A New Simplified Notion Setup 2.0 & Join The Big Notion Build-Along!

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00:00 Big Better Creating Notion News 2022: Notion Workspace Tour
00:36 Personal Productivity 101: The Big Notion Build Along
01:42 A Simplified Notion Life OS Version 2 Overview
02:48 Notion Setup Tour: Second Brain Homescreen
03:34 My Personal Organisation System in Notion
03:57 Visualise: Notion Goal Setting
05:08 Capture: New Notion Habit Tracker, Tasks & Journal
06:05 Notion Daily Log & Journal
06:41 Links Resources & Notes: Knowledge Capture In Notion
07:09 Two Ways To Manage Your Tasks & Projects In Notion
08:20 Project Reports & Weekly Review: Notion Progress Bars
09:10 Notion From Scratch: Join The Second Brain Revolution With Me

BETTER CREATING
My name is Simon, and I'm finding ways to simplify productivity & creative life.
Exploring productivity, simple living and creative life, the Better Creating YouTube Channel is my project to build a toolkit to help creative people (including me) create more meaningful work, create better content, and live more intentional stress-free lives in the process. Other than doing this, I work as a freelance creative in theatre and film, creating productions.

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[oliviajoyryan_]

I am so excited for this new notion build series! I am a new sub to the channel and I've been loving the videos so far. I have been trying to create my own notion system from scratch but then get overwhelmed with everything and your videos have been so helpful in this process. I'm eager to explore relations and formulas as they are a little confusing to me right now. great vid!

[floriang]

The dedication put into creating the perfect Notion setup for different personas. Hats off!

[justinwr]

So glad I found your channel! Thank you for all the great content. I just bought your template, and I'm having fun getting into Notion! As someone who writes a lot of code in my professional life, Notion has to be the first "no code" tool I've ever been excited about using. I'm looking forward to completing this tutorial series.

[moon-]

This notion build-along sounds amazing! Exactly what I have been waiting for! I'm elated

[lennoragray]

Absolutely love this! You're a wonderful teacher and I've enjoyed your build videos that I've followed along with. I've tried templates before but think I'm better suited to building and knowing the bits and pieces myself (Although your Stoic Notion was a fantastic purchase!). Looking forward to building along with you!

[cieronore]

This is exactly what I wanted someone to do. It'd be useful to see more formula creation and exploring functionality with them.

[EMShue]

I can’t wait. I use your My Life OS but I’m excited for this cause I want to use your template but cater it towards my life more. I’m a self published author and need my life organized more. My projects and tasks are crazy.

[Michelle_Muto]

This is FANTASTIC! And I have to say that I love your videos. The enthusiasm, the explanations, the professional editing... These are the best videos on Notion yet, IMO. Most explain it as though someone already has experience. I have zero. Nada. Your videos answer a lot of questions and don't make me feel like I've been under a rock for several years. Okay, so when it comes to knowledge base apps I have, but shhhh!
Looong time GTD and productivity fan here. Using a hybrid digital/paper version. I worried that Notion would be far too fiddly and I'd spend more time tweaking than doing. Perhaps that's not the case now! You're such a time-saver!

Thank you, Simon. Truly.

You asked for a list. Well...

- A distraction tracker! A modified version of Nir Eyal's awesome idea.
- Books! Get more from the books I've read. Not just an "I've read this" but something that allows for copious notes /highlights from Kindle books.
- A Self-Care tracker. Monitor things like water, sleep, food amount/quality, exercise, etc. I love the paper version I've created. Happy to hand it over.
- Ideas. I'm a writer. Ideas come and go, but it would be nice to see them in a list, all in one place, instead of my paper version.
- Plant care. Apparently, I kill things that aren't fictional. Ask the azaleas. And the mums. There are other things I've planted and now have no idea what they are. Some look suspiciously like weeds.
- Subscriptions! Boy! Do they pile up!
- Quote keeper/Organizer. In fact, how cool would it be to have a random daily quote pop up on your workspace?
- Home/Car maintenance. What, where, when, how much, and a field to link back to the file location (I keep them local).

[elizabethsmith]

This is impressive and I wish I could afford the template today!

[JohnFrazier]

I learned a lot from this video, and I'll be applying techniques learned here to my own Notion dashboard. The goal and review questions gave me so much anxiety though! I felt like I was undergoing a performance review at work.

[Reicher]

Hi Simon, thanks for the awesome content and the great templates you keep on developing! I love to work with the Life OS 2.0 on a daily basis and it really helped me to structure my mind in an easy way.

Are you planning a tutorial to upgrade an existing Life OS 2.0 with the new functionalities of the simplified version from this video? Would be really great! :D

[Fran-ugwg]

What a GREAT Idea! I’m a nutritionist and I'd love to help building a complete “wellness dashboard” (yeah awesome name, I know 🤣 ) with both workout and nutrition inputs, kcal balance, weight loss (or gain) goals and progress tracker.. I’ve already built a basic tracker for my job and some meal plan templates, but I’m sure you’d do better than me ^^

As for some suggestions, I’m thinking about a student dashboard template and some way to see sub-tasks (as roll ups, maybe?) related to a main task in the same database

[Benstra]

A while back (pre-COVID, so don’t exactly know how many years, it’s been a blur) I started doing bullet journaling to structure my tasks, mind and to-do’s and such. It was great! Until one day some people stole my backpack out of my car when I was paying for petrol at a highway petrol station near Milan and I lost all motivation to start again because I lost all my progress and haven’t done such a thing to date. Would notion be a good digital alternative? It looks so great and it might actually help out structure things again :D.

Thanks in advance!
Daan

Ps. Got a sub from me, love the creative content!

[rosepehtels]

If I buy the template, are there free updates? Also, are there any student discounts for your templates?

[Jacques_Sauve]

New to Notion (and that's YOUR fault!), so I don't know what I don't know. 😉 I'd follow the series mostly to learn how to do things so I can also create some Notion workspaces. I've a few ideas rolling around my head and figure that if I can learn how to develop them and perhaps also sell the workspaces on the Gumroad site, then who knows...? I, too, may become a Notion multi-millionaire like you! 😄

[yhbukhari]

I want to see some chronological document database to track all the contractual correspondence during a three year project with handy access to the actual letter/documents in pdf.

[YoRAHeem]

I want to get involved. Will this support going into 2023? This could be a great starting point.

[MonicaMolinar]

Hi Simon! I’ve got your Complete 2.0 or whatever that’s called. Can I do the Big Notion Build-Along using that, or should I download something else? The Simplified version perhaps? I’ve had NOTION for awhile now, but have not yet fully dived in, opting instead to stick with my Bullet Journal while I invest the time to figure out the basics of NOTION via your trainings and templates. It seems that your “Build Along” may be just the ticket I need in order to build some basic NOTION skills and feel more confident using it to meet my needs (2nd, 3rd, 4th brains… LOL). I’m looking forward to becoming a better creator. Cheers to you & all you do, as always!

[scottman_plays_youtube]

Hi Simon, do I need to pay for Notion to use your templates, or will the features in the Lite version be enough? I'm hesitant to drop the dollars on the full version.

[hannelymen]

Hi, I´m dabbling with Notion and have searched if any Notion experts have put the RPM system into the Notion frame. No one has done that at the moment. My question is: Is it doable the way RPM system is ment to function. Would love your imput on that:)