10 Essential Notion Formulas You Should Know & How I Use Them!

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  • čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
  • This Notion tutorial will show you the 10 most essential Notion formulas you should know to make your Notion setup even better for organising your life! + Try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, by visiting brilliant.org/BetterCreating. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. You can also find my Notion Life OS templates here: bettercreating.com/lifeos
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    00:00 The 10 Essential Notion Formulas You Should Know for Staying Productive
    00:52 Get Started With Notion Formulas
    01:17 1. Doing Simple Calculations In Notion
    02:08 2. Notion Date Formulas: How To Use DateAdd & DateSubtract
    03:43 3. FormatDate: How To Use The Notion Formula
    04:33 4. DateBetween: How To Use Notion Formulas for Calculating Dates
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    08:05 7. How To Use Notion Formulas: Empty()
    09:13 8. Using Concat Formulas In Notion: The Ultimate Reporting Tool?!
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Komentáře • 50

  • @BetterCreating
    @BetterCreating  Před rokem

    Happy Friday Pals! Time to go Notion beast-mode!? 😂How are you with Notion formulas? :) 📢+Try everything Brilliant has to offer-free-for a full 30 days, by visiting brilliant.org/BetterCreating. The first 200 of you will get 20% off Brilliant’s annual premium subscription. You can also find my Notion Life OS templates here: bettercreating.com/lifeos

  • @Gilly103221
    @Gilly103221 Před rokem +7

    I have struggled with formulae in Notion after being a whizz in Excel. This video is amazing, cause you have broken big topics into manageable bites. Thank you 🎉

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem

      Love this! Thank you! Exactly the comments I was hoping for! Cheers :) 🎉👊

  • @EduardoHenrique-nd1ro

    Thanks for another video, Simon!
    Happy Friday!
    Cheers from Brazil!

  • @britirock7
    @britirock7 Před rokem

    Great video as always!

  • @paulstanley8088
    @paulstanley8088 Před rokem

    Great video. Your content is super professional. I love the look-and-feel of your posts and your templates. Thanks for taking the time to do such great work. I find Notion formulas to be "ticky" and I hope that someday they develop an easier way to debug them.

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem +1

      thanks! My editor works wonders on the video animations too :)

  • @jeanschoenlaub3314
    @jeanschoenlaub3314 Před 8 měsíci

    Great video ! I learned so much about how to use Notion formulas to help me manage and organize projects. I'm already putting these tips to use in my project with Riples, a social platform for sharing and collaborating on projects.

  • @HiMotionAndDesign
    @HiMotionAndDesign Před 11 měsíci

    Hello there! Very helpful video! I was trying to find the answer to how I can have a link to a page appear from another database, in a master database, if based on the status of that page.
    In other words - I have a master inline database, and I want one of the columns to have a link to the "active" project, placed in another database.
    Thought I could find the answer through formulas, but I might be looking in the wrong place? Can you point me in the right direction for how to solve the problem?

  • @STClife
    @STClife Před rokem

    Thank you Kind SIr 🧘🏽‍♀️👌🏽🧚🏾‍♂️

  • @generationsarising
    @generationsarising Před 11 měsíci

    Hi. I am trying to find a way to create a formula where I can make a checkbox checked if two other check boxes are checked. I have a Completed checkbox and a milestone checkbox. I want a way to indicate that a task is a milestone and has been completed. Is there a way to write a formula like this? If so, could you assist me?

  • @DreamPathStudia
    @DreamPathStudia Před měsícem

    3:57 This video was made a year ago and the format date formula to show days of the week, isn't working anymore. Have you made an updated video? I'd love to check it out, as this was mostly helpful.

  • @arozendojr
    @arozendojr Před 10 měsíci

    Result of the formula can be a reminder ?

  • @rallypally
    @rallypally Před 3 měsíci

    Hello..thanfor the video..question, I have an excel spreadsheet with dates in timezone GMT+8.. but when I import into Notion, it converts to date in UTC timezone..how can i solve this?

  • @jaleiaparker1986
    @jaleiaparker1986 Před 4 měsíci

    How to put the start and end time on the notion calendar like 10:00- 10:30

  • @SimplesmenteSara
    @SimplesmenteSara Před 10 měsíci

    Hi Simon, I´m redoing my notion from scratch and I was watching your videos to understand formulas a little more better bc I hate it and your videos are basically the only way I can navigate through this (thanks btw I love your account ) but now they changed it all and I´m here begging youu to do a tutorial bc I´m totally lost! (ps: english is not my native language so srry if I missedspell smtg)

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci +2

      Yeah I feel you! Formulas all changed! I will do my best to relearn and then create a new video on formulas asap! :)

    • @SimplesmenteSara
      @SimplesmenteSara Před 9 měsíci

      Sorry i didn´t saw your response earlier tysm Simon!@@BetterCreating

    • @curtisfamilyadventure
      @curtisfamilyadventure Před 7 měsíci

      @@BetterCreating yes please!! I am going through your Notion From Scratch series trying to get set up to begin planning and goal setting for the new year and I am struggling to get the formulas to work :(

  • @MondSemmel
    @MondSemmel Před rokem +1

    These are some decent formula tips, but I think they would benefit from stressing the upsides and downsides of formatting formulas as text. Namely, you can filter on formulas, sort or group by formulas, or Calculate e.g. the sum of a formula column. And how well you can filter or sort or calculate depends on the data type of your formula. For example, if you want to see all reviews from the current week, then such a filter is easy to setup if your formula is a date, and a pain or impossible otherwise. Similarly, dates and numbers and so on are much easier to sort. Conversely, text may be easier to group.
    In case you're wondering how one can determine the data type of a formula: it's the data type of the output of your formula, i.e. its outer-most function. So e.g. if that function is dateAdd(), which is depicted as a little calendar icon in the formula editor, then the formula's data type is a date, and it can be filtered and sorted and depicted in a Calendar view like any normal date property. Similarly, if the output is true or false, then the data type is boolean, and the formula is treated like any normal checkbox property.

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem

      Great point to add here! Thanks for sharing. Yes I agree - I usually create a date formula to sort by, and then a second co cat text formula to us as a visual report on a board or calendar view. That way you get the best of both worlds! :)

  • @user-xx7nt4wk3k
    @user-xx7nt4wk3k Před 7 měsíci

    I was trying to learn how to calculate a list of numbers from top to bottom, I dont know if notion has a way of doing that

  • @jenschristiannrgaard4878
    @jenschristiannrgaard4878 Před 2 měsíci

    is it possible to concatenate both text objects and number objects and how would you set this up?

    • @jenschristiannrgaard4878
      @jenschristiannrgaard4878 Před 2 měsíci

      e.g. country code (UK), label ID (AAA), Year of reference (24), track ID (01) = UKAAA2401

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yes I believe so: you need to use ‘format(‘ I think for the number properties and then add with + to “text” or reference a property. Hope that solves it for you :)

  • @evolutionclouds
    @evolutionclouds Před rokem

    Have you moved to Sydney?

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem

      Haha - no - was on a work trip around Aus - just landed back in UK! :)

  • @NoName-rp6cx
    @NoName-rp6cx Před 9 měsíci

    tiimeee cooooodeeeesss

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci

      The video has chapter markers - or are you looking for a formula on creating time codes for things in Notion.

    • @NoName-rp6cx
      @NoName-rp6cx Před 9 měsíci

      @@BetterCreating I meant timecodes for the video. I didn't have them

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci

      How Strange - they are in the description
      @@NoName-rp6cx

    • @NoName-rp6cx
      @NoName-rp6cx Před 9 měsíci

      @@BetterCreating Really. I'm sorry, I just didn't look there. But for some reason the video is not divided into sections

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@NoName-rp6cx No worries - I'll see if something is broken I can fix on the description! :)

  • @paninokapatricia3752
    @paninokapatricia3752 Před rokem

    Why when i copy a formula exactly alike from another template it doesn't work?

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem

      Well - you’ll need to check the titles of properties for a start to ensure they are exact to the column names of your database, plus ensure your punctuation is correct.

  • @WoahGuyy
    @WoahGuyy Před 11 měsíci

    Hey dude, pretty sure it's prop for property, not proposition. But what do I know

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 11 měsíci

      Haha - yeah it very well might be! Well, I like proposing the property - it kind of works when I’m writing the formula!

  • @DrJohnPollard
    @DrJohnPollard Před rokem

    Are you Ozzie?

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před rokem

      Haha - no - but recently spent 5 weeks working there. :)

  • @stunt_double
    @stunt_double Před 10 měsíci

    as soon as I start to focus you move to something next.

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci

      Formulas are complicated - let alone the fact that Notion just updated them to Formulas 2.0. To learn them myself I had to rewatch sections of videos a few times too. Will aim to release a new video on the new formulas asap - a little slower!

  • @The_Explorator
    @The_Explorator Před 9 měsíci

    FYI, It's formulae, not formulas. The latter is semantically incoherent.

    • @BetterCreating
      @BetterCreating  Před 9 měsíci

      Ok thanks.

    • @xqctake8056
      @xqctake8056 Před 7 měsíci +1

      He is expressing an opinion not a fact. The fact is: “formulae” is correct if you’re pluralizing with Latin convention, and “formulas” is correct if you’re pluralizing with English convention.

    • @The_Explorator
      @The_Explorator Před 7 měsíci

      @@xqctake8056 That's incontrovertible to some extent, but the fact that the Latin convention is more fundamental, linguistically justifies why its should be given preference over the English one.