how I stay organised & productive | Notion tour ~aesthetic~ & beginner tutorial 🌿

foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I'm pretty sure I mentioned notion in about 80 of my videos how I use my planner on the day-to-day to help me organize honestly like most aspects of my life it's kind of crazy what you can do with this software and I think one of the most asked questions I get is Becca how the hell do I use notion or Becca how the hell do I use your template and I am so excited to bring you guys this video and I'm what's even more exciting is that notion themselves are actually sponsoring this video which is like such an incredible honor I've been dabbling with notion for I think like over a year now but I only made a template that worked for me and actually got serious with it for like about six months now guys it has changed the game there are so many ways to customize it so that it kind of fits your aesthetic if somehow you've never heard of notion notion is this all-in-one products of T platform it is the number one tool I use to maximize productivity I absolutely do not think it is solely for students or like business owners notion 100 can be utilized by everyone it can help bring organization into like every aspect of your life whether it's your monthly goals you want to organize your watch list your meals for the week what books you red and also whenever I talk to people about notion in real life there seems to be this common misconception that you cannot get started on it without paying this is not true guys they do have different plans but I use the free version the free version is amazing it's just the perfect place for like personal organization or it's also an excellent tool for like team collaboration and so to get started on notion for free click the link in my description bar for free guys start taking control of your organization I completely get it I've been that person who's completely new to notion you open it and you're like okay where do I begin what do I do it is not as complicated as it seems just get started something will click and you will agree with it and you will love it [Music] so obviously once you've created your account where I recommend starting is either deciding if you kind of want to build out your own template or something I know is super useful is downloading a template and kind of going from there you can customize it so I know notion have several different templates available or for example I saw my own template which I will remember to link below as well which is kind of just like a general life planner very much designed for beginners people who aren't new to notion so I'm going to walk through that template with you guys in this video okay so let's say you have gone down the route of finding a template you like this is my one that's available to purchase so you should be taken to this page you just want to hit duplicate and then you can duplicate it across to whatever workspace so I recommend that you obviously sign up for notion first and then it should look something like this I just love how much creative freedom you have what notion to make it look exactly how you want so this is kind of the default how my one comes but let me run you through some of the basics so you can see on the sidebar here this is the sidebar basically where you can have an overview of all your pages you can see them all in one so you can quickly like jump to one and then of course you have like all your little icons as well um I I'm pretty sure all all of mine are gifts which I know is gonna not work for everyone so don't worry there is absolutely option to just have a still image or Emoji but we'll get into that Basics you can add a page that's what a new page will look like and you can kind of build everything from scratch and then Notions templates are down there on the bottom of the sidebar so you can easily just click get template and it will like copy across you can also hide the little sidebar away little features like that there is a lot to this platform I'm not going to run through every single feature because I think this video would literally be about five hours long so from the general aspects of customizing your page you can go to the three dots at the top right and here are your kind of like three main font Styles so you can go default um I personally really like Seraph it's just what I prefer and then there's also mono which is a Cool vibe if you like that you can adjust the font size they're small and then I also like things to be on full width so there's a quick look at it not being um full width and it kind of like brings it all into the middle you can duplicate the page there's just so much you can do the very first thing I like to start with is setting an icon and a little cover and also like obviously the title of the page so and then for the icon you have the option to either go with like emojis or these little icons that notion have there's literally something for everything or you can custom which is what I've done so I have got this little GIF off of a website called giffy.com I believe giffy.com and then what I obviously typed oh that's not how you spell plan um let's say you want something like that you can go copy image address go back to your little icon go custom submit and then there you go obviously this does not fit properly you'd have to play around with it a little bit but that's one thing you can do or I quite like the website flat icon they have even more icons there's just so many ways to customize this for the cover all you got to do is Click Change cover and then notion actually have a lot that you can just select there so there's a bunch of colors there's I don't know tons of images like these are quite cool there's also unsplash which I imagine it's kind of just like stock photos and then same kind of thing you can either link like a copy address or you can upload which is what I've done I've made this little like Banner in canva I made this kind of like aura thing myself and then I just played around with the phone since this is my homepage it's the thing I'm gonna kind of see like first every day it's primary purpose is kind of to look pretty also to have purpose like I want it to have my priorities for the day on here the quick links to all the other Pages um and like a calendar view I've put a little quote in here don't tell them your plans show them your results this is just something like I constantly stand by next to every single like individual part there are these six little dots and also a plus the plus basically creates like a space below it and then the three little dots gives you like this option menu so so you can just see what you can do with it Etc and so you can turn them into like different blocks you can see this is a quote if I wanted to make it a call out it would change oh gosh it would change to that to-do list those headings if I wanted it to look different like there's no rules there's obviously these set things to kind of guide you and help also you can like highlight the text I've italicized the second part of the course and then as you can see here since we are literally looking at the template of what you get from my planner so I like to include all these little notes that kind of guide you throughout my entire template so you know what to do with it but what I'm going to show you from here is this is has like a little do you call this like a little call out button basically where it extends out and then you can see these are a few of the websites that again I'll link below that I find really useful when it comes to like customizing my page something I use a lot is the color so so you can change the color of the text of the background then scrolling down here I I don't know green makes me happy so I went for two very green aesthetic kind of images these are just off of Pinterest and it is literally by so for example if I go down here and I always use the forward slash key on my keyboard as a shortcut to just bring up all the block options and then you can literally just type in what you're after so if I want an image you can upload an image from your laptop Etc but this is really random it's just something I had saved it's a thumbnail um so it will import it this kind of similar to the size it is and then you can adjust it you can also sort out where you want it to be which is very handy and then all the blocks kind of have like columns so you can kind of like fit them in for example if I want to it's going to look really bad but if I want to put it in the middle in between those that's how I would do that then here I have a little call out thing and then a list below I go in every day and I put in my top three priorities for the day things that I absolutely need to get done that day then these are widgets widgets this is where you can have fun I have a weather widget which has just looked a bit miserable for the past few months I also have this widget below that connects to a Spotify playlist and it does literally just play [Music] and then here's my little weather widget so this is from this website here this is where I get all my widgets this is where you can get really creative you can add in quotes um like this life progress bar whether Google Calendar Etc let me show you say I want this little widget you can adjust it here play around with it and then here's your little embed code so you would go over to your notion planner I've literally just copied the Lincoln and then you want to go create embed and it should pull up the quote just like that you can adjust the size play around with it insert it wherever you want so then here I've got quick links to all of the pages and then I also have this big monthly calendar normally I would populate this but since this is like a plain template you can't see what I'm up to this month there's a random book GIF because I wanted it there and then a little habit tracker so for me like every single day I want to take my ag1 in the morning I want to read 15 for 15 minutes like think of three basic healthy habits that you absolutely can do every single day and then it is just it's a little boost of dopamine when you go in at the end of the day and you take these off okay there you go that is a very basic run through of how I made that home page let's get into the meat of this planet first page my planner actual like to-do list section so again I just set my little icon my cover so how I've structured this is categorized to-do lists so I like to have like today's section at the top of the page and I've got quick ticks must Do's projects personal on a perfect day I will fill this out like the night before and then this will be filled out for me in the morning and I just can crack on with my day like I know I know what I need to do whether I'm in the mood to start the easy stuff first or jump into projects the Masters are what you see on the home page projects like the big things that aren't going to take one day it's just kind of like what you're working on for the week Etc and then personal because I don't like to have personal like mixed in with work Daily Time block this is a little table that I made runs from six in the morning until 11 pm at night to how you want to structure your day what you want your day to look like for me I just like to split on my day into like morning afternoon evening it helps me be realistic with time management like how long a task is actually going to take me and then here I have my little weekly section it's just like a weekly overview so I can quickly go like we'll watch you on Wednesday Etc and then my general to-do list you're gonna see I do have like a brain dump section which is basically like the notes app but I do like to have a general to-do list here because it's not super urgent but like I can pull it from there and just put it into okay I'll get that done on Thursday and then a big monthly calendar next page is my journal digital journaling and digital diary entries Etc really works for some people so this is absolutely an option for you I've built out these little journal entries and then also this like dream log section because I think that's just kind of cute and if you don't like it like you can delete it you just go into the month you're in you'll add a journal entry here and then this is a pre-populated page that I've designed and here are some prompts use this how you like those uh three things I'm grateful for so I put it in list form healthy habits I want to keep up today something I will do as a form of self-care and then the dream log that's the dream look there just space for you to use it however you want self-improvement goals whatever you want to call it is basically a goals page again I thought it'd be appropriate to have a cute little coat kilo collage from canva and then this is how I have structured I love this page it helps me feel like way more accountable when you actually set goals it's an easy way to go back and track so first up is your weekly goals the kind of short-term things you're working on so I put as an example like say you want to work out four times a week here are your bigger monthly goals I've split them into three categories work financial and personal and again it's these little toggle lists so you can go click down and then there are your goals then at the end of the month check in on this page and see if you did manage 2022 reflection but this doesn't have to be for 2022 now you can absolutely use this to reflect on the past month here are just some prompts like proudest moments Etc and then your goals resolutions and 2023 wish list places to visit recipes books Etc notion allows you the ability to build out like whole pages just solely dedicated to like your travel wish list or a book tracker so this is just a little like simplified approach to get you started habit tracker I have to say most of my inspiration behind this one was um notion already have like a really good simple habit tracker template that you can download so I kind of worked off of that yeah it's just a really simple table that is designed for you to have a really good overview of the main healthy habits that say that you want to do every single week and you want to be able to see how many days of the week did I actually manage it so this is what works for me I've got like movement seven hours of sleep vitamins Journal read yeah I don't know I just like how you can like tick away and it makes you feel good you can like move them around and and you can edit the name you can put in a little Emoji there are actually so many ways to kind of edit it next page brain dump like I said basically a replacement for my notes app because I have a section for just random scribbles and I have this section for specific notes and then this board view I really like this feature where you can categorize your notes and then you just click it and out comes this little side page you can build like a whole other page in here it that is what this is it's a whole other page just connected to this databases projects I wanted to keep this simple and that's why this is like a beginner friendly template and then I have this whole database here which is a very basic example of how you can organize your your projects your work system all of that so I've done the example here of say you have a website launch you can create the different properties so like it's due date then it's connected to this the task management board that I've created and it's split up into not started in progress overdue and completed absolutely helps me stay on track you can also view this in different ways there is a table option morning routine here we go back to a really relatively simple page that I've designed I just think it's nice to bring in lifestyle into this planner so I've put down like in this to-do list this checkoff list my dream steps of Memorial routine and skincare steps and I've put in a gif in this little class and it all looks kind of cute I've done the same for my evening routine and also reset routine because I find as she really helps for having reset day like having these little prompts let's talk about finance and how I have built out this page here is like your top summary finances I think this is a good like beginner level if you're someone who is new to tracking finances kind of wants to get better like saving just having a clearer view of you like your income and your outgoings and then down here is the monthly Finance planner something I really like is how you can add categories you literally just type in I don't know why I'm typing Health let's say that's a category you want and you just type it in you can give it a color and then here you can have a really clear like overview of the year your income your outgoings here I add this in a little wish list you can see it all here and I can see how much it like also is up to and I'm like oh yeah well that can be next month that's more of a priority than that just a little system that helps me save money travel board is all designed to help you organize your travel plans um so I've created again this little database with this like gallery view and then I like how you can put in the different um categories so you can put in the date whether it's booked or not and then it clicks through to this page where you can basically organize your whole trip like say you are that kind of type a person vision board say you want to do a little vision board for each month of the year just like what's what's the energy for that month what do you want for that month and then I just have a one for the year that summarizes the year then the rest of my planner is just things to help you so there's resources there there you go I have given you guys a full-blown tour the full-blown walkthrough of my notion planner that helps me stay organized remember notion is free I recommend just giving it a go seeing if it works for you I love notion I know you guys will too if you do get started with them be sure to message me let me know how you're getting on tag me on Instagram let's go on this journey together of becoming organized Queens who use notion I love you guys and I'll see you in the next one foreign

Channel: Becca Watson

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Length: 18min 45sec (1125 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023