Thanks to its high level of customization, yet user-friendly tools, you can essentially track anything and everything in your own student workspace. Plus, students get the Personal Pro plan for free. If you’re wondering how it works, keep reading for a list of ways to use Notion and level up your studying.
1. Take Notes in Notion
Notion is both project management and note-taking software. You can get as detailed or basic as you want, with over forty block types in its text editor. While that sounds overwhelming, you can stick to simple headings, text, and links and forget the rest. But embedding media and files if you want is as simple as dragging and dropping.
What’s more, using Notion’s text editor is much like using Microsoft Word or Apple Pages. So, if you know the basics of word processing software, you’ll get the hang of it quickly.
2. Use Notion to Keep Your Notes Organized
Pages work a lot like the files on your computer. To keep your notes organized in Notion, you can create a notes page for each class. Inside each class, you can create a notes database. Really, once you get the hang of the page within a page thing, using Notion is a cinch.
Every time you add a new line to a database, you create a new page—or blank note. That way, you always know where to find them later. You can also add unique symbols or images to your notes to help you locate them faster.
3. Share Your Notes With Your Classmates in Notion
You can easily team up with your classmates by creating a shared notes page in Notion. All you need to do is click Share in the top-left corner of the screen and enter your classmate’s email to give them access and set permissions.
With the Personal account, you can share with up to five guests. But since students get the Personal Pro account for free, you can take advantage of sharing pages with unlimited guests. If your classmate is sharing their notes, you can find pages they share with you by clicking your workspace in the top-left corner.
4. Draft Your Papers in Notion
Just as you can take notes in Notion, its text editor is also a great place to draft your papers. That way, they don’t get lost somewhere on your hard drive, and you benefit from a workspace with a minimal appearance—yet, so many tools and possibilities.
5. Use Notion to Track Your Reading and Assignments
Is it pages in a textbook, a file, some papers, or a link? If you don’t want to lose track of your reading, you can create a reading list in Notion to avoid falling behind. It even offers a ready-made template.
Additionally, you can make one for your assignments to stay on top of your due dates, break projects into smaller tasks, and reduce the overwhelm that comes with juggling everything. Before you know it, you’ll be the classmate with all the answers.
6. Store Your Class Schedule in Notion
Notion offers a course schedule template where you can outline all your assignments due that week and keep your lesson plans. It really is some next-level stuff. But sometimes, you just need a reminder of where you’re supposed to be and when.
With so many other things you can do in Notion, do yourself a favor and create a simple page with a minimal database. Add the days of the week across the top, and in the cells below, include your class name, where you’ll find it, and the times. Alternatively, you can upload an image of it to the page, so you’ll always have it on your phone or computer.
7. Create a Contacts List in Notion
Going off to college means meeting new people. It also means you could be away from home for the first time. Sure, your phone is an excellent place to keep contact information, but so is Notion—especially if you prefer not to program everyone’s information into your contacts app.
Using Notion, you’ll have all their contact information on your computer or phone when you need it. Plus, if you lose your phone—these things happen—you’ll have a place to find important numbers.
8. Use Notion to Keep a Roommate Board
Of course, you’ll still have to talk with your roommate, but sharing a board in Notion is an excellent way to keep tabs on things like rent and other bills, share an events calendar, or if you need to create a chore schedule.
Here, you can also store important information such as leases, house rules, contact information, Wi-Fi connections, and other documents you and your roommates need to refer to.
9. Track Your Budget in Notion
You don’t need to be an accounting student or math major to create a simple budget in Notion. Doing so will not only give you an overview of your monthly expenses, but you can also use it to track your spending and see where all your money is going.
This will help you course-correct if you’re overdoing it and help you learn more about your spending habits so you can save.
10. Use Notion to Set and Track Your Goals
It’s easy to say we want the highest marks, but goal setting is better when you’re specific. Perhaps there are other goals you want to set too, such as getting out for a walk every day or ensuring you stay social. Notion is an excellent place to set and track your goals any way you’d like, especially if you’re using it for everything else.
Stay on Top of Your Studies With Notion
Notion is a one-stop software for all your academic needs. Whether it’s taking notes, drafting assignments, or keeping tabs on just about anything, you can do it with this software. Plus, your pages are accessible on your computer, tablet, phone, or web app, which means no more flip-flopping between apps to find all your stuff.
