What does Notion Help with?

• Running Productive Meetings, Project management, etc.
• Team member onboarding
• Increase training speed on new tasks
• Google Docs organizing messiness (we don’t use Google Docs)
  • Only use Google Sheets if complicated details or formulas are needed
• Replaces repetitive Slack conversation
  • How do I do this?
  • Where do I look up X?
• Allows us to work asynchronously
• Make team interactions more meaningful because the basics are already written down

Every page has an owner

• Page ownership in Notion refers to the person primarily responsible for a specific page’s maintenance and accuracy
  • A page owner is responsible for verifying that the Notion page is valid.
    • If you see a page that is not verified - remind the owner!
  • A page owner is the best person to approach if you have specific questions or suggestions about the content of the page
• Other team members are always allowed to contribute or make edits if the page
• Don’t be afraid to edit/evolve their work if it’s in the company’s best interest and follows our company values.
• If a major change, you should get the owner's approval before making the change.

Best Practices

• The key to learning Notion is understanding it is DATABASE driven. This will be a somewhat new concept to those unfamiliar with data modeling, but learning the basics of databases will be extremely helpful for your career at Filmhub and whatever adventure you may take next.
  • Intro to Databases
  • Simple Tables vs. Database
• All Notion documentation can be found here.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts for Notion
• Notion's documentation is AMAZING. Filmhub aspires to have our internal and external documentation as clear and concise as Notions to establish ourselves as a world-class product.
• Here's a good article on how Notion uses Notion. Read through it. We won't follow it exactly but it's a good way to familiarize yourself with Notion.
• We generally structure notion sections according to our
  • However, sometimes it needs to be more granular or a sub-department needs a top-level notion DB like #ops-acquistions-catalog-import
• Wiki: Turn every page that acts as a wiki into a Notion Wiki. See here for overview.
  1. Every page you own should have a “Verification Date”
  2. Statuses we use for Wiki:
     1. Draft
     2. Active
     3. Needs Update
     4. Archived - DNU