Master your life and business
workflows with Notion
You’ve gone down the Notion rabbit-hole but quickly got overwhelmed. You binge-watched how-to videos on YouTube for hours instead of writing those blog posts you had planned.
You see the potential of this powerful, all-in-one productivity tool, but don’t know how to fully harness it.
Maybe you tried loading some of the pre-made templates into your account, and got frustrated because they’re not built for your use cases, and they’re not useful enough on their own. They’re not part of a bigger more integrated system.
Notion’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness: you can use it to do nearly anything.
SO… where the heck do you start?
Any of these sound familiar?
- You feel scattered across a ton of different tools and tech
- Things often feel like they’re “falling through the cracks“
- You waste a ton of time trying to remember where you’ve saved your files
- Your Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote or local files are a mess
- You feel overwhelmed, like you can’t keep up with your obligations
- You don’t have a consistent system for saving files, or tracking your tasks
- You don’t have standard documentation or templates
- You make lists of goals and ideas at the beginning of the year… that you never revisit again
If you find yourself feeling scattered and spread across different platforms like Asana, Trello, Evernote, Google Drive, Dropbox, as well as paper planners and journaling apps, I promise, there is a better way.
Notion offers you a way to unify your projects, files, ideas, and tasks all in one easy-to-find place.
It’s the app I use every single day to manage client projects, do big strategic planning, daily journaling, task management, and build my second brain; everything has a place, and nothing gets lost.
However…
If you don’t already have well-established systems, processes, and routines already in place, you’re likely to recreate the same dysfunctional patterns from your old tools within Notion. You’ve got to design your system in order for Notion to truly shine.
That’s why I created Notion Mastery.
For the last year I’ve been consulting with individuals and teams, helping them use Notion to build out their life and business productivity systems and workflows. As part of this work, I’ve seen the most common challenges, hiccups, and missing pieces that most entrepreneurs and teams struggle with when trying to move their operations to Notion.
“Marie is one of the most knowledgeable Notion users in the world.
When Marie showed the Notion team what she was able to build with the product, it blew our minds. She’s both a world-class expert and an exceptional teacher who has helped hundreds of people unlock organization and productivity with Notion. She makes things possible with this product that are even beyond my imagination.”
— Ivan Zhao, CEO and founder of Notion
If you’re ready for an integrated business and personal productivity system you’ll actually stick to, join me for Notion Mastery.
Together we’ll:
- Conquer the learning curve of Notion by starting with a complete walk-through of Notion’s most powerful features.
- Design a custom workspace that works for you, helps you visualize your big goals, and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks.
- Build better systems for planning, managing, and reviewing your daily, weekly, and monthly tasks and goals.
- Improve collaboration with your team by getting everyone on the same page with stellar documentation, custom workspaces, and systems that work.
- Ensure you have a sustainable workflow, know where everything lives, and don’t feel overwhelmed.
- Surface your most important documents, routines, and habits so they are top of mind and easy to access, without feeling cluttered.
- Start you off with a full set of integrated templates, and teach you how to layer in more complexity on an as-needed basis.
- Learn how to supercharge your resource management, note-taking, and idea management.
- Work through your unique workspace challenges in the twice-monthly office hours.
I include a set of template bundles which layer in templates based on specific paths and use cases. The templates included are a near replica of my own setup, and everything you need to adapt and build on these templates is included.
“I thought I would just learn how to use Notion, but Marie’s systems thinking taught me so much more. From the beginning she teaches you how to create a system that works for you instead of merely going over the features of the app. That is where Notion Mastery shines. If you have tried ALL the apps and you still can’t organize yourself, take Notion Mastery and with the help of Marie, create your own personal productivity system bending Notion to your will.”
Luisa Nino, Artist
“HOLY COWABUNGA!!!! This course is the Holy Grail of NOTION – everything and anything any Notion prospect or user could ever conceive of having access to! It’s like competing in the 100 meter yard dash for the gold, and I get to start at yard 90. One of top three no nonsense online courses I have invested in, resulting in massive measurable progress.
Edgar Stella-Turner
“I LOVE your templates and examples, so helpful and enlightening!”
Jenny Blake
WHY NOTION
Notion is the ultimate platform for personal and professional organization + productivity.
Notion is the most powerful all-in-one workspace; you can use it for nearly anything:
- Task + project management
- Collaborative documentation
- Publishing + editorial calendar
- Lightweight CRM
- Resource library + knowledge management
- Note-taking
- Idea lists
- Weekly progress tracker
- Habit tracker
- Personal wiki
- Proposals + productized consulting
- Onboarding documentation
- Meeting notes
- Daily journal
- Study notes
- Inventory tracking
Now, Notion’s greatest strength is also its greatest weakness: you can do almost anything with it. It’s effectively a blank canvas that you need to design in order to take full advantage of. This often keeps folks from understanding its full possibilities.
Skip the heavy lifting
Inside Notion Mastery you’ll kickstart your workspace with my go-to advanced business + life templates.
Get Access to ALL of my favourite go-to advanced templates.
I’ve done the heavy lifting for you, and included a number of variations (because our brains work differently!)
Whether you are just getting started or you’re an advanced user, you’ll save a boatload of time and get ideas for new ways to streamline your workflow.
“I’m learning so much, and I am very impressed by the detail you are including. You have a real gift for teaching – the only way to be this effective is that helping people comes from your heart.
— Sara Driscoll, Broker Associate, Pacific Sotheby’s Int’l Realty
I never spend hundreds of dollars on a course, but after seeing a few of your YouTube videos, I figured what I could learn from you would save me many more hours of figuring it out on my own. And the rest of the story is I wouldn’t have figured a fraction of this out on my own, if I devoted months of doing nothing else but trying to learn it!”
“Marie is fearless in the way she teaches which inspires. She gave me so much permission to play and iterate to learn Notion by simply doing. She always leads by example and refines her modules over time. Her content is rich and in depth, laced with great templates and variations for many use cases.”
— Sonja Leix, Digital Strategist
“This course has completely transformed how I use the tool, to say the least. I went from using it as basically a Notes+ app, to having now replaced almost every part of my day-to-day workflow… I work with my team, clients, plan my quarter, do all of my daily writing, script out videos, work on wikis, and, like, dozens of other functions that I often used like 5 different programs to complete. It’s made my life infinitely easier and less stressful and a huge chunk of that was how Marie broke all of it down into incredibly simple, and easy to understand lessons. Marie is easily the best teacher on the Notion platform I’ve come across, and I’ve looked into dozens of other programs.”
— Michael Kilcoyne
What’s Included:
- A full walk-through of how to use Notion for your day-to-day activities
- Video and text walk-throughs of Notion’s most valuable features
- An overview of workflows, dashboards, and systems with a variety of examples, both personal and business
- A look behind the scenes at how real businesses run on Notion
- Access to private office hour recordings
- An interactive Q+A discussion area where you can ask anything that isn’t covered in the course, and influence future lessons/videos
All of my favourite templates including:
- Task + project management
- Collaborative documentation
- Client “portals”
- Publishing + editorial calendar
- Lightweight + advanced CRM
- Resource library + knowledge management
- Note-taking
- Idea lists
- Personal wiki
- Proposals + productized consulting
- Onboarding documentation
- Meeting notes
- Daily journal
- Study notes
- and more!
Want a template or walk-through that you don’t see included here? I frequently accept student suggestions, and add those to the growing resource library.
COURSE FORMAT
This course is self-paced and delivered via member invite into the Notion Mastery Notion workspace. Yes, this course is delivered entirely through Notion!
There is also a private discussion area (also inside the Notion workspace) to answer your questions and provide additional support as you move through the material. There are foundational lessons alongside a growing resource library to address more niche use cases (as requested by you!).
Some people like to binge-watch the content and set their space up in a weekend, while some chip away at it over the course of months. The course is comprehensive, and may feel intimidating at first. There are many different use cases covered, so not all content will be relevant to your needs. Take what you need, and leave the rest!
You can download and work with the templates right away, or work your way toward building your own workflow piece by piece as you get comfortable with Notion.
Self-Study
Includes access to:
- All Notion Mastery modules.
- All templates: basic, advanced, and premium.
- Online community to get your questions answered and share your learnings.
- Free updates as Notion continues to add new features.
- A changelog so you can keep track of course and template changes over time.
- Recordings + transcripts of past private Office Hour events and workshops.
Enroll Now $600
Private Office Hours
Everything from the Self-Study course plus access for an additional team member to:
- 12 Months of Private Office Hours (1-2x/month).
- Bonus Monthly workshops and templates as requested and voted on by you.
- Bonus Training: Monetizing with Notion. How to sell Notion Templates, Consulting, and run Online Courses with Notion.
Enroll Now $1000
🇨🇦 Are you Canadian? You can pay in Canadian dollars along with applicable sales tax. Learn more here.
OH. MY. GUACAMOLE. GOODNESS – mind. BLOWN. The course is priceless. I got so much more than I imagined within! Thank you for getting me one step closer to clear, connected, streamlined days in my business.
Lysa Greer
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
You’re a good fit for this course if:
- You’ve already decided that Notion is a good fit for your needs.
- You’re looking for long-term shifts in your systems and workflows, not quick fixes.
- You recognize that despite all the fanciest templates, you will still need to put in the work to customize your workspace to your own needs.
- You’re willing to be patient with yourself as you learn both a new tool, and a new way of being.
You’re NOT a good fit for this course if:
- You’re still on the fence about whether or not Notion is the right tool for you.
- You’re feeling rushed or panicked, and don’t have time to invest in developing a workspace that works for you.
- You’re looking for a quick fix for years of disorganization and lack of good systems.
- You expect/require your workspace to be perfect and aren’t interested in the work of building your space.
“Marie’s Notion Mastery course provides not only the skills you need to truly master this complex application, but robust ideas for how to create a structural framework for all the goodies to sit on top of. Building a database is no joke, and without these guideposts learning Notion is like swimming in the open ocean when you can’t see the shore. You can’t really tell if you’re making any progress or not! And this is all aside from the reality that the templates alone will SAVE YOU HOURS AND HOURS OF WORK and are worth the investment!”
Sandra Halling, thedatamavens.com
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“TLDR do Marie Poulin’s Notion course it’s life-changing
Marie’s course has totally changed the way that I think and work and the way that I organize my projects.
Notion is so limitless, and when you get into it without guidance, it’s hard to figure out how to make it all flow.
The course allowed me to speed up the process of creating my systems, and I probably would have given up if I hadn’t had the course!
Definitely sign up for this course—get into Notion, it will make your life better.”
– Caroline Conner, Wine Dine Caroline
There is no one out there that is more equipped to upgrade your Notion experience in no time like @mariepoulin. All of her videos, including the official Notion Office Hours are absolutely fantastic!
— Maximilian Schulz (@maxwschulz) April 20, 2020
Here a link to one of them:
https://t.co/QRZGLKUuP6
@mariepoulin – Every time I watch a video of yours…My brain falls out of its head… A people database… so damn good. *runs and creates*
— Business in Notion (@NotionBiz) April 24, 2020
@mariepoulin‘s @NotionHQ set up is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
— Ben Ford (@boothead) July 30, 2019
Mind. Blown!
Have to say, the final push to build a proper to-do system in @NotionHQ came from watching @mariepoulin‘s awesome ‘Getting started with Notion’ webinar. https://t.co/PcYSXLnoUm
— Cavan Scott (@cavanscott) August 6, 2019
Don’t just take it from me…
Got started with @mariepoulin‘s Notion Mastery (https://t.co/5BYfbjK5Qj) yesterday to level up my @NotionHQ skills.
— adii (@adii) August 25, 2020
Before even getting into the advanced bits, just templating + buttons to create new a new thing based on a template has been a gamechanger.
I think @mariepoulin has such a dedicated following not because she teaches you how to use yet another productivity tool, but because she teaches you how to infuse calm and order into your life. Especially in a time of chaos.
— Colleen Schnettler (@leenyburger) November 2, 2020
Marie’s setup has helped me to get started on my Notion database, and forms the core of what my system looks like until now.
— Celz Alejandro (is Building a Second Brain) (@celzalejandro) April 16, 2020
Aside from her YT channel definitely check-out the @NotionHQ office hours, helped me with prompts and designing a system that works for me 🙌
I watched @mariepoulin‘s webinar on @NotionHQ and it was full galaxy brain. Pages for focus areas, boards for projects, linked databases of tasks with custom views per context… 🤯 https://t.co/SinpkKWLGR
— Erica Heinz (@ericaheinz) August 20, 2019
My favorite example is @mariepoulin. If you want to learn @NotionHQ, she’s the best person to follow.https://t.co/OOSG02fHGC
— ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ ✌ (@david_perell) April 7, 2020
I can’t recommend enough @mariepoulin ‘s class. It has changed the way I think about Notion, workflow, community, and customer service. All of that for the price of one course! It’s priceless!
— Monica Lim (@monicalimco) September 1, 2020
Have you tried Notion but it didn’t stick? @mariepoulin is who you need to be following. The Notion Jedi!
— Jed Lehmann (@UnknownGuest) April 21, 2020
Thinking of everything as a database first instead of a page in @NotionHQ is like unlocking the Matrix
— Jason Resnick 🤘🏼 (@rezzz) August 23, 2019
Thanks @mariepoulin for being my Morpheus making me choose the red 💊 … #thetruth pic.twitter.com/8QLRMCTVWZ
“I just wanted to say the last Office Hours for the Course, which was my first, was freakin’ awesome! I didn’t want it to end. 🙂
Chris Davis
I’ve now been through a couple other training offerings, and I can say without a doubt that the training and resources you provide can be directly attributed to how far I’ve come with Notion and catapulted my ability to use and leverage Notion for a host of purposes. I find that I resonate a lot with the thought processes and ideas that have driven your setup and the changes it has gone through as well over time, which has monumentally expanded my initial foresight of use cases and has been greatly shaking up how I manage my digital information.”
This is the most structured and welcoming pile of knowledge about an app – ever. The most important part is still you and your personality. You’re radiating true value, you’re the real thing, your course is the real thing.
Dragan Ruzic
Marie is such a fabulous and bright Notion pro! She is enormously hardworking at ensuring learners get the most out of the course while not simply offering an abundance of information. Her natural curiosity and generosity is a rare asset, and her patience makes it easy to ask the simple questions of a novice learner. Her course is excellent and I’d recommend it for anyone looking to quickly adopt and leverage notion as a productivity tool, even if just exploring what’s out there.
Ann Kovalchick
Hi, I’m Marie, Notion Pro and host of Notion Office Hours.
Back in 2017 I tried Notion for the first time, and it didn’t quite “click”. I knew it had potential, but I wasn’t sure how to harness it.
It wasn’t until I decided to try using Notion to help me plan my Permaculture diploma (a messy, long-term project requiring lots of documentation, resources, imagery, notes, and both short + long-term planning) that I began to see what was possible, and why this tool was so incredible.
As a die-hard (paid) Evernote + Asana + Dropbox + Google Drive user, I was frustrated that my planning, tasks, files, and resources felt disconnected and fragmented. I knew Asana wasn’t a great for high-level thinking and ideation, and Evernote wasn’t great for task management…
I took a chance and moved all of my life and business processes, tasks, and documentation over to Notion, and it was a complete game-changer.
I can honestly say that moving my systems to Notion has changed my life and business for the better. I’ve become more aware, more present, and more productive because I was able to build a system that worked for my brain.
I was able to get a better grasp on my own bandwidth, and really see where my time and efforts were going (compared to where I thought they were going).
Trusted by Notion
You may also know me as the host of Notion’s official weekly Office Hours series, an ongoing weekly virtual event that attracts hundreds (sometimes thousands!) of Notion users who are eager to learn how to get the most out of this tool.
Each week we cover different topics and use cases for both beginners and advanced Notion users alike, in order to help show you the depth of possibilities with this tool.
Some of our past events:
Building from Scratch
Building a Second Brain
Scaling Your Business with SOPs
Building a Knowledge Hub
Contextual Dashboards
Notion is the only tool I’ve found that has truly enabled me to bridge the gap between bigger long-term goals and day-to-day actions, all in one beautiful and accessible space.
Notion Mastery is an unbelievably helpful resource. I am SO grateful for what you’ve created + are willing to share here!
Sara Frandina
I always appreciate how thorough and thoughtful you are in what you share. I’ve learned so much from you that has nothing to do with Notion!
Krysta Williams
FAQs
How long will it take to go through the course?
There is such a diverse group of people who join Notion Mastery, and there’s a wide range of experience with regards to Notion experience, organizational skills, and technical abilities. Some people “click” with Notion right away, while others take more time.
Some students binge-watch the content and set their workspace up in a weekend; others chip away at it over the course of months.
Everyone’s needs are so unique, and not all course content will apply to your use cases. The course has foundational content alongside “resource library”-style content that gets updated frequently, and you can revisit anytime.
This is why I offer the course as a self study; many students come back to the material again and again.
There is a short answer is: it depends! 🙂
What format is the content?
The content is a mix of text, images, video screen-sharing, and templates. This gives a range of options for different learning preferences. There are also transcripts of all video calls, which are also tagged in case you want to dive in to a specific category of discussion.
Does this course cover an introduction to Notion?
Yes! While this course assumes you are familiar with Notion, the basics are covered to make sure you have everything you need to understand the core features of Notion quickly.
How often is the course updated?
I love solving interesting use cases with Notion, so when I notice participants having the same questions and curiosities, I create new templates and videos to explore niche use cases. I typically make small course updates weekly, and more substantial updates (new videos and templates) monthly.
Have a use case you want to see me cover? Post your suggestion or request in the forum.
How long will I have access to the course?
You’ll have lifetime access to the course material and future updates. If you bought the Office Hours version, you’ll have 12 months access to those live calls.
Is Notion the right tool for me?
If you’re not sure if Notion is the right tool for you, you might want to explore some of my Youtube videos that go over some of Notion’s core functionality, or watch some of the Notion Office Hours to see what is possible (and why I get so excited about it).
Notion is excellent if you find your existing tool stack limited and fragmented, and are seeking more control over how you visualize your planning and day to day execution. Think of Notion as a giant box of Lego pieces where you get to decide how you want it to look and function, vs a pre-made Lego “kit.”
If you want something that just “works” out of the box without any effort, Notion may not be the best tool for you.
If you aren’t sure that Notion is the tool for you, this course may not be a good fit for you.
Notion is ideal for those who get enjoyment from the process of building and customizing their own systems, and want more granular control over their task management, goal setting, and personal knowledge management.
What is your refund policy?
This course is a digital educational product that gives you access to all of my templates as soon as you get access to the course, and as such is non-refundable.