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How To Use Notion At Lander

First off, if you're a client or contractor, don’t worry about this page, it's for staff. 😇 But feel welcome to explore if you're curious!

Before we do anything, let’s look at what a workday in Notion should look like once you’re up to speed on things. Yes It should be literally 5 minutes. The goal of Notion is one simple thing: help you pick the most important thing to work on next, and free up your time so you’re not waiting on anyone and you can spend the rest of the day doing your actual work.

Please take the time now to learn how to use Notion well so that you save yourself days of your life in the near future. You’ll never have to ask what you should be working on, or what your teammates are up to, or the status of events, productions, etc.

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Overview of our 3 Main Databases

Databases are like spreadsheets or coordination tools. Think of anything you’ve ever done in Excel or Sheets, or anything you’ve used Asana, Trello, or Slack for? That exact workflow can be recreated as a database view in Notion.

See here for many examples broken down by category:

Notion Picks – Template Gallery

Here is a quick video overview about how we use our 3 main databases at Lander, , , and ‣ and then deep dives on each of them are listed just below this video. This is the deep dive about the ways we use Notion, and how Notion builds on the greatness of documents and spreadsheets and brings computing into the mobile age.

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Deep Dives Outline

Notion Tutorial Videos Outline

Database Tutorials

What Are “Missions?” + Overall Organization

Written Projects Database Walkthrough

Navigating Projects and Assets in Missions

How To Produce a Lander Gallery Project

How To Organize Standups For Your Team

Project Management at Lander

Using Design/Dev Templates

Tutorials

Content Database in Notion

‣ Tutorials

How to Use Tasks / Standups (Beta)

Starter Tutorials

Here are the main tutorials listed here on the Notion at Lander page, but in a database view instead, shown as thumbnails just for fun.

Starter Tutorials

All Other Tutorials

Here are the rest of the tutorials we’ve made over the years, from CRMs & print on demand tools we use, to how to set up auto-invoices & US Businesses. Click “load more” to see them all, or see them broken down in detail along with our online courses over in ‣

All Tutorials

User Onboarding Guides

The little dot by your name should be green.

If it isn’t green, visit your page and make sure you’ve re-read and done all the steps!

Old Tutorial Content