Master your life and business workflows with Notion.
“Marie is one of the most knowledgeable Notion users in the world”
Ivan Zhao, CEO + Founder of 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 useful enough on their own. They’re not part of a bigger more integrated system.
Templates ≠ A System
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
- Your Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote or local files are a mess
- You waste a ton of time trying to remember where you’ve saved your files
- 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 tools, platforms, apps, and paper planners…
I promise, there is a better way.
Notion offers you a way to integrate all of your tasks, documents, activities, habits, ideas, and creativity in one place.
It’s the most versatile and customizable platform for personal and professional organization + productivity, and the one I use to run every area of my life and business:
- build a second brain
- task management
- client collaboration
- strategic planning
- daily journaling
- documentation + SOPs
- idea generation
- research + exploration
- content management
HOWEVER!!
If you don’t already have well-established systems, processes, and routines, you’ll simply 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
Since 2018 I’ve been consulting with individuals and business owners, helping them use Notion to create their life and business operating systems and workflows.
I’ve seen the most common challenges, hiccups, and missing pieces that most entrepreneurs and teams struggle with when trying to streamline their operations.
I’ve condensed my best practices and workflows into a robust online course and community to support you through the process of going from scattered to streamlined with Notion.
Let me show you what is possible with this incredible tool!
“Marie is one of the most knowledgeable Notion users in the world"
If you’re ready to stop procrasti-planning and playing whac-a-mole with your to-do list, join me in Notion Mastery.
Create an integrated business and personal productivity system that is tailor made for your needs.
Conquer Notion's learning curve
Start with a complete walk-through of Notion’s most powerful features (and wildly time-saving quirks!).
Build better planning systems
Create practical planning and review processes for your daily, weekly, and monthly tasks + goals.
Reduce decision fatigue and overwhelm
Design your workflow to reduce friction and make prioritization and decision-making quicker and easier.
Design a custom workspace that works for you
Learn how to design custom dashboards that are tailor made for you and your style.
Improve team collaboration
Get everyone on the same page with stellar documentation, custom dashboards, and workflows that work.
Supercharge your knowledge management system
Improve your resource management, note-taking, and idea management.
Create a practical + sustainable workflow
Know where everything lives and minimize your decision fatigue and context switching.
Surprise + delight your clients
Share beautiful and practical collaborative dashboards with clients.
Get inspired
Get a sneak peek into a variety of workflows, examples, SOPs, and templates from community members and in our weekly office hours and workshops.
"I wouldn’t have figured a fraction of this out on my own. Marie’s systems thinking taught me so much."
"HOLY COWABUNGA!!!!
It’s like competing in the 100 meter yard dash for the gold, and I get to start at yard 90. One of the top three no-nonsense online courses I have invested in, resulting in massive measurable progress."
4 Levels, 4 Tracks
GRAB THE components
In Notion Mastery there are 4 Levels with 4 Tracks to explore, followed by a series of side quests & rabbit-holes that guide you through more specific niche use cases for Notion.
You’ll kickstart your workspace build with a database component kit, and build up your databases and workspaces one area at a time to reduce overwhelm.
Whether you are just getting started or you’re an intermediate to advanced user, you’ll get ideas and inspiration for new ways to streamline your workflow.
The Learning Journey
In Level 2 you’ll begin to manage and manipulate your data through the design of elegant Dashboards across different areas of your life and business.
You’ll integrate more advanced filtering, views, sorts, and simple formulas, and use Notion as your central productivity and knowledge hub.
In Level 3 you’ll continue to streamline and customize your Notion workspace with more advanced features to further customize your dashboards.
Go deeper on niche use cases, and build out custom dashboards for different areas of your life and business.
This level contains a variety of choose-your-own-adventure lessons across a range of use cases, along with advanced examples and templates.
I've had so many Notion breakthroughs with Notion Mastery's new curriculum.
— Tatiana Figueiredo ✨ (@tatfig) January 12, 2022
If you've been using Notion, but haven't fully wrapped your head around it yet, it's worth the investment.
The way @mariepoulin teaches the concepts is so smart.
Other courses, Imma let you finish, but @mariepoulin has the best Notion course of all time.
— Stacy-Ann Hayles (@stacyannhayles) January 7, 2022
I really believe #NotionMastery is the best foundation course for anyone wanting to formalize their understanding and usage of Notion. Here’s why...
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we use Notion for prototyping, learning clubs, and process docs so we got @mariepoulin's Notion Mastery course and I've got to say without a single shred of doubt
— joel ⛈ (@jhooks) December 15, 2021
if you use Notion at all professionally
get this course
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"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's content is rich and in depth, laced with great templates and variations for many use cases.
What’s Included In
Notion Mastery
Notion Mastery is a semi-guided learning journey.
Go through the core material at your own pace, with the support of live office hours, a helpful online community, live training, coaching hot seats, and themed workshops.
The curriculum and templates are delivered via member invite into the Notion Mastery Notion workspace. Yes, the program is delivered entirely through Notion!
- Detailed tutorials and walk-throughs of how to use Notion for both big-picture planning and managing day-to-day activities.
- Video, gif, and text-based walk-throughs of Notion’s most valuable (and unintuitive) features.
- An overview of different 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 hours and use-case specific workshops.
- Access to open community events including guest workshops.
- Free updates as Notion continues to add new features, and a changelog so you can keep track of course and template changes over time.
- A supportive online community where you can get your questions answered, get insights into other approaches and workflows, request new lessons or templates, and connect with other Notion users.
- A growing resource library of templates, examples, and use cases from a variety of industries and niches.
- Access to Hot Seat sessions: Need additional support in working through a sticky issue in your workspace? Apply for a hot seat session and we'll help you workshop it in real time!
Guided Support
Marie Poulin
Creator, Instructor
Marie is the creator of Notion Mastery, leads Office Hours and Hot Seat sessions, and regularly engages in the online community. She’s got a passion for solving tricky Notion workflow challenges, so bring your questions and she’ll help you solve for your unique needs.
Cat Mulvihill
Instructor
Cat is a Notion Mastery alumni and official Notion Ambassador who loves to teach others and make seemingly complex concepts more accessible. You’ll see Cat around the community and co-facilitating our live trainings, workshops, and Office Hours.
Georgia Cyr
Course Operations
Georgia is an official Notion Ambassador and the operations support behind Notion Mastery. You’re likely to see her on our live calls, and within the Notion Mastery workspace. She co-facilitates our quarterly review sessions, and offers Ops-related workshops and AMA sessions.
Ben Borowski
Notion for Teams
Ben is an official Notion Ambassador, consultant, and Notion for Teams specialist. He helps teams solve complex Notion workflow challenges and use cases at scale, and runs our monthly team-focused office hours and workshops.
Stacy-Ann Hayles
Community Builder
Stacy is an official Notion Ambassador and Notion Mastery alumni who loves sharing resources and solutions to everyday Notion problems. You’ll see her around our community and hosting our monthly Simplify Sessions.
Mike Kilcoyne
Co-Working Power Hours
The community element was huge!
Seeing how other people use Notion was one of the most interesting aspects of the course. I was able to see new ways of using Notion I hadn't thought of, and really appreciated hearing other people's questions.
It's not the sort of course where you just pay once, do some work, and then disappear. It's a long-term investment. It changed how I think about Notion, workflow, community, and customer service!"
– Monica Lim
No need to take the majority of online course, just take the ones that rock. Part Time You Tube Academy by @AliAbdaal and Notion Mastery by @mariepoulin were my best investments in education this year. Worth.every.penny. I hear @fortelabs and @david_perell have 👍courses too. https://t.co/LiwGNDWxAc
— Monica Lim (@monicalimco) November 26, 2020
Who this course is for
Notion is ideal for you if you want more granular control over your task management, goal setting, and personal knowledge management systems, and value integration.
You’re a good fit for this course if:
- You’re ready to commit to Notion as a key part of your technical stack.
- You generally feel overwhelmed or frustrated with your current workflow, and your task list is giving you major side-eye.
- 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. This may involve confronting feelings of frustration or perfectionism!
You’re NOT a good fit for this course if:
- You’re still on the fence about Notion, and — OH LOOK A NEW SHINY!!
- You’re 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 customizing your space.
- You're looking for Notion to behave exactly like all the other tools you're used to.
- You're concerned you might be joining a cult.
Notion Mastery
Solo-
Access to all Notion Mastery content, office hours, live events, and community support for 12 months.
Notion Mastery
For Tiny Teams-
Access to everything included in Notion Mastery Solo for you and one additional team member for 12 months.
A great way to help team members get onboarded more easily into your newly designed workspaces.
Are you Canadian? You can pay in Canadian dollars along with applicable sales tax. Learn more here.
“I LOVE your templates and examples, so helpful and enlightening!” – Jenny Blake
"All the little tips and tricks you embed throughout each lesson make the learning curve much less painful.
I sooo appreciate your generous teachings in this course, your down-to-earth personality, and the personal touch that you put into it by giving us a glimpse of your own personal and business life in the background.
"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. 🙂
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."
"Your entire team is amazing. It’s a great example of a very well run community and one that is crazy helpful to be a part of." – Lori Leech
"OH. MY. GUACAMOLE. GOODNESS - mind. BLOWN.
"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.
Tired of feeling scattered across a bazillion digital tools?
Let me show you how to supercharge your Notion workspace to manage your entire life and business.
Over 1,700 students have gone through the course since it launched in 2019!
Don’t just take it from me…
I’ve been using her setup for about a year. Changed my life.
— Ryan Deiss (@ryandeiss) June 29, 2021
(And you can quote me one that, @mariepoulin.) 🙂
Every time I open up Notion Mastery from @mariepoulin my mind is blown 🤯 I learn so so so much. Highly recommend learning from Marie for Notion, productivity, and moving towards your goals in a way that feels good to you 😍
— Zoe 💛☕️ #Ship30For30 🚢 2️⃣/3️⃣0️⃣ (@ZoeLinda_) June 23, 2021
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
My favorite example is @mariepoulin. If you want to learn @NotionHQ, she’s the best person to follow.https://t.co/OOSG02fHGC
— David Perell (@david_perell) April 7, 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
“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
Hey, I’m Marie!
NOTION AMBASSADOR • CONSULTANT • HOST OF NOTION HQ HOT SEATS
Back in 2017 I tried Notion for the first time, and it didn’t quite “click”. I knew it had potential, but 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 great for high-level thinking and ideation, and Evernote wasn’t great for task management…
I took a chance and moved all of my processes, tasks, resources, and documentation over to Notion, and it was a complete game-changer. I was finally able to build a system that worked for my brain.
I could finally visualize all my work and commitments and got a grip on where my time and effort was going (compared to where I thought it was going).
In 2021 I was diagnosed with ADHD, and I began to finally understand even more deeply why Notion was truly a life-changing tool for me.
I was so smitten with the tool, I shared it with everyone who would listen… and the rest is history.
Trusted By Notion
You may also know me as the host of Notion’s bi-weekly Hot Seats for Start Ups.
Hot Seats are an ongoing bi-weekly virtual event that attracts hundreds of Notion users who are eager to learn how to get the most out of this tool.
Each session we help a new startup solve a unique challenge in their Notion workspace in real-time. 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 CRM
- Building a personal task dashboard
- Building a documentation hub
"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
"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
"My struggle before this course was not knowing how to fully utilize Notion and as a result I had a hard time integrating it into my life.
This is my first week working in my "week" page--planning out tasks, setting up meetings, etc. -- and I haven't felt this on top of my work in a long time. It's one simple screen and I already have such a strong foundation from which I can get more of what I want to done!
"I thank Marie from behind my computer screen several times a day."
Marie has created an epic resource here -- one I've turned to when I wanted to revamp an entire planning system or when I'm just looking to make a quick fix to a template.
If you're even thinking about using Notion, you'll go further, faster, with Notion Mastery in your back pocket."
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 functional space.
FAQ
It depends! 
There is such a diverse group of people in Notion Mastery, and there’s a wide range of experience with regards to Notion, 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 over the course of a few weeks; 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 semi-guided self study; many students come back to the material again and again; the office hours give you the chance to come and get clarity and support at your own pace.
The content is a mix of text, images, gifs, 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. All videos have closed captioning available.
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 community forum.
You’ll have 12 months access to the course curriculum, templates, live calls and community.
Yes! While this course assumes you are familiar with Notion (you’ve downloaded the app and checked it out), the basics are all covered to make sure you have everything you need to understand the core features of Notion quickly.
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, or 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 you if customization of your workflow is a top priority, and you want more granular control over your systems.
Transitioning a team to Notion is not like transitioning to other tools.
Aiming for 3-6 months to fully implement Notion is a grounded expectation and good place to start.
Most tools and applications start with a framework that users need to adopt to one degree or another. With Notion, you have complete flexibility to build it however you like.
While there are plenty of Notion Consultants that will design and build your Notion Workspace for you, we take a different approach.
In order to leverage Notion to its greatest potential, we believe your team will want to understand the technical mechanics of Notion and then develop your own best practices creating a dynamic and collaborative workspace.
We recommend you nominate at least one person on your team to learn Notion, really well.
Notion’s flexibility comes with the need to learn both how to use the tool, and how to create the systems and structure that make your business function smoothly from day-to-day, inside your Notion workspace.
In order to transition to Notion you will need to identify your team’s Notion architect. They will learn the tool deeply, guide your system setup and support your team during the transition to Notion.
If you are looking for “out of the box” project management, Notion might not be the best tool for you.
Live calls typically take place between 9AM and 6PM Pacific Time. Recordings for Office Hours, Hot Seats and Workshops are shared within 3 business days of the live call.
This course is a digital educational product that gives you instant access to all of the material and templates as soon as you get access to the course, and as such is non-refundable.