I love seeing Notion introduce all the girlies to the power of relational databases. It's like how myspace introduced us all to html. Yall are making complex databases for your hobbies! This is girls in STEM. If building these notion pages clicks in your brain in that special kind of way, you might also love programming and database administration!
Also can we get that index of what videos you've mentioned books in? There's been a handful of times where I'm considering picking up a book and I think "I wonder if Elizabeth has a video with this one" or I'm just trying to remember where/when i watched you talk about a certain book.
@@dem_itra honestly, playing around with notion has made me wonder if I missed my calling with programming! Because I really love it 😅 as for which videos I mentioned which books, I try to link videos I talk about a book in my Goodreads reviews, if that helps!
I have been obsessively learning Notion and Canva this year for planning, designing, presenting and personal projects. I am a field biologist by education but using these tools has made me SOOOO much more comfortable in digital spaces. It is nowhere near as scary as I believed it to be before finding Notion.
Honestly, I've been making myself a lot of databases I don't even need and won't use, and making them overly complicated just for the fun of it. I'm actually doing that rn with a reading tracker even though I have found my dream tracker in Bookmory. Well, with my reading hub. It's like 5 related databases and my brain is exploding. Feeling my brain stretch like that is one of the best feelings ever, and I'd only ever felt if before with similarly unnecessary, overly complicated maths (for my math beginner self anyway), and when trying to communicate in multiple languages at once. Best. Feeling. I learnt html with blogspot and the basics of python just cause fun when I was a teenager. But yeah... I should probably give it a thought beyond a hobby lol. Seeing people who know a lot about these things excited about it makes me so happy though, I was kinda wondering what that perspective would look like. Thanks for the encouragement and shared passion 🖤
New goal unlocked for me: Become an author in your library! I am a professional writer, but all my work is currently only published in Danish. Hopefully my work will be translated one day, and hopefully I would then have a chance at being on your "Authors Page" 🥰 I am also a huge notion fan, but I'm quite new to it, and still have much to learn. Thank you for sharing! ❤
@@matildas3177 Oh, you're so sweet! My debut is called "En Engel i Sort". It is a high school drama. My second book is called "Kære Møgsvin" and is a Nordic Crime/ Mystery book. A word of warning, though; both books are horribly poorly edited, due to a very bad book deal that I didn't know better than to take. Just something to keep in mind if you do pick either of them up. Thank you for your interest.
this is literally the coolest notion tour i have ever seen!! props to you for keeping up with all the details. i use the app pretty regularly, but i would find this so daunting to set up LOL! seriously reading/tracking goals! you’re incredible. 😌
I have been looking for a good well-thought-out Notion for my books/reading tracker, I love notion for all things and I love seeing it being embraced in so many ways! This is very well thought out. As of commenting I am like half way through your tour, but I'm already throwing my Notion open and going to adjust and rebuild/add to the one I have now. I really like this, it really does vibe with me!
Thank you for doing this video! I’ve been using my notion to track my TV series / movies but I’m struggling with tracking stats and genre and linking a season to the main series and all other information, so this video is really helpful for me to adapt to my needs! I’m also trying to read more books so will definitely adopt this for my own reading tracker
OMG I've been building my own reading hub for a while I'm so excited to see yours! Honestly, I found the only reading tracker that has ever worked for me in Bookamory, and I doubt I'll switch to notion anytime soon, but I love designing this and the brain workout that can be making complex databases (especially when there's multiple, related databases). I'm having so much fun building my own, and I figured out some things that work for me and my reading habits that I haven't seen in other templates, so if I'm feeling brave I might just take out my own personal bookish data, add a couple clarifying notes and post the template on tumblr lol. I think they might appreciate the queer + punk aesthetic lmao. This is my biggest project yet and my brain is exploding. I am having so much fun. I hope you're enjoying it too!
Thanks for sharing! This was great, I am hoping this will help me be organized in my personal Self Care reading goal for 2025. I am going to check it out and will be back if I have any questions. Happy New Year!
Oh wow! I'm going to have to dive into this. Do you have a video on how you make the book gallery photos? If not, new video idea/request 😂. I love so many booktubers that I do not support anyone on pateron because that would be financially breaking for me to support them all. However, I need this template!! 🎉
This is great!! I always get overwhelmed when it comes to making a notion. I really like all the extra details you put into it because I could have just finished a book and I'd already be at a loss of what happened. 😅
I either remember a ridiculous amount of detail about a book for years, or it's like my mind was wiped as soon as I read the final word, no in between 😂
I read +100 books a year and I can't believe I've only started using a reading tracker this year. It's so helpful! Right now I use Googlesheet because the dashboards can be pinterest-worthy aesthetics and the formulas are easy to use (you can even track books by country on a map). But I really want to play around with Notion. It looks interesting.
It helps me so much with remembering everything I’ve read and all those little details! I enjoyed using google sheets for a few years but I really love how customizable Notion is 🥰
I just can't help but wonder after watching this midway, "Elizabeth is such an intelligent and smart woman!" You must have a complex mix of worldviews seeing how much you've read and deep empathy for people who are outside of your culture.
Can you please please please make a mini tutorial on how you make the book series covers. I tried on canvas but for some reason, it just doesn’t look as nice as yours 🤦🏽♀️
Girl absolutely unrelated, but I need your blush reference. As a redhead girly myself I’m searching for a peachy orangey blish like yours. It is gorgeous !
My favourites are Milani Baked Blush in 05 and LikelyMakeup Clown Blush in Orange! I often mix them ❤️ I also recently bought the Milani baked blush in Rose D’oro and I love that colour, too!
Just stumbled upon this video in my recommendations (I LOVE notion and I love reading) and wasn't going to comment until I saw an error in your "Nationality" property in your author database. You have one that says "Dutch (Denmark)" but Dutch means from the Netherlands! The correct name for someone who is from Denmark is Danish. As a Dutch (from the Netherlands) person, I saw it immediately haha. Hope you don't mind this correction, your system looks incredible!
This is amazing! I was wondering if you have another link because everytime I click on it, it brings me to the notion homepage ): Thank you for building this!
The link in the description is for the Notion homepage so you can sign up! If you want the template you have to join my patreon in one of the top two tiers ❤️
I am going to start using Notion because of this video, though transferring my books will be a hassle 🥹 in 2023 alone I read 350 books, and this year I have read 150
Haha it is definitely highly detailed 😂 there’s definitely no need to use all of the pages and properties if they’re not relevant or interesting to you! ❤️
It's amazing how simialr our databases look, I was like "did I copy a template somewhere?!" but I know I didn't! The only thing that's different is I don't do a separate authors database, I track author and author type (a multi-select tag) on the book, but I wonder if one day I'll want to track authors for more specific info?? That ended up happening with Series, I just had a text field and a number field on the book for which series and which book in the series. But just this week I decided it's worth having a separate Series DB and to track ones that are completely published, which I've DNFd, etc. A lot of the fields you have in Series I've automated, including info that goes back to the Book DB. So all I need to do is add a new book cover image and link the books, it auto calcs percent read, Status, etc And then I take things a step further by having a reading log. It's a separate DB that can handle both physical reading and audiobooks. A bunch of calculations back to book to track progress (i.e. if I do both audio and physical, either log can move the progress forward). And it's where I track how quickly I'm reading and how many pages every day. I like seeing what I'm able to read in a month. I also have on my 2024 Goal (what you might have as Challenge I think? It kind of looked like there were two, a yearly tracking and a challenge?) calculations to see how many pages total for all the books I added that year and then shows me what I need to read each week to hit that goal. I also do "planned reading dates" on book and my Libby hold dates to show me when I can fit which book in and it has a countdown when my library book is due back (it's the same field that shows "8 weeks until available" and switches to "17 days till due back!" depending on if I have a return date filled in or not. Then the reading log links up to another small/hidden database for statistics. The button I use to create a new log auto links everything up, so it sounds like a lot, but honestly it takes me maybe 1-2 min to do everything I need to every day including adding new books to TBR, moving planned reading dates around, adding a reading log, etc etc, it's very streamlined!
Thank you so much for making this video. Could you show us how you made your homepage look so nice? I already made my database, but now I don't know how to organize it on the homepage for easier navigation :(
Hi! I saw that the Etsy template is not available anymore so I was wondering more specifically what it did and how you searched for something like that. Love the video. Tracking my reading gets me just as excited as actually reading does!😅
I still haven’t started the video…but I know I will like it so very much❤❤❤… I was really expecting this video, because I have started myself trying to make a tracker of my library in Notion, but it’s been a disaster.😅😅
Wow! Thanks for this in-depth walkthrough. I've been waiting to see how you manage your Notion ever since you mentioned it in a past video. I'm new to Notion and still trying to figure out how it works. When you finish a book and move it from your Reading to Read view, do you have to manually move it in the spreadsheet or does it update automatically?
It automatically moves based on the filters! I have them set to look at the “Month Read” category because I only want to see this year’s reads in my “read” tab, so when I finish a book I select the month and year and set the book to “read” and it disappears from my “reading” view and appears in my “read” view! You could also have it look at the date finished, or just the status being “read” and set additional filters as you please 😊
How do you make a new snapshot for the new year. I’m trying to set my copy up. When I duplicate and go to change the year. It changes both pages. I want to fill in my previous year (2024) data too
How did you make the snapshot database? I'm trying to learn Notion formulas at the moment and I'm trying to wrap my head around how you got the summary values from other databases 😅
I AM SO EXCITED!! This is sooo cool!! notion can be overwhelming but this is a great help. Thank you for sharing. 💘💘 just one question tho. I cannot add this template to my notion. Every time I click the link, it goes straight to notion log-in page. Is it just me? how can I fix this 😅 again thanks for sharing. you are a savior!!
Oh weird 🤔 are you in the discord? It will be easier to have a back and forth there and I’ll try to help! (Tag me in the Notion channel and we’ll figure it out ❤️)
this is pretty amazing! can you tell me how did you make the formula (Process in Hours and Progress in Pages) visible like that? i want to be able to hide them when they're empty in the gallery view. (unique to one page/book) mine seem to appear in every page even when thy are empty.
I don’t think you can have them only show up when they’ve been filled in (unlike on the actual page with multiple options for visibility). In any of the views of the database a property is either visible or not!
Hello! On my Notion, in the gallery view, everything has a rounded corner instead of a nice square one like here. I can't figure out why and it drives me crazy. Does anyone know the reason?
Wowww this is so great! 😍 For the series section- did you collage the covers together yourself outside of notion, or is notion pulling the individual covers and arranging them automatically?
I’ve been waiting for this! I’m a Notion girly through & through. So I subscribed to your Patreon! Yay! But I did it on the last day of the month not realizing it would try to charge me again today for the month. My card was locked but still. Is there anyway to adjust that?
You could add another set of date properties for a second read but I just duplicate the entire book entry and write “reread” in the book title so I can take separate notes and track it as another book read!
howdy fellow notion nerd❤❤ i was wondering do you backup your notion in any way? this is something i'm interested in doing as i also have very comprehensive pages.
Thanks for this video, I'll try ChartBase, it looks really cool! I'm doing a Read the World Challenge too, and the total number of countries is around 197, unless you're using other criteria for the challenge..?
Hi! Sorry, I know this is not meant to be a tutorial video lol. If you don't mind, I've been trying to figure out how you did the reading snapshot and the notification bar in the wishlist page and I was wondering if you could maybe give me a clue? I've tried to do a first attempt just very DIYed. Just with formulas, honestly. I got it to pull the data and calculate how many books there are total, and to add up the prices, and to display both numbers accompanied by their corresponding string "books in wishlist:" and "total wishlist cost:"), but I can tell that's not what you did :( Not all anywy. Any clues? Cause it looks like a single entry in a separate databse, in a gallery view. Best I can think of is you've either gotten it to display that text with a property or that's just the page's content and you've hidden all properties, which would explain the lack of the big empty space where a cover should be (shows the content instead). But in that case, how would you get it to sync? AAaaAAAh my head. If you could give me a clue, a string to pull, whatever's easiest, I'd be so grateful! Thank you in advance either way, Ik this is not a tutorial video so it's pretty out of place to ask Also, once again, beautiful and amazing notion library you've got there. Some elements, obviously, I'd love to incorporate in my own way for different uses into my own notion and I'm having so much fun figuring them all out (this one's starting to get frustrating though lol). Thank you so much for sharing your notion with us and walking us through it! It's so detailed and pretty and I love it Edit: My properties are also displayed in a font I don't like lol
love this template, even it's a bit too much for me xD i love the stats, didn't know that's possible in notion! i have one question: how do you manage authors and series for rereads? do you included them in the list or does the position remain empty? because if i would, for example, include the Author in a reread, i would have read 2 books in the list but it's actually just one book. i hope you understand what i mean, my english is not the best😭
It depends on how you want to handle rereads. You could just mark the book reading again (and maybe add a property for dates reread) or you could duplicate the book and indicate it’s a reread, in which case it would be counted twice. I don’t reread very often so I haven’t worried too much about it, but it’s certainly not perfect! I’d be curious to hear how others handle rereads in their trackers ❤️
Only now I got the time to actually pay attention to the video and I have a question: is it hard to navigate this type of setup on your phone? I use Notion mostly on my phone, so I try to keep things more simple and practical instead of pretty because I just know I would end up not using if it was harder to deal with it. I'm late, but thanks for the video!!!!!
It works great on mobile! I use the “books” database the most (I actually made a little shortcut icon on my iPhone to take me right to that database) so I can see my tables and quickly tap on a book to enter all the individual book details I like! I don’t use the homepage much on my phone, though.
I have one question: Do you always update on your computer as you go when reading a book or is all of this accesible to you on your phone as well? Like adding trigger content-label etc.
It’s all available on the mobile app! I tend to update all the triggers/content warnings as they come up so I don’t forget, so I’m pretty much always adding those on the app on my phone. It’s very easy to use!
If I could port in my Access database, so that it is mobile (something Office 365 has not solved yet, without buying some sort of network package or something), I'd love to do this. This is very cool! I don't have quite this level of granularity in some of the categories, but I do have all my reading data back to about 2005 (I think? I goes back a ways bc I loaded all my paper reading journals into Goodreads then exported that into a csv file to populate the Access db as a start back in....2012?)
Regarding your read the world challenge, can you clarify what you mean by "there are 120 countries in the world"? Last I checked there were 195 recognized by UN. Are you not counting certain countries?
There are, you’re right! I realized after I published the video that I’d put a placeholder in there and never updated it 😂 I didn’t notice because geography is definitely not my strong suit lol
I wonder if anyone can help - I’m trying to make a Reading Snapshot for 2023 and pre-empt one for 2025 but the books added never show up in it - can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong?
@ hi, I did not and have tried to work out where to do this but I’ve got a bit lost. In the property setting, multiple books show under the link but they never appear in the ‘read’ total?
I still use Goodreads to track the books I’ve read, any book I might want to read, and to post reviews! But my Notion tracker allows me to get a lot more granular/detailed in what I track for my own use ☺️
You must try "Voyagers of hell" to admire how an original story can be written with good research at the times when original content is becoming rare in literature.
lol yes you are correct! Honestly no idea where I got that number from haha I must have put it in as a placeholder meaning to check later and never did 😂
Nowhere in the thumbnail or title did I say “free template” - I’m sorry you felt your time was wasted but you could certainly build this yourself with a little time if you wanted to!
If you can think it, you can make it happen with Notion. Try for free at ntn.so/plantbased ✨ Thank you to Notion for sponsoring this video!
I love seeing Notion introduce all the girlies to the power of relational databases. It's like how myspace introduced us all to html. Yall are making complex databases for your hobbies! This is girls in STEM. If building these notion pages clicks in your brain in that special kind of way, you might also love programming and database administration!
Also can we get that index of what videos you've mentioned books in? There's been a handful of times where I'm considering picking up a book and I think "I wonder if Elizabeth has a video with this one" or I'm just trying to remember where/when i watched you talk about a certain book.
@@dem_itra honestly, playing around with notion has made me wonder if I missed my calling with programming! Because I really love it 😅 as for which videos I mentioned which books, I try to link videos I talk about a book in my Goodreads reviews, if that helps!
I have been obsessively learning Notion and Canva this year for planning, designing, presenting and personal projects. I am a field biologist by education but using these tools has made me SOOOO much more comfortable in digital spaces. It is nowhere near as scary as I believed it to be before finding Notion.
I'm also a software engineer and just watching this video now and had the same thoughts haha 😅 notion is so much fun to play with!
Honestly, I've been making myself a lot of databases I don't even need and won't use, and making them overly complicated just for the fun of it. I'm actually doing that rn with a reading tracker even though I have found my dream tracker in Bookmory. Well, with my reading hub. It's like 5 related databases and my brain is exploding. Feeling my brain stretch like that is one of the best feelings ever, and I'd only ever felt if before with similarly unnecessary, overly complicated maths (for my math beginner self anyway), and when trying to communicate in multiple languages at once. Best. Feeling.
I learnt html with blogspot and the basics of python just cause fun when I was a teenager.
But yeah... I should probably give it a thought beyond a hobby lol.
Seeing people who know a lot about these things excited about it makes me so happy though, I was kinda wondering what that perspective would look like.
Thanks for the encouragement and shared passion 🖤
New goal unlocked for me: Become an author in your library!
I am a professional writer, but all my work is currently only published in Danish. Hopefully my work will be translated one day, and hopefully I would then have a chance at being on your "Authors Page" 🥰
I am also a huge notion fan, but I'm quite new to it, and still have much to learn. Thank you for sharing! ❤
I hope your work gets translated so I can read it someday! ❤️
Oh, what do you write? I've been planning on reading some more Danish and Norwegian books, I'd love to give yours a read!
@@matildas3177 Oh, you're so sweet!
My debut is called "En Engel i Sort". It is a high school drama.
My second book is called "Kære Møgsvin" and is a Nordic Crime/ Mystery book.
A word of warning, though; both books are horribly poorly edited, due to a very bad book deal that I didn't know better than to take. Just something to keep in mind if you do pick either of them up. Thank you for your interest.
Oh my gosh I am SO excited you did this video! I've been hankering to set up a reading tracker so this was serendipitous for me :)
Oh perfect! I hope this helps get you started 🥰
this is literally the coolest notion tour i have ever seen!! props to you for keeping up with all the details. i use the app pretty regularly, but i would find this so daunting to set up LOL!
seriously reading/tracking goals! you’re incredible. 😌
Aw thank you! Luckily I did it slowly over a long time so it wasn’t too bad 😅❤️
I have been looking for a good well-thought-out Notion for my books/reading tracker, I love notion for all things and I love seeing it being embraced in so many ways! This is very well thought out. As of commenting I am like half way through your tour, but I'm already throwing my Notion open and going to adjust and rebuild/add to the one I have now. I really like this, it really does vibe with me!
Could you make a video on the formulas, relations, and rollups?
Sooo excited for this video, I love using Notion for my reading tracker and can't wait for your tips!! 💖
I hope you get lots of ideas! 🥰
Thank you for doing this video! I’ve been using my notion to track my TV series / movies but I’m struggling with tracking stats and genre and linking a season to the main series and all other information, so this video is really helpful for me to adapt to my needs! I’m also trying to read more books so will definitely adopt this for my own reading tracker
I’ve already seen some people modify the template for tv/movies! It’s awesome 🙌
I've been waiting for this! Let's gooo
Yay! Enjoy 🎉❤️
OMG I've been building my own reading hub for a while I'm so excited to see yours!
Honestly, I found the only reading tracker that has ever worked for me in Bookamory, and I doubt I'll switch to notion anytime soon, but I love designing this and the brain workout that can be making complex databases (especially when there's multiple, related databases).
I'm having so much fun building my own, and I figured out some things that work for me and my reading habits that I haven't seen in other templates, so if I'm feeling brave I might just take out my own personal bookish data, add a couple clarifying notes and post the template on tumblr lol. I think they might appreciate the queer + punk aesthetic lmao.
This is my biggest project yet and my brain is exploding. I am having so much fun. I hope you're enjoying it too!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been waiting for this video. So much inspiration here 🧡
You are so so welcome!❤️❤️
Omg I’ve been waiting for thissss let’s goooo 🩷
Enjoy!! 🥰
Have you ever done a library tour video? You have such lovely bookshelves, I’d love to see them up close. ❤
not a youtuber but an angel 🙏🏻✨
Thanks for sharing! This was great, I am hoping this will help me be organized in my personal Self Care reading goal for 2025. I am going to check it out and will be back if I have any questions. Happy New Year!
Oh wow! I'm going to have to dive into this. Do you have a video on how you make the book gallery photos? If not, new video idea/request 😂. I love so many booktubers that I do not support anyone on pateron because that would be financially breaking for me to support them all. However, I need this template!! 🎉
Yasss we have been waiting for this one! thank you so much honey!
You're so welcome!
haven't watched this video yet but I'm so glad you're sharing ur notion set-up with us💞💞 I adore the way you talk about everything books and reading
aw thank you! I hope you enjoy the video ❤️
This is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing. I track my series in Notion, but thinking about doing more and this is the perfect inspiration 😍
Glad it was helpful! 🥰
I... thought I was using Notion effectively, but now I'm realizing there is so much I don't know how to do 😅
YAY IT'S HERE!
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You have made me think even harder about starting a Notion. I will have to rewatch your video to get ideas. Thank you for your ideas.
@@wonderlostreading I’m happy to share! I really love Notion ❤️
I don't really use notion, but OMG this is stunning ❤ i'm this close to try notion after your videos 😂😅
Well, it is free 😂 so no risk to give it a try! ❤️
This is great!! I always get overwhelmed when it comes to making a notion. I really like all the extra details you put into it because I could have just finished a book and I'd already be at a loss of what happened. 😅
I either remember a ridiculous amount of detail about a book for years, or it's like my mind was wiped as soon as I read the final word, no in between 😂
I read +100 books a year and I can't believe I've only started using a reading tracker this year. It's so helpful! Right now I use Googlesheet because the dashboards can be pinterest-worthy aesthetics and the formulas are easy to use (you can even track books by country on a map). But I really want to play around with Notion. It looks interesting.
It helps me so much with remembering everything I’ve read and all those little details! I enjoyed using google sheets for a few years but I really love how customizable Notion is 🥰
@@trayvixk4642 It would be great if Notion implemented some of those things Google Sheets can do!
I loveeee how detailed this is! Thank you so much for letting us into your brain 🤣
I’ve been using Good Reads, this looks more detailed for sure!
I just can't help but wonder after watching this midway, "Elizabeth is such an intelligent and smart woman!"
You must have a complex mix of worldviews seeing how much you've read and deep empathy for people who are outside of your culture.
Can you please please please make a mini tutorial on how you make the book series covers. I tried on canvas but for some reason, it just doesn’t look as nice as yours 🤦🏽♀️
Girl absolutely unrelated, but I need your blush reference. As a redhead girly myself I’m searching for a peachy orangey blish like yours. It is gorgeous !
My favourites are Milani Baked Blush in 05 and LikelyMakeup Clown Blush in Orange! I often mix them ❤️ I also recently bought the Milani baked blush in Rose D’oro and I love that colour, too!
Your Notion setup is impressive. I'm defintiely going to check out your Pateron to see what the community is up to and get the template.
I hope you’ll enjoy modifying it to fit your needs! I’m in the final testing stages and should have it up on patreon later tonight 🥰
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for!
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Just stumbled upon this video in my recommendations (I LOVE notion and I love reading) and wasn't going to comment until I saw an error in your "Nationality" property in your author database. You have one that says "Dutch (Denmark)" but Dutch means from the Netherlands! The correct name for someone who is from Denmark is Danish. As a Dutch (from the Netherlands) person, I saw it immediately haha. Hope you don't mind this correction, your system looks incredible!
Oops! I have always found that confusing. Thank you for the reminder! I’ll fix that now❤️
This is amazing! I was wondering if you have another link because everytime I click on it, it brings me to the notion homepage ): Thank you for building this!
The link in the description is for the Notion homepage so you can sign up! If you want the template you have to join my patreon in one of the top two tiers ❤️
Thank you for this video! I'm sold 🥰 Quick question: which version of notion do you use? Free, plus or business?
I use the free version! It’s very powerful as is ❤️
@@PlantBasedBride thank you!!! I'm so excited 💕
This is truly fascinating to me how meticulous you are😮 adore your content❤
YESSS! NOW I CAN USE NOTION!
It’s a bit addictive 😂 enjoy!
love the thoroughness of your databases! how have you found using notion charts so far?
I am interested in your reading schedule. Thank you. You are an amazing reading inspiration.
Aw thank you! ❤️
I am going to start using Notion because of this video, though transferring my books will be a hassle 🥹 in 2023 alone I read 350 books, and this year I have read 150
How did you read 350 in just a year?! That's mind blowing! You basically read a book a day 0.0!!
@@GraceGtcy_o.o a good 100 of them are manga and short stories 😅
@@breea3426 oh lol
This is overwhelming to me but I do love the system! Very detailed. Thanks for sharing ❤
Haha it is definitely highly detailed 😂 there’s definitely no need to use all of the pages and properties if they’re not relevant or interesting to you! ❤️
It's amazing how simialr our databases look, I was like "did I copy a template somewhere?!" but I know I didn't! The only thing that's different is I don't do a separate authors database, I track author and author type (a multi-select tag) on the book, but I wonder if one day I'll want to track authors for more specific info?? That ended up happening with Series, I just had a text field and a number field on the book for which series and which book in the series. But just this week I decided it's worth having a separate Series DB and to track ones that are completely published, which I've DNFd, etc. A lot of the fields you have in Series I've automated, including info that goes back to the Book DB. So all I need to do is add a new book cover image and link the books, it auto calcs percent read, Status, etc
And then I take things a step further by having a reading log. It's a separate DB that can handle both physical reading and audiobooks. A bunch of calculations back to book to track progress (i.e. if I do both audio and physical, either log can move the progress forward). And it's where I track how quickly I'm reading and how many pages every day. I like seeing what I'm able to read in a month. I also have on my 2024 Goal (what you might have as Challenge I think? It kind of looked like there were two, a yearly tracking and a challenge?) calculations to see how many pages total for all the books I added that year and then shows me what I need to read each week to hit that goal. I also do "planned reading dates" on book and my Libby hold dates to show me when I can fit which book in and it has a countdown when my library book is due back (it's the same field that shows "8 weeks until available" and switches to "17 days till due back!" depending on if I have a return date filled in or not.
Then the reading log links up to another small/hidden database for statistics. The button I use to create a new log auto links everything up, so it sounds like a lot, but honestly it takes me maybe 1-2 min to do everything I need to every day including adding new books to TBR, moving planned reading dates around, adding a reading log, etc etc, it's very streamlined!
My inner data nerd is thrilled. My ADHD brain wouldn’t let me keep up with it. But oh, do I wish it would! Breathtaking! Thanks for sharing ❤
I, too, have ADHD and honestly the over organization/categorizing is definitely a coping mechanism for the chaos in my brain 😂
YESSSS I've been waiting for this one!!!
Enjoy!! ❤️
@@PlantBasedBride Question. at around 24:46. It says Dutch (Denmark). Why the Denmark?
Thank you so much for making this video. Could you show us how you made your homepage look so nice? I already made my database, but now I don't know how to organize it on the homepage for easier navigation :(
Hi! I saw that the Etsy template is not available anymore so I was wondering more specifically what it did and how you searched for something like that. Love the video. Tracking my reading gets me just as excited as actually reading does!😅
You can get my template by joining my patreon!
I still haven’t started the video…but I know I will like it so very much❤❤❤… I was really expecting this video, because I have started myself trying to make a tracker of my library in Notion, but it’s been a disaster.😅😅
Oh no, I’m sorry it’s been a struggle! I hope this video helps ❤️
i love this, exactly what i needed to improve my reading tracker, how do you add the formula into your snapshot?
You make it look so easy but I struggle with Notion. Looking forward to the template!
It took me some time to get the hang of it/understand the logic but now I feel like I can build anything I can imagine, which is so cool! ❤️
Wow! Thanks for this in-depth walkthrough. I've been waiting to see how you manage your Notion ever since you mentioned it in a past video.
I'm new to Notion and still trying to figure out how it works. When you finish a book and move it from your Reading to Read view, do you have to manually move it in the spreadsheet or does it update automatically?
It automatically moves based on the filters! I have them set to look at the “Month Read” category because I only want to see this year’s reads in my “read” tab, so when I finish a book I select the month and year and set the book to “read” and it disappears from my “reading” view and appears in my “read” view! You could also have it look at the date finished, or just the status being “read” and set additional filters as you please 😊
How do you make a new snapshot for the new year. I’m trying to set my copy up. When I duplicate and go to change the year. It changes both pages. I want to fill in my previous year (2024) data too
How did you make the snapshot database? I'm trying to learn Notion formulas at the moment and I'm trying to wrap my head around how you got the summary values from other databases 😅
I AM SO EXCITED!! This is sooo cool!! notion can be overwhelming but this is a great help. Thank you for sharing. 💘💘 just one question tho. I cannot add this template to my notion. Every time I click the link, it goes straight to notion log-in page. Is it just me? how can I fix this 😅 again thanks for sharing. you are a savior!!
Oh weird 🤔 are you in the discord? It will be easier to have a back and forth there and I’ll try to help! (Tag me in the Notion channel and we’ll figure it out ❤️)
this is pretty amazing!
can you tell me how did you make the formula (Process in Hours and Progress in Pages) visible like that?
i want to be able to hide them when they're empty in the gallery view. (unique to one page/book)
mine seem to appear in every page even when thy are empty.
I don’t think you can have them only show up when they’ve been filled in (unlike on the actual page with multiple options for visibility). In any of the views of the database a property is either visible or not!
@@PlantBasedBride oh I see!
I asked this because there's a book that only has Progress (hours) and another one has Progress (pages) visible!
Hello! On my Notion, in the gallery view, everything has a rounded corner instead of a nice square one like here. I can't figure out why and it drives me crazy. Does anyone know the reason?
Wowww this is so great! 😍
For the series section- did you collage the covers together yourself outside of notion, or is notion pulling the individual covers and arranging them automatically?
I make them in Canva! I just made a little template to drop the covers in with a drop shadow ☺️
@@PlantBasedBride Amazing Template!! Thnak you for sharing 💚Could you possibly show us how you do this 🙏🏻
@@nicolamouton8084 I’ve made a tutorial and shared the Canva template link with my patrons! It’s available on the feed ❤️
I’ve been waiting for this! I’m a Notion girly through & through.
So I subscribed to your Patreon! Yay! But I did it on the last day of the month not realizing it would try to charge me again today for the month. My card was locked but still. Is there anyway to adjust that?
I am tempted to do something like this but I'm worried it'll be too much work to actually use it consistently😢
How do I bring in all the data from my google sheets reading tracker?
Love this
Do you a template 😢
This so tickles all my little Virgo traits! 🤣
This is absolutely incredible!! How do you handle re-reads? Like you can't have multiple read dates in this right? Or can you?
You could add another set of date properties for a second read but I just duplicate the entire book entry and write “reread” in the book title so I can take separate notes and track it as another book read!
@ gotcha. Thanks!!
this is amazing omg :0
Thank you! ❤️
howdy fellow notion nerd❤❤ i was wondering do you backup your notion in any way? this is something i'm interested in doing as i also have very comprehensive pages.
Yes, I’ve been using the backup service “Notion Backups” ❤️
I have a question, how do I make snapshots of previous years? Can I even do that?
Love this! One question though: what tool did you use to make the snapshot?🙈☺️
It’s built within Notion! Just a separate database that is related to all the other databases in the template
Awesome, thanks!
Thanks for this video, I'll try ChartBase, it looks really cool!
I'm doing a Read the World Challenge too, and the total number of countries is around 197, unless you're using other criteria for the challenge..?
Yes, I’ve already fixed that! I just put a placeholder in while I was building it and forgot to update it later.
notion just introduced charts!!!
I saw! I’m excited to try it out 🥰
this is gorgeous! i abandoned my notion to use excel lol but 👀👀
😂❤️
I love the over-the-top! Somebody gets me!
Hi, the linked provided doesn't work for me 🤷🏽♀
Directs to Notion's home page. Do you have another link?
Notion has a free plan, so that’s right! There’s no discount since you can do almost everything for free ❤️ (I actually use the free plan!)
Hi! Sorry, I know this is not meant to be a tutorial video lol. If you don't mind, I've been trying to figure out how you did the reading snapshot and the notification bar in the wishlist page and I was wondering if you could maybe give me a clue? I've tried to do a first attempt just very DIYed. Just with formulas, honestly. I got it to pull the data and calculate how many books there are total, and to add up the prices, and to display both numbers accompanied by their corresponding string "books in wishlist:" and "total wishlist cost:"), but I can tell that's not what you did :( Not all anywy. Any clues? Cause it looks like a single entry in a separate databse, in a gallery view. Best I can think of is you've either gotten it to display that text with a property or that's just the page's content and you've hidden all properties, which would explain the lack of the big empty space where a cover should be (shows the content instead). But in that case, how would you get it to sync? AAaaAAAh my head.
If you could give me a clue, a string to pull, whatever's easiest, I'd be so grateful! Thank you in advance either way, Ik this is not a tutorial video so it's pretty out of place to ask
Also, once again, beautiful and amazing notion library you've got there. Some elements, obviously, I'd love to incorporate in my own way for different uses into my own notion and I'm having so much fun figuring them all out (this one's starting to get frustrating though lol).
Thank you so much for sharing your notion with us and walking us through it! It's so detailed and pretty and I love it
Edit: My properties are also displayed in a font I don't like lol
love this template, even it's a bit too much for me xD i love the stats, didn't know that's possible in notion!
i have one question: how do you manage authors and series for rereads? do you included them in the list or does the position remain empty? because if i would, for example, include the Author in a reread, i would have read 2 books in the list but it's actually just one book. i hope you understand what i mean, my english is not the best😭
It depends on how you want to handle rereads. You could just mark the book reading again (and maybe add a property for dates reread) or you could duplicate the book and indicate it’s a reread, in which case it would be counted twice. I don’t reread very often so I haven’t worried too much about it, but it’s certainly not perfect! I’d be curious to hear how others handle rereads in their trackers ❤️
How do you get that every table gallery etc background is grey 😃
I created a call out first then inserted whatever I wanted into that call out!
@@PlantBasedBride Thanks you - love you notion it's so aesthetic😍
@@whatnoellereads5016 Thank you! I'm mildly obsessed with it 😅
Only now I got the time to actually pay attention to the video and I have a question: is it hard to navigate this type of setup on your phone? I use Notion mostly on my phone, so I try to keep things more simple and practical instead of pretty because I just know I would end up not using if it was harder to deal with it.
I'm late, but thanks for the video!!!!!
It works great on mobile! I use the “books” database the most (I actually made a little shortcut icon on my iPhone to take me right to that database) so I can see my tables and quickly tap on a book to enter all the individual book details I like! I don’t use the homepage much on my phone, though.
I have one question: Do you always update on your computer as you go when reading a book or is all of this accesible to you on your phone as well? Like adding trigger content-label etc.
It’s all available on the mobile app! I tend to update all the triggers/content warnings as they come up so I don’t forget, so I’m pretty much always adding those on the app on my phone. It’s very easy to use!
@@PlantBasedBride Thank you for responding :) I am contemplating using the free month and trying it out.
FREE notion template no longer exist. Could you please send it to me? Thanks!
If I could port in my Access database, so that it is mobile (something Office 365 has not solved yet, without buying some sort of network package or something), I'd love to do this. This is very cool! I don't have quite this level of granularity in some of the categories, but I do have all my reading data back to about 2005 (I think? I goes back a ways bc I loaded all my paper reading journals into Goodreads then exported that into a csv file to populate the Access db as a start back in....2012?)
That’s super cool! It’s definitely a bit of a process to import years of reading into a new system. My strategy is just a little at a time 😅❤️
Notion can import via CSV, which Access should be able to export to. It's been a while since I've looked at Access though.
Trying to create this is so confusing😵💫
Regarding your read the world challenge, can you clarify what you mean by "there are 120 countries in the world"? Last I checked there were 195 recognized by UN. Are you not counting certain countries?
There are, you’re right! I realized after I published the video that I’d put a placeholder in there and never updated it 😂 I didn’t notice because geography is definitely not my strong suit lol
YAAAAS!!! 👑
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Aww kitty!
but what were the 17 behind the scenes things?
I wonder if anyone can help - I’m trying to make a Reading Snapshot for 2023 and pre-empt one for 2025 but the books added never show up in it - can anyone suggest what I’m doing wrong?
Did you make sure that the relation goes both ways I’m the property setting?
@ hi, I did not and have tried to work out where to do this but I’ve got a bit lost. In the property setting, multiple books show under the link but they never appear in the ‘read’ total?
I feel like there is an alternate universe version of you that became a software engineer 😊
Can you please do an updated Apple Watch video?
I want to use a notion tracker but I also want it to be social :(
I still use Goodreads to track the books I’ve read, any book I might want to read, and to post reviews! But my Notion tracker allows me to get a lot more granular/detailed in what I track for my own use ☺️
Can you PLEASE share the template
I want it so badly
It is available to my patrons! You can join the pbb collective or pbb book club tier to get it ❤
Where I can I get this template?
You must try "Voyagers of hell" to admire how an original story can be written with good research at the times when original content is becoming rare in literature.
it would have been more better to have a template:
This is some Olympic level shit right here. God damn!
Haha why thank you 😂❤️
120 countries of the world??? Isn't it about 195?
lol yes you are correct! Honestly no idea where I got that number from haha I must have put it in as a placeholder meaning to check later and never did 😂
Hahaha I was so confused 😂 thanks for clearing that up!@@PlantBasedBride
Aaaaand the template is for your patreons... you wasted almost an hour of my life
If you were honest you would have said it at the beginning, never watching again
Nowhere in the thumbnail or title did I say “free template” - I’m sorry you felt your time was wasted but you could certainly build this yourself with a little time if you wanted to!
@@giulia480 She literally said at the start of the video that it was for her patreons lol. Getting mad for no reason. Very entitled attitude.
Where can I find this template?