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Your dashboard is made out of collections of views. For more information on see ‣
Your dashboard is where you should begin each day. You should also go back to it after completing each task. So make sure you’ve clicked the star in the top-right corner to add it to your favorites. You favorites show in the left sidebar. Also make sure the browser you use for Notion opens up on your dashboard.
Every time you go to your dashboard, start at the top and work your way down. It has been designed to help prioritize and prevent other people from being held up. When you get down to your tasks, always check the Reviews on your left first. This is because other tasks are likely to be waiting on the task being reviewed.
This section at the very top of your page is general staff announcements. If you want to edit it, but you can’t, you can ask for access. Keep an eye on it for general messages. If you miss something, and the “Recent announcements” are being used on your home page, you might find old ones there. To find out more, see Staff announcements
Keep an eye on your Inbox. Aim for inbox-zero. If a message comes in that you can’t deal with, change the “Send to” to someone who can.
If you’ve dealt with a message and don’t need to reply, mark it “Resolved”. It will disappear from your Inbox, but still be in “All about me”.
If you want to keep it as a reminder, link it to a task, and use the Tasks system as your to-do list. Then mark it “Resolved”.
For more information see Using Communications
Your Comms area is for all internal communication. You’ll see it at the top of many different pages including:
If you start your day and notice you left a timer running, you can open it, and edit the stop time. This will stop the timer. The time logger is used to work out how much time should be expected of each task so that when projects are setup based on those tasks, the deadlines are achievable.
It is also useful to see where you were up to on something, and remind yourself what’s been happening. There are some useful views there, but mostly you’ll want to leave it on “Active time” just to see that you haven’t left a timer running.
Timers are started from within Tasks and Projects.
For more information see Using the time logger