Project Properties Guide

Prerequisites and Dependencies

Property Explanation

The current FLO.W system has a basic framework with "Area" as the top-level design. Specifically, you can see this article in the Template Manual: Understanding Areas.

• Area
  • sub-Area
    • Project A
    • Project B
      • Task 1
      • Task 2

Under this framework design, all projects are parallel to each other, unless they're all linked to the same sub-Area

For example:

• sub-Area - Python Data Analysis
  • Project A
  • Project B

But this way, some special situations may arise.

Possible Scenarios

To address both needs above, you can use the project's Prerequisites and Dependencies feature

Related Items Last Edited Time

In the FLO.W system, you'll see a Property called "Related Items Last Edited Time" in many Databases, for example:

The basic purpose of this Property is to display the last edited time of all pages associated with the current page.

Notion's built-in "Last Edited Time" only tells you when this page itself was last modified. The "Related Items Last Edited Time" Property automatically checks all content linked to this page (such as related Tasks, Projects, child notes, parent notes, outgoing links, incoming links, etc.), then tells you which was the most recent edit time among all this content.

When you link an old note written months ago to a new project, this old note's Related Items Last Edited Time will immediately update to today. This means it has a chance to reappear in your view. This mechanism helps you connect past accumulated wisdom with current work, creating unexpected chemistry.