Master 80% of Notion with this ONE Feature
About this video
Jeff claims mastering one Notion feature — Relations — unlocks 80% of Notion’s capabilities. He shows two flawed approaches: level one, a master projects page with separate pages per project, where tasks and notes clutter up with no status, deadline, or filtering; and level two, separate projects, tasks, and notes databases, which is better but still shows unrelated items everywhere — for example a ‘buy tickets for Tomorrowland’ task and unrelated notes appearing inside the Stargate project. The fix is to connect the databases with a Relation property: in the projects database add a relation to the tasks database with two-way sync enabled, then repeat for notes, so a matching property appears in the other database. Manually, he creates a database view inside a project page, links the task to that project via the relation, and filters the view to that project so only its tasks show; unlinking hides the task from the view but it remains in the raw database. To avoid repeating this, he edits a new-project template to include a self-filtering view whose relation filter points to the template itself, so a new project such as Project Tomorrowland automatically shows only its own tasks and any task created there is auto-connected. He then previews rollups, which only work via relations — pulling a project’s status into tasks to filter for work-in-progress projects — and notes he connects projects, areas, resources, tasks, and notes the same way in his own command centre.
Key takeaways
- Relations connect otherwise siloed Notion databases so only relevant tasks and notes appear inside the project they belong to
- Create a relation from the projects database to tasks (then notes), enable two-way sync, and give both sides meaningful names
- Filter a database view inside a project page by its relation to that project; unlinking removes the item from the view, not from the raw database
- Use a self-filtering project template — filter the template’s task view by the template itself — so every new project gets correctly filtered views automatically
- Rollups depend on relations: e.g. pull project status into the tasks database to filter tasks belonging to work-in-progress projects
Episode details: published November 18, 2025 · 13:46 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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