The best Notion templates for business productivity – Computerworld

In addition to organizing online articles, Notion can be supremely effective at helping you organize actual books you intend to read — be they printed editions or e-book equivalents.

That’s what the Reading List template is all about. It’s a meticulously mapped-out structure for storing info on books you want to tackle — for work purposes or even for personal, brain-recharging pleasure — and then having a complete collection of everything you’ve read for future reference as well.

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With ready-to-fill fields for summaries, categories, and even your current page-turning progress, you’ll never lose track of anything important again.

For all of our fancy-schmancy modern organizing systems, sometimes a good old-fashioned Post-it Note is exactly what you need.

The Notion Sticky Notes Board template brings that same analog style into the digital domain with a virtual bulletin board for all manners of on-the-fly notes — organized into different categories with a comfortingly Post-it-like appearance.

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All that’s missing is the adhesive.

Last but not least in our list of commendable Notion templates is a little somethin’ that ties into our current generative-AI obsession — and that’s an AI text generator for your own articles, memos, emails, and more.

It’s called the AI Blog Post Generator template, and it has spaces to add in a summary of the topic you’re thinking about along with a series of bullets for the main points you want the text to address. Fill in those fields, click the “Generate” button, and boom: Notion’s built-in AI will cough up some custom prose for your purposes.

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As with any AI-generated creation, the text likely won’t be perfect and is bound to need plenty of finessing to feel interesting, original, and in the right voice for your organization. But if AI generation is in any way appealing to you, it could be a useful way to get something off the ground, at least, and give yourself some ideas for how to get going.

It’s one more tool to keep in your productivity toolbox — and thanks to the template, it’ll be right there within Notion, just waiting to be called into action whenever the right moment arises.