The Only Tutorial You’ll Need to Get Your Notion Up and Running

Let me introduce you to Notion, the do-it-all customizable platform for my type-A friends

Sija Los
8 min readJul 12, 2022
My Notion Life Hub

If you’re not familiar with Notion, they’re an adaptable workspace. The product's appeal isn’t the raw functionality, but instead the templates and workspaces you’re able to create. Notion has a variety of functions from databases to cross-platform integration making it the do-it-all workspace. This allows you to integrate multiple productivity needs onto only one platform, Notion. Are you convinced yet? Good — now let us get you set up.

First, let’s get one thing out of the way. Notion has a learning curve. As I said it’s a customizable workspace, so you have to customize it. Well, you don’t have to, but someone does. I’ll talk more about how we can avoid that soon, but I’m glad we had that chat.

Now let’s actually start.

Before you can start using Notion, you need to create your free Notion account by heading over to their site (This is an affiliate link if you sign up for a paid account!). One great perk of Notion is you can use them either through your browser, or you can download the application. If you’re interested, download Notion to your laptop or download Notion to your phone. If you just downloaded…

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Sija Los

I’m a 20-something productivity enthusiast with a passion for self-improvement writing mostly from myself but sharing what I’ve learned in my short life.