We are going to build this habit tracker in
Notion which is a free tool. After building this habit tracker, all you need to do is fill two to
three fields for each habit and the rest will be automatically updated. And all of the tools which
are going to use even the charts are free tools. So, don't worry about this as well. So first of
all, I should create a page. So, I click on here: "Add a page". And then I can name it, for example,
let's say, my habit tracker. And let's add an icon. For example, I want to use this one. Then
here I should click on this: "Empty page". And here I simply type slash and table. And you can
see it says database and table view. So, I click on it. And I want to create a new database. So, I
should click on this. And as you can see this is the title which I don't want that. So, I should
click on this. And I should go to layout. And I don't want to show the database title. And
I close this. And as you can see the name of this view is "table", but I want to change it.
So, I right-click on it and I press rename. And for example, I want to choose "All". And that's
it. I pressed Enter. And I click away. That's it. And you can see we have a view which is called
"All". I mean all of our habits are going to be shown here. Then I want to add another view for
my reading habit, for example. So, I click on this plus button. And here it says what kind of view do
you want. I want again a new table. So, I click on it. And again, I don't want to show the title.
So, I click on this. And I close this. And let's rename this once again. And I want to call it
reading, I mean reading habit. Let's press enter. And click away. Okay! Now you can see that we
have a column called "name", and I want to rename this column. So, I click on it and, for example, I
want to name it "index". I mean the number of day, for example, day number one, day number two, day
number three, day number four, and so on. So, for example, let's add a couple of data. For example,
this is day number one, day number two, and so on. And also we don't need this "tags" column. So,
I want to delete this column. So, I right-click on it. And I press "delete property". And I press
delete. Okay! Now let's make this column a little bit smaller. And now let's add another column.
So, I click on this plus button. First of all, I should define the type, so, this column is going
to be a date. So, I click on this. And the name is going to be, for example, "date". That's it.
And I press "Enter" and I click away. And let's fill this column with some dates. That's it. And
let's make this column a little bit smaller. But now I want to create a column like this, I mean
this habit column, and the type of this column is "Select". For example, if I click on it, you
can see I can select one of these options. You can see the first option is reading and the other
one is exercising. And maybe you ask: "What is the benefit of adding this column?" For example, if I
go to the "All" view, you can see that we have a column which is called habit and it specifies
whether this habit, whether these entries, whether these numbers, are for exercising habit
or for reading habit. So here, I click on this plus icon. And I'm going to add a column. So, the
type of that column is going to be "Select". And the name of that column is going to be "Habit".
And we can add some options. We want to have only two habits: reading and exercising. So the first
option is going to be reading. I pressed "Enter" and you can see this option has been added. Let's
add another option: exercising. And once again, I press enter. And you can see we have added these
two options. And also I want to set the color of all options to be gray. And you will see why in
the "calendar" view, which we are going to create later. So, I click on this and I want to choose
gray. So you can see all of the options are gray. So I close this and you can see we have a column
which is called Habit. So this is Reading. So I should choose reading for all of these. But now I
want to create this "minutes" column in order to see how many minutes I spent on each habit. So
here I click on this plus icon and the type of this column is going to be number and the name
of this column is going to be minutes. And I press enter and I click away. And let's make this
column a little bit smaller and let's fill this column with some numbers. For tracking the habits
personally I use this system and for explaining it let's take reading as an example. First of all,
we need some levels and also some alternatives for our reading habit. And we need these levels
for future steps as well. I suggest defining five levels for your reading habit. The show-up level,
the easy level, the medium level, the hard level, and the Hero level. For example, reading one
sentence from the book or the reading app can be a good choice for the show-up level. And reading
for 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, and 60 Minutes can be a good definition for easy, medium,
hard, and hero levels. And I suggest tracking your habits using these notations and symbols. But
now I want to create this column which you can see it determines whether I have done the show-up
version, whether I have done the easy version, medium version, hard version, or the Hero version.
So now let's click on this plus icon. The type of this column is going to be select and for
example let's choose a name for this column, for example, level. And let's add some options.
So the first option is going to be a cross, I mean the show-up version. So in order to add the
cross on Windows you should click on Windows and the dot in order to see this emojis. To be honest
I don't know what you should do on Mac in order to see these emojis but I will put these symbols in
the description so you can use them and you can copy and paste those symbols in these fields. So
now I press enter. And let's add another option. And once again I should press enter. But now
I want to change the order of these options so I click on this and I drag it to the top. And I
want to change the colors. The first one I mean the show up is going to be red. The next one is
going to be orange. The next one is going to be yellow. The next one is going to be blue and the
last one is going to be green. That's it. You can see we have our levels and you can see here's the
level column. And now based on our definitions for each level we are going to fill this column. And
also for our reading habit, we want to add another column for tracking how many pages we read on each
day. So I click on this plus icon. And the type of this column is going to be number. And the name
is going to be pages. And I press enter, and I click away. And let's fill this column with some
numbers. That's it. And if I go to "All" view, you can see we have all of these data as well. You
can see we have all of these column. But now let's add another view for our exercising habit. So here
I press on this plus icon in order to add another column for exercising habit. So again it's going
to be a table View and the name is going to be exercising. And I don't want the titles so I turn
this off and I press close. And as you can see, in our "Exercising" habit, we have these data
which is related to reading habit. But don't worry! We are going to fix it. And in order to
fix this, you should move your cursor here and you can see the filter button. So you should click
on it. And for this view, we are going to filter the habits which are exercising. That's it. And
let's click away. And now you can see we don't see those data related to reading habit. And let's do
the same thing for reading habit as well. So here, once again, I click on this filter button. And I'm
going to filter those habits which are reading. That's it. And once again let's click away.
And let's go to exercising View and let's add some data. For example, this is day number one,
this is the date. And I should click away. This is exercising habit, and for example, here I want
to change the order and I want to put this column before the level column. So in order to do so I
click on this three dots and I drag this above the level and I click away. And you can see
we have this column before the level column. And now based on our definition for each level
we should fill this column as well. So it's very obvious that we are not going to fill this column
for our exercising habit. But let's add another column and the type of this column is going to
be text and let's name this "details". And let's close this. And now we can add some details for
each day in order to see what we have done for our exercising habit. So that's it. And in order
to fix this display issue, let's click on this three dots. And let's turn the full width option.
And also let's add a cover so I click on this and it randomly chooses a cover for this page and we
can change it so if I click on this. For example, let's choose another cover, for example, I want
this one, so I click on it. And that's it. So now if I go to "All" view. And by the way, let's
make these columns a little bit smaller. And also let's change the order because I want to put this
column at the end so I click on this three dots and let's move minutes above the level. That's
it. So I close this. And now we can see we have all of our habits in one place. But now let's
add another view, I mean the calendar view, in order to see all of these stuff in a calendar.
So in order to do so I click on this plus button. But the type of this view is going to be the
calendar view. And let's close this. By the way, I don't want to show the title, so I turn this
off. And I close this. And I'm going to change the data which are going to be shown in each cell.
So I click on this three dots. And first of all, I want to show the Habit in each cell. So I click
on this. Also, I want to see the level and the number of minutes. So now let's close this. And as
you can see in this calendar view we have a couple of things the first one is basically the index
column, I mean day number one, day number two, and so on. The second one is the Habit. The third
one is the level and the fourth one is the number of minutes I've spent for that habit. So now we
want to add some charts but before that, I should split the page into two parts. So I should click
here after the title of this page and I press enter and here I simply type data. I mean this
part is the data part. And I click on this and I want to turn this block to heading 1 and also
I want to change the color to gray. So this is the first part I mean our data. But now here you
want to add another part for our dashboard I mean for our charts. And I want to turn this block into
heading 1. And once again while my cursor is here at the end of this line, I press enter. And my
dashboard is going to have three parts. The first part is the overall in order to track our overall
progress. The second part is going to be reading. The next one is going to be exercising. And
as you can see we are going to put reading and exercising beside each other. So in order to do
so, I should drag this and I want to move here, I mean beside reading. So you can see we have
two columns: reading and exercising. And let's change this into header two so turn into header
two. And also let's change the color to Blue. So that's it and now we need to add our charts.
So for doing so first of all you should go to Google and search for Notion charts and you can
see here is a website notioncharts.io So I open this website. So, first of all, I should sign
up so I click on this and I want to sign up with email and after filling these fields I press
Create account and I should verify my email using the code which they have emailed me and I press
confirm. So that's it. But now I should connect this website to my Notion. So I click on this:
Connect Notion. So in this step notion asks us to select some pages which we want to give access
to that website. So I click on this. And I should specify those pages. In this example is my
habit tracker. So I click on it. And I should press on allow access. So after seeing this, I
should refresh. And you can see the setup was successful. So I want to create some charts. So
I click on this. So first of all we should choose the database. So if I click on this you can see we
have only one database which is called untitled. Because if you remember we didn't use any title
for our database. So I click on this. So for the first chart, the x-axis is going to be "date" and
for date format, I personally use this one which for example it is April 1, 2023. So I prefer this
one. So I choose this one. And for the y-axis we want to have the minutes. And then we are going to
sort based on the date. So you can see the x-axis is sorted by date. And let's change the title. So
this is going to be overall. And I should click on this check mark. So you can see the title has been
changed. And here I simply copy the embed URL. And now I should go to my Notion page. So now I put
my cursor here, at the end of this line and I press enter. And here I simply type dash embed.
And I click on this. And here I paste that URL and I click on this, embed link. We are still
waiting! And there it is. You can see we have the overall chart. But now let's add the reading
and exercising chart which they are a little bit different and we should add some filters. So let's
go to Notion charts. And here I simply click on back to dashboard. And here we can see that we
have one chart and it says that you have four charts left. It means that in the free version
you can have up to five charts which is enough I think. So once again I click on this, create
chart. So the first step is doing the same thing so I'm going to fast forward. But the second step
is to add some filters in order to tell Notion charts that this chart should be only for reading
habit. So in order to do so, we should add some filters. So I click on this: "data filters". And
here I should add a filter and the filter is this: "the Habit", you can see "the Habit" should be
equal to reading. And I should click on this: "save and apply filter" and I close it. And now
let's change the title to reading habit. And I should press this check mark. And you can see
the title has been changed. So I should copy the embed URL. And here in Notion I press enter and
here I simply type embed. Paste this and I embed link. And you can see, we have the chart for our
reading habit. We are going to do the same thing for our exercising habit. So I'm not going to
waste your time and I'm going to fast forward. So you can see we have added the exercising habit
as well. But now let's add some charts like these, I mean pie charts. So for doing so, first of
all, I should create a chart. I should choose a database. And the x-axis is going to be levels.
The y-axis is going to be again levels. And we should Group by by the count. And here we should
change the chart type to pie chart. And again this chart is overall so if you want to have just the
reading habit, so you should add some filters. And I want to add a title. And I copy the URL
and I simply add it to Notion. And we can do the exact process for our exercising habits and
I'm not going to waste your time and I'm going to fast forward. But we want to put these charts
beside each other. So it's very easy! I can drag this chart and put it beside this one. So now you
can see we have built our dashboard as well. And those charts are dynamic. I mean for example
if you change something in the data section those charts are going to be updated. Please like
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