As content creators
it can
quickly become overwhelming
when we need to come up
with good content ideas,
create the content schedule
schedule and manage it on different platforms
and a multitude of other things
besides just creating content.
Now I'd be absolutely losing my mind
if I didn't have the right systems in place
to make my content creation
process effortless and enjoyable.
And that's exactly what this video is about.
To help content creators such as yourself
manage your content production
and save you hours of time every single week.
This video will be a full walkthrough
of my Notion Dashboard
for content creators,
which can be found as the first link
in the description.
Now without further ado, let's get started.
Starting off on the left of the dashboard,
you'll see you have a quick notes
section and underneath
you have all of your individual pages.
And then on the right
you have a buttons widget
for all your social media profiles,
your content projects, the tasks for each project,
and at the bottom
you have a calendar
with a view for your tasks
as well as a view for your content schedule.
Let's start with the buttons widget
to create one for yourself you'll need to go to
indify.co and create an account.
Scroll down
and then click on create a new button widget.
Here you want to add your button name,
add in the link to your profile and add an icon.
Now you used to be able to add icons
from different companies
like the one on the dashboard,
but for some reason they removed that option,
which I still don't understand why,
but I'm sure Notion will soon
add an external linking option to the native Notion buttons.
Anyways,
give your button an icon and select your theme color.
If you're using dark mode,
just quickly scroll down
and select
the dark mode option
to make the button transparent
so you just have an outline.
Click on the advanced colors
and change the background color
to Notions Dark mode, which has the hex code 191919.
And obviously if you're using light mode,
then just make it white.
And then lastly, for the colors,
you want to make the text white
if you're using dark mode
and make the text dark,
if you're using light mode. of the changing
After changing the colors,
you want to scroll down
and go to the corner rounding settings
and select the round option.
Now, if you want multiple buttons,
then all you need to do
is just click on the button menu
and select copy to duplicate the button.
When you're done setting up your buttons,
you want to copy the link at the bottom
and then paste it inside of your dashboard as an embed.
Drag it on top of the place holder widget,
resize it and delete the existing widget.
Now let's get into how the dashboard works.
Starting with the content tracker.
Here you have a view for your active content,
a view for your content grouped by the platform,
A view for your ideas,
and a view for all your finished content projects.
So let's go to the ideas view
and create a new content project.
Let's give it a name
and then select the relevant template
button based on the platform.
And then let's add a publishing date,
the type of content it is,
and leave out the URL property
as that will be for the actual link
after we've posted.
And then at the bottom you'll find
five different relation properties,
which are these four pages on the left.
The fifth being the task database on the dashboard.
The first relation is to the same content tracker,
so you can link two pieces of content with each other
if they're about the same topic.
Next you have a relation to the bookmark database
where you can save other people's
content that you find useful
or want to recreate into your own.
Then you have a relation to the platform
which already has the relevant platform selected
thanks to the template button,
you have your topics relation
so you can add a relevant topic
for your piece of content.
And lastly, you have a relation to the task database,
which we'll get to shortly.
If we go back to the content tracker
and change the status of the project
to one in the in progress options,
the content project will move to the active view
sorted according to the publishing date
as well as move to the second view
where it's grouped according to the platform.
Now for the task database, when we create the new task
under the Today view,
it will automatically add today’s date
and we just have to select
a relevant template button
so we can add an icon
as well as relate the task to the content tracker
so that we can track the progress of our tasks
through the progress bar.
This database has a view showing our daily tasks,
a view showing all the tasks
due after today,
a view showing all the task
grouped by the content,
a view for your unscheduled tasks,
as well as a view for all your completed tasks.
And then at the bottom of the dashboard,
we have our calendar to schedule our tasks
and plan our day, week and month ahead,
and we also have a content
calendar view showing the publishing dates
for each piece of content
so we can plan out our content schedule.
Now it's time to go through the pages on the left.
First off,
we have the virtual assistant page
containing 100 personalized
Notion prompts,
which you can use to help you create content and
grow on social media, Twitter and YouTube,
as well as improve your branding.
You simply open up one of these sections
and click generate on the prompt block
and the AI will spit out new ideas, information and tips.
And if you want to reset the prompt,
don’t delete the whole block,
just delete the content inside.
Now I'm of course not
going to go through each of these prompts
as this is
something that you can explore
and play around with on your own.
Moving on we have the finance tracker.
I've already made a full video
about this template
which you can find in the card
above or in the description below.
Though I’ll still be doing a quick walkthrough on
how it works inside of this video.
At the top of your finance tracker
where you can quickly add new income
or expenses under the today views,
you can add the amount,
the income or expenses source
and relate it to a bank account.
This database also has two views
for both the income
and expenses
grouped according to the month, calculating the total
as well as a view
where both the income
and expenses are grouped together
according to the month,
but this time displaying the total profit.
Underneath the finance tracker
you have your bank accounts database,
which will automatically update the total bank
balance as you add income or expenses.
And before you use this finance tracker,
just go into your bank accounts
and set the starting amount,
which is the amount that you currently have
in that bank account.
Then you have your subscription tracker
where you can add new subscriptions
link it to a bank account,
add in the renewal date,
add the amount and billing type,
which will automatically calculate
the monthly and yearly cost formulas at the bottom,
and then also add a subscription type and an icon.
For the subscription tracker
you have a normal list view
as well as a table view
calculating the total monthly amount at the bottom.
All your subscriptions
will show up on the subscription calendar
and each time a subscription is due,
you just want to extend the renewal date
ahead with one month
and also manually add it to your expense tracker.
Then lastly, at the bottom of the finance tracker,
we have our different
income and expense sources
displaying the total amount for each.
Our next page is the posting schedule.
Here you can plan out
what type of content
you want to publish for each day
and each platform.
Simply add in the name,
the type of content and the time you want to post it.
You can also add a description
inside each post explaining
what it's about if you wish.
Moving on we have the 4 databases
that’s linked to our content tracker,
starting with the first one
being the content tracking itself.
Here you have the active view,
a view for all of your ideas group to the platform,
a calendar view showing the publishing date,
a table view with all your published content,
and a view with no filters grouped to the platform.
Then we have the bookmarks database.
Here you can easily drag the
bookmark to change it’s status
and drop it into archive when you're done.
Inside the bookmark,
you can add the type of bookmark
the creator of the content, a link to the content,
you can upload the content directly to Notion
and you can also related bookmark to a platform topic
and to your content tracker.
You can also use the Notion Web Clipper
chrome extension to save your content
directly to this database.
Or if you're on your phone,
just share the content to Notion
and then select this database.
Next up we have the topics and platforms databases.
Both of these are just a simple gallery view
where you can add more topics or platforms,
and then inside the platforms database,
you can also add a link to your profile
for that platform.
Then we have both the separate
YouTube and Twitter page.
For the YouTube one,
you have your content workflow
and the road map database
at the bottom
where you can list out what you need to do
and want to achieve for each subscriber milestone.
As for the workflow itself,
you simply add in a new video idea
and it will load a template button
that will generate everything
you could possibly need for creating a video.
You can add the video metadata
such as keywords and title ideas,
you can set up and plan out your video,
you can use the editing database
to make sure that you've made all the necessary edits,
and then at the bottom
you have links to useful resources
that will help you in creating your videos.
Now if we scroll to the top
and take a look at the properties,
you'll see we have a status property
which is what these two databases are filtered to.
The first view shows everything
that is not one of these completed options,
and the second view shows
all the videos that are completed.
Then we have the published date
which will make the video show up on the calendar,
we have a URL property
where you can add the link to the video
once it's published,
you can add a number
which is what the database views are sorted to,
and it also relates to the order of videos you post.
You can give your video a topic, a dog, a duration,
as well as select if it's monetized or sponsored.
And if you want to make changes
to the YouTube template,
then just click the dropdown next to new
and edit the template button.
The second to last page
is for scheduling Twitter
content directly from Notion.
If you click show description
and click on the link above,
it will take you to Queue, which is the app
you need to download and install.
To do this just click get started,
select how you're using Notion and download the app.
Then just open up the app,
install it,
and once it's done,
just click on Exit and also restart your Notion.
When you open up Notion again,
you want to click on the page menu,
go to connections, search for Queue
and then add it as a connection.
Then go to the Queue menu in the top right
by clicking on these four squares,
connect your twitter database
and make sure your Twitter account is also connected.
When you save these changes,
you should now be able to schedule
tweets straight from Notion
when you go ahead
and create the new database entry
and start typing inside of the page,
you'll see a Twitter preview on the right.
If you want to create the thread,
then just use that divider,
and if you want to add images,
then simply use an image block.
When your tweet is done,
you can change it’s status to ready
and give it a publish date and time.
Once you tweet is posted,
it automatically move to publish,
and when you open it up,
you'll now see this matrix formula.
If you click on Show Hidden Properties,
you'll be able to add the amount of impressions,
profile, clicks, likes,
replies and retweets,
which will show up inside the Matrix Summary.
Now for the last and final page,
which is for your phone.
On your phone
you want to add a widget to this Notion page
so when you're on the go,
you can quickly pull up Notion
and add whatever you need to remember.
And then when you're at your computer again,
you can just organize the note
into a task new content idea or whatever you want.
And there you go.
Now you know how to manage your life
as a content creator
using the Notion dashboard
linked in the description below.
Thank you for watching
and be sure to check out this next video
showing you how to use Notion
to manage your life if you're also a freelancer.