Web pages can be clipped directly from the web, as can videos, images and sections of text. There are over fifty types of block, and more are constantly being added. Think of them as containers in a website, if that helps-or paragraphs in a page if you’ve written more text than HTML.Įither way, the two most distinguishing features of Notion are its basis in these blocks, and their adaptability. Notion is built around blocks-sections or chunks of content. The web clipping function is accessed from the extensions bar in Chrome and Firefox. Once it’s in there, you can do anything with it that you can do with your own notes: you can move it around inside your workstation, copy parts, re-order it, reformat it, tag it, and more. Notion lets you simply pick up a whole web page and drop it inside your Notion workspace. Here’s a quick view of the basic features.

Hastily-made, unstructured notes are a poor aid to memory, understanding and creation. It’s this ability to create structured notes that sets Notion apart from other note-taking apps immediately. Notion lets you rapidly create structured, flexible content which you can then change, restructure, share, duplicate, and basically do nearly anything you can think of with. It’s highly structured, intuitive to use once you get familiar with the basic way it’s organized, and it’s rapidly growing in popularity. Notion is a note-taking and web-clipping app-among other things, which we’ll get into later. I’m going to explain why, but first, I need to introduce you to Notion if you haven’t encountered it before. We think that for making, organizing, sharing, and using your notes, there’s no better tool around today than Notion. Whether you use Word or Docs, Pages or something else, they’re seldom ideal for creating the interlinking bodies of smaller text pieces that we need for notes.Īnd whether you’re working on your first degree or your first book, putting lectures together yourself or working on complex engineering problems, you’re going to need your notes a lot. Most of us quickly outgrow taking notes in our main word processing tool.

Notion note taking