What is Notion?
What is Notion?
Notion is collaborative document software. It allows everyone on a team to be able to create, edit, and organize shared documents. This includes text documents (like this one), media (like images, videos, etc), checklists, and databases (similar to spreadsheets).
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How Does Notion Work?
Notion is a collection of pages filled with “blocks”. Blocks are the building blocks of any page — things you might be used to (like headers, paragraphs, bullets, and images), and things that are a bit more unique (like databases, embeds, and even other pages!)
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Want to see all the different types of blocks? Go to a Notion page that you can edit and type
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- a list of ALL the possible blocks will appear.Â
Every page also has “permissions” - a list of users and what they’re allowed to do on a page. This allows us fine-grained control in our shared documents. This is quite useful for a decentralized organization like BanklessDAO (see why in the next section). There are 4 types of permissions:
- View - allows one to see a page contents
- Comments - allows one to comment on a page contents
- Edit - allows one to create or edit blocks on a page (including adding sub-pages)
- Further customization is available within databases, as editing can be limited to only the content of a database or extended to also include it’s structure
- Full Access - allows one to do all of the above PLUS manage the permissions of a page
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If you’d like to learn more about what Notion can do, please check out their guide, or check out this tutorial video: