How to Build a Habit Tracker in Notion from Scratch

Let's build a habit tracker in Notion – at 5 levels of complexity!

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⏱️ Timestamps:
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00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Level 1
01:17 - Level 2
03:13 - Level 3
06:51 - Add Journaling Prompts
07:23 - Setting a Repeating Template
08:28 - Level 4
13:35 - Level 5
14:01 - Integrate Habit Tracker into Ultimate Brain
17:16 - Build the Streak Tracker

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In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build a habit tracker in Notion at five levels of complexity. We'll start out with a simple, checklist-style habit tracker that uses nothing but to-do blocks. Then we'll move to using Notion Buttons, and finally into building a dedicated habit-tracker database.

At the higher levels, I'll show you how to track stats and streaks by leveraging some powerful Notion formulas. I'll also show you how to integrate your habit tracker into other Notion dashboards.

[morne.bester]

Level 6: Make all the habit checkboxes get checked automatically.

This is basically what I did…
- my “workout” habit is a formula that is set to True when there is a page linked in the fitness tracker.
- my “Visualize day” habit checked via a button that lets me return to my home page at the end of my morning routine, which ends with visualization
- My “read” habit is checked as soon as my book notes database is updated.

The idea is that I can “track” my habits (including streaks and just the visual pleasure of viewing those checked boxes) without actually having to manually check the boxes. Having to remember to check you habit tracker shouldn’t have to be an extra habit.

[louattal]

The level 5 is truly brilliant, that is some advanced formula magic 🤯

[just_sadhana]

Mind-blown 🤯 loved the 5 levels to we can try whichever or build on it. Thank you.

[Ninja_Mittens]

This is awesome. Spent a couple hours yesterday following along and building this into my new system!

[itssquishy]

you're actually amazing, i didnt think that programming mindsetcan be used in softwares thatll help you organize! I made myself the lvl 4 habit tracker but for lvl 5 i took the free template
thank you so much! genuinely! im surprised that there arent more views for this? its great!! its completely free unlike apps thatll only let you track 4 habits and it isnt even as advanced as what you gave us!!!!

[Lobstrique]

Thomas, youare my hero :) thank you thank you THANK YOU for this video!!! it's EXACTLY what i was looking for in a habit tracker, the level 5 formula took me a couple of tries, but now everything works, i've been using my tracker for almost a week and i love it :)

[KimzCraftz]

Sometimes when you watch a video here, clicking the thumbs up just isn't good enough. This video would qualify for a 6 out of 5 stars, if there was such a property. This is just what I was attempting to achieve, now I have a better idea of how to go about it. Many thanks.

[thenotionexperience]

🤩 Thank you so much for this video. Really helpful. Love your teaching 👍Wish you all best 🙂

[leandro_]

Super awesome again. Thank you, Thomas! You're the boss when it comes to Notion

[etgdesignstudio]

THANK YOU!! I've been building this out for myself and you just fast tracked it for me. (also, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who snickers on the inside when I type "butt" for a new button....)

[ilmarsrauda]

Very useful divided habit trackers by levels and the last one with building formula for stats additionally was interesting, because this gives some ideas on how to build something 🔥 Thank You! 🙏 Now let's upgrade my habit tracker 💪

[renatalorena]

I just created all of these!!! I am feeling so accomplished :) thank you!

[Mirthe_]

Waw, that’s really next level! Nice work!

[warriormentality]

Man I was literally struggling from maintaining streak with my habits, it will really help me to erase my bad habits and build new habits

[arantxaangelinaperez]

Thank you is not enough, your videos are so helpful!

[joemamajams]

This video could not have come at a better time for YOU! <3

[altheammontes]

I just wanna say you're awesome and very helpful!!! Subscribed!

[OkayDr.]

Hey I love all your videos, you've already helped me enormously with setting up my own Habit Tracker and are helping me with creating my uni course planner. I will say though for some of your other videos you have 10 billion pages and templates and are showing things going through them so quickly it's a bit overwhelming sometimes. You're still way better than any other notion tutorial youtubers I've found so far so thank you! Would love to see a video how you plan your pages as when I try start my own pages from scratch I never have any idea where to start, what pages to link to which, what properties I should have and so on. I'm not sure how you do it, for me it helped setting up a few callouts just to get an idea of what I actually need and want in each page to help me create the ultimately finished page. Anyways, thanks for explaining notion to me u've definitely made it way easier to learn!

[Hadassah]

I appreciate you being so thorough because I have tried at least four tutorials to do the formulas and all of them did not work properly on my end

[Marcuscamargo]

Really fantastic explanation!!!! Thanks