How to Easily Add Columns in Notion

1. Introduction

• Introduce the topic of the video which is how to make your Notion account look nicer.

1. How to Create Columns in Notion

• Explain how to create columns in Notion using the /callout command
• Demonstrate how to add titles and emojis to the columns
• Show how to duplicate columns and move them to other parts of the account.

1. How to Add Sections in Notion

• Explain how to add toggle lists in Notion for frequently asked questions or any other lists you want to keep
• Demonstrate how to add a question and answer in toggle list.
• Explain how to add multiple questions and answers to a toggle list.

1. Making Your Columns Look Better

• Explain some ways of customizing the look of the columns in Notion
• Explain how to change color or font size, or how to make text bold.
• Demonstrate the process of customizing the look of the columns

1. Adding a Dynamic Synced Blocks Menu

• Explain what synced blocks are and their use in Notion
• Demonstrate how to create a synced block and place it in multiple locations
• Show how to create pages within a synced block and how to link them
• Explain how to create a menu using synced blocks
• Demonstrate how to use synced blocks to create a tasks list

1. Outro

• Summarize the key points of the video
• Provide additional resources or mention a related video for further information.

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Hey there guys, how's it going? It's Carter Surach. I'm back with another Notion video, and today is a quick, practical Notion video for how to create columns easier. Because it's not super easy to create multiple columns and sections in Notion within your page. But in today's video, I'm hoping to bring some more clarity to that and kind of show you some examples of how you can use columns as well to make your pages more robust and more usable for you and anyone else on your team who might be using Notion. So let's jump right into it.

All right, so diving right into it we have a fresh page right here on Notion, and I'm just going to call this my home page. I'm also going to hide this sidebar so I'm just going to hit this close sidebar button so that I get that nice full wide screen and I can really see what my columns are looking like. Another thing to note is that you can make this page full width and you can also make it small text. There's a number of other settings that you can change right here, but these are the two main ones that you're going to want to remember if your columns are getting squeezed too small. Let me show you what I mean. So I'm going to turn both of these settings off here.

If we want to create a new column, what we actually have to do is just kind of give a skeleton first. So, I like to do c1 stands for column one, c2, c3 and I just like to create as many of these as I need for columns and then you can just drag these alongside of the c1, the c3 and you're going to want to do this at the beginning of when you're creating your page. So you're not gonna be able to come back and do this later on. It's super hard to add columns once you already have a structure of a page. You're gonna wanna start with a blank page, essentially column one.

And as you can see, we have column two and column three. Now let's say you wanted to add another section in Notion and you don't want this one to have the same number of columns as this first section. So this section right now has three columns one, two, three. If we wanted to create a new section, I'm just going to write new section and this is strictly for planning purposes. Right now, this new section is in column one. I could drag it under column two or column three, but what I want to do is drag it down and get this nice long blue bar underneath all of the columns. So now we've set up a new section. So this top section has three columns still and then this one is a wide screen so this will fill up this entire area. Let me enter some text to show you what I mean by this.

All right, so now I have some nice text entered in here. This is just some lorem ipsum. Basically this is what we are going to get. We have these three columns here and then we have our new section down here that includes all of this text and it goes all the way across the page. If we wanted to, we could create new columns below this. So let's say we wanted to do a two-column section. Well, I could do c1, c2. I could drag them side by side, and now we have some new sections. So, I'm actually just going to steal this column 1 in column 2 just so we have some examples.

How can you make these look a little bit nicer? Well, I'm about to show you. What I like to do is create like a call out up here. I believe that's what it's called. So, if I go /call out, yeah, it'll pop up like this and it's this block that you want to select. So if I hit call out, this creates this nice little title instead of the old column two column three text. We're gonna have these nice little titles, and they can have emojis along with them. So, maybe this one is my mission, and I could throw that in bold and I could even change the color if I wanted to.

Then, I'm just going to click here and hit duplicate. And I'm just going to pull this over to my other columns. So now, if you look at my Notion account, I have these placeholders here for these different titles, and I could come in here and write whatever I want for this section. And text isn't the only thing that you can include in a column. We could also add some toggle lists. So, I would just hit /toggle list and this is great for like an FAQ. So, if I wanted to have an FAQ on my homepage, I could do that and I could put the question and then within it, if I hit the drop-down, I could put an answer and we could just hit enter from here and we could create question two, enter again, question three, question four, and so on.

Another cool thing about these columns is you could also add like a menu in here if you wanted to and you could dynamically link this menu to the other pages. So let me show you what I mean by that. I had a full video on this, so if you want a more in-depth explanation on synced blocks, you can check out the link up in the right corner of this video. But I'm going to show a quick version here. So what you would do is you'd hit / and then you'd create a synced block. So you're going to type synced in this synced block here is what you want. You want this red outline, and then within that, I could create some pages. So we have maybe a homepage and then I would come back over here and I'd create another page. But if it's not letting you create a page in the sync block, just create one outside of it and then you can drag it in. So I'll have another page in there, just make sure it's within that red line.

And then I'm also going to duplicate these, so we might have a homepage, and then we might also have like our tasks page and I could put a database on here if I wanted to, and I could start tracking tasks. Then maybe we have a page for groceries and a page for all of my plants to keep track of what needs watered and these could all have their own separate databases, but the nice thing about the sync block is we can actually duplicate it and put it in multiple locations. So if I wanted to, I could click on this synced block, hit copy, and sync, and then I could go over to my tasks page and now I'm going to create some columns over here, c1, c2, and make sure that that's lined up. Then we have our tasks here, I can change the width here and then I can paste my synced table here and boom, now I have a menu on my tasks page.

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