage all your projects. Providing different views, including table, list, calendar, board, timeline and gallery, data can be filtered
2. High Flexibility
Simply imagine Notion is a large plain paper and you can create anything on it. You can drag and drop different blocks to make your own layout which is flexible to arrange your content. Notion also allows us to embed different files, such as PDF, Google Drives and videos, to facilitate a multimedia workspace.
3. Easy to Organise
Notion’s simple and user-friendly interface will give the ultimate experience in organising your notes.
4. Various Templates
Templates provided in Notion are highly recommended for beginners. There are various categories for different templates, like student and life, to manage your classes, assignment, class notes, etc. When you are adopted to use Notion by templates, you will figure out what is the best layout for yourself.
Other than the official templates given by Notion, visit Notion Template Gallery for more developed templates from other users or just google for more tailored note designs.
5. FREE of Charge
Most importantly, Notion is FREE for personal use which is adequate for students and there are no ads or promotional emails pushing users to upgrade their subscriptions. Remember to register with the email address from your educational institution (e.g. xxx@yyy.edu.hk), you can enjoy the free access to Personal Pro with more extra functions.
If you are already a user of Notion registered with your personal email, you can still change your account login email without losing the existing data!
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6 template recommendations for students
1. Language learning
A clear dashboard is efficiency-boosting for learning a new language. You can sort different resources for your learning in Notion.
Apart from a clear dashboard that can help you do well in language classes, flash cards are also an excellent strategy to memorise numerous vocabularies and phrases in a short time.
2. In-class note taking
There is an official note taking template – Cornell Notes System to organise the class note. It is convenient to condense your knowledge and evaluate the level of understanding.
Cornell Notes System consists of 3 sections, you may divide the page into 2 columns with the narrower on the left and a row at the bottom for summary. The left column is for putting down the keywords, questions and prompts while the right is for the instant notes during the class.
At the end, you may summarise the above written content in 3-4 sentences or key points which will be helpful for you to recall the memory and internalise the information.
3. Consolidation of Notes
If you have to consolidate a large amount of class notes, the official class notes templates can help you classify the subjects and topics. It is advantageous to use it, in order to archive your countless notes neat and tidy. You can also filter the class notes by different customised metrics.
4. Thesis planning
While many of you are planning your EE or TOK or struggling about your working timeline, you may still have a lot of information to condense and organise. A complete notion thesis planning template can ease your way to finish the big projects.
Timeline Planning
Topic Ideas
Source Management
5. Reading note
Have you ever read a book but sooner or later you forgot everything? Making your own reading note on Notion would be necessary for organising the ideas or thoughts mentioned in the readings. Just simply put down the meaning quotes or things that you have learnt from the book and that will last a longer memory.
Is it friendly for Maths and Science?
You can enter a variety of mathematical expressions using a keyboard by using the equations command /equations or /blockequation .
The logic of inputting maths equations in Notion is similar to LaTex, you may know more on our blog about LaTex and visit Notion Help Centre.
However, there are limitations in drawing graphics on Notion but it is easy to solve. Making a screen capture on GeoGeBra or taking a picture of your hand drawing are possible ways to plug the loophole of Notion.