Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is Francesco here. Welcome to the Keep Productive YouTube channel on today's video
We are diving into how to create a bullet journal inside of Notion. This is going to be an exciting video
So stay tuned for this full feature
So guys as you can imagine, let's kick things off with a few messages
The first of the messages is that we will be having the creator of the Bullet Journal Ryder
Carroll here on the YouTube channel this week
I'm not sure whether it's gonna be posted before or after this video
But it will be on this channel to discuss his latest book and the methodology behind the bullet journal
It's gonna be quite exciting podcast or YouTube feature. We did a video
I think it was about two three weeks ago and it's going to be available very very soon
The second one is to check out Rebecca Ford's YouTube channel. She has been posting so many great Notion videos and will include it below
Because she's doing such a great job in helping people find and improve the way that they use notion
I love her working practice and use of notion
She had a great one on task management that also included features of journaling in there, too
so
Feel free to check that one out in the comments below and the third and final message is to join the notion made simple Facebook
group
We have over 750 members in the last two weeks and it'd be great to have you there whether you're a beginner or intermediate
You can learn post questions and also learn about what notion is developing for the future. So, I'm really excited
So feel free to join that one
I'll be there and loads of other people from this Facebook or YouTube channel will be there too, and it were guys
Let's dive into today's video today's video is focusing on to creating a bullet journal experience inside of notion. I've done a mock up
I did a mock up the last week of it
This is what it will look like by the end of it and I based it off the video
There Brian account posted I think five five to seven years ago. I can't really remember
It's been plenty a while ago so you can see here that this is what will aim to create today from scratch
So that you know how to do it and apply it to your experience and the great thing about bullet journaling
Is this is really a bear bone structure? Obviously, you can add so much to it adapted to your own methodology and
Even go further with the book that they recently released. So guys in today's video. We're creating all of that
So guys we're gonna create a brand new page. I'm gonna call it my bullet journal to really customize it and
I'm gonna give it a lovely icon and the great thing is you can customize the icon whenever you like
So I'm gonna put this sort of book here and of course you can add your own cover to it
That's actually quite a fitting cover with the with the actual cover of the book being blue
So I'm gonna leave it like now when we get started with a page I tend to add a quote
so I'm gonna add a quote and say
Francesco's
bullet
journal
Process and that gives a nice entrance to the page
and what I'm going to do is just below that is I'm gonna create a sub header and
we're going to start by creating the index versus the index is almost where you find everything and it's a good starting point when you're
creating a bullet journal inside of notion
So I'm going to put a divider between those just so it's a bit clearer and I'm also going to go to the bottom will
Narrow the bottom and create another sub header called collections. This will make sense a little later into this video
We're going to start with the index. So to start things off
I'm going to create this structure of each page and then I'm going to go into the page is an add a bit more detail
now the first of the pages is
solid future log future log if I just create a new page and then it's tied to that future log and
Gonna add a road. I'm not toilet. I've got a toilet recommendation
I'm gonna add a road map and click Add cover. So that's great. All I have to do is go back now
I've created that structure if I wanted to I could go to rename and add the page number
but if in this case, I don't actually have to
that's one of the benefits of obviously doing it digitally and
So you can imagine I'm going to create a month view a month view is essentially
Allowing you to see what's coming up in the month. I'm gonna give it a
Calendar view and I'm gonna add a cover as well
so if I go out of this
I've got future long future loggers for your next three plus months you could you view your next couple of months in here
So it could be you know, everything all the way to April
We'll be creating our page in a second month view is for pretty much your tasks and your calendar
activities for that this month or next month that you want to have in in view and
I'm going to create a day view. So I'm going to create page and day
View I'm going to go and add a lovely not money a lovely Sun to that one and I'm gonna add cover here
so if I go back to my bullet journal
I've created the real bare bone structure of it the future long for your future mumps ahead and it could be whatever
planning in advance
And the month view to actually see your tasks and calendar as well as a day view for planning and journaling your day
Now down here. I'm actually gonna
Add a divider just below this one. I I
Think I've already done it
So I'm gonna add a new page called checklists
This is for my notes that are static
So I will click checklists and I'm actually going to create it with this one here. I'm also going to create a
page for
past months and I'll explain why I did that the end so I'm going to put a
Boat there. So if I go out here, I've created all the pages. I really need to make now
So as you can see here, let's start with the future log
Now the future log should be a place where you coordinator your next couple of months. Now a lot of people would argue
let's just create a calendar a
Calendar in line here. But in this case, I'm actually not going to do that
I'm gonna go to header and gonna type in the next couple of months for the next six months and have that here
So, there we go, I've created a few of the months - spelling mistake for February
I can never spell it
And what I'm gonna do is I'm really simply gonna keep the next three months down this left hand panel
I'm gonna move February up here. I'm going to move March up here
Against these ones and I'm gonna move April up here now
What I'm going to do is I'm just going to space these out so that I have enough information
Ready to add there and I'm going to leave this for now
But for example, I'm gonna go back to my bullet journal page and in the month view now
so the month of you should really include your tasks and your calendar events coming up so I'm gonna add a little
tas area with header
Tasks and I'm gonna add a real simple few bullets to get you started
and
Of course
We're going to be creating a template out this so we're naturally going to keep it really simple and then I'm gonna add a table
In line and the reason why I won't do this is because I want to add the calendar view
But I wanted to look like how rider does it in his feature. So I'm gonna put calendar and
What I'm gonna do is I'm going to move this tab over to here
I'm
gonna make this one smaller and I'm going to create this one as the number of the day so that it's relevant for every
Single month that I create it for. So I've got number and I've got day and
I've haven't needed to change that. So here we go
So I'm going to put 1 2 3 and list out all of the days for the month
So do remember this once you've created the template in which we'll be using in this feature
You actually won't have to keep repeating this. So do not worry now as you can see here
I've got the day and when you have that month vailable and you know, like the first starts on a Tuesday
Then you've been out Tuesday there now
The final thing you need to do here is turn this one into a text area and just add what's happening
So once I add that I'm just gonna make a little bit more space for it
And as you can see, I've pretty much got my month view ready now as I was mentioning
This is dead simples that we're not really going to go much further than now
so if I go over to Dave view what I'm actually gonna do in Dave view is simply create an area for my tasks and
Also an area for any related note to the bottom. So just below here seeing as that we're creating a
Template out of this. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to use the traditional
bullet journal
notifications almost of what each of the messages means
So in this case, I'm going to keep a bullet as a task. So that actually equals a task
I'm going to put a checklist. So that's simply to do on the basic blocks
a
just delete that previous one as an event and
I'm going to add a I
believe it's called a toggle list as a note and
finally
There's some include you'll signify which is an important tasks that you need to complete
Normally inside a bullet journal you add a little star next to it
but in this case, I'm gonna put a bullet and call it the signifier and
Then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to the right. I'm gonna add a yellow color to it
So it is an important task
Essentially, so that's nice and clear. So that's my basic structure done. What I might do is just below these add some dividers
So, there we go
I'm going to go out to the bullet journal area
And as you can see, I've pretty much done the structure of all of these guys
Which is great now
I'm not going to create a template for the future log because I probably will just add to this or change it as I go
It's not really necessarily needed or you could create a template if you wanted to for six months
But really not necessary month view, I'm going to create a template for and day view
So all I'm gonna do is press the slash and type in template button. Now, I'm going to start with the monthly one
So I'm going to call this template add
new
month
And I'm going to just give that a capital
So add new month
What I want to do is I want to delete the page that's in there and I'm actually gonna drag the current
Monthly view that we've got here and I'm going to press and close now
What I'm going to do is I'm going to put this one up here
So it's really to the right hand side and then shuffle everything up. So it's inline and neat and with everything else. So
Great I've got a monthly button template and I will demonstrate that afterwards. I'm also going to do the same for a daily view
so all I have to do is add new day and
Do the very same is just drag that daily view up here and press close
Now if I drag this one up here, I've got a new month view and a new day view
So great. I have pretty much got structure of this bullet journal in sign of notion already
So I'm going to create a new month for you first. I'm actually gonna start by doing that one
And as you can see a new month view has created and it's actually opened it up for me now
I'm gonna take this month you and just pop it below the future log
The first thing I'm going to do is rename it and call it
November because that's this month
So, there we go
I've got November done
And what I'm also going to do is i'm gonna click add new day i'm gonna get a new day view
Obviously it opens up straightaway. If I go here, what i'm going to do is I'm actually going to call it
The what's a day to day?
And what you can do is you can actually title it today, but you could do that inside of the this one here
So for example, if I needed to just quickly make an edit to the title of it
I'm going to put today because essentially it will take today's date and then when today's date is gone
It will take the previous day. So that's a neat way of doing it. So here we are
I've got a minor vembur and I've got today. I'm gonna start by starting to populate in November
So I'm going to say next month. I have let's see a few of the things. I've got next month to do
let's record a video a day and
Let me just populate this one
Very simply you can start adding your tasks to this main area here
These are maybe your most important goals of the month
It could be really simple like that and you can start adding the days as well as what's happening on those days
to your calendar views
So it's really easy to do and as you can imagine something that you can populate fairly quickly
Now if I go to my bullet journal you pretty much do the same for today
So if I click in you can start adding the tasks for today, but they're a bit more specific. So let's add a few
So here we go I've added a few tasks using the key below
So as you can see, I've got a few tasks here like planned a week head an email David Pierce
And I've also got an Advent as well. So I've used the check box as the event and I've also added a
Reminder inside of notion. So for example, it says today at 2:00 p.m. And have reminded myself at the date
That is at the time in a date. So it's a really easy way
I've also used a toggle to create a note this way. It's hidden from bulking out to the tasks area
But if I wanted to I could quickly create it into a different area
So the best way to do that is if I wanted to add it and it came extend extended item
What I could do is I could link a page. So if I type in linked page linked to page and I said
checklists
So, there we go as you can see if I ever wanted to move this out
I could easily just drag it into that area and it would go into the linked page that was relevant
So if I had a longer note or a couple of notes that I wanted to sort out for later
I could easily do that there
So the great thing is as well if I wanted to be clear and be like okay planned full week ahead is so important
I could yellow back rounded and it would be the clear item as you got used to this
You could probably remove the key from the template and that way you get a bit of a cleaner experience
Now, of course using notion you can add tons more like tables calendars or even boards if you wanted to coordinate tasks a bit better
I know Rebecca uses that in her video and it looks like a great way to organize what's coming up
so if I go back to here you can see I've created a really
simple process here a way to plan at my future mumps a way to have a
view of what's coming up in my month and also a way to view the today and you're probably wondering
Where do I put all of this when it's all done now? You could create an archive area
Like I've done here a really simple archive area
Say for example, when November's done I could pop it in there or you could do that same with today
You can actually create a 2-day archive
but it's a good way if you wanted to to actually see past days and any
because some people use this as a journal as well as a
Methodology to write out something every morning so you could even add that section to your today area
Now you're probably wondering checklist, what are these guys now
You could pretty much start any checklist you like like a shopping list, for example
And if I type that one in add a lovely icon, I don't know why that came up. There we go
You can start adding a shopping list straight away like broccoli. I
Don't know
So you could start adding any checklists you like and of course if it was relevant to the today area
You could easily add it in there for reference
So for example link page and I go down and I type in shopping list
So you can see that appears there and it's easily linkable there. So guys, this is a really basic
Demonstration of how you can create a bullet journal there again. It's not something that's gonna go hideously in advance
And again, it's really customizable to what you work with, but it pretty much looks like the one I created the other day
So we have done it and we created it from scratch. Although I have adapted a few things as you can see here
I put the title in these ones and I wasn't using the app today
But you can see here that it pretty much resembles the same thing. So guys, hopefully that gave a nice overview
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