Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel, it is francesco here. So in today's video we're doing something very different
We're doing a notion challenge. Now. This might be a new series that we release here on the channel
Essentially what I'm gonna be doing is giving myself five minutes
which I will have a timer in a second that
I will have to create a specific notion tool from scratch
So hopefully in those five minutes
I'll be focused on here
Working on a certain experience and then I will explain it in the next five minutes and how I went about doing that
So for this first episode of the notion challenge, I will be setting myself the challenge of creating a budget
Manager, so this is ideal for if someone is looking to manage their personal expenses or stuff that's coming in and out of their account
so hopefully this video gives you a good idea of
What and how you can reduce your spending or even keep track or manage your outgoings in incomings?
So let's dive in I've got five minutes. I'm gonna set my time in now. Okay, so my time has started let's go
Okay guys so I actually don't think I did very well
I tried maybe overextending myself goodness
But let me just give you a guided tour of this one and how it can work
And how it can be used in everyday practice. So this is the budget manager
I've created now the goal of this was so that I could just keep a track on everyday expenses
maybe you want to sit down at the every
End of every day and start inputting it
Now one of the things you can do from scratch is if you already had a setup like this
You could go ahead to the three dots area the options and actually merge it within Excel or a CSV that you already have
But just remember to change the columns based on it and of course they'll input directly in to what you already have now
I'm going to show you a few things that I'm sure works and then a few ways to customize it to your everyday access
So for example, let's say I went ahead today and I created or bought some groceries
So obviously I would add the title at the expense. What I tried doing here is adding a routine roll-up
So for example, I made in everyday items list of like the expense that was going out
But it didn't actually connect the database for some reason so I'm gonna skip past that entirely and delete that property
But I probably will come back to that in a full budget manager video if I find time
So you can see here the groceries obviously
I'm gonna say I spent twenty five pound forty five on it and you can see obviously you can go to the currency area
And change it to pounds or whatever currency that you're working in in this case
I'm going to say that type is food. So I'm going to add a type there and I also added a column
For the assigning. So for example who actually bought this one and the main reason I did that is because if you and your
Family or you and a couple share the bills then you could see who exactly got it and how much they paid for it
so in this case
I'm gonna say it's just myself and
any notes next to it so that you can tally for example our we can just save to pound fifty next time or something like
That or use the coupon code?
During the checkout so you can see here
I've already got my first entry in here and one of the things you can do
Let me add a few more and jump back and explain why this is quite cool
Okay, so I've added a few dummy entries and of course you'll be able to add as much as like as you can see
It's a super simple one, but I want to explain the viewing options
So one of the many benefits to having the viewing option is that you can go and add a view and in this case
I'm gonna add a calendar view because if I go ahead and create it you can see like an entries per day view
Which is quite nice. So for example, if I wanted to add another entry for example today, I bought chocolates. Um
Then I could for example add that entries there
I was I think six pounds fifty chocolates and you can say there it was for birthdays and
You can choose who it's from as well. Now as you can imagine you can get this sort of tally of what you've got
And that's quite nice and if I skip back to this view obviously, everything will be updated in this view here
so it's quite a nice way to actually being able to see that and if I wanted to be able to see in a
Descending order for example, like the latest ones at the top then you can do that. Use these sorting abilities quite easily
Now one of the things that you can do is for example, if you would like ok
I need to know how much I'm spending on
Birthdays or on the bills, for example. So for example, if I said and selected the type and
contains bills and what I could do down here is use the calculate button on this area to calculate these sum for example
I can see ok this month I've spent
Actually all the total I've spent three hundred seventy pound on
Entries. So for example, if I was like, okay, I'm gonna add next month's bill. I said, maybe you're saying next month's rent
Ok, so what you can do is use the and date is within and the past month as the entry and you can see
Here you can only see the March entries for bills and that's quite a neat way in using the filters to select
For example how much you spent on certain things like for example food in that month?
Entertainment or birthdays for example in that month and that's quite a good way forward
So that's a little bit of how to use the filtering abilities
of course if I take all the filtering abilities off
I will get a bit of an outline of all the total
costs and one of the things to waste if you wanted to get rid of it without the filtering abilities is you could add a
third column for example
paid for and you can add it the property type checkbox' and
Scrub all it up here and every time you've paid for something you should tick it off
and in this case
you could set up a filter that hides any of the checkboxes that aren't ticked off for example paid for is
Off you can see that these aren't paid for and they are upcoming
So this is a good way in about to being able to tally and for example
If you wanted to answer that filter, you can go ok
I want to see things that are coming up in the next month for example are after this date
What's after this date? And actually that's bad example. What is after this date?
And what coming up and what do I need to pay for? So this is quite a good way
I'm able to track what future payments coming out and
What past payments coming up? So guys that was the notion challenge?
Let me know in the comments below that you liked it or not
Whether it helps you to build something quite fast for your notion account
Of course
You can build pretty much anything
And what I want you two guys to do is recommend to me in the comments below
What you would like to see in the next notion challenge, what should I build from? Scratch? I won't do any research
I'll literally build it in those 5 minutes or 10 minutes if it's a bit more mental
And I'll give it a try and we guys thank you so much for stopping by today
Make sure to hit subscribe make sure to LIKE this video if you enjoyed it do comment below and I will see you guys
next time for another video all about notion challenges
You