Hello guys, welcome back to another video on today's video
We're diving into how to create a template button
inside of no shouldn't've we're going to be diving up to the laptop to show you how you can use it to apply to a
morning routine
I'm actually gonna be creating my first ever template button
Which is gonna be quite exciting giving you a full overview of how to use it and that's all on today's video
Ok guys so I've got my cup of tea ready
I am ready for this feature this in front me of my new newer notions set up
You can probably grasp what I've tried doing with it. Put it a little bit more simply in today's video
We'll be explaining how to create a template button as well as demonstrating something that I wanted to create
I've sort of had it in my head. I've sort of been plotting it out I guess
You many of you guys may have known that I used to have a not a morning tab
But today tab the way I used to sort of have an area for today items like my checklist and things like that
But it really is an expansion from that
So I want to demonstrate how I would do this and sort of put it into action so you can get a like a real-life
Demonstration I'll try and an hour edit out bits of me like sort of like screwing up
But I think that's what good what's good about notion is that you can sort of screw up and rebuild
So the template button is really really simple function inside of motion
What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to create it in this one
I'm going to call it a new page called morning. So I would create block here. I'd call it morning
What I want to do is add an icon of not cricket but sunny
So I'm just going to click that one there
So if I go into this one?
what I'm gonna do to start off with is
I'm going to press the slash button as you can see all the basic blocks come up
and I believe the template button is in one of the advanced blocks or
There we go. Template button
So you can just type that in if you want to just template button and it will appear if I hit enter
This configuration of the template appears and this is where it can get quite tricky for some people
and what you can do is a lot of people and and I know David Pierce has this one is
Use the template button just a press or create a new page or create a new entry or something like that
but this in this demonstration
I want to create a new page that has something in it already
so that every time I'm creating a template of something, so here we are inside of the
template mountain account
You can see here that once a click in that short of shade goes away button titles
so I'm going to put the button title as I think I've got over here as a
Log entry, so I'm gonna have that as a log entry just so that I have a bit of a title
I was working out how to put like today
Whether I can put today on there and I don't know whether I can but I'm for this example. I'm actually to do that
So it's going to hopefully come up today and we'll hopefully see
Tomorrow whether it appears and I'll try and put a note in the comments whether it does so you can see down here
These are the actual box that will be created when you press this template button
You can drop blocks here. So I didn't actually know this but when you're actually creating this
This element down here is I would just delete it and start again
You can
Create some down here. So for example if I was like okay each time. I want a table to be created
You can drag this inside of there and that's literally how you could do it
So essentially here
if I wanted to
I could create a table every time I did this Martin says just demonstrate this one because this is a good example
If I close this button i'm like okay i'm gonna log in
Through this one and press that if I click it a table should appear
It's very simple so you can do that with anything. Really
Let me just demonstrate it one more thing before we move on because again, it's good to really demonstrate it
So the way to get back in is this cog in the right hand corner if I just delete this element here and go down
Here and maybe i'll create
like a
Let's see. What other elements are. Okay, let's let's go with a
calendar in line
All I have to do is drag up there and you can see what I mean if you want to if you really really did
Want to and you wanted to add multiple elements say for example a sub header
afterwards saying
This is today. I don't know
Then you could drag that just below it. So you can add multiple elements. Not just one part
And of course if I go back if I click press that this is today appears and also the list for the Canada
So I get a scratch all of these
I'm gonna delete them all so we got a fresh page here
So I'm going to create the one that I want to create is a morning log template
So let's go in template button brilliant watch fly title it. Let's title it morning log, which I was gonna do it in a sec
and
Let's not. Yeah, let's pretty let's put a hashtag for numbered. I will add and then down below here
I'm gonna press Delete on this one. I'm going to create a new page
So a new page down here and I'm gonna what I'm gonna do on the page is put total it
Morning log
hashtag
Then what I'm going to do is I'm gonna add a really simple structure to allow me to track my core focuses
my core achievements of the day and
Maybe what happened in the day, so that's three core areas. I want so here we go. So I'm gonna put our sub header
I'm going to put
three core
Focuses. So these are the things I want to focus on during my day
I'm gonna put a divider just below it to mean it up. Then I'm gonna put another sub header. I'm gonna put three
achievements
Is that spelt right? Probably butchered
Apparently there's a posh Ian er a Frenchie
See you let this is what's really gonna hold me up is the spelling I'm gonna put a divider below that too and
Again, I'm going to I'm gonna get rid of that second dividers appeared. I'm going to get create another one called
three
things that happened
With DOM, and it compared divider below that too now
what I'm going to do is I'm going to move this one about so it's
In line with this one so you can see here and I'm gonna put that divider down there
I'm going to put three simple bullet points as plate place markers
placeholders
next do all of these so when I come on to this new template page it pretty much has everything ready for me here and
I'm gonna do that one again
You just have to play around with this page to what see it's you and naturally over time
You're going to be adapting this and then I'm also gonna do the same here so bullet
bullet and
Three bullets. So I've got a real basic structure. I can even add icons here. So I might put like a picture of a
You could probably change the icon per day
So I'm going to put a picture of a like a morning log sort of hand drawing there
And I'm also going to add a cover in this in this demo actually going to upload one of the photos that I found
the other week
From unsplash so believe it's that one quite a nice morning entry. I think like quite
beautiful scenic so I'm just gonna drag up to the
There we go. So that appears
And as you can see here, this is all ready to go
I have pretty much my own morning log, really briefly created here. So if I click morning
you'll see if I go back into the
Lock so I've created now here. All I need to do is move up into there and
Logically if I just changed the title to log entry
Then a click close and a press log entry what should appear is a new page there
So let's say I'm ready to go
Okay, so I'm gonna log entry one and I'm gonna say well for folks is today is record
Skillshare and this could be in the morning, you know plan
Six month
Anniversary for wedding. Oh
You can see where I'm coming from but it's a great morning log sort of process
This is something that I'm actually gonna be starting to use. So so be very helpful
Imagine I am adding it for a second day in a row
same icon appears
Number two very very simple structure, but you've got yourself
Automatic log and you can start adding these logs and that's just a really simple demonstration of it
So hopefully you can go away with that one
I'll be using over the next couple of weeks and probably need to delete these too and
I'll be using it to experiment with it and maybe in a few weeks. I have a better idea of the template happens
So you can use many of the advanced functions side there to really create your own template button
And that's really how to take it above the norm. So guys. Hope you enjoyed this feature
just another no actually if you wanted to you could create your own archive page really really simply by just typing archive and
putting a
box
Like that
Then once you create them and you start adding them and you want to necessarily be able to
Drag them into that you can't it and then that you've create their own archive error, and we're really simple
Hopefully it helps you
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