[00:00:00] Hey there. Uh, I'm Steve. I work at Lander. In this video, I'm going to attempt to break down our primary database projects in five minutes. Now that I've said five minutes, this video will definitely be longer than five minutes. Um, In this video, we're gonna go over a couple things. I'm gonna walk you through the outline.

[00:00:31] I'm gonna put it in context with the rest of our tutorial videos. I'm gonna go through this stuff in the outline and then I'll recap it for you here at the end. So to get started, let me share my screen. So right now you can see my browser. I have, um, my little sidebar here in Notion I have way more tabs open than I should have open, you know, the usual.

[00:00:50] Okay, so hopefully you've already watched the overview video, uh, which is about a 20 minute like overview of everything we do at Lander. And uh, it's cool in all [00:01:00] but I think it doesn't really get into any of the detail cuz frankly if you get into the detail it becomes an hour long video and it's a little overwhelming.

[00:01:06] So in these short snippets, I wanna get into some of the individual parts of our various. Workflows and how they work, um, in enough depth that you can really begin to make your own decisions about it. I want you to innovate and come up with unique ways to use these tools. And so in these videos, I wanna cover enough detail that you know just as much as I do about these things, and you can start to make decisions about how they should be used.

[00:01:29] So let's dive into it. In this video, we're gonna look at mission pages, which are sort of our top level. Project overview pages at Lander. So when we have a big project with a specific client or for a specific product, product we're building, we have it all organized In a missions page, I'm gonna talk about some, some individual elements of those missions pages.

[00:01:49] Uh, but first to do that I have to talk about how the, the, our project. Sort of process is set up our approach to projects. So the first thing I'm gonna talk about is the duality of work. How [00:02:00] some things are things you always go back in reference and some things are things you're currently working on.

[00:02:05] And I'm gonna talk a little bit about Para, which is an organization system that's sort of famous on the internet versus our version of it called pma, which I'm gonna turn orange so that you remember that. It's our version of it. Uh, and then I'll talk about our missions pages. Okay. And then I'll talk about navigating a missions page.

[00:02:22] And I will, uh, make reference to meetings and assets. We'll recap all this and we'll come back to the beginning. Okay. So to get started, uh, I wanna, I wanna get a little philosophical cuz it's fun. Uh, my camera just froze as I am going to get philosophical, um, because that's how all things work in life.

[00:02:40] But it's a good reminder to stop sharing my screen so I can talk directly to you. So let me briefly reset my camera and we'll get. Okay. Are you ready? I'm ready.[00:03:00]

[00:03:10] Okay. So when it comes to like working on stuff. Um, especially when you're working with other people, it can be very easy to, like, for example, organize a bunch of stuff on Google Docs or send a bunch of emails, and then when you revisit it in a month, when other things have happened in life, you have no idea where anything is.

[00:03:28] You've lost all the links. You have no idea what the context of the mission is. If you've ever worked in Slack, you've experienced having the stuff you're working on scroll way up and you just get completely lost in the sauce about what you're working on and why and when you should be paying attention to what we've all had that happen.

[00:03:45] The solution we've come up with here in Notion is specifically to address that. Um, and as I've thought about how to sort of formalize organizing stuff at work, it has always occurred to me that there's this sort of dual nature of all [00:04:00] work, uh, which sounds very like. Heady, but it's not. Um, basically the way I think about the duality of all work, which is my cool little title here, is that there are always things that you're working on that are like ongoing projects where you're putting in your effort and those things are changing and developing, and then there's stuff you reference.

[00:04:21] Like, um, for example, logo files are, are a great example, right? Like those are never gonna change, but you always fricking need the logo files. You never find them. Whereas, you know, there's also the documents that you're making day to day. Those always change and you're never working on the same ones. And so I think there's the duality of all work is that it's one of these two things.

[00:04:40] It's either something that's actively in play or it's something that you need to reference. And so I've broken down almost everything we do into one of those two categories, and there are some other slight distinctions to those things. So now I'm gonna go back to sharing my screen where I can start to break this down for you.

[00:04:56] So we've talked a little bit about the duality of all work. Right now I wanna introduce you to [00:05:00] this concept called, As I mentioned, it's a bit legendary on the internet. Here's the blog post that introduces it, uh, written by a guy named Tiago Forte. He's Twitter famous. You might wanna look him up. He posted this in 2017 and it has taken the internet by storm since then.

[00:05:13] He talks a little bit about what the perfect online organization system would be, which is. You know, probably unrealistic. But he talks about it being universal and flexible and simple and actual, all these things, right? And basically what he gets to an end is that everything that you have in life, whether it's a personal project around the home or whether it's a work thing you're working on, it has one of these four, It falls into one of these four buckets, basically, right?

[00:05:38] It's either a project, which is a series of tasks linked to a goal with a deadline, an area of responsibility, which is a sphere of activity. With a standard to be maintained over time. It is a resource, like a topic or theme of ongoing interest, or it's an archive in an active item from three or more categories, from three of the [00:06:00] other categories.

[00:06:02] So you see in those four things that they match this duality that I was mentioning. Um, an area of responsibility in an archive, uh, sorry, a resource in an archive are assets right there. Things are gonna go back in reference and then a project in an area. Are projects, they're things that are ongoing, right?

[00:06:22] They're things that change. Um, and so this duality is maintained even in this structure where you've got things that you're working on and things that you reference. Uh, and so our version of Para, you see it's called Para because Project Area Resource Archive. Ours is pma, so it's actually Project Asset Mission.

[00:06:44] Archive. And the only reason I changed the names is because one, I kind of wanted it to be space themed and mission sounds a way cooler, same thing. Um, and then asset, I actually swapped, uh, area of responsibility and resource. So an area of responsibility is a mission for [00:07:00] us. And then a, uh, an asset is a resource, right?