hello my friends it's nina welcome back
or welcome for the first time everyone is welcome here
today i have a pretty interesting exciting video prepared for you
as the title says i am going to be showing you a full on tour about my notion
so i've talked about notion a couple times on my channel
i have used it for i want to say almost a year now
and i've gotten requests about showing my notion how i use it to organize my life
stay productive all that
and when i say that this program has changed my life
it kind of did
i spend a lot of my day on notion organizing my life
and it has actually helped me maintain a schedule, get myself together
even things outside of scheduling such as planning big projects
writing lists pretty much anything notion has helped a lot so i
am excited to talk about it and i'm going to show you my simple and hopefully cute notion set up
i also do want to thank notion for sponsoring this video
i was so excited when they reached out to me
i heard about notion a long time ago because of my friends
i wanted to check it out for myself and i fell in love with it
and then when they reached out to me it was a full circle
so thank you to notion for partnering with me on this video
and i am just going to get right into it
okay so i'm going to shrink myself into a tiny little bubble circle or square
depending on how i edit this video
but this is my notion
so i primarily use notion as my life planner
but i also do organize bigger projects on notion as well
such as my youtube, my webtoon, it's honestly great to plan projects
take notes if you're in school and plan bigger things
so it's not just a planner but you can literally organize your entire life with this
so it's been a lot of fun
this is my home page it is very simple
i am going to say right now that my notion is very simple i am very straightforward
i don't want it to have things that i won't use
so i try to make it as practical as i can for myself
here is a look at the entire page
got this section my week planner week at a glance
and my month calendar this combines my personal life and my work life
it's the first thing that i go to basically
also i do use notion on my laptop on my desktop my ipad even my phone
it's available on pretty much any device which is amazing
it's very convenient
so up here we have a cover
you can change your cover using the change cover button
i like to just use link so i don't take up storage on my laptop
you can paste an image link all you have to do for this i can actually kind of show you
my notion is pretty much anime themed
mostly studio ghibli but in general anime themed
so i like to look up for instance anime cooking gif
don't come at me for the way that i say gif
but actually instead of anime cooking i'll do anime nature scene
see there are lots of pictures and i will just click on it
and then copy image address and then paste it
so that's what i do for all of my covers
and i insert gifs as you can see here this is from kiki's delivery service
this is from whisper of the heart some of my favorite studio ghibli movies
and then here i have an icon this is i'm assuming the golden gate bridge
i am from the bay so home this is basically home
and then another thing i did
i changed the font of this page to mono
there's also serif and default i used to have it, i can even show you right now
but there's the default option serif option serif is cute
and then i also went with full width if you unclick it or turn it off
it becomes much more condensed but i like to have it full width
and then i have my directory here
i have an upcoming section and a shopping list
these are my go-to things
under the directory i have my youtube studio webtoon studio i even made a tiktok studio
because i want to be more active on tik tok
why do my joints keep popping
i'll get into my studios in a second
but i have an upcoming section as well
this is kind of my future to do section
and a feature that i like is this add a new to do section
because i don't want to add in a to-do list block every time
so this is its own little function
all you have to do is add a block we're going to go all the way down
did i pass it? no i didn't
we're going to use template button and then you can call it anything you want
and it will create this add a new to do function
and i love using that
and i'm just going to command z to delete it
so i crossed off kidney stone medication because i have a kidney stone
i've had it for a month now
but i had to pick up some meds at the hospital that i go to
so i checked that off, uh where is my oh i don't have an archive here
i am quickly going to make an archive
so the way that i like to do it i'm going to add a block here
and then i'm going to create a page
and this is going to be my archive
this is a very quick thing that you can do
and then if i have a finished task i will put in the archive so it's gone
it's a little easier than pressing delete
and then i have a shopping list here
for instance if i oh god why is everything messed up
so that's my section here i'm going to move down into my week planner
i made it all yellow because yellow is a nice happy color
i also like to use this little divider
kind of separates things
another thing that i love about notion is how visual it is
you can customize it any way you want make it as cute as you want
and you can play around with colors fonts
i have a nina's week little section
and then under it i have this little quote block
this one says i hope you have a good week
so i have sunday here monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday
and then here's my archive or finished tasks
so here i just throw in tasks according to the day
i like to break up my days into time as well
so if i finished tasks i'm going to drag it
into the finished task archive
and then if i want to add a new to-do i added this template button
and then every week i change the date but
i also when i schedule my time i like to write in the actual task that i complete
because if i write edit video it can kind of be overwhelming
sometimes you don't know how much of the video you want to finish
so i like to say oh let's do the rough cut today
tomorrow i'll add in text i'll add music
in general i think it's a good idea to break down your tasks even more
if you're studying for an exam write on one day go over the study guide
the next day write in the chapters or sections you want to study
just break it down it makes your life less overwhelming
so that's my week planner and then under that i have this week's at a glance view
it's just very nice to look at
but there is this task section and i have my tasks kind of organized
in the order of when i need to finish them
and you kind of visually get to see when things are going to happen
you just have to add... so scroll a bit a timeline view
and then you can create a timeline
this just gives me a better look at the coming weeks
for instance in two weeks i have to publish another webtoon episode
so i get to see it coming and then i have it viewed at bi-week
but there's also month quarter year hours anything you want
and then down here i have my month view
right here there's a calendar view
so here's my personal calendar this is where i combine any aspect of my life
whether it's just life appointments birthdays youtube videos
webtoons other projects travel things like that
everything goes here into this calendar
so i categorize all of my events into different sections
so for instance i have to upload a new episode of my webtoon soon
and i have a type and then it is webtoon
there is youtube life webtoon travel
so for every event there is a category
so i have all of my youtube related stuff
i have my life related stuff webtoon
um also this is a secret between us
don't tell anyone else but i am going to korea soon
i will make an official announcement later
don't tell anyone else though okay
it's only between you guys on youtube and me
so this is the month of april and then may i have a bunch of things planned as well
next to my personal calendar i have my videos calendar
this is what it looks like
the reason why i have a separate calendar for my youtube stuff
is because i did want to separate my youtube related projects from my life
so that i can see it better
this database is part of my youtube schedule
it's actually literally my youtube schedule
if i change into the calendar view this is what it looks like
all of my videos are organized
but you can change it into a table view just like this
a board view another great feature with notion
you can change the way that you see your database
and then i have my webcam calendar
this is where i organized the webtoon episodes themselves
without seeing the clutter of my life of my videos it's all just clean
i do have a webtoon schedule and this is what it looks like
as a table as a board and as a calendar
so that is pretty much my home page
moving on to my personal section or my personal page
it has a more dreamy pastel theme to it
because this is where all my hopes and dreams lie
again i changed the cover to this scene from spirited away
another favorite movie of mine
and then this is titled nina's personal
here i have my goals, what did i write?
drink at least two hydro flasks worth of water, yes
actually that's a reminder, stay hydrated
i'm gonna drink some water now, i actually had a lot of water this morning
we're gonna stay hydrated we're not gonna have any more kidney stones
hopefully, i do know they come back though
so anyway another goal i have, stretch every morning
walk outside every morning for at least 30 minutes
tidy room every sunday sleep before 12 a.m
i just like to write little goals here
uh i have my ideal work routine
honestly it's very complicated
i was just about to speak korean right now
i was going to say it's very 복잡해
i was trying to figure out how to divide my youtube and webtoon time
anyway i also have a breakfast page
i actually decorated it a lot
so i have another scene from kiki's delivery service
and then i have this gif from howl's moving castle
another favorite of mine
and then for my breakfast section
i have this quick simple to no prep section for breakfast
when i'm on the go and then i have my favorite places for takeout
i have to update this list though
and then down here i have my breakfast recipes database
i have not finished it either
but it's where i like to organize breakfast
it also gives me an idea of what groceries i need to get
i also have lunch, oh i love this as well
it has the sort of green theme we've got a cute little lunch box here
and then this gif from adventure time, i love adventure time
and i also have a take out section, dine-in
it just kind of gives me an idea of places that i like to go to for lunch
and then if i want to cook at my lunch recipe section
i have not updated it all that much
so i have to add a whole lot more maybe i'll add snacks here as well
and then dinner it has a green brown theme to it
which i have not finished either but i hope to get back into it
and then what's in my bag
just kind of is a list of products that i like to carry around in my bag
kind of also gives me a reminder of things that i need to buy
and then here i have my future project section
these are all top secret i was thinking of blog ideas, patreon
i don't have a patreon yet but i was also thinking of things that i want to do for patreon if i ever get to it
i also did organize my little patreon project section as well but i kind of made it a totoro
theme and then down here i have my daily journal i have a board view a gallery view basically for
my daily journal section i just write posts like a diary it kind of divides my posts into good day
okay day med day not very good day this was kind of a new feature that i worked on so i only have
four posts because i am dealing with my kidney stones i had some days of extreme pain but then
i also had some good okay days but this was my personal page and then next i have my shopping
page i love the pastel colors of it here i have pages of different grocery stores that i go to and
then within those pages i write a grocery list for that store and then i have a current shopping list
and then i have an ult wishlist and then here's my korea section it's just a long list of things
next we are going to move on to my studios here's my homepage and then under directory we're going
to youtube studio and it's also on this little sidebar so this is my youtube studio page here are
my youtube goals, so i want to upload every sunday at 9am pst i want to try for four to five uploads
per month one to two sponsorships per month and i wrote about what i want to post exactly so that i
can keep that in mind so i want to post about my webtoon korean culture kpop drama anime pop
culture life vlogs pretty straightforward very oh no nina and then i have this little page of why i
make youtube videos sometimes you will go through periods of time where you kind of forget why
you're doing something and then you get a little lost but that's why i have this page to remind me
of why i started making videos in the first place and it's just a good reminder and this pertains to
anyone in society who's working sometimes you have to remind yourself why you do something right
below that i have my youtube planner again this is a timeline view i don't have a task list because
that's in my home page but i do like to kind of time out when i need to do stuff for youtube
right below i have my upload schedule calendar this is my youtube schedule database you can
also change the name of your database here just so it can go with your page and each little video on
this upload schedule actually has a whole page i can write my about for the video things i need to
do for the video my shopping list for the video i have an outline a sponsor outline description box
just everything that i need to organize my video so right below the calendar i have a table view
of the same calendar so everything you see here is this i break it down into status
publish dates whether it's been published sponsor sponsor name full title i actually got this idea
from dobochobo or deborah, love her very much, and then she got it from krist yu who got it from
someone else blah blah but it's a great way to organize yourself and then i also have a video
type section this is a multi-select property so i can write whether it's a sit-down video a
vlog whether it's a tutorial fashion related all that so that's my video database and then under
i just have a video idea dump i don't really have much here because it's all
up here and then next to my youtube studio i have my webtoon studio so this has a green theme to it
i added this gif of someone drawing because webtoon i am drawing and i just thought green
was a good color also literally the webtoon logo is green so right here i have my webtoon schedule
calendar again this is my webtoon scheduled database so all the items are organized like this
and i have a visual note that each episode goes up on a friday every other week. so my webtoon is
called to love and be loved obviously there are a lot of characters so i like to keep track of all
of them here's my database so i have a gallery view of my database i also have a table view so
i have all these properties and i have all the character names i have their type such as main
character supporting character tertiary character antagonist all that i have their korean name
other name birthday zodiac mbti birthplace nationality height major occupation description
i even have the pinterest boards because i do have pinterest boards for all of my characters
i have done extensive research to come up with these characters and then i have a gallery view of
all my characters i basically just took pictures of all my characters and put them in the pages now
the pictures show up like this so for instance we have my lead character jihyun and then i have all
of her pictures not all of them but just like my favorites and i did this for all of my characters
i'll show you how that works here's an empty page and then i created a character bio template page
if you add it there it is i even added a link to an existing page my webtoon schedule it's
literally this i just have it down here just in case and then i have a page for scene folders
i sometimes come up with a random scene in my brain and i want to write it down then i'll go
to the scene folder i'll add a page and type out the scene other things these are future projects
maybe i want to have a shop for my webtoon or for art related things and then again i linked
an existing page this is my patreon that i talked about earlier and then down here i have my webtoon
to do this is the webtoon scheduled database but in a board view and then i have all of my
episodes down here so these things that you see here are also here and also here the same exact
database so that was my webtoon studio i love it and then here's my tiktok studio i have not
done much except for this idea dump but you can even have your page look as simple as this and
it gets the job done, but here i have an index of all the media i consume or almost all of it here
i have an anime section, i actually have a link to my myanimelist profile, another great thing
about notion is you can directly put in links to stuff on your notion, here's my anime list
it just keeps track of all the anime i'm watching i don't know if i put every single anime i've ever
watched because sometimes i forget or it just doesn't come up in my brain. i literally have
this page of anime i've watched i have not updated this in a long time because i already have my
anime list profile, i have films that i watched and i have quotes that i like quotes that i enjoy
i have a little note section so i can annotate that quote, next i have my book section i have quotes
from books that i've enjoyed, i have a book list, did i even add anything in here oh i did! i have
not updated this in a while but maybe i should, i have a list of webtoons that i read, k-dramas
i literally just listed mydramalist. so here are all that i completed again i don't know if i added
every single one i've seen. next i have my music section i have a list of korean artists that i
listen to, favorite bts lyrics favorite lyrics and then i have my movie section and for this
i quickly just linked my letterboxd profile. i just got it recently it is not very updated
i definitely have seen a lot more movies than this but this was my media index, just keeping track of
all the media i consumed and these are all just pages that i have talked about but that is pretty
much my notion! it literally is as me as it can be, it has all of the important pages that i care
about and i am able to organize my personal life my work life with youtube, with webtoon, any other
projects that are coming up in the future and i think this is a great tool for anyone in school,
in work, just anything, i just love how customizable it is, how functional and useful it is and you can
also actually have other people see your notion as well if you work in a company or have a team
you can also give them access to your notion so it's a collaborative space, they can add stuff,
see the same things you're seeing, so it's really helpful really useful a lot of people are using it
i also jumped on the notion train, so if you want to check out notion for yourself you can use the
link down below in my description but that is going to be it for this video! thank you again
to notion for partnering with me on this video and for helping me organize my life. i am going
to put my laptop away
thank you for watching and i will see you in my next video! good bye my friends :)