Hi all! a step-by-step tour of my new Notion Bullet Journal this week! ❤ from NZ! 📣 Get Notion Life OS: A Complete Second Brain at www.bettercreating.com/lifeos + Use launch code LIFEOSLAUNCH for 50% off for a limited time!
Simon, this is excellent! Im a new subscriber and Life OS template user - this is exactly what I’ve been hoping to find. All of the videos I’ve seen so far on the template discuss how to BUILD, but I’m looking for more of this how to USE. Thank you so much and please keep ‘em coming👍
Ah thanks Mike - great to hear! Yes indeed: I’ll be working more on creating these as well as hopefully some more private videos for owners to help with onboarding and using it as much as possible: it’s a balance as I’m only one guys so have to find and balance the time :) Very much noted on how to use guides: realising for newer users - I can make more user guide on video :) thanks!
I was delighted to see this video! I second what someone said about having more user-guide-oriented videos. I think that to unlock the power of this system, you have to know it from the "inside", which is what happens when you build it yourself. But these more "bite-sized" videos with a full in-depth tour around certain parts of the template are helpful without being overwhelming. They are also great to adapt the system to fulfil particular needs! I am looking forward to more! Cheers to you, and thanks!
I feel you! I’m realising this more since there have been many more newer users to my world and templates: before - I think people had watched more of my videos and understood the ideas more - I’m looking at fast ways to create more simply filmed private videos for users too to guide sections. Thanks for the thoughts! :)
@@JoanaBruno_illustration Not sure yet - but that would make sense i think - or likely - unlisted on youtube and then linked on the Discord. Let's see :)
Great to hear my friend thanks! Yes - it’s so great once you really understand the basics. I want to work now on making instructions that make this even more accessible for new Notion users too - that’s the challenging bit! :)
Fantastic! I really wanted to learn how to make the habit planner's progress bar automatic: every time I mark the habit as done it updates in the progress bar of the database habit planner
Hi Simon ! Nice video ! Do you plan to add video to series Notion from Scratch soon ? I like your template but i build my own with your tutorial and i'm looking for more integration with new features :)
Thanks very much. I will do: it’s just a matter of time and resource to get them made! :) away with other work at moment so will do my best to create some asap.
Thanks! I know! It’s coming - I’m away Working as planned on my other job in theatre! Doing final details on the stand alone Creative OS and will be filming and releasing early May if all goes to plan :)
Simon, thank you sooo much for this! I been into Notion about a year now (actually your channel was what got me down that rabbit hole somehow so thank you!!), and everyone gives tours about templates but not really how to customize them. I've always been intimidated by how long it would take to make a template my own but your guide here was brilliant. Will the promo still be going on May 1st? That's when I will be able to purchase. Thanks again Simon love these Notion guides!
Simon, if I could have one wish it would be for you to spend more time in your videos explaining WHY to do something before HOW to do it. It might be that you have another excellent video on the topic that I've not yet found, but keep us slow adopters in mind. Your brain works so quickly to solve the problem, while mine is still trying to define the problem to solve. You've reached the how before I've gotten there. And feeding the cat and fixing the motorbike are too simplistic examples for me to identify with. I could use a PostIt note for one task with three dependencies. Get in the weeds with us. I suspect more of us will follow you than you think. This is NOT a criticism. That would be like criticizing other great thinkers because I can't follow. I'm just asking you to back up and drag me along. PS I'm on the mailing list and I've purchased the latest template, but I'm still staring at it like an ape stares at a piece of straw. I know (somehow) it will solve all my organization problems, but how the Hell do I use it.... Sure I could read those books you mentioned, but ain't nobody got time for that!
Ah thanks Paul - great feedback - definitely due some more videos focused on this stuff. Plenty on the channel thou - I’m thinking or re-arranging my playlist to make this stuff easier to find :) for this example - I thought I’d keep it simple to show functions, will plan on more videos on day to day use, and thinking behind process again! Cheers! S
Hey this is amazing! great content!! Quick question: how did you get the milestones to appear vertically in your gallery view for goals? Mine always appear horizontally :(
In this system you set the number you want to cover in total and then track against that - so 2/3 times a week. But in honestly - I want to update and amend this section soon to allow for period based and unit based tracking again a little more easily - eg. Date to this date 2 times a week - I think I have a great solution! :)
Hi! Where can I download just this template? I see its included in the whole LIfe OS template, but what if I just want this Habit Tracker? thank you :)
This is currently only in the life Os as it’s very integrated into the wider year planner, journal and goal setting elements. But when I have some time i May look at creating a stand alone tracker template :) thanks for watching!
Can a button be leveraged for creating a new habit where the only user step would be creating the button on the side panel? I.e daily tracker DB anew column plus year roll up?
@@BetterCreating it’s be nice to minimize the manual changes required. If the only manual addition was creating the one relation that wouldn’t be too bad. (Maybe as default can ship with like 15 habits premade and then just would have to add a button/roll up for each one as you use it. (But rest of data would exist)
Yes - anything you have set up in the saved database template, including relation links will be duplicated when they are actioned into the database (This is more a Notion function than related to my template specifically) :)
@@BetterCreating yes i bought your Life OS Template couple days ago and sir- hats down, very impressive I must say! The level of complexity and yet so easy with use- 10/10 :)
Hi there Nathan ! You might have an old broken link - just drop an email to notion@bettercreating.com with your order info (email / licence key ref) and we can send you the new invite :) thanks!
Based on my personal experience, Notion seems like a dangerous tool that is blinded by money. If you make a mistake in inviting members, you will be automatically charged for an additional year, and there seems to be no way to prevent it. There are many good tools out there, so if you choose to use Notion, use it for personal use only and be extremely cautious with collaboration. I recommended it for students' homework submissions, and ended up being automatically charged over $5,000. When I raised the issue, instead of a refund, I was given useless credits worth $5,000, and they said they couldn't provide a refund after 3 days. Hundreds of dollars can disappear in an instant. Notion is an extremely risky and insane company. Unless your company is paying for it, I highly recommend avoiding it, and if you investigate, you'll see that it incurs tremendous costs. $5,000 is unusable even for a personal plus account and I think the company is just terrible. You'd be better off using MS Loop or other tools. Never use Notion for anything other than a personal free account. And even the personal free account is garbage. You have to pay a lot of money just to do anything, and it's all automatic. It's a tool from a company that's really suspect at its core.
Sounds like you had an unusually bad experience! I’ve used a free account for years to run my business all on Notion for free and it’s amazing what it does. I’ve also invited people as guests for free for years. I now use the premium service as I wanted to add two team members and have found it to be fine. Eek! Yes - using it for hundreds of student submissions by inviting them as members one my one sounds like a bit of a Nightmare if everyone was added as a member ! Sorry to hear that: I’d write to a Notion person again directly and share your story - they have struck me as good and reasonable people - they should share a refund for you given this unusual and costly mistake happening for you personally. Hope you get it fixed. Good luck!
Hi all! a step-by-step tour of my new Notion Bullet Journal this week! ❤ from NZ! 📣 Get Notion Life OS: A Complete Second Brain at www.bettercreating.com/lifeos + Use launch code LIFEOSLAUNCH for 50% off for a limited time!
When will darkmode be released?
Simon, this is excellent!
Im a new subscriber and Life OS template user - this is exactly what I’ve been hoping to find.
All of the videos I’ve seen so far on the template discuss how to BUILD, but I’m looking for more of this how to USE.
Thank you so much and please keep ‘em coming👍
Ah thanks Mike - great to hear! Yes indeed: I’ll be working more on creating these as well as hopefully some more private videos for owners to help with onboarding and using it as much as possible: it’s a balance as I’m only one guys so have to find and balance the time :) Very much noted on how to use guides: realising for newer users - I can make more user guide on video :) thanks!
I was delighted to see this video! I second what someone said about having more user-guide-oriented videos.
I think that to unlock the power of this system, you have to know it from the "inside", which is what happens when you build it yourself. But these more "bite-sized" videos with a full in-depth tour around certain parts of the template are helpful without being overwhelming. They are also great to adapt the system to fulfil particular needs!
I am looking forward to more! Cheers to you, and thanks!
I feel you! I’m realising this more since there have been many more newer users to my world and templates: before - I think people had watched more of my videos and understood the ideas more - I’m looking at fast ways to create more simply filmed private videos for users too to guide sections. Thanks for the thoughts! :)
@@BetterCreating That would be great! Are you thinking of uploading them to the discord platform?
@@JoanaBruno_illustration Not sure yet - but that would make sense i think - or likely - unlisted on youtube and then linked on the Discord. Let's see :)
Mind 🤯 how powerful this system can be when properly setup! WOW
Great to hear my friend thanks! Yes - it’s so great once you really understand the basics. I want to work now on making instructions that make this even more accessible for new Notion users too - that’s the challenging bit! :)
I'm halfway to the video and I've alrd into this organized and tracked reportings. This is so what I'm looking for!
Wonderful! :)
I like your jumper
It gets so many comments! Excellent charity shop find!
Fantastic! I really wanted to learn how to make the habit planner's progress bar automatic: every time I mark the habit as done it updates in the progress bar of the database habit planner
awesome - great to have you watching. :)
Hi Simon ! Nice video ! Do you plan to add video to series Notion from Scratch soon ? I like your template but i build my own with your tutorial and i'm looking for more integration with new features
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Thanks very much. I will do: it’s just a matter of time and resource to get them made! :) away with other work at moment so will do my best to create some asap.
I was hoping for a creative os video - good video though
Thanks! I know! It’s coming - I’m away Working as planned on my other job in theatre! Doing final details on the stand alone Creative OS and will be filming and releasing early May if all goes to plan :)
Simon, thank you sooo much for this! I been into Notion about a year now (actually your channel was what got me down that rabbit hole somehow so thank you!!), and everyone gives tours about templates but not really how to customize them. I've always been intimidated by how long it would take to make a template my own but your guide here was brilliant. Will the promo still be going on May 1st? That's when I will be able to purchase. Thanks again Simon love these Notion guides!
Ah thank you - great to read. Yes - I will keep running this promotion in May! :)
This system is incredible
Thanks so much! I love it… but I do have things I think can be improved and simplified perhaps :)
@@BetterCreating We are always improving 😄 so no worries!
Simon, if I could have one wish it would be for you to spend more time in your videos explaining WHY to do something before HOW to do it. It might be that you have another excellent video on the topic that I've not yet found, but keep us slow adopters in mind. Your brain works so quickly to solve the problem, while mine is still trying to define the problem to solve. You've reached the how before I've gotten there. And feeding the cat and fixing the motorbike are too simplistic examples for me to identify with. I could use a PostIt note for one task with three dependencies. Get in the weeds with us. I suspect more of us will follow you than you think. This is NOT a criticism. That would be like criticizing other great thinkers because I can't follow. I'm just asking you to back up and drag me along. PS I'm on the mailing list and I've purchased the latest template, but I'm still staring at it like an ape stares at a piece of straw. I know (somehow) it will solve all my organization problems, but how the Hell do I use it.... Sure I could read those books you mentioned, but ain't nobody got time for that!
Ah thanks Paul - great feedback - definitely due some more videos focused on this stuff. Plenty on the channel thou - I’m thinking or re-arranging my playlist to make this stuff easier to find :) for this example - I thought I’d keep it simple to show functions, will plan on more videos on day to day use, and thinking behind process again! Cheers! S
Hey this is amazing! great content!! Quick question: how did you get the milestones to appear vertically in your gallery view for goals? Mine always appear horizontally :(
Thanks! I think the view you are referring to is actually a board view - and that's probably how. :)
We need a tutorial for linking apple shortcuts with notion habit tracker
Great idea! Will look into it.
Great video! Any change it's possible to just buy the habit tracker template?
Thanks. I’m working on it! :)
Subscribe to my mailing list and I will update people on it soon :)
How do I track habits that I don't want to do daily? Like working out doesn't have to be daily, how do you put this up?
In this system you set the number you want to cover in total and then track against that - so 2/3 times a week. But in honestly - I want to update and amend this section soon to allow for period based and unit based tracking again a little more easily - eg. Date to this date 2 times a week - I think I have a great solution! :)
Hi! Where can I download just this template? I see its included in the whole LIfe OS template, but what if I just want this Habit Tracker? thank you :)
This is currently only in the life Os as it’s very integrated into the wider year planner, journal and goal setting elements. But when I have some time i May look at creating a stand alone tracker template :) thanks for watching!
@@BetterCreating thank you!
Can a button be leveraged for creating a new habit where the only user step would be creating the button on the side panel? I.e daily tracker DB anew column plus year roll up?
Interesting idea - probably - but it wouldn’t create the rollup reports. :)
@@BetterCreating it’s be nice to minimize the manual changes required. If the only manual addition was creating the one relation that wouldn’t be too bad. (Maybe as default can ship with like 15 habits premade and then just would have to add a button/roll up for each one as you use it. (But rest of data would exist)
Simon, In your Life OS, do recurring templates remember linked relations?
Yes - anything you have set up in the saved database template, including relation links will be duplicated when they are actioned into the database (This is more a Notion function than related to my template specifically) :)
@@BetterCreating yes i bought your Life OS Template couple days ago and sir- hats down, very impressive I must say! The level of complexity and yet so easy with use- 10/10 :)
Excited to start using this. Is anyone else’s discord link in their receipt email not working to join the community?
Instead of joining through the email I had to fo to discord to add channel and then enter the invite
@@TheTintinjb hmmm that didn’t work for me. So you copied the discord link and tried to join through the discord join server interface?
Hi there Nathan ! You might have an old broken link - just drop an email to notion@bettercreating.com with your order info (email / licence key ref) and we can send you the new invite :) thanks!
@@BetterCreating thanks Simon!! Appreciate it a bunch. Your videos are top notch. Definitely one of my favourite TH-camrs!
Jeesus christ all mighty, why do you have so many notion videos?
Haha! I have a lot of Notion loving followers! + it’s been a big template launch for me recently. :)
Based on my personal experience, Notion seems like a dangerous tool that is blinded by money. If you make a mistake in inviting members, you will be automatically charged for an additional year, and there seems to be no way to prevent it. There are many good tools out there, so if you choose to use Notion, use it for personal use only and be extremely cautious with collaboration. I recommended it for students' homework submissions, and ended up being automatically charged over $5,000. When I raised the issue, instead of a refund, I was given useless credits worth $5,000, and they said they couldn't provide a refund after 3 days. Hundreds of dollars can disappear in an instant. Notion is an extremely risky and insane company. Unless your company is paying for it, I highly recommend avoiding it, and if you investigate, you'll see that it incurs tremendous costs. $5,000 is unusable even for a personal plus account and I think the company is just terrible. You'd be better off using MS Loop or other tools.
Never use Notion for anything other than a personal free account. And even the personal free account is garbage. You have to pay a lot of money just to do anything, and it's all automatic.
It's a tool from a company that's really suspect at its core.
Sounds like you had an unusually bad experience! I’ve used a free account for years to run my business all on Notion for free and it’s amazing what it does. I’ve also invited people as guests for free for years. I now use the premium service as I wanted to add two team members and have found it to be fine.
Eek! Yes - using it for hundreds of student submissions by inviting them as members one my one sounds like a bit of a Nightmare if everyone was added as a member ! Sorry to hear that: I’d write to a Notion person again directly and share your story - they have struck me as good and reasonable people - they should share a refund for you given this unusual and costly mistake happening for you personally. Hope you get it fixed. Good luck!
@Better Creating thank you for reply.
This Life OS is overwhelming 🥱
Yes - for newer users or people starting the journey into second brain world - I recommend staring with my simplified Notion template :)