Productive Life Wiki for Notion: Optimize with Global Tags (Free Template)

Thank you!!!

okay THIS is sick. Thanks Red! I'm going to get a lot of use out of these Contacts & Location management

This is so helpful for converting an existing database into the global tags system.

Wow best explanation on this topic I’ve seen . Thank you

is this an updated version of your masterdata base video form 2 years ago? I have several clients, each of which will have to-do, meetings, notes, etc. additionally, we'll also have team meetings, notes, to-do which should all combine into a master calendar. Alas, i cannot decide the best approach to set this up

Hi! What software did you use to record this? How did you highlight the areas where yo
u click to help viewers? I need to do something similar for a tutorial for work and this would be great feature to use. Thanks.

Wow! This was amazing. Thanks so much.

And all I wanted is to have a text column automatically turn into a tag , there's no way to do this can you believe it , I have notion database automatically updating externally , but I want some of the column cells to be tags because they repeat , Can't do with template , Can't do with roll out , Can't do with relation , Can't do with recurring tasks , Can't do with formulas , and Can't do with master tags 😭

Thanks you so much

You are my new favorite person! I am crazy new to Notion and have been trying to figure out how to make a certain database for as long as I have been playing around with this (about a week maybe?). I have tried, deleted, reattempted, redeleted and on and on. I finally came across this video and it is EXACTLY what I was looking to do! Thank you so much for keeping the hair in my head!

Thanks! OMG you are so great! folks! Let me tell you, the accompanying materials for this tutorial are absolutely fantastic, and the checklist and tips provided are an incredible bonus. Now, let me just say, you must be a true virtuoso of Notion to have effortlessly put together such outstanding content. However, I can't help but express my gratitude for the immense amount of time and effort you have dedicated, as well as your remarkable ability to teach in a clear and concise manner. How fortunate am I that just when I decided to revisit Notion after years of not using it, this video appeared and addressed all the frustrations I initially encountered. I must admit, I am feeling exceptionally inspired!

This is absolutely amazing. How good getting me to understand how to understand these things.

Amazing Tutorial, Thank You so much. You explain things in the simplest format that even a dumb person like me can do it. You taught better than my teachers at school. Keep it up.💕

This was extremely useful! Thank you so much!

I have an issue with my setup that goes like this:

Topics live in Areas.
And Notes and Tasks live in certain Topics.

If I link a Topics database as a linkedin view into an Area page and I click one of the topicpages I cant go back to the Area. It takes me back to the Topics database..

I was wondering how I could fix this navigation issue.. do you maybe know? Thanks in advance!

I still struggle to figure out what I should call a global/super tag and what is a normal or sub tag. Any tips?

Thank you for creating this video! Gave me so many ideas for other parts of my Notion setup. I was wondering, for databases (e.g. Contacts, Projects, Tasks, etc) do you keep a page with all these "master" databases to then link to in different parts of your Notion?

My notion is so unorganized I just use CommandP to search for stuff

You definitely packed a lot of info into this. Thanks for your hard work. I am wondering why you chose to put the Global Tags database on the the Global Tags page. Is it to have the intro information at the top? I made mine as a new database, standalone. Took me a bit to picture what you did against my own databases, but I finally got the hang of it. Thanks so much!

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Thank you for sharing! 😊 Loads of good stuff here. I am hoping Notion will one day introduce cascading tags, to give tags a sort of folder structure - at least 2-3 layers deep. I have a lot of subjects and my picklist would grow more and more unwieldy.

amazing tutorial - the follow along material is great and the checklist and tips are an added bonus. maybe since you're such a notion whiz the content was easy to put together...but i can't imagine that's true - thank you so much for your time and effort and your clear and concise teaching style. lucky for me that when i decided to come back to notion after not using it for years, this video came out and explained all of the frustrations i had at the beginning. super inspired!!!

WOW! That AI block tip is new to me!

Your presentations are getting better and better. You used to have long hair in a baseball hat, and you slouched, and did not look at us, your audience. You no longer slouch, and you look at us more than once.
This is a great tutorial. I must have missed something, but what do we do with already developed databases to get them here. If I did miss something, my apologies, if I didn't miss something, how would we do this?

The doggo in the background is everything 🥹

Brilliant, thanks for your ideas and your way to show and explain things. Those new area templates, self-referencing and pulling in all the content - that's such a powerful tool. With it Notion can truly help to connect all the ideas that otherwise would be sitting somewher in Evernote or in files on hard drives. Thanks again for showing how to do that 🙏

Hi! Red, I want to ask something,
I get overwhelmed using notion, It consumes a lot of time to create the type I want and I looked your template( they r awesome), but my question is that, I fear that the data I put into notion will get lost and i will not be able to retrieve, because while making some change or using some different template, it got messed up and I have to delete all to make a clean system. I tried to move some books from my database into your 2023 template and it copied all the properties along with it. any advise on how to keep tidy information and notes while using/trying different template.

Great stuff! Earned a new sub here, saved me tons of time setting up something new for my organization.

Wow just went through that all that tutorial while incorporating in my system. Nicely done and so many use cases. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Many thanks from Brazil! :)

I've been using a global tag DB for years now. It was recommended by the Notion team on a livestream when I asked. Very nice of you to share it.

Also it makes things easier to find. E.g. I have a quote database and sometimes I just want to look for quotes which have the tag "Wisdom". Now instead of creating a new view for that, I just go onto the Tag page and look for the linked pages in my Quote database. CTRL + P rules!

First, I would like to thank you for your amazing content, it really is extremely useful! Second, I was wondering if you have any solutions to the following two problems:

1-I only have one page in a gallery view and but there's a very large "new" button next to it when I don't need it, how do I hide this?
2-Is it possible to create a dynamic ranking system? For example ranking pages in a database from 1 to 10, where every time I change a number it automatically updates the rest of the numbers.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks!

You are truly a Notion wizard. Love your videos. You've saved me a lot of time and frustration.

Very useful, I borrowed a lot of ideas out of this to better organize my tags

Esta plantilla es simplemente incredible, aunque creo que le falto una parte importante, el área "money"

Okay that Glossary Term AI Summary was way cool

Challenge: build a live crypto notion

you consistently come up with unique use cases that I never would have thought of myself!! grateful for u

I love this video and your 2023 starter video. A question I have is how would the glossary in the 2023 video integrate into the Global Tags database since they both have a type field?

This is what i neeeeed thank youuuuuuuu

Thanks for this great video; just a wish, could you compress these into max 20 min. videos please :) Or, kindly upload them in two or more parts etc.

Thanks for this! I've been creating multiple databases for different metadata (Year, Month, Category, etc), and this one database version seems much tighter. 

I also like how you created templates inside the body of each global tag. That's smart to create contextual views.

Time to go create the Global Tags database :)

So useful Red; I loved this and will probably watch several time!

Wow !

Thank you. I use notion because of you vdo. 🙏🏻