Hello everyone and welcome back to another video here on Keep Productive
It is francesco in the today's video i'm going to share with you how I've gone about creating something called a daily log
I wanted to share with you my opinions on using it for a few days at least about a week or so and
how to actually build it from scratch the concept is really simple
It's basically using a database template to create this
Almost get started guide for the morning so that I can start adding and inputting
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So guys as I said, I wanted to create this daily log with you guys today show you how to do it from scratch
And we can actually build it with together. It's gonna be quite fun
I think and it's an opportunity
if you're someone that likes to do a little bit of a journal
but once a bit more of a formalized structure and the main reason I started it is because I had previously this our
fitness planner
here that is no longer there that basically
Was quite useful because it allowed me to and in my thoughts on fitness
But what I wanted to do with this is actually incorporate an entire tired a log out of it
So I'm I'm going to show you before we move in. It's got a very simple sort of morning area
So this is the morning area and this is a lunchtime area after say some lessons
I've learned and also fitness and then after the day has finished, I'm sort of key takeaways now
It's important to see here as well
Is this an opportunity to do a bit of journaling morning checklist, although I haven't really filled this one out yet
Focus on look at key priorities and also look at the events that I might have for the day
So let's go ahead and start building this from scratch. Let's go to my home. Let's scroll down to this brand new fresh area
So what I started to do was I went ahead and created a sub heading 3 and I called it Davie
lager
Now I added if you go to color and you go to green background
You've recently got this like just this standout
Sort of area here that gets started for when you want to add the database below. This is not really necessary
You can add an emoji in front of it
but it just helps it stand out and then I just simply
When it created added a divider below it now to actually go ahead and create the database
All we have to do is press slash then type in database now
Obviously you can do this with arrange different databases
I decided to go with gallery view for the main reason that if I were to click into it
You can see here. Then it comes up with this quite nice view in terms of seeing what you've actually got in your journal
And what are quite liked about it? I started using on the homepage a little bit more
With the reading list with my goals because you can start to see the sort of view and it's quite nice
so, um
Obviously you can get started pretty easily by
Deleting the existing cards that they placed inside of here out if I can do that quite easily
There we go. And I'm gonna call this one the log
Just keep the name really simple right now
Now as you can imagine when you get started, what you want to do is go over to the right hand corner where newest
Press new template because basically you want to build a template. There's gonna be replicated multiple matter times
So I'm gonna go ahead and delete created property. I'm gonna go ahead and delete tag property
Although as I said, it's all saved during throughout this you can customize this to however you like
I'm just going to show you how I've done it in the past
So I'm going to go ahead and add a date because that's gonna be the day that I normally go ahead and create it
So I'm gonna go down to date format and time zone. I'm gonna go to relative and
I'm gonna highlight this one as so if I click into it. I should be able to type today and
What that should do is every time I open one of these up as a template
It should automatically detect that I'm relating this one to today. So I'm going to get here and type in date
So that's a date
That's just important for when you're coming back to your old logs and looking back at them
The next thing I had was a checkbox into whether I meditate it
So I'm gonna type in meditate and that checkbox is really easy because you can tick it off and not to get off
then I have one for stretches because I like to go out in the morning and do a few stretches just
Some very simple stretches and and having that as a checkbox is really easy. So going back to up here
What else did I add obviously you can exit that and just come back to the edit tab?
so I had one that linked to gold months or they'll probably get rid of this because it's just a way to
It just a relational database
connection and you can see here that I can connect the month of the goals that this associates do but it's actually
Something I learned is pretty pointless
so I won't be including that and also I had this focus area where I just had like the
Thing I wanted to focus on previously. Obviously you can see it was a lot to do with my workouts
so I've got cardio core so you could have
Let's just include it down here
so if I go back up here and go to
edit on this one that we started if I go to here and maybe put focus and
Choose the multi select. So maybe you can add your focus for the day. So there we go
Maybe you want to drag that one up. So that's a your sort of basic properties to get started
Maybe you want to add an icon for every time you create a new one of these
Maybe you want a fire icon with new lock
so that you give your
Area a title and maybe you want to add a cover photo as well
It's totally up to you in this case
Let's remove it. So down here is where all of the magic happens
Now you can pray this whatever sort of situation you like
You might want to
Make a sort of timeline view that I can I have like a morning 1 and afternoon 1 in an evening one
Away for you to sort of log what's happened in the day, but I'm gonna start by typing in
What did I type in to get started? I think I type in quote
And I put 7 a.m
Morning, because that's typically when I wake up and I added a divider below it now you can design this whatever you like
but I tend to add colors in there because it sort of makes it a bit brighter and I also put this in bold so
That's just a simple control be to bold that now you might want different areas in a way that I did
this is just make a little bit of space down here and go ahead and create a subheading to and
Maybe I want to start with that journal entry
So, of course I might want to add more so I'm gonna say is well in here
I also want a checklist for the morning like I had before and
I'll also show the events on today and let's create another subheading of finally priorities
Ok, so I'm pretty happy with that so I'm going to put the checklist over here and that's a simple way to break things up
Probably the notion is who?
Regulars will know how to do this pretty well. So I'm gonna give a little bit space between them
So I've got sort of four quadrants
And the reason I got this idea sort of structurally is actually from an application called grid diary
Which is something that actually does this if you don't want to use notion
But I find actually a really nice experience
Now what I actually did is I gave all of these different colors
So I will go ahead and just add a few different colors because it just brightens up the area a bit more
And it makes it more interactive
100% now if I go below here, I can add a divider. I'm just going to go ahead and copy and paste this divider
Drag it to the different underneath here
Into the different areas. So I've got four diviners equally spread out there
So the one thing I did differently is I used a call-out which is a relatively new feature
To explain what these means so that it's almost like a bit of a dummies guide
so for example, add five lines of
How I'm feeling
And
Maybe I want to go ahead and change that icon to a book
Like I did before and the same with this you can do this really easily like you can change this to a checklist
things to do in the morning
And vice versa like if I was down here I could say
Call out
And that hasn't connected up think things I must do
And maybe like be a bit more aggressive with it put a fire flame and I could just drag this below here
And if I wanted to just be a little bit faster, I could copy and paste that and drag that here
So maybe I want to say events
What's on?
today
What's on today
So I can then what I'm pretty happy with now is that I've got an area for my journal entry
Maybe I want to add some bullet points to get me started on
What's happened and maybe give myself a little bit space?
That's how to do that and if you wanted to check boxes, for example
Like you could start adding stuff. So it's a bit easier for you like meditate
Don't snooze alarm
see this isn't anything like
Magical it's just a very simple checklist and you could say
Make cup of tea
and
If you were really playing around
You could add a little bit of color to this and the great thing about this guy's is if you do it once
You've then got the ability to just go and create like a new one every single time
So you can always go in here at the end of the month and go actually I'm going to sort this out a little bit
And make this a little bit neater now
I'm actually seeing up here that I probably want this one to be a bit bigger. Maybe a heading one
So it's quite clear and I could always add emoji to the front here to make it a little bit more interactive
So if I go down here, I might want to add some
like to do's
Maybe some space for some to do so
I'm just gonna add one in this case
because maybe that's a one thing I need to do and this is how I actually went about
Organizing these so I actually have an events calendar over here events and activities
Which gives me a bit of an outline of the events?
I've got coming up or at least a major stuff and actually can view this as a calendar as well
I
Don't know why that's not coming up. I normally have it as a view as a calendar. Maybe it changed it
Sometimes I ah, here we go
Upcoming events. Okay. So I've got two calendars that's got a filter on it. That's why it was not properly showing up
But if I've got upcoming events, I can see like all of the upcoming events. I've got in September
So what I'll do is very simply say go back to where we were is I'll go into
this our
Database template and I will create a linked
Database now. What am I going to grade on? I'm gonna go and create on upcoming events
And obviously it's gonna pull in all of the events I've ever had and you don't want that. You only want the today ones
So it's really quite simple to do that. If you were to actually give a little bit more space you might want to
Drag this in a bit of a more of an open area
Like here so that you get that full width and you can go ahead and go to filter then
you go to an filter date is
Today and there you go. You've got a bit of a view of what you've actually gone on today in this case
I actually don't have anything but then you can drag it underneath there
Sounds a really useful sort of database to have because you can then see any activities
You've got open them up and get started writing them now as you can imagine
I don't necessarily want to show you the full area. Let me show you what I've got as my daily log
I'll show you. So as you can see it's a pretty simple
I've added like this call-out at the top saying rise and shine Francesco and
I've got one under here, which is called 12:00 p.m. Lunch. Well that Fitness sort of checklist some lessons
I've learned maybe and also focuses for tomorrow. Now, I'm gonna be honest with you guys. I haven't used this to the film. I
Have been really bad with that say
But I am looking to like force myself to use it more but I have been using the start of the day a lot
So that actually has helped me to sort of have a morning meeting with myself to see what videos I need to create cetera
So that's one of the things I found valuable now, you're probably wondering how do you make it sort of start and disappear?
so at the end of the day
What I actually want it to do is for this actual entry to disappear
So you may have seen there's no entry that's created today
If I go over here
I've created a filter inside of this link database to date is today and
Basically will only show the ones that have a date associated the property to today. So how to do that inside of here
Let's say I go ahead and I go. Okay. I want to create a new blog. There we go
there's my entry saves me a huge amount of time and
All I have to do is go to filter
to their date is
Today and if I for example wanted to see all of my history of it
All I'd have to do is go to filter and press X and you should see all of the other entries from the previous day's
Come in and these are my last ones these with my sort of workouts
And the sort of workout log and I actually found it really valuable
So I've started to do it there and what's quite nice is if you don't want people to see like in sign here
You can
Because it doesn't actually bring in text underneath
call-outs so if you're like really cautious or you don't want anybody see your data then you can so if I go to date is
Today it should bring it up
So that's how to go ahead and create a very simple
organization area
So the one thing I'm going to do to finalize things is change that the list quite like that ListView
And that's how to go ahead and create a sort of daily life tab. I hope this video was useful guys
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