hello it's seo from tbhstudying and i'm here to show you guys my notion dashboard!
i finally figured out how i want to set up my dashboard and how i want to set up my pages so i'm here
to show you guys what's up! if you guys remember a while back i made a video with five different
templates to show you guys how i was originally planning to use notion and what i wanted to do
those are all my rough drafts, so this is more of like the final version of that video so if you're
interested in checking out that video and those templates i'll leave the link down in the description below
but i'll also include a template of my dashboard if you're interested in copying that and using it for yourself
so again, all the links are down below in the description box and this video is also sponsored by notion
which is super cool since i've been using notion for about a year, a year and a half now
i think it's a super great tool for organizing your workspace and customizing your tasks
all the way down to the itty bitty details. i took a look at the notion subreddit and they have a lot of different
customization tools that they go into coding and stuff like that but yeah it's super popular for a good reason!
you can also use it to collaborate with other people which is what i'm doing for my fencing leadership group
i'm using notion as a workspace to collaborate on group projects and things like that but i personally use notion
mainly for organizing my tasks and my to-do lists and things like my semester dashboard
and my semester syllabus and all the readings that i have to do so i mainly use it for
school stuff and organizing the tasks that i have so thank you so much in nation for sponsoring this
video! if you want to try notion out for yourself feel free to check out my description, click the
link below, and if you have a school email address you can use notion for free! just sign up for an
account with your school email address all right so i have my notion dashboard right here
on my laptop so let's walk through it together. first things first is my dashboard! this is my main
home page so to speak and it includes quick links to other pages that are larger or have more moving
parts to them than i can fit on the dashboard and it also is customized with moomin screenshots
and plant images from unsplash and it's sort of themed around green and plants because those are
my favorite colors, my favorite themes, so at the top of the link you can see there's like a little
section for quick links and like i said before, those are links to other pages that are much
larger or have more parts to them. that includes things like my page that i use for planning videos
and my spring semester syllabus things and then right next to it, i have a little notes section for
quick on-the-go notes or reminders for meetings or office hours that i have to attend for that day
right next to that is a video link to an ambient music playlist on youtube. this is specifically a
breath of the wild music playlist that's one of my favorites. i talk about it all the time on my plan
with me videos but since i have my main dashboard open all the time on my computer i just find it
convenient to play it right on my notion dashboard rather than going to the youtube site itself
then underneath that, i have what i call mini pages and i made that with the gallery option. these are
for pages that are more simple to manage and don't have as many moving parts of them and right now i
have three: i have one for my tutoring job, so i'm a tutor for the bio department and my position
is called a catalyst! because you know like, we catalyze reactions, we catalyze thinking but
anyways, i have a page set up for reminders of when i have to tutor and i also work in a research lab
on campus. i have my lab schedule on there as well as the tasks that i have to do for the lab hours
that i have because there's a lot of like certain times and certain days and tasks that i have to do
on certain days. i just find it easy to consolidate all into this mini page and then finally i have a
section for major planning. because i'm a sophomore, i have to decide my major this year and i have to
figure out what classes i'm going to take for the rest of my time at college so i organized
all of the projected classes that i'm planning to take and to also make sure that i meet my major
requirements because i'm a biology and medical anthropology double major. i have all my seminars,
my future classes, and i also have projected courses linked up in here and then last week
i had meetings with my major advisors, so i just have that down there. i can get rid of that now, but
this is really helpful for figuring out what courses i'm going to take for the next two years
and figuring out how to get my major done. then underneath all of that, i have my class schedule
i forgot which video or which tikrok reel i saw about this but i saw this on someone else's
dashboard and i thought it was a super good idea so i recreated it on my own dashboard
but i can't seem to find who came up with that idea first so please feel free to let me know who
it is so that i can credit them but yeah! i saw it on youtube or instagram or tiktok somewhere
now if we go to our pages, i have a section for tbh studying so this is where i plan and
organize all the videos that i plan to make for this channel. i like to make pages for each video
concept that i try to make. in this page i like to include things like things i want to talk about,
certain clips that i want to film, certain points that i want to mention, and this is
just where i organize all of my thoughts. to the right you can see there is that "to make" section
and you can see i have a page specifically dedicated to "notion dashboard tour" and then
the rest of the videos that i have planned or that i started to plan and then underneath that, i have
a section for ideas and requests. this is a section where i put the most highly requested ideas down.
i have a written list of every single video idea that someone requests. i just take the
most requested things from that written list and put it on my notion dashboard so that i remember
to plan for it and remember to accommodate it into my schedule. then to the left, i have three sections
one is my old video to-do list. i used the kanban function - i think that's how you pronounce it - but
i used the kanban function to sorta plan and figure out how i wanted to make videos
but it was just kind of complicated so i wasn't really motivated to keep up with it, so this
lazy version of just making random pages and filing them all has been easier for me to keep
track of. underneath that, i have a live stream description because i go live so often for "study
with me" i just save the most frequently asked questions onto that page and i just copy and paste
it into my youtube description every time i go live and then finally underneath that is where i
put all the finished pages for all the videos that i've already uploaded. this is another idea that i
saw on instagram and tiktok but essentially it's using notion to keep track of all the
assignments that i have on my syllabus. it keeps track of all my readings when my papers are due
and when my exams are. i actually haven't updated this in a while because one of the syllabuses
syllabi? but anyways one of them for one of my classes changed so i need
to change and update this. this is organized by date and it's also organized by class i
can filter it for readings that i have to do. i can filter it for classes that i have to do and i just
check it off and keep track of what i've done and what i haven't done. then i have my 2021 reading
list. i don't know if this counts as a reading list because i included like audio such as podcasts or
audio books and i also included video things like tv shows or movies that i've watched but
essentially for 2021, i want to sort of broaden the amount of media that i consume because i realized
last year that i was literally only reading books and watching movies and documentaries for class
and i wasn't doing anything for fun except to re-watch the great british baking show for
the 20th time in a row, so i made this notion page to sorta keep track of everything media wise
that i'm consuming. i'm just trying to explore more instead of being constrained to academia again i
can categorize this by audio reading and video and i also included animes in this because i'm
recently watching jujutsu kaisen and it's so good and i have some books again that are on the list
to read. i'm hoping to read them during break and i can rate them, i can sort them by status as well
and i also have the date that i finish them on and finally this is my collaborative workspace that i
have with my fencing leadership team. i'm the head of recruitment for the fencing club at swarthmore
i'm experimenting with using notion for group work and planning certain projects and trying to
expand recruitment on our team. um so far it's been going okay, i'm still trying to figure it out but
that's that and that is my notion dashboard! wow i've been trying to figure this out for a while
i've reorganized, remade tried new templates, tried other people's templates, tried recreating my own
it's been a wild journey, it's been a wild mess, but this is my finalized dashboard and the setup
that i'm using for this semester. like i said before, if you're interested in using any of
these, i'll include them down in the description box as templates. all you have to do is sign up
for notion and you can do that by clicking the link down in my description if you want to try
notion for yourself and you can just duplicate and copy the template to your own notion so
that you can customize it for yourself and feel free to change it however you wish. again thank
you to notion for sponsoring this video! i really appreciate it especially since notion is such a
useful tool for me during my whole online learning stint but yeah that's the video, that's the tour
thank you so much for watching and i hope you enjoyed the video! hope you enjoyed the
templates and hope this was useful and i'll see you in the next video and until then bye!