Whether you are someone who uses Notion to run your online business or to organize your personal life, the one page that you absolutely need to have in your workspace is a backend or master databases page.

When it comes to Notion best practices, implementing master databases in your workspace is one of the first things that I think of and that’s because they establish a solid foundation for growing your workflows over time.

Without them, you may find yourself:

HopeWorks is a fictitious non-profit organization providing education and healthcare services to underprivileged Caribbean women. As the organization grew, they needed a solution to better manage their programs, resources, and volunteers. My goal was to design a comprehensive Notion workspace to enhance their operations and maximize their impact.

Last year, while perusing Notion’s template gallery, I came across a collection of pre-configured templates designed to help teams quickly set up their processes and workflows in Notion.

Did you know that you can name database dashboards in Notion?

I discovered this feature in my workspace about a month ago. Though it seems minor, it has made navigating my workspace via the sidebar much easier. I've since implemented this practice in client workspaces as well.

Know exactly what to delegate in under 30 minutes.

My task management workflow has evolved and changed over the years. At the beginning of April, I wrote about the process that I used over the last 6 months. Since then, that workflow has undergone a major change that I’m really happy to tell you about.

Later this week, I’ll be sharing my updated task management workflow — it’s what I’ve used over the past 2 months and even today, I’ve made small changes that further shape it to my needs. In the mean time, I just couldn’t help but marvel at how one tool can adapt over time into an evolving system, and I just have to tell you about it.

It’s now been four years since I started using Notion and during that time, I've come across groups of tips and tricks that have helped me to develop better systems within the application. I want to share these practices across different areas with the hope that you can gain some helpful takeaways.