Using Notion will help you take a more systematic approach to your family history research and be better organised. It will give you more control, save you heaps of time and improve the quality of your family history.
Notion is a project management and productivity tool. It helps you achieve better quality family history by providing means to:
- plan research, and prioritise and track research tasks
- plan and coordinate writing projects, such as coursework, articles, blog posts and social media, and
- plan and manage your genealogical education.
Notion is also a notes management tool. It helps you analyse information, and document and organise your research notes by providing a means to:
- connect research plans with research notes and evidence documentation, analyse information and find research leads
- use your notes to answer research questions and progress projects
- organise source citations and link them to research notes.
Notion is designed to be used as a workspace. It is kind of like having your own private website, in which you can create pages and store information in the cloud.
Notion is not an alternative to family history software or online family trees. It is tool to supplement and support that software or online tree. For example, I use it for research notes and working documents, not final documentation of my family history.
Any improvement that you can make to the way that you organise your research and research notes will make a difference when you need to add information to your family tree or software, write a presentation or story, or do more research. Your Notion workspace will become a treasure trove of resources.
This is the first in a series of posts about Notion. More coming soon.
