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Summary: Set up Notion for book content management by creating pages for chapters, research, and notes. Use databases to track progress, outline chapters, and keep all your content organised.

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In this video (9min), I walk you through how to setup Notion for book content management – with the assumption that you already have some idea of what you’re writing about, and chapter titles in mind.

Here’s what’s covered:
0:14 Create new Notion page as a database in ‘table’ view
0:44 Populate the table with anticipated chapter headings
1:32 Differentiate chapter types (major, section and subsection)
2:28 Assign content numbering for sort order
3:25 Create ‘major chapters only’ view
4:27 Select best layout
4:42 Add content status field
4:57 Customise status options
6:38 Setup status board view
7:46 Setup ‘ready for review’ table
8:36 Add ‘Review notes / comments’ field

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