Hello everyone and welcome back to the patron webinar it is your host Francesco here
So I will just want to start with a few updates when it comes to the patron sign of stuff
I'm currently undergoing a move for a house, but
The most important thing I want to do over the next couple of weeks is redesign how the patron works
So you guys will be getting an update about how this is going to be changing over the next couple of weeks
We are considering two separate things to either continue growing the patron in terms of making it a bit more
Open and improving your experience because I don't think in my opinion you guys have been getting the best value out of this
so I want to
You know make a better community and build out this sort of
Resources that you have available to you and that will come in an exciting format
And the second option is going
Sort of direct in actually creating this
Separate community that will be available through the website
But I'm a little less
Much of a fan of it, but I will be updating you nonetheless in the next couple of weeks
you guys have been an amazing support and I
Don't think I've honestly given you the best sort of experience and I think that's something that I want to change. So
Yeah, you will be guys guys been getting an update very soon. So in this video guys
What I thought I'd do with you is dive into how to build like a journal inside of motion
Using the new database templates now. I know a lot of you guys already have sort of a journal experience
inside of the
Notion, but it's it's obviously something that you might want to create on your daily daily experience
But I know a lot of you guys use a template button already
I'm just being able to use it every single day to
Create this new page that has all the information but this can be done inside the templates and I think it could be quite easy
So let's go ahead and create a brand new page and call this one
Journal and we're gonna add a lovely book to it. So this type in book
Let's add this really nice orange one. So what I'm going to be doing this video is I'm actually gonna be pulling it
From a database. So go ahead and create a database. I'm gonna create a table view from for now
So I'm going to type it call it entries. So we're gonna give it a name wouldn't call it. This is the entry
And we're gonna give it a bit of a actually wouldn't give it a due date first. So we're gonna move this one here
Call it entry title and I'm gonna give it a due date
Well actually had a log date because that would be the date were actually logging it on
Then what we're going to do here is also and any images because I know a lot of you guys
Sometimes like to have images inside of your journal so you're probably wondering okay
You've got the basic set up in terms of you know, adding a log and things like that
So for example, let's say you want to go ahead and add a new entry you could go in here and type in you know
walk
up to
this card and
You could add the log and any images and then down here you can start doing it
But but that's really what I want to solve with this feature day is show you how you create some sort of prompting system
They would allow you to create a basic journal experience and do remember with this you don't necessarily
We created a basic table view, but let's go ahead and create a gallery view out of this
sorry a calendar view out of this so you can start to see your
Entries inside of this view so you can see here walk up to list guard and I know what I had there
So if I just put a tree as a lovely?
Tree there. So as you can see here, you've got a bit of an idea of a calendar view here
so I'm gonna go to the three dots and just go to properties and
Have them lock dates there. So it's a bit easier
So what we're gonna do now is we're actually gonna go over to the new
Database templates area and as you can see, we've got an empty page, but we're gonna go ahead and create a new template
So this is for anything that will be created in the log date. So in this case, I'm actually gonna give it a
Actually, I'm not gonna give it a due date so I'm gonna clear there
So I'm gonna keep these two empty and keep the title. Maybe title it a new entry template
So I know what's coming and be a little sort of postbox there
So what I'm going to do with this bit as I'm actually going to break it down into quadrants
So the main reason I want to do this is because it's a like an application called grid diary
So for example grid during what they do is they ask you questions
That will help you to make a better journal experience. So this one could be what am I most grateful for?
Question mark and what I'm going to do is actually want to copy this and
Paste it. So I've got the heading 3 ready to go and I'm gonna say
this one could be did I work out today and
Maybe I'm gonna add a few more. Just give me a moment
Okay, so I think I'm pretty happy with these I'm going to turn them all into heading threes
So this is a good starting point. What I'm going to do is what grid Diary dance and turn them into
Almost this grid view. So what I'm going to do is just work out how to capture this one
So sometimes this can be a little bit fussy
It was being a bit of a pain here with me. But as you can see here, I've got sort of four
No, five core areas, which I can start
You know filling in every time I create a new template and what I might do here is go ahead and add like an orange
Background and maybe if I wanted to go full customization add a blue text to it, or I could just have blue text
I don't think you can do that both at the same time, but let's just put blue backgrounds
in this case for all of these
Okay, so you can start to see I've got a bit of an entry here and every time I add a new entry
It's quite a neat way to be able to do this
So if I go back out of this and let's say I want to add a new template
Let's just pull this one back to another day. And let's go say I want to add a new entry for today
so as you can see this appears and I can say
Boxing up the house because that's what I was mainly doing today
And I'll bring a box in and as you can see there. I'm also going to add the log date
So that's what I would do any images that I necessarily need to which I don't have any and I could go
Okay, what am I most grateful for? Okay. I'm I'm really grateful for
having a house over my head and
What I can do here is actually that should have
Come underneath there
So this is something that you probably need to set up inside of the template something I didn't do and you can put your do
I workout today no workouts and
As you can see you can start filling this in quite easily
So this is actually one of the best ways to use it. If you're not looking to follow that sort of structure
That's absolutely fine. You can go ahead and create a new template
You might want to have a template that's like questions for you
And you might we'll call it questions and you might want to call this one this new template
New lock and this might be a nicer sort of more like not dramatic, but more sort of
story today you can put
and
You could tell a story of the day and you might want to put you know
A purple background there a divider here
and of course add any images you can add some blocks here for images so that it's like ready for if
you wanted to have a story for the day and
you can see what you can get what I mean here and you might want to put another image down here and
One over here and for example, you might want to say at the bottom like
Useful reads
and a divider below and
add a
Pink background there and you can start to see you here
You've got this bit of a different type of log here, but you can structure this
however
You like and what's great as well is if I go ahead and create a new log I can start adding that sort of story
To here now. If you didn't add a date to it, you can obviously use find it here
Obviously it will automatically be added to the day that you're hovering on and you can go in and add the entry
So guys this is a neat way to create journal entries as I said, this is fairly brief
I will be updating at the patron as I mentioned very soon
You will guys will be hearing about what we're planning for the slack and also other things like that. Any guys a big
Thank you for being patron subscribers
Let me know if you have any questions, you know
You can always email me at francesco key productive calm and i'll happily help any questions you have
Cheers everyone. Make sure to have a great day keyboard Optive. I will see you guys SuperDuper soon. Cheers, everyone
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