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a lot of you have asked how I actually use notion in my day to day life, so I’ve broken down my task manager for all of you! hope this helps :) happy notion-ing! 💖
my other posts on notion: goal setting 📚
edit: i’ve made my template available for everyone to duplicate here! happy notion-ing!
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my current take on goal setting with value checks, milestones, and habits!
some other posts that might interest you: 12 block time management in notion | my holistic notion setup
hope this is helpful! 💛🌸💖🧠 i feel like what I’m doing is more related to what I want now :) text under the cut!
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update: i’ve made a FREE TEMPLATE for u to make ur own dashboard :) 🌱🌾🌿
having a dashboard has been helping me a lot with clarity in my work, so I wanted to share how I set mine up :)
other posts that may interest you: goal setting and tracking | notion page ideas
databases are an integral part of notion, and I hope having a dashboard will make things less overwhelming for you! ✨🌞🌻💌
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i was so productive yesterday
Preparing for a New Semester
It’s around the start of the semester for many of us, and here are some things you can do now that’ll help you have a good one!
🎯 Think of goals you want to accomplish
Whether it’s personal, financial, academic, etc., listing down specific, actionable goals will help you improve yourself and give you something to work towards. Reflecting on last semester/year also helps.
📚 Finalize courses and plan future courses
Some colleges (and even some high schools?) have a period during which you can go ‘course shopping’ and audit classes you want to take. But regardless of whether you’re still trying things out or have already finalized your courses, it’s important to keep track of your requirements.
You can do this however you think is best - I have a google sheet with the classes I’ve taken/plan to take and when I took/ plan to take them, along with my major/degree requirements.
At the beginning of the semester, I review my four-year college plan. I rethink the cohesiveness of my course combinations and whether or not I still want to take the courses I’ve listed (this mostly applies to major electives), as well as when I think is best to take each of these courses. I’ll also run this by my advisor to make sure everything’s good.
🎮 Create a game plan for each course
Based on the syllabi and my experience with the first couple weeks of the course, I’ll create a plan that’ll hopefully help me do well in the course. This includes planning
What kind of studying I’ll have to do (e.g. make flashcards? write formula sheets? keep handwritten notes or typed ones?)
How I’ll tackle assignments (e.g. do one problem from the problem set every day? work on projects over the weekend? meet with friends to go through the homework?)
How I’ll organize course material (e.g. how will I organize my digital files? will I need to keep physical papers and notes in a binder? how many sections will I need in my notebook?)
💡 Plan your ideal weekly schedule
I combine findings from my game plan and my goals for the semester to craft an ideal weekly schedule. After factoring in fixed meeting times like lectures, discussions, weekly club meetings, and meal times, the rest of my schedule is filled with time blocks, and is sort of a hybrid between regular time-based scheduling and flexible time blocking.
I try not to make things super specific, e.g. I’d plan for 2 hours of studying then a 30 minute break, but what I actually do with the 2 hours depends on what I need to get done that day. This leaves room for spontaneity, but of course, you could always plan things by the minute if that’s what you prefer.
📅 List important dates in a calendar
These are mostly exams and breaks, but what’s also really helpful is listing out all the dates when assignments are released and due so that you can budget your time and energy towards working on those assignments.
For example, if I find out I’ll have 3 problem sets due the same day, I know I’ll probably have to do a bit of each every day during the week before they’re due.
However, if I have one homework due Tuesday, and another due Friday, I’ll probably spend more time on the weekend working on the Tuesday homework, and more time during the week working on the Friday homework.
🛒 Buy supplies
After going to my classes and finalizing my schedule, I’ll get the textbooks I need from amazon/chegg/online/the university store (as a last resort), as well as any stationery I don’t already have stocked up from the previous semester.
It’s helpful to go to class the first day and ask about the textbook because some professors, even though they assign a book, they’ll say it’s fine if you don’t have it, maybe because the lectures/lecture slides are comprehensive enough, or the library has many copies you can borrow.
In addition to that, there are some classes for which a textbook is assigned but is only used for reference, i.e. for additional explanation. In this case, I’d ask my friends or other people I know who have taken the course and see if they think the textbook’s useful.
Some classes also have special software that’s required, so I’d look into getting those. E.g. some classes use iClicker Reef which is like an online polling system that you have to subscribe to. Or for programming classes, different languages may require different environments, so I’d spend time setting things up on my laptop. This can take quite a while sometimes, and small errors in setting up can have pretty big consequences, so I’ll try to do this as thoroughly as I can.
🗑 Clean
It’s ironic that this is at the end of the list, but cleaning is one of the first things I do once I get back on campus. I’ll organize my digital files, clean my room, tidy my desk, keep last semester’s material in storage, etc. It’s always good to have the things you already have in order before you add/get more things.
Note: All the organizational tasks are in no way fixed. You should update each of them as you see fit, i.e. when you get more information as the semester progresses.
Urgh. Enjoy??? (I started making this six months ago so I’m obviously v productive) ✩✫✬✭✯✮✶✷
hey guys!! this is my first post of this Tumblr and I want to talk about my planning system.
I use my bullet journal for all my planning and this is the monthly overview. Here I write down all the events I got, like tests or quizzes and meetings. However, I will not write events that happen weekly or monthly, for instance, tutorial classes etc since it’s a waste of space
this my weekly spread. on the left, I am using the Alastair method. I will do a brain dump every week of all the tasks I need to get done. Then I just put dots on the day I need to get them done. On the right, there is a small habit tracker. Since my goal for January is sleep and wake early, this is where I track my goal. Below it is where I write my events, school, classes, tests, etc. Down there is where I write my notes and ‘next week’ is the place I write tasks that are migrated to next week if I cannot finish it this week.
This is Notion. This is the best app I’ve ever found. It basically allows you to create everything you write, I mean EVERYTHING. This app is completely free and you can download it wherever you want and it’ll sync across devices. Here I will do my daily planning since there will not be enough space if I do my daily planning in my bullet journal. I will type the tasks I need to do or sub-tasks if I have and events in the tasks section. One of my favourite features in Notion is that you can schedule things and set reminders. If you like time-blocking but want to try out Notion as well, you can type the date and time you need to do the tasks and it’s just a great way to be productive. The notes section is kind of a braindump for me in case I don’t have my bullet journal in hand.
And yes, you’ve known my planning system. If you want to follow my system, welcome to do so;) If you like my post, be sure to give it a heart and follow me for more bullet journal ideas!
Redefining My Bullet Journal System
The bullet journal is probably something you’re no stranger to. It’s been circulating around the internet for a while, and it’s one of the main subjects of studyblr posts. However, when I started college last semester, I found that I no longer relied on my bullet journal to organize my tasks and structure my responsibilities anymore. Instead, I tried out a bunch of productivity/task-organization apps: Taskade, Actions by Moleskine, Any.do, Todoist, Wunderlist. None of them seemed to have what I needed, so I decided to give the bullet journal method another try.
The first thing I reflected on was why I stopped in the first place. At first I thought it was because the method itself allowed for a lot of freedom and I’d get confused as to what things to include and how to structure everything. But then I realized that it was in fact because I had previously been bullet journaling for other people instead of myself. Since I had what one could call an ‘artsy bullet journal’, I tended to focus more on the artistic aspect so that it would get more likes and reblogs after I posted it, when I should have been focusing on how it can organize my life. I realized that the bullet journal is a tool; the focus should be on life itself, not the bullet journal, but you can use the bullet journal to add value to your life.
At the beginning of the year, I deconstructed my organizational needs and attempted to apply that to my bullet journal method. I stopped looking at other people’s bullet journals and started thinking about my own needs and preferences. I thought about how I would best organize my time so that I could accomplish all of the things I want to accomplish in the different aspects of my life.
Supplies
The fact that I only have 2 main supplies allows me to bullet journal anywhere, anytime.
The Structure
The Practice
Simply having the tool to organize your life isn’t enough - you should also have a practice, a habit, for using it.
Going Forward
One thing I’d like to work on is future logging. As of now, I think in terms of months, since the my main commitment at the moment is my education, and monthly planning has worked out for me. But I think if I’d like to tackle on larger projects - e.g. my YouTube channel that I just started - I’d need to do a lot more future logging.
Another useful thing I want to try out is to summarize my journal entries in the form of notes. Recently I’ve been audio journaling (15-20 minutes of me talking to myself), and it’s been pretty effective. However, I have no way of ‘skimming’ the entries like I would a written journal entry. Summarizing them would help me retain main ideas of each entry and remember the things I said that are or could potentially be important and useful.
Final Thoughts
If you don’t think your bullet journal is adding value to or improving productivity and organization in your life, I think you should reconsider the way you’re approaching the system. I found a method that works for me; yours might be different. While it can be beneficial to draw inspiration from other people, do whatever helps you the most, not what other people tell you you should be doing. After coming up with an appropriate structure, make sure you maintain the practice.
