Key Concepts
- Centralize information in master databases and contextualize that information in dashboards.
- Vaults, buckets, bolts and bytes.
- Vaults are top-level pages that organize your master databases.
- Buckets are akin to areas, or high-level categories of information. This should vary per vault objective, project, or use-case.
- Bolts contain databases that “demonstrate and measure progress.” Project databases, task lists, meetings & events, objective databases, key results databases, or time-based databases for summarizing information.
- Bytes are databases that support the work by including information purely for reference.
- Maximizing the relational properties of Notion:
- Opening a Bucket displays all of that Bucket’s relevant items from other databases: the task lists, the OKRs, the references.
My Notes
- I will expand the category of bolts to include anything that sustains the bucket or pillar. Progress doesn’t always mean demonstrable or measurable activity, so bolts needs to be extended to reflections, observations, knowledge gained.
- Here is a working list of everything I can consider a bolt:
- Projects
- Tasks
- Goals
- Achievements
- Timeframes
- Reflections
- Epics and Sprints (Agile methodology)
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