welcome to today's video today's video is the long-awaited notion of desktop tour basically
exactly how i set up my notion to stay as productive as possible because as i explained
in the last video like this is you without motion shock a bit emotion in there bang that's you now
like it just levels up everything you just become a beast when it comes to your mental space when it
comes to productivity when it comes to getting everything done you want to get done yeah also
don't worry because all the stuff in this video applies whether or not you're a student because
i haven't actually changed my notion dashboard already since being a student and everything that
i've used has still applied to being a doctor yeah basically all of the systems universal so
without further ado let's get into the tour okay so this is notion this is what it looks like you
can access it either as the app or on the web but with my notion homepage management setup
i like it to be really simple i find the easier it is to use the more i actually use it and the
more helpful it actually is so for me this is the home page this is where i like direct myself to
everything and on every page i've got this imagery to just like associate the tasks i need to do with
like a positive image because i feel like the more vibrant and the more uh aesthetic your task
management systems are the more you actually want to use them the more you stick to it yeah anyway
so on this live dashboard home base i've got all of the pages i need and then i've got these
things called vocals and these are the things i'm really focusing on like in my day-to-day life and
the things i want to be focusing on for literally indefinite and then if something drastic changes
in my life i might shift one of those vocals and choose to focus on something else but as of right
now i have five vocals the first is advocating for mental health and the pursuit that's uncovering of
passion for people the second is that becoming more like becoming more articulate and widening
my vocabulary through understanding so through like reading and things like that listening to
podcasts having conversations with other people on a deeper level and building out my vocabulary
learning to become more articulate and be able to maintain a conversation without things like um
like pauses and not really being able to get my words out so far that's been a lifesaver third
phone call is building a stronger relationships and developing my social adept by this i mean i
saw relationships for quite a while or for the longest time as just like face value like you
just haven't made that's it but actually this is deeper meaning to life and they start stems from
relationships and how you enjoy shared experiences with one another and then how you relive those
experiences et cetera so i'm really keen to develop out stronger relationships and basically
build my ability to do so so hence that vocal fourth vocal setting up financial support system
so that i'm not forced to work for the sake of working by this i literally just mean building up
different sources of income investments and things such as that i'm in a position to support myself
with the capital i already have so i can work for the sake of working and not work for the sake
of extra capital i feel like i've already done that to some extent blending the two so i'm i'm
working for enjoyment but i also do need the capital to survive so it's not quite there yet
but we're getting there and the final one is staying healthy because i feel like if you're
staying healthy you keep your energy high i want to keep working my body and basically put myself
in an optimal position to tackle everything i want to do and just like feel overall better because
yeah when your body's not in it you're not in it your mind's not in it your mental health isn't
there so it doesn't work so those are the five phone calls but then one overarching idea for
all of that and i've got this on the homepage so i keep this in the back of my mind at all times
is that never give into normality the sacrifice of excitement and now i took this into consideration
when i dropped out of uni sometimes i find that the path i'm on i start to give into normality
so i started skipping them to the typical path in life and i lose the excitement i have when i'm not
on that path when i'm on a different path when i'm on a path i'm carving out that is unique to
myself i love that excitement i love the thrill of that it just makes me happier so yeah then
i've got a little summary of what that means but the premise is don't give in to excitement for
the sake of normality and to find ways of doing that cool those are the vocals that is all on the
home screen so i see that every single day when i wake up or when i check notion and log into notion
which is every day and then the first one is the task manager so this is a task manager that one of
my flatmates actually built and i personalized for exactly what i needed talked about in the
last video but you open this up there's a few different parts of this so the first is weekly
focus so these are three bullet points and that is exactly what i want to be focusing on that week i
said the overarching idea is the general theme of things and then what we've got is the inbox
so here you click on it to create a new task so for example it can be literally anything that you
have to do but if i want to buy a new laptop and i want to do a bit of research on that yeah look
at all the specs and buy laptops can be suited to my needs what's the energy it doesn't take a lot
of energy because i like why i want to do it so it doesn't take energy at all i just get on with it
context uh so this is actually to do with my mana work so i don't need to fill that in module code
miscellaneous because it doesn't really relate to my work or youtube or anything like that and then
you set either whether it's ongoing a priority or you set a due date so if you set a due date
for example the 26th it disappears from that inbox and then when i need to do it it will come up it
will come up in today if it's due either that day or the day after it will come up in due soon if
it's due within a week and then any other tasks you can find under their correlated course codes
so miscellaneous you'll find that there buy a new laptop and that is how this task management
system works but then if i didn't attach a date to that task and instead i clicked priority it
would go into today's task so for example you see at the top of the task table for today it says buy
a new laptop but then also if you don't check priority and instead you check ongoing then it
goes to the ongoing column and that's everything that doesn't have an associated due date it's not
impending but something you want to do over time that goes down there and essentially now you've
got a place to add all of your tasks and then it automatically builds a to-do list for that day
and then tells you everything you've got upcoming and anything that's ongoing so you can just crack
it all out and each day rather than sitting down and creating your own to-do list it completely
automates it for you i honestly just think this is a lifesaver and it has saved me so so much
time then you can find all of the tasks will be under the tasks table itself and then the module
table is all it's pretty self-explanatory it is all of the modules that you create so as well as
these four you can obviously remove some of those but you can add all of your own as well so before
i had all of my course codes for university and that's actually still in the template i believe
so if you do go into the link in the description i've made a template for this task manager and
loads of other stuff in this video so they are all in the description you can go and check them out
if you'd like anyway back to it so that is the task management system so if you go back to the
live dashboard i've then got uni of bar so this is where i attract everything related to university
i am obviously now not at university anymore i did drop out and i'm now working full-time if you want
to know the logic behind that that video is also up there but yeah it was a bit of a bad decision
and personally i found it the best decision to have made but anyway this is how i got organized
for university so what i found really helpful was in overall life i had these retrospective
planning systems now this is really really simple again i like to not have for exchange between my
mind and the notes i'm taking so i don't want like unnecessary steps all i have was a review
of that semester so you click on the review i've got what went well and then i've got all of the
room for improvement and i pretty much use this to optimize my semester too obviously i'm not
here anymore but from the point that i was here it did help to optimize it so for everything i
needed room for improvement i'd like come up with an idea to improve that aspect so for example if
i didn't manage to find time to consistently do extra work i need more efficiency and that came
from a better morning routine i wanted to stay on top of lectures and do the problem sheets so
they were set i'd have to set quotas for the uni work and then you use those quota completions for
example if i sequence for four hours a day and completed it i need some sort of reward system
to keep me in the flow and keep me doing that and that is basically how i'd review my semesters that
is in semester review then i've got this hourly plan and this i went on like i properly deeped it
and explored exactly how much i time how much time i would have if i slept nine hours a day
and exactly how much i could squeeze into every day so i built out this little page
where it had everything i wanted to do how much time i could roughly spend on each and
i literally did it day by day roughly how much time i'd be spending to see if it actually worked
it was intense it was intense yeah so anyway go back to the university hub we've then got the
grocery tracker now i also explained this in a few of the previous videos but this is honestly just a
lifesaver so it tells me everything that i have in stock and anything that's going out of stock
within a day or within a week luckily there isn't any because any there was i ate i don't have much
food left in stock but it gives you a massive overview of everything that you have so you
can decide what you want to eat and then when it comes to actually doing your shopping is so
so easy because you just go down to the shopping tab and then you can either do a priority shop or
a full shop priority shop is just all of the essentials that you need to get in and then
the full shop is everything you've got on your stock list that you don't have in stock so you
can go through and just add like all the things that you might want and then anything that new
or anything you're you're feeling like trying you add to this list and then next time it'll come up
in the full shop and you can decide whether or not you want it once you get it you just click stopped
and then you put in the date that it goes off and then that adds it all to the system and again that
tells you when everything goes out of date so you can use it out before it does it's saving you so
so much money and honestly again another lifesaver so this template is also in the description below
so you can go check that out if you'd like anyway going back to the university home base then i've
got all my mechan stuff so coursework notes this is just one of my notes from year one
contacts those are all the contacts i'd make and then all of the emails of those people so i could
easily reach out to them if i needed a specific thing so for example it was a placement manager i
could just reach out to them and it just gave me a place to keep all of that information because
i find myself just writing on a little post-it note some random places forgetting it exists and
not being able to contact my number when it came around to it which is really really frustrating
and then next up i got the course so that is just like random information about the course i didn't
really throw that in resources and databases so that was things taught me with technical
information writing that report and i was actually doing automotive engineering so it was a database
with all the information the automotive engineers would need and just gave me a really quick easy
way to get into all of the stuff that i needed finally software shortcuts i was so bad when
it came to shortcuts and remembering them so any shortcuts i pick up i'd write down in here so if
i needed for example to be able to search through an entire document i probably wouldn't remember
how to do that until i checked the software short guy here and that's just control g i know i know
i don't know how i've gone through the last five years without knowing that but yeah i
didn't until about three weeks ago which is mad then all of the miscellaneous stuff so
like the address of the uni the details of my uni and i also applied to ucl and i was
going through a bit of a phase of my course i'm probably not going to go there now but uh yeah
there's the details of that come to all that i know where everything is oh a little tea break
nice now probably my favorite page this is betterment so you go into the best of my page
on the live dashboard it comes up with this this is brilliant so on this page first of all if i was
getting distracted from university work what would i do about it this is what i do also have a little
tab for habits i'm trying to establish those are like the three key habits i wanted to establish
and how they were going these are just little tips i can write down to help me overcome bad habits
so for example if i'm sleeping in i just read or listen to music instead and then i'd use jealousy
that means to get out of bed in the morning this one i don't actually really agree with anymore
i'm trying to just remove jealousy completely so i can focus on the inner drive but like when
jealousy was still a thing for me this was really helpful because it got me up and got me moving
cool and then finally social uh i had a little tip so i listened to heart heart music when messaging
people because i genuinely found that if your mind is in a heartfelt mood your replies were so much
more genuine and so much deeper and yes it allows you to have a better conversations and finally
down at the bottom this is my daily tracker so i've actually printed this off and stuck it to
my walls but i built it in the ocean and it's just like a list of godly actions i think i should be
doing each day whether or not i've done it so for example on monday i can just take it off et cetera
yeah like i said i actually just printed that off and stuck it onto my wall instead cool and
then at the top the two main things so when it comes to my betterment basically i focus on like
the personal development side of things and then more like my mental health and enrichment side of
things the personal development of mental health definitely comes from books and then music so
i've got two tabs for the two funnily enough so go into book tracker these are all of the books that
i've either read or want to read i don't actually include audio books on here but i'm going to start
doing that all you have to do is you click add you type in the name of the book you upload an image
categorize it based on whether you've started finished or not started and then like what type
of book it is an audiobook physical book digital etc and then it comes up here in this gallery
view and then once i finish it i basically write a summary in this page so i can see the collection
of all of my books and then all of the takeaways i've had from each of those books because i found
i never really took notes on the books i never really remembered off the top of my head probably
some constantly i remember some of it but off the top of my head i can remember the key points i'm
really keen to create this space this digital mind where i can store all the takeaways from those
books and that's gonna be really really helpful that's stored here so again for this i'll also
have a template of this linked in the description below if you don't want to check it out that's it
for the book tracker if we go ahead to the music tracker this is very very simple it's just like
the different instruments and the songs i want to learn so for example for all of me i literally
just linked a video that teaches me all of me on piano very very straightforward and nothing much
to it and then any like key points i want to know all like key things i'm getting stuck on i can
just write down there but you just hit slash add a bullet list that's it very very easy to use lovely
so that's three of them down going on to youtube this one's pretty simple so i've got my sponsor
tracker video tracker income skillshare courses and growth ideas so the sponsor tracker itself
basically this is a joint page between me and my manager and it helps to track which sponsors
we've reached out to which has confirmed sort of like the pricing structure the negotiations all of
that kind of thing just helps us to stay aligned to what we need to do then for video tracker this
is all the videos that i i need to do i can store it in a few different ways so i've got a kanban
style view where it goes from being an idea to needing research to being scripted reviewed filmed
and then published et cetera so that's there on the video tracker then for income that's
basically just like where i'm taking everything in from because obviously i sell cue cards i sell
digital goods i have the ad revenue i've got sponsorship payments it's basically where it
all comes in and then how i manage the taxes and stuff on that i keep track of all that in
my income obviously you're not going to go into that then the skill share courses this is just
random ideas for courses again it's a joint page with me and i make well then we're planning to
create some skill set courses between the two of us is tracking our thought process behind each of
them and then storing all of the information and then finally growth ideas so there's not much in
this because i kind of just act on it straight away when i come up with a new growth idea but
yeah just like random ideas thoughts that i want to chuck down when i when it comes to mind it's
just a really easy way to do that nice next up my digital minds now this is a place for just like
all of the random stuff everything that i haven't already explained this goes into here this is
everything so first of all obviously you've got the really calm the soothing banner at the top
just to get you into a good mindset whenever you open this page i've got this page to do
pretty much everything i use it to plan trips so we have to do again is hit slash create a new page
and then just whack out everything to do with that trick that gets planned and it's just really easy
to see what i have to do for that trip i've got my habit review so any habits i'm trying to establish
if there's things that are going slightly wrong or i can't keep track of and i want to remember
the rest now behind it i write that in here so for example waking up on time when i've had breakfast
it's easy to get up so i get my shake ready before i go to bread and just like random thoughts that
are helping pink at me to achieve that habit then mental offload this is essentially just like
my form of journaling so if i'm over stressed low onset or any of these emotions i can tap in
and just start filling out and that just helps me to kind of get it all off my mind onto a page or
into the digital world the metaverse and yeah it means i just don't have to keep it in my mind it's
written down somewhere so i don't have to worry about it but i know that it's like kept track of
essentially because even if i never do anything with it if i write down everything i'm stressed
about it just alleviates so much that stress and it is a lifesaver so that's why that's there same
for all of the emotions and some like a bucket list uh mental foundation this is a place to
just keep track of more things so the books and podcast thoughts that's actually taken care of in
the books tab in the betterment page i just haven't removed it from here yeah but for
example if i open it up it goes into podcasts and books so not overthinking it's just a summary of
all the takeaways i got from that podcast that was actually a great podcast so i definitely recommend
that and the relationships are one that that is uh again another thinking podcast by ali abdullah
great episode and then just like new vocabularies anymore anytime i come across new vocabulary it's
right down in here so yeah i remember it easier i've got a lot of social things so those are
things i want to remember about like makes and stuff that's quite like important things i don't
want to forget that helps me to bring up remember it and enrich those relations because again at the
start i said i'm really into building a deeper relationships with people now that's a really
good way to do it in engineer random product ideas so i've got like an autonomous cocaine all-in-one
smart desk interests so these are really cool concepts so for example hedonic adaptation
and then uh blockchain i actually haven't pretty much in there but lingo the only thing that's in
there is mamms at the moment i need to do a lot more research on the blockchain uh and then this
is just a way to dump all of my ideas in and then yeah on random we've also got fair actors and a
little shopping list yeah like i said this is literally just my digital mind whenever i have a
thought rather than going to note i go to here and i'm trying to build out this in a way that lets
me just like create a new page and start typing that's been just mine right almost there next up
finances so finances this ad that says it's on the tin it just helps me to keep track of one of my
finances when it comes to crypto it tells me where all of my crypto stores it helps me to keep track
of the paid and the people that i need to invoice and just make sure like i know roughly what i'm
doing when it comes to my finances and tax and all that yeah that's helpful and then the final page
is future projects and rabbit holes things in here are like the extreme table tennis when we properly
procrastinated from my doing our uni work meet my flatmates and i just went into all of this it was
bloody brilliant but it was a massive rabbit hole and it took away from everything i was doing an
ecom so that's when again when i went on a similar path to applying to ucl i also had an awesome path
where i just like drop out and do drop shipping but i didn't feel like drop shipping would be
as satisfying and as fulfilling hence i dropped out and now i'm now working full time on a path
i actually think offers real value to people and helps them in their life so yeah that's that and
yeah that is my life dashboard that is like my entire notion set up i do hope you found
this helpful and obviously if you do want like any of the templates i mentioned in this video
in the description and if you want me to run through any of the things that aren't templates
or like how you set up drop it in the comments and either me or obviously the army of people watching
this video will be able to help you so yeah do drop a comment if you want to know anything more
about notion or anything more about this setup like i said there are lots of way way better like
notion home pages motion setups for productivity for workflows for all of that i just like it to
be really simple really easy to use like hop in open a page and just blur everything out
that's how i like it obviously a lot of people are very different i definitely recommend checking out
ali abdullah's video on it and thomas frank's they were legends in the game when i started creating
my dashboard and when i first got into notion by the way yeah do hope you've enjoyed this video
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