The one
@NotionHQ
feature I've been waiting a long time for: project templates with prepopulated tasks.
Agencies and consultancies especially are going to love this one. 😍
What if your entire month – habits, projects, ideas, podcasts – was automatically organized in one place?
Moments like monthly reflection are when I love
@NotionHQ
the most.
When
@NotionHQ
's Wikis were released, I didn't think there were any benefits using them over databases.
Now, my whole workspace runs on one wiki.
Here's why...
Ooh, my clients are going to love this one...
Now, when opening a page from a database in
@notionhq
, you can decide whether to open as:
• pop-up (existing)
• side peek (🖤)
• full page (🥰)
What's your new default? ps. if it's not side peek we can't be friends. 🙅🏻
11 months ago, I posted a screenshot of my Notion dashboard, not thinking much of it.
Now, I'm running a business as a Certified
@NotionHQ
Consultant.
When in doubt, just hit publish.
Again, and again, and again.
Doors WILL open. 🚪
I started 2022 at 177 followers, and woke up this morning to over 1K! 🥳
How did it happen? By sharing
@NotionHQ
ideas that:
🧑🏻🏫Educate
⛰Motivate
🔆Inspire
Thank you all, I'm excited to be here with you. 🙏
When I started
@NotionHQ
consulting two years ago I never imagined I would be having lunch at Notion’s New York City office.
From sculptural chairs to a library filled with inspiring books, it’s exactly the vibe you’d expect.
Yesterday was a special day. 🖤
Was working on a video exploring
@NotionHQ
's new databases, & I think I just consolidated my entire dashboard into one view.
We're underestimating just how game changing it is to have multiple databases in one view.
This is going to be fun.
#notiontwt
Super excited to share NotionTogether is now at 100 members!
Interested in joining for free before the public launch
Drop a 👋🏼 below and I'll send over an invite. 🤪
Truly inspiring visit to
@NotionHQ
.
Hanging out with the Notion team, connecting with
@ycombinator
founders, and listening to
@ivanhzhao
and
@akothari
share insights from over a decade of building.
The focus and energy here are incredible. Can’t wait to be back.
Big thanks
How many times have you saved a book, note, or highlight, only to lose it?
There's a way to organize every important resource – books, articles, podcast, and videos – in
@NotionHQ
.
This is my library.
#notiontwt
Moments like this make me appreciate how much easier weekly reflection is, especially when information looks like this.
@NotionHQ
is indistinguishable from magic.
#notiontwt
"You can't improve what you can't measure." – Peter Drucker
Productivity isn't about working more, it's about prioritizing what matters most.
Here's what matters most to me:
✍🏼 Journaling
🧘🏻♀️ Meditating
🤔 Reflecting
📚 Learning
🏃🏻♂️ Exercise
What matters most to you?
Do I make
@NotionHQ
content to grow my audience and business?
Sure.
But I wouldn’t be doing this work if I didn’t believe Notion completely transforms how we work.
It brings order to chaos. 🔮
It's amazing how easy its gotten to build your personal knowledge base.
For example, with podcasts:
🎧 Create AI summary using
@snipd_app
📚 Save to
@ReadwiseReader
📑 Make highlights, which saves to
@readwise
💾 Sync with
@NotionHQ
Friday afternoons are a perfect time to reflect on your progress.
Great thing about setting key results at the start of each quarter: you get an instant visual snapshot of your progress, and where you may want to focus next week.
✍🏼 Figuring out Notes in Notion ✍🏼
Researching personal knowledge management, and notes are finally starting to make sense in Notion.
And it doesn't need to be complicated. There's two components:
✍🏼 Notes database
📓 Notebooks database
Probably going to do a deep dive video
I love productivity books that are hard to summarize, and make you want to read them multiple times.
Currently, it's Deep Work from Cal Newport for me.
What productivity book would you say is a must read?
There's no perfect setup for weekly reflection.
Try to track what matters most, like:
🤩Accomplishments
🤬Challenges
😶🌫️Feelings
💡Ideas
Remember, it's a chance to slow down, process, and let the priorities for next week present themselves.
Here's my Week 5 of 2022 in
@NotionHQ
.
@NotionHQ
's new database tabs not only streamline navigation, they can also create a journey across databases.
For weekly planning, this means you can:
🎯Review OKRs
🚩Set Intentions
🏗️Prioritize Projects
✈️Track Progress
🪞Reflect
All in one place. This is a massive update.
Building
@NotionHQ
solutions for 100+ person companies has totally shifted my views on personal productivity.
📂 No more complex dashboards
🕋 Less information, not more
🚎 Templates for every repeatable action
Completely rethinking my templates for creators and solopreneurs
What if you could track habits, manage tasks, and schedule time in one place? 🧘🏻♀️
This has been a personal quest for months...finally feeling good about this layout 🎨
Fun fact: the # next to status is actually the total # of minutes for all tasks in the section. 🤯
Two years ago, I got my first paid
@NotionHQ
project – a one hour coaching call for $75.
This week, I'm kicking off a project with an 800+ person company.
I've considered quitting many, many times.
Really glad I didn't. 💪🏼
Skiff is joining
@NotionHQ
🎉
We're excited to accelerate Skiff's mission by joining Notion. The world needs tools that empower people and put their interests first.
We're in a better position than ever to deliver this change.
Read more on👇
This is by far the most organized, powerful
@NotionHQ
template I've ever made.
Excited to share Manifest 2024 – The productivity system for creative entrepreneurs – is launching on December 1st with:
🪄 Built-In AI Tools
🏭 Intelligent Automations
🎓 In-Page Guides & Tutorials
I give myself 5 minutes to write 5 mini journal entries every day.
Gratitude, Intention, Win, Challenge, Reflection.
Journaling in
@NotionHQ
can be powerful 𝘢𝘯𝘥 effortless.
#notiontwt
Time tracking is a powerful way to clarify where and how your time is spent, but can also be tedious and time consuming.
So I built time tracking directly into my task manager in
@NotionHQ
.
FINALLY figured out how to create client dashboards with filtered views of shared databases, without exposing other client data.
Notion, you did not make this easy. 🥵
Feeling super grateful to be one of the first 50
@NotionHQ
Consultants ever.
I think a year from now, there'll be closer to 500.
And thanks Notion for the new avatar!
You've decided to swing for the fences on a huge, ambitious project...then before you know it, you're super overwhelmed.
Instead of accomplishment, guilt sets in.
This has come up in several coaching sessions, here's how to tackle big projects in
@notionhq
. 🧵
Days can unravel as we get later into the week.
Weekly Planning in
@NotionHQ
saves your future self mental energy.
My Goal for this week: Complete at least 85% of actions for the week, by the day they're scheduled.
#buildinpublic
#notiontwt
Why is weekly planning such a hard habit to build?
There's a lot of moving parts.
Here are 7 tried and true building blocks for a winning weekly planning routine.
🧵
It can be tempting to get wrapped up in aesthetics; and maybe that helps you focus.
For me, the beauty of Notion is presenting less information, not more.
@NotionHQ
just completely revamped its template gallery!
This is big for three key groups:
👷🏽 Notion Creators
🧑🏻💼 Users
🏢 Teams
But first, what is the template gallery and what’s changed?
We often miss a key step in planning our weeks: prioritizing projects.
Here are the 3 most important steps:
🏗️ Prioritize 2-3 projects
✅ Define necessary actions for each
📅 Schedule time blocks to complete them
Of course,
@NotionHQ
's timeline view is perfect for this.
I used to avoid the weekly review, mostly because of how tedious the whole process felt.
Organizing your thoughts, actions, and habits intentionally in
@NotionHQ
can make the process effortless.
When it comes to implementing
@NotionHQ
at the scale of a company, I tell every client the same thing:
It is 10% building, 90% change management.
Companies are still made up of people, and your success is ultimately tied to those people putting into practice what you’ve built.
Rereading Building a Second Brain is bringing lots of clarity around organizing notes in Notion…
I’ll be hosting a free workshop Oct 19th on strategies to organize notes, will drop a link in the reply!
Fun fact:
The overwhelming majority of teams that reach out for
@NotionHQ
help started with buying a premium template.
Usually, they're templates from creators you likely know quite well.
The verdict?
They're still way too complicated.
What seems like second nature to you
It's crazy to think this software can power huge teams, while also being transformative for individuals trying to live more intentional, organized lives.
I always tell clients you finally get the magic of
@Notionhq
once you start organizing information in databases.
Kind of obsessing over 🏃🏼sprints lately.
Organizing work in two-week cycles allows you to:
🏗️ make progress across several projects
🤩 stay within your bandwidth
☕️ avoid burnout from weekly deadlines
🧠 foster deep work w/ longer time horizons
Anyone saying you can quickly ramp up to six figures effortlessly doing (whatever) is lying to you.
I've been at
@NotionHQ
Consulting for two+ years.
I love it. But it's taken a lot of work.
There are no shortcuts.
Whether you’re building templates or workspaces for clients…
👏🏼Test. 👏🏼On.👏🏼Mobile.
It’s easy to forget how often users access
@NotionHQ
workspaces on their phone.
So many templates (even some from Notion) are unusable unless you’re on a widescreen.
Journaling in
@NotionHQ
is not just for personal growth. It can transfrom how we work.
I start every project with a review of wins & challenges from every project from the past 3 months.
🥇Wins guide you on what to keep doing.
🤔Challenges guide you on what to do better.
When I started
@NotionHQ
consulting two years ago, my focus was coaching people on how to use it (hence the name).
Today, it's about helping teams build systems that:
⏳ Save time
🔨 Eliminate busy work
🧘🏽 Focus on deep work that matters most
A new brand is on the horizon. 🌅
There have been six apps that have completely transformed how I learn and work.
@NotionHQ
- organizing everything
@snipd_app
- taking podcast notes
@audible_com
- exploring books via audio
@AmazonKindle
- diving deeper into books through reading, highlighting, note-taking
We often overcomplicate habit tracking.
The absolute easiest way I've managed to track habits for over a year has been in this format: everything in 1 gallery card. Zero friction.
Don't forget the big benefit of habit tracking: celebrating your progress. 🎉
Between teaching a course and hosting a few client workshops on setting OKRs in
@NotionHQ
, a big question keeps popping up:
What's the absolute easiest format for setting and tracking goals?
I landed on this...
ICYMI: You can now add icons from Notion's new icon library!
Best part so far? They work perfectly in light and dark mode.
This is a huge win for teams, lots of users don't have the bandwidth to think through icon norms, but they can serve as important visual cues.
If you have (or are thinking to start) an email newsletter, you've probably heard Revue is shutting down. 😢
Curious:
What email newslwtter platform are you using, or most interested in getting up and running?
Excited to share Notion Consulting Bootcamp 2.0 is official!
📆 April 22nd - May 16th
📝 8 Live Sessions
And wait for it…
🧑🏻💼 FOUR Guest Speakers!
Lots more info coming soon, but join the waitlist to stay up to date on updates!
Big news...
🚨
@thesaraloretta
is joining
@NotionHQ
Consulting Bootcamp! 🚨
Why I'm excited about this:
Sara and her agency [SYSTMS™] have worked with wildly successful clients, and she's fundamentally changing how remote teams operate.
What we're exploring:
We're diving
Tracking a lot of data
@NotionHQ
need not be overwhelming.
For example, a 🔆Today🔆 dashboard can go along way in bringing back focus to the present, including:
✅ tasks due today
📚 things you read (or want tor read)
🏃♀️ workouts
🧘🏽 habits
The best part? Setting filters to
Enrollment for
@NotionHQ
Consulting Bootcamp opens in one week!
Curious about what we’re covering? Here are all the details👇🏼
Super excited for this one!
Friendly reminder that you don't have to migrate to
@NotionHQ
Projects to start using sprints!
1. Create a Sprints database
2. Relate to Tasks database
3. Link view of Tasks, grouped by Project
Projects ≠ Collections of tasks.
Improving with each project means consistently asking:
📊 What key result does this tie into?
💪🏼 What are my intentions?
🤝 Who's involved, and at what level?
📃 What docs/resources will help you?
🤔 What did you learn?
@notionhq
@notiontwt
I just launched my first mini-course on
@NotionHQ
! 🚀
"Make Actionable Goals" is a 7-day email course designed to effortlessly set, plan, and track goals in
@NotionHQ
.
One thing I've realized six months into
@NotionHQ
consulting:
When you do the work early to truly understand a company's:
🏔 Mission
🏢 Organization
🗄 Workflow
😩 Pain Points
The results are 10x more valuable.
I appreciate anesthetics as much as anyone, but it turns out...
The most beautiful
@NotionHQ
templates are rarely the most useful.
Don't get shiny new template syndrome.
Journaling in
@NotionHQ
, it's amazing how much we forget from even a few days ago.
Daily journaling + rollups makes weekly reflection effortless.
#notiontwt
I would not be a
@NotionHQ
Consultant were it not for a small number of
@YouTube
creators inviting us into their workspaces, and allowing us to explore Notion and productivity together.
@AugustBradley
is one of them.
If you’re finding more Notion content redundant or