Hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive of YouTube channel on today's video
We're diving into how to create a habit track inside of notion now
This is the second part of the notion challenge
this is a new series or playlist here on YouTube that
essentially gives me a challenge and then
What we'll do is we'll build that in less than five minutes to give you an idea of the simplicity of the databases and things
Like that now recently. They've also been producing a lot of templates
So, of course you don't necessarily have to build from scratch
but this should give you a good idea of how to apply something if you want to build it totally from scratch just
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I've created a brand new page and I will be developing this from scratch. I'm just gonna set a timer
Okay, so the timer has started let's naive' in to the habit tracker. Okay
So what it did here is I think I created a habit tracker a very basic one. That might help you
Will go through what I actually went about doing during this process
so as you can see, you can't see the habit tracker right now because it's hidden behind what's called a
Template button and the reason I created this is because a habit tracker might want to be replicated every single week
so what we did is we went ahead and created a template button so that every time you press that a
Fresh one appears now obviously, we've created it inside of what's called a table database
So as you can see here
The button title is new habit tracker
And I've hidden it below a toggle and that's really easy to do. All you have to do is press
Toggle and then hide this underneath that
So let's go ahead and see what that actually demonstrate as so if I press new habit
Should appear as view below now. If you want to do here you could put for example the week
I know many people use the you know week 15 of 2019 as a tracker and then what they do is
Open this one up
Now if you wanted to up here as well something I didn't note is you could use the at today
for example, you could put at
Actually, you can't do that. You could put at today as
A way to track the day and if you wanted to turn that out of that format, you go to date and format
The date format to day month and year and if you want to see it like that
You can do so but in this case, we're actually just gonna have it as week 15 of
2019
So you can see here that I've created a simple
table and I've spanned it across the first five days a week because sometimes a lot of people like to keep it just
In the weekday Hammett's so you can see here that you can keep track using checklist items
So for example if I was like, okay, it's a Thursday today. I actually did my journal entry today
I did my press-ups today and I'm gonna do my boxing so I know that it's done and you can see a full
Sort of track of that which is a good way to be able to see it
now the way that we did and went about creating those is we went to the
This column area and we turn that as a check box, but we titled each of these top columns Monday
Tuesday Wednesday, Thursday Friday
We put the habits down the left hand side
but you could if you wanted to actually have the habits at the top and
the days of the week on the left hand side and that could be
In the row format because that could be a good way to do it now
The reason I was checking this out is because this is a new feature called database templates
And I was actually just curious is if I did it that way at the Monday Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday
I could create a new entry per day, but I'll probably do a separate video on that
Now as you can see, I kept it fairly simple. Um, I was actually looking at just keeping it simple
So what I did is I created a page with all of these and if I click in to this one, for example
If I was like, okay, I want to do this at the end of the week. For example. Okay, I boxed Monday
Tuesday and actually in boxing Thursday
So I could see a full outline of the days that I boxed
And the one thing I can do is an additional thing is go down here and use the percentage
Unchecked so I can see
75% actually I'm gonna go percentage is checked
Okay, 25 percent completion rate on Mondays
But if I were to see my completion rate for Thursday be 75 because I did three out of four of the items there
So guys that's a really simple way of doing it
let me know in the comments with the how many questions um, this is an ocean challenge so it's gonna be
Really updated soon and the main reason is because I have more time to spend on key productive. So I will be doing
an experiment for the full week
so for example
like
You know what?
I
Used at the stand a week what tool I built and why I'm using it and how effective it's been to give you an idea
of how it's used in practical situations
But this is really just getting the series out there because I've only done one feature so far
So do stay tuned for more notion challenges. Let me know in the comments what I should be doing next
I've got a lot of your feedback from last time so really appreciate that and feel free to continue to recommend after seeing this feature
so as you can imagine a habit tracker is a useful way to be able to keep track of some habits and routines that you
might want to keep a tally of I know a lot of people are using the
Combination of a habit tracker and a journal to be able to track those sort of daily and morning
Journal entries and then being able to use a little bit of a habit tracker to keep track of what they're working on
I've been sort of toying around with the idea. You may have seen it in my notion set up that I've got
Area I actually haven't been fully
Optimizing it
I'm never really being a person that's been using habits much I use her bit to fight for quite a while maybe about six months
Using it as an application to track habits
but I'm fairly good with my routine, but I know in a couple of weeks time when my
when we move house
I know that obviously might have it too gonna change my routines gonna change
So I'm obviously gonna be looking and probably look at notion as a way to keep track of all of them
So do stay tuned. Hopefully I can do a video on that and how that panned out
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