Hello everyone and welcome back to another video today's video we're going to be diving into my Notion
2019 layout I wanted to share with you guys all of the aspects of my account
giving you an idea of how I use it on a daily basis and
Also diving into some of the pages I've use and how they are set up currently
So this video will hopefully give you a bit of a peek into a working notion account that you could potentially
Apply to your account. So stick around for today's video if you're looking to get a deep dive into notion
So guys it's great to be back and I hope you are all doing well
So in today's video as I mentioned, I will be diving into my notion account
First thing I want to start with is probably the home page because the home page is I guess the dashboard that you land on
When you've got an ocean account and as you can see here
it's changed a little bit since
The last setup that I made if you're looking to look at the last set up so I made all clued a playlist below
I do one every three months to give you an outline of how it's changed in 90 days or so
and last one was in August and what I had previously
was like a pinned notes area up here and then just sort of a couple of
Sort of like pages down here wasn't really that committed to some extent whereas this has
drastically changed in terms of the amount that's on here and
Also the layout so what I want to start with is this cover photo, I chose a really simple mountain
I quite like the fact that I have like a mountain here
there's something about like
When you've got a dashboard either having a home or like some sort of hub
Picture and I feel for me like a mountain could be that so I'm sort of theming it around a mountain weirdly
So we've kept it pretty much the same
I've moved the quote mark just below so I previously had a quote block just below it saying Francesco's workspace
Whereas now I have something which was recently added to notion called a gallery now
This is a block that appears here
And what I've done with it is I've gone over to the property section and I've gone can preview and plat pressed page
Content and the reason I've done that is so that it appear like this so that anything in the page content
Bleeds through onto a preview screen here now
There is pretty simple. I've got two areas currently in this section
And as that's Inbox now, you guys know how I use inbox
although it's slightly changed in a way because once you click into this gallery you get this almost like preview window and
Basically, I start adding anything down to here. So for example, I'll add articles actually just cleared this one this morning
so it's actually
fresh and clean
But normally it's full of articles or little pages that I'm not yet fully committed to adding down here
And I'll clear that every Thursday or Friday
Today was Friday. So I did at Friday morning
and this one over here is called daily log and you notice that the name of these is
Always gonna be at the bottom and this one's full so I've got daily log here
So I click in and again new sort of preview window comes up and you can see here. I've got a
Quote mark with a colored background and I've got four different areas
Now I'm using I would say two of these actively but the other two I'm currently experimenting with I'm not fully committed to
The first is the health dashboard which will dive into an in a bit
And I've talked about it a little bit in the past the journal sign of staff
Which I'm not really fully committed to yet and the workout routine
I've also got a personal budget again, which I'm still experimenting with now down here
I've got a few notes of do I need a freelance dashboard area of
How well I've done during the day do I really need it like an outline of you know?
What the three things you've done during the day?
I try testing that with a morning lock, but I wasn't sure so that's currently that area
And and I find I have fallen in love with this new gallery feature because I really find this
Panel view to be one of the nicest ways to get into my notion account. It feels really fluid
I don't know what it is about. It. Don't ask me because it's just so simple
It's almost like having a separated area. So down here. It's pretty much the same
I have a section for personal for my freelance work working with clients
YouTube so planning as much youtube stuff as I can in terms of this channel and other courses and other
Content I do that surrounds youtube learning is down here
Which i'm yet to fully dig deep into which will come on to a little bit later
Some checklists and also a health area as well. Now as you can imagine this is
Always being added to but I try i'm trying my best
As this sort of evolves to make sure to breadcrumb well and what I mean by that is for example
Driving, I recently added this one out of car, which I have inside of house
Will probably comes out in a bit
so I've added it down here as an area but I don't want it to get too long because else I'm gonna be
Scrolling and I don't want to really scroll past that I just want like a clean
maybe five or six or seven at the maximum on
Each list because I think that I think you have to sort of crunch stuff down
So what what we'll start doing is diving into some of the pages. I think it's best to start with personal
so what I've done is that actually
Recreating the goals page entirely I did this because I start the goals page maybe
Three months ago and what I wanted to do is have a more fine-tuned one
I noticed that my goals page was sort of all over the place. I had lots of different
I had a goals area at the targets area
and what I want is is simplify it and I believe I have so what I've done here is
I've got the next three months really so I've got a table. Sorry a
Board in line that has what's next and it has my next two months in this case
it's got five goals find specific goals that I'm working on and
in for the next month as well, and they're also tagged with the
Correlation to what it is about. So for example, 10,000 monthly unique visits would be for the website
Freelancing to secure to new content clients is in yellow. So it's a nice indication
It's very colorful easy to follow and I can go in and actually check them off as well
So once I click into these for example, this one I can actually click on whether they have been successful or not
Which is a nice new indicator that I've had so I can almost tick things off as I go
So up in the top right hand corner
I used to have this like what is coming up like and it was a massive list of the yearly
Events and activities that was going to now it's really just honed down
into
Like vacation time Christmas all the major events I'd say
And I've got one more bullet. So I'd say I wouldn't push that past five because then it will ruin this down here
This is a simple list and it's basically got I don't know whether you can see this, but I don't want Blair on up
is all of my goals for the next year and it will give me
a tag and a date that I want to complete actually the date I created on and I've simply gone to the property section and
Put tags on and created I should probably remove create and you can see here that I've assigned them to myself
So this is a list of all the targets that I'd like to reach in 2019. So fingers crossed
You know
that's something that
I could aim towards but I come onto this page when I'm doing my weekly review and I really like it because I've got
my goals or my immediate goals to my left
I've got what's coming up on my right and I've got what should I be aiming for in 2019?
So hopefully that gives you a little bit of inspiration for your own
Setups and goals so down just below it. I've got house house is dedicated
To giving a tally of our finances and where we're aiming towards for the house
Naturally, I can't show this but we're on the right track, and it's also got inside it a car
So that's a bit about the car financing and also estimates of certain things
I'll click into estimates estimates of what the house mortgage will be compared to our current mortgage, etc
all very boring stuff
I promise you but there's a nice area
That I can start working on when I'm thinking about the house and I can start tallying all that information
Again, it doesn't include any PDFs or anything. Like that's really just purely
Almost like a notepad for me just to write down
My thoughts and ideas and plan a little bit for the house now just below it
I've been using the travel a little more than often now
I used I remember I mentioned this one in a video I used it for in Barcelona
I had quite lovely sort of sheduled had some my documents here in PDF format and
A bit of an itinerary there worked really. Well. We also did this one for bath? I think I mentioned it
We Amir beckon went away to bar for the weekend
It was lovely
and I managed to get this and have this as almost my tin reef or the weekend to make sure I knew where all the
Information was now next year. We're off to Italy as a family
So I'd certainly use that for that and that's especially I'm finding that especially
valuable I can't show you within it because there's information there, but
Within it. We actually have a payment sheet
So that everyone is actually updated with what they need to pay and where actually I haven't actually assigned it to anyone
But I've just got tags to nudge people for example, so you can see here. This is one for the slack event
I pulled this together. It's just got some train times
So this is just an image imported and screenshot of this London Underground as well as important documents
And I'm tending to do this for every little trip
I do and also an idea of when I'll be going to San Francisco getting a bit of information are at the pricing
So these almost act as bookmarks
Before so I can plan ahead for my trip adding all of the valuable
Pricing and you know, how much should I budget for etc? So it's quite useful
So this is the savings area. I have been using this one quite regularly actually, so I've been using it probably since
August although I did a refresh of this one and it's a month by month outline
So it's a simple table soon see a table view here. It's also got tags of what the theme is for that month
So for example in September
it was a slow month because I was finishing off paying tax and what I mean we're slow month is I
Needed to save as much as I could and and I wasn't you know
I was paying off so much tax that I just needed to make sure to you know
Cover all the regular stuff and I said the end of month sort of outlined there now was I successful?
I take this one off because I was because I met all of goals
so the goals are really simple I go inside and I basically have all of my Ledger's and what I mean by Ledger's is
Just what I've got in each account and it helps me to
Line what I'm going to be aiming for at the end of the month and what I need to almost transfer
So that's a little bit of an outline of that. I don't use a table or anything like that
It's just a really simple one. You can see here the theme sort of changed
So I've got like rebuild so rebuild from paying so much tax strengthen and January will hopefully be conquer
But he'll also hear what I've started to do is I put a quote here at the said save towards the house and future projects
We've keep productive and also coffee shops
So I have not been using this as much because I've been quite frugal, I guess with my coffee shop trips
Which is good
but I previously use this to go inside and tally how much I was spending on each trip and
Almost make myself feel bad and it actually worked so that I would spend a little less in each coffee shop now
I also got as well saved money
that was a few ideas of ways that I could save money almost like a checklist like
You know limit of 10 pound per day for the total like that's include lunch, you know
All the coffee shops know breakfast is you know, they're expensive, you know buying eat lunch at home
no, taxi travel not I did loads of it but and
No personal buys or audio buys
So I was that was just something to come back to if I wanted to and also got Christmas present ideas
I will blur this out. But in case ahead of my family are watching I got started
with adding a few ideas here and links and images but
Christmas presents idea was a good one because I can start tallying all that and naturally I probably archive that
Once I and I don't know how I would archive not necessarily. I don't know what I would just delete it or
Repurpose it for next year. So I've also got our upcoming payments, which is me and backers
Just things turned out what we've got coming up in terms of you know
If we've got to pay for the flight to Italy we got to pay for for like to sign press, you know
things like that that are just gonna be coming up and then I've got a new one that I actually
Added last week and I'm gonna blow her few things out because I did and card numbers only two
They're unnecessary cards
but what I did is I was walking home the other day and I sort of felt my pockets and I was like
Oh my god, I forgot my wallet in that in that store. And then I
Realized that it was actually in my coat pocket
So I was like, oh thank God I'm not but then I was like what if I actually forget my wallet
So I decided to go into notion and create a short checklist of all of the things that are in my wallet
This is basically like a short list of everything in the wallet. The goal is is so that I can
Where if I ever lose my wallet I can just go into here and go, okay
I need to reorder my driving license. I need to
Reissue my Visa Debit. I need to get a new co-op card
Nando's card, you know Club Card Tesco
you know all that sort of stuff and it's actually a nice little smart for me to I guess like
recap on what I actually had in my wallet because like I said
I guess sometimes you don't really have like an idea of everything you have in your wallet
Maybe at least for me cuz I've got really short-term memory of what I need to have in my wallet
So down here
I've also got in the personal section an f-1 podcast, which I'm hopefully to be starting with a friend in February next year
So I've sort of outlined there content calendar things to do
I actually did that one and it's almost like a mini checklist of items. So that's like a really simple one
So if that's something that you were thinking of doing and the next one is driving
The final element of my personal section is driving
So I've got a major list of things to improve on clutch control first gears definitely still something
I need to master taking foot off clutch slowly I've started to do that bit better
But I'm not confident on taking it off yet
But I ticked off already checking before taking off and slowing down and finding a spot actually doing fairly
Well at that one and I've got a link to some
Questions from govern you Kay but down here
This is where the magic is for me is I've been using this since October
Although I used to do on like paper just in my drawer because I have my theory book in my drawer
But it was easy to do it that way, but this has actually been a lot better
So what I do is I tally the Dayna hammered last num I write down the issue
so the issue in this case was changing from second to third here and
What I need to do to improve by and what I do before each session
Or at least a week in advance is I sit down and I go okay
What did I suck out last week and I go okay turning into corners and I'll do some research on it
Or I'll watch some YouTube videos about so that's my sort of approach to driving. I'm still driving
I'm still practicing and learning anyway, so I've got plenty of time to sort of catch up
So let's move out to the freelance area the freelance area. I have an area called business
I don't use it at the moment same with operations and passive. My magic is mainly in client
I'm still working out these couple of ones because they're more planning stage at the moment but clients so clients
I currently use for tracking all of the workload I have on I manage clients as well as
Sponsors here. So that's how it all works now
I'll have a list of my current clients as well as the payments that are coming up
I'll also have what contractors I'm working with what tax I'm paying and also
Just an outline checklist of what I need to do with each client now, it's a board
It's a simple board and I move it between each one. So this is an active project
This is ongoing this is ending and this is finished
So it gives me an outline of the clients that I've worked with over the last couple of months
I've also got some potential clients. I'd like to work with in the in between and
Sponsors as well that I'm working with on the channel. So that's a
Nice board there because I can go in and organize all of that layout now down here
I've also got a payment log of on one particular client
I've got a shortlisted clients who I'd like to work with basically a hot list and also sponsorship of the top 20
I'd like to work with this battle. So the clients area is a really important area of me as I mention
I can't show you as much as I would like to
Naturally, but it's actually a really beneficial area and I want a few videos that have already done if you're super eager to learn about
that
Ones that are probably more or less blurred out than that one
So finally over here. I've got YouTube
so YouTube's a
stunning become sort of 5050 sign of stuff in terms of creating and I call it just YouTube because it's really like
Creating content for you guys. So I've got a projects area
This houses the majority of the content or set up
For example, I have a creating area here which is lists cover
So I want to cover like top, you know - time tracking ones actually was not fully created. I'll show you a fully created one
Ideas for you know, whether I want to do twitch dreams
You know projects that I want to work on and at the moment I'm using it as a temporary scripts area
Handbook webinar deals all the sort of stuff that you would expect with a YouTube channel. I've also got community
so this is for you guys talking about the collapse the codes that I can give away and
some of the Facebook groups out of stuff and also forts like things and I want to do for the long term and also Danny
I've got some nice feedback from you guys. So that's a really nice one
So that's a area that is working and growing and naturally
Developing so I'm really sort of just using that to tally up things
But if I were to go over to the Skillshare area, you'll see some of the skill show classes that I've got coming up
I've got a marketing checklist and an upcoming so you can see I've got some upcoming classes here then I'm planning
Although I'm not fully sure
I'm going to be doing them and these film dates are really whacked out but they are sort of in line for
What I'll be working on that so you click done on that one
So as you can imagine it's a nice place for me to plan for the website
I think I've talked about this before we mention it quite a lot
We use this as our editorial
calendar so you can go and see all of the articles that we're currently working on and also
a little bit about that Google rank two
Now at the bottom of this I started to do a medium
Schedule of some pieces that I want to write I wrote these two
I know that and I'm going to continue to use this as I go to tally all the pieces
Now going back to the home page
we use this for the podcast and for
future vlogs that might be coming out but down here I have a books area a books area is
All of the reading I'm doing a moment
So the messy middle I'm reading in a moment still reading twenty first twenty one rules into 21st century and any ideas that people send
Me on social media. I will tend to put them here
Although I just need to actually add a lot more in now down here
I am yet to add to this area, but I've got three areas here I've got
Kaizen which is something that I said Japanese
technique that of self improvement that I'd like to learn more about so I'm going to use this is almost like a
scrapbook for learning about Kaiser
Survival as well. I'd like to learn about how to plant plants. I know it sounds weird or like grow plants because I guess
That's something that would be quite cool to learn especially and I guess I shouldn't title whoops survivor
I should title that garden or something, but when I get a garden house, I would like to start planting and grow in my own
Little bits of food, like runner beans and things like that. So I'm using this as a scrapbook area and finally
Ways to be more minimal I'm using this as a scrapbook area, too
So again, it's something that I'm probably just gonna be expanding over time. Now. I've also got some checklists here
So I've got men's style which I haven't yet to add to it
Again, I want to start adding a few designs that I would like to wear because I'm all for it men's fashion
This is visits visits. I'm starting to add a little bit of tally on things for me and Becker to do
So that we can get out a little more at the weekend. I've got other as well
others just an area where I dump a few things like
For example other could be marriage name-change
We've started working on like the marriage name change you're taking bloody ages
We've actually done the passport now though so I can check that one off. Okay, we've done the passport and
let everyone know about
You know the marriage name change
So it's quite a nice area for doing that and checking all of that off
Now over here work out is an area that I've been growing quite rapidly
so I've removed the calendar that's now there so I have daily food which is
Occasional few ideas of what I could do with my food. I need to actually get rid of this
Because that's unnecessary anymore, but if I I've got to know Terry as well, let's get rid of that because that's really messy
You can see here. I've got so excited for example
These are my old Cypress goals of what I usually wanted to hit in terms of mileage while I was over there
Some boxing staff assessment information. So what was my last data? So let in May time
I was this much way and that hi and body mass was that
And the main sort of work is done in the workout subroutine
So here you can see these are all the workout menu that I've got in arrest day, and it's connected to my health dashboard
Which I'll go over in a moment now, we're down here. I've also got a few challenges
I'd like to do so 500 meter sprint row
What's the best time who can get and then I can benchmark that against six-month time six rep suited row
What I can actually get on the weights etc and same with a bench press so I'm really simple with my workout
I'm gonna steal a few from this new Adonis Creed trailer link down here
So I'm going to go over to the health - ball because that's gonna explain a little bit more about it
You can see here. It's available. Here. We are
I've only been using this for a couple of weeks now, but I'm they're really enjoying it
It's been over almost a full month of using it, but I really love it. It's actually a good practice
So for example, I'm gonna do one now. Today is Friday
So I'm gonna say I went to bed at 11:30 and I woke up at 5:30. So that's six hours
I did a little bit of meditation and I did a boxing workout and I'm gonna press add to relation here
Now what I also did is something I want to be able to add is I did an extra 500 meter row
Which is so small
But I want to add that as a small
So if I click Add to work out my new and then I click into it I can add
So for example that took me five minutes said that laid the max and it worked on sort of all areas
and if I go out
I'm gonna just go back in and add a
Icon
So I can add a row for them. But for now, that's fine
And you can see here that I've added two in one and it's tallied that up as a sum in the relation
so if you haven't yet know how I set up a relational database with this you can watch a separate video on this because it's
So much deeper than I thought so yesterday I can add my food rating
I named normally give myself a food rating for the day. Like how well did you do?
I'm gonna give myself a 7.5 because I had a fairly solid day and I did about
25 minutes of walking yesterday strangely and
I listened to about 10 minutes of
Audible so you can see here that I've done a total of 60 minutes workout as you can see
I lost all of the previous data for this so it's not something now. I've
Been able to add
But for example, I'll be able to add tonight the food walk and audible data. I've got that so hopefully
That gives you a bit of an idea of my health dashboard
So guys in total, this is mile out the final areas
I forgot to mention is Babbington me and honest and key Batali. I am absolutely
Sucking at vomit and Dan is winning
118 games we were playing it over a year in a bit and I'm only below 40
Which is absolutely shocking and we started Sally the last few games here
and also just kept route a tally of if I'm feeling like ill because
That's useful for if I get to doctors
Something Becca just advised me to do and also I got stocking list, which I need to sort into there
so temporarily I'll just dump it in the
Inbox, and that's what it looks like that that any guys hopefully that gave you a nice outline to notion if you are brand new
To notion and you're like wow, this is bloody awesome, and I want to be able to set something like this up
I've temporarily got a skill show course, you can actually go on and enjoy it's free with the link below
I've also got a free pdf and I will be working on a brand new
Notion course because I want to redevelop the existing one to be a bit more
Fine-tuned and really teach you all as the details of notion. So hopefully that gives you all of the insights
Anyway, guys, I really appreciate you stopping by today. I really love to hear your comments below
Was that useful for you?
Because I guess I'd love to hear whether this sort of layout and setups are useful for your own
Let me know in the comments. How would you lay stuff out?
And did you notice any things different to how I do it or?
Would you like to share a few tips with me?
All you just want to share your own out because I think the comments benefit everyone, so please do that
Anyway guys a real big. Thank you
If you're not part of the notion made simple Facebook group
You can join because so many people are sharing their layouts and that's what's beautiful about it
There are some amazing people in that group. I
Refuse EO Olga who is a I believe she's a student actually posted in notion group
And it's absolutely fantastic her layout and a lot of people take an inspiration
It's got like over a hundred likes and people are loving it because they're really appreciating her
Take on notion and it's a lot different to mine. So that's what the benefit
Anyways, I really appreciate you stopping by today. I hope that you can go away with lots of stuff
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Make sure to have a great week keep productive and I will see you guys very very soon Cheers
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