How I Manage My Entire Christian Life in Notion — Transcript
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- 0:00so if you don't know notion is a
- 0:01productivity app that's like super
- 0:03customizable literally it's like one
- 0:06productivity app to rule them all and I
- 0:09love it and I want to show you exactly
- 0:10how I've set mine up first we'll talk
- 0:12about personal productivity so like how
- 0:14do I manage goals projects tasks Etc uh
- 0:17then we'll talk about spiritual growth
- 0:18how do I manage my prayer lists how do I
- 0:20do my Bible reading plans in there how
- 0:22do I track all that and then third we'll
- 0:24look at Knowledge Management so how do I
- 0:26take notes how do I organize those with
- 0:28notebooks how do I capture stuff from
- 0:31the web that I want to read or watch
- 0:32later I'm hoping that maybe you can take
- 0:34some ideas on how to customize your own
- 0:36notion template the one I'm going to
- 0:38show you here is actually available at
- 0:40Christian productivity.com you can
- 0:42purchase it along with a course that
- 0:44teaches you how to use it so I've pulled
- 0:46together some clips from the course but
- 0:48hopefully again it just gives you some
- 0:49ideas for how to customize your own
- 0:51template but if you want a shortcut feel
- 0:53free to grab that template and help
- 0:55support the channel That way as well
- 0:57okay let's dive in we'll look first at
- 0:59personal
- 1:00productivity so this covers domains
- 1:03goals projects and tasks so this is sort
- 1:06of the core of the template so let me
- 1:08try to help you wrap your head around
- 1:11what this uh is structured like so
- 1:15within redeeming productivity if you've
- 1:17read my books or or taken any of our
- 1:18courses you know that we like this thing
- 1:21called the uh pyramid of purpose the
- 1:24idea is that our life exists at
- 1:27different levels so most days we're
- 1:29living down here at the task level or at
- 1:31the project level this is kind of way
- 1:33down here the question is how do we as
- 1:36Believers connect all of our work to the
- 1:39most important thing at the top here
- 1:40which is God's glory and the way we do
- 1:43that is we systematically sort of break
- 1:46our life down into little chunks so that
- 1:48all of our work is consciously connected
- 1:51up to this ultimate goal of glorifying
- 1:53God so the second layer here in domains
- 1:56this you'll see represented in the
- 1:58template and these are areas of your
- 2:01life that God's given you responsibility
- 2:02over so I'll show you in the template
- 2:05what I'm talking about down here at the
- 2:07bottom of the main dashboard page you'll
- 2:10see these domains of stewardship we like
- 2:12to divide them up into three main or
- 2:14sorry six main areas spiritual physical
- 2:17economical so that's like your money and
- 2:19your possessions relational so your
- 2:21relationships vocational that's your job
- 2:23or whatever the main thing you do is and
- 2:26recreational your rest and your leisure
- 2:28you can add different ones these you can
- 2:30change the names of them you can delete
- 2:31them and have your own maybe some you
- 2:33just want to have school as a domain
- 2:35because that dominates so much of your
- 2:36life that is okay and I'll show you how
- 2:38to set all those up in a little bit but
- 2:41this is the layer that everything lives
- 2:43under and so let's jump back over to our
- 2:46slideshow and I'll show you how this
- 2:47connects So within a domain my goal here
- 2:50is to be faithful in all of these areas
- 2:52of life God's given me and so by
- 2:54delineating them sort of laying them out
- 2:56in the template I can then connect
- 2:58things to them like goals I can set a
- 3:01goal for one of these areas for example
- 3:06in the physical domain I set a goal of
- 3:08losing 10
- 3:10pounds right and this actually breaks
- 3:14down into it walk you through a process
- 3:17for um identifying and clarifying each
- 3:21step of that goal it'll even give you an
- 3:23opportunity to add prayer to it so as
- 3:25part of your regular prayer routine
- 3:26you're actually praying for the goals
- 3:28that you're pursuing asking God to bless
- 3:30them we'll help you set up tasks for
- 3:33these goals and projects to break them
- 3:36down into what are the actual tactical
- 3:40things you're going to do in order to
- 3:41reach that goal and you can connect
- 3:44resources to these and I already
- 3:46mentioned prayer so what we like to
- 3:48think about is okay I have these certain
- 3:50goals these certain aspirations that
- 3:52live within a domain so example I have a
- 3:55goal for my spiritual life or maybe I
- 3:56have a goal this quarter for my physical
- 3:59health like I just talked about well I
- 4:01want to break that down into projects
- 4:04and so just like I showed you over here
- 4:06we can create projects you can create as
- 4:08many as you want and they can go from to
- 4:09do to doing to done Etc and these
- 4:12projects are the things that you are
- 4:16trying to accomplish according to a
- 4:17timeline that are going to get you
- 4:19closer to that ultimate goal that you've
- 4:22set for yourself and then projects break
- 4:24down really into tasks what are the
- 4:26individual items I'm doing in a single
- 4:28work session I've heard Cal Newport
- 4:31recently describe the difference between
- 4:33a project and a task uh a task is
- 4:35something you can do in a single work
- 4:37session a project is something that
- 4:39takes more than one work session right
- 4:41so a project is going to contain
- 4:43multiple tasks so Justice in our example
- 4:46here if I click into this project we've
- 4:48created we have three tasks we've made
- 4:50for it purchase kettle bells set up home
- 4:52gym buy pullup bar those are the three
- 4:54tasks we've created and we'll probably
- 4:56create more before the end of this but
- 4:59if I do these These are what's going to
- 5:01help me accomplish my
- 5:03goal so the idea is that if I set up a
- 5:06system that's so clearly connects these
- 5:09then I can get to a point where I can be
- 5:12looking at the tasks I'm doing and see
- 5:14how that connects to the project and
- 5:15connects to a goal connects to a domain
- 5:17I'm trying to Steward well which
- 5:18connects to me trying to be faithful and
- 5:20glorifying God in all areas of life
- 5:22that's sort of the ideal we're hunting
- 5:24for here in our productivity system and
- 5:27this template is designed to help you
- 5:29get that Clarity because what that
- 5:31Clarity means is you have as Thomas
- 5:33Watson says uh a Silver Thread God's
- 5:36glory is the Silver Thread which must
- 5:38run through all that we do and so
- 5:41imagine you instead of having that sense
- 5:44of meaninglessness when you're doing
- 5:45some menial task at work you recognize
- 5:49no this is part of a bigger picture
- 5:51which is part of me being a faithful
- 5:52Steward to God in this area of life okay
- 5:55so that's sort of the philosophy behind
- 5:57the template let's talk about how this
- 5:59actually breaks breaks down now I've
- 6:01shown you in the template how these
- 6:02things connect but I think that it helps
- 6:04to visualize them with a diagram and
- 6:07this will help you wrap your head around
- 6:09how all these interconnected databases
- 6:11work together so let's start with the
- 6:14domain so any this could be physical
- 6:17spiritual any of those domains those can
- 6:19be broken out into either goals or
- 6:21projects uh so you can attach a goal or
- 6:24project to any domain so let's go back
- 6:26to our example here of
- 6:28physical you can see across the top here
- 6:30that I have a goal already assigned to
- 6:32it but I also could assign a project
- 6:34directly to it so I could you know short
- 6:37circuit that pyramid because sometimes
- 6:39you just you don't want to have a goal
- 6:41and then have a project under it you
- 6:42just know in this physical area I just
- 6:44want to have a specific project so we've
- 6:46made it so you can connect anything to a
- 6:49domain a goal or a project doesn't
- 6:52matter and then projects break down into
- 6:55tasks which we already looked at before
- 6:58same thing with goals they break down
- 7:00into projects and then project goals
- 7:03could also have individual tasks
- 7:05assigned to them so let me show you what
- 7:06that looks like so let's go to our goal
- 7:09of lose 10 PBS so we're in the goal of
- 7:12lose 10 pound and we have tasks here so
- 7:15I instead of having a project under here
- 7:19I could also assign individual tasks
- 7:21directly to the goal again we tried to
- 7:24leave lots of Freedom here for you to
- 7:26use this template the way that you want
- 7:30and of course projects can all have
- 7:32individual tasks assigned to them just
- 7:34as we saw before if I go back to our
- 7:37project the 8we fitness program there
- 7:40are our
- 7:41tasks so that's the big picture of how
- 7:45this thing breaks down these are the
- 7:48main parts how they interconnect with
- 7:50each other you have lots of options you
- 7:52know the clearest path is to have a
- 7:54domain with a goal with a project with a
- 7:56task but again we've given you lots of
- 7:58flexibility to attach things in
- 8:00different ways so that it can follow
- 8:02your own workflow and not feel pedantic
- 8:06in the way that it's set up next let's
- 8:08look at the spiritual growth components
- 8:10of the template and how they can
- 8:12interact with what we're already doing
- 8:14so here we're specifically talking about
- 8:15Bible reading and prayer so if I jump
- 8:18back over the template I'm here again on
- 8:20the main dashboard
- 8:22page and you can see that I have under
- 8:24growth on this column on the left here
- 8:27Bible reading and prayer and Library
- 8:29we'll get to library in the next section
- 8:31when we talk about um capturing
- 8:33resources and notes but I just want to
- 8:35focus on Bible reading and prayer right
- 8:37now so under the Bible reading section
- 8:40you can see that we have a couple Bible
- 8:42reading plans already built into this
- 8:44and we can add more or you can uh follow
- 8:47our uh little plan that we've set up and
- 8:50add your own if you want to but the
- 8:53trick is I can actually track my Bob
- 8:55reading plan right within
- 8:57here so let's use the Robert Murray M
- 9:00Shane reading plan as an example if I
- 9:03click into that one it has broken up the
- 9:06entire year-long reading plan that we
- 9:08have into weeks for us and so I could go
- 9:12through and just Mark these complete as
- 9:14I
- 9:15go or the way I prefer to use it is
- 9:19click on just this week this will
- 9:21automatically always be updated to
- 9:22whatever the current week is so you can
- 9:24see what's next in your reading plan we
- 9:26also have a calendar view so you can see
- 9:30what days you've missed and kind of get
- 9:32a cool sense of progress as you go
- 9:34through the reading
- 9:35plan and this works for all of these we
- 9:38have a 5-day a week plan which is a
- 9:39little bit uh less intense to do but
- 9:43they all work the same way New Testament
- 9:45reading plan Etc and we can add more of
- 9:47these as we go so that's the Bible
- 9:49reading
- 9:51plan so going back out here to the main
- 9:55page of our demo planner we're going to
- 9:57look now at the prayer section
- 10:02this is just a dedicated area for your
- 10:05uh prayer request so this if you've ever
- 10:07used an app like prayer mate we've
- 10:09basically just made little cards for
- 10:12each day of the week and we've just
- 10:15sorted them uh I should say according to
- 10:18each day of the week so that you can
- 10:19follow a general schedule so for example
- 10:23I have all these demo ones in here and
- 10:25you can feel free to delete these or
- 10:27update them how you want these are just
- 10:28sample prayers but I could easily say
- 10:31you know I'm going to add a new one to
- 10:33uh Tuesday and I want to pray for um
- 10:38let's say my
- 10:41grandparents if you open that up
- 10:43whatever you type in this area will show
- 10:45us a preview over here so um we'll do
- 10:49bullet points because I like bullet
- 10:53points Grandma's
- 10:55Health can't spell
- 11:00Grandpa's spiritual health these are
- 11:02just things I'm making up but you see
- 11:04they appear here on the um on these
- 11:09little preview cards and then I can move
- 11:10these around and so this is a nice way
- 11:12that I found to just make sure that I'm
- 11:15praying through my stuff without having
- 11:16a million things to pray for each day
- 11:18you can kind of be systematic in the way
- 11:20you approach your prayer life but what's
- 11:22also cool is you can connect these
- 11:24prayers to anything else in the uh
- 11:27Christian productivity planner so for
- 11:29example I have this prayer for my health
- 11:32that i' eat and drink to the glory of
- 11:33God that I'd see exercise and diet as a
- 11:35stewardship issue that's great but you
- 11:37notice here I have this little goal
- 11:39associated with it if I click that I can
- 11:42see that this is actually already
- 11:43associated with my goal to lose
- 11:4610bs so if this is now I'm looking at
- 11:49the goal itself when I'm reviewing this
- 11:51goal I can encourage myself and be
- 11:54reminded oh yeah as I'm reviewing this
- 11:57goal what should I do next I remember oh
- 11:58I need to price for this so the the
- 12:01amazing thing here is we're bringing up
- 12:02prayers in context where they make the
- 12:05most
- 12:06sense another way we can look at this if
- 12:10we go back out to the main page which
- 12:13kind of have an overview of all your
- 12:14different databases if we go down to the
- 12:20bottom we can see that any one of these
- 12:23domains also has a prayers associated
- 12:25with it so
- 12:29this has a prayer for finances in my
- 12:31economical domain and you can see I'm
- 12:34going to go into that Finance prayer you
- 12:36can see I could select here which domain
- 12:38this is associated with it doesn't have
- 12:40to have one but if I want to add one I
- 12:43can choose economical and now it's
- 12:46associated with
- 12:47that and so it's again when I'm
- 12:49reviewing my different domains how am I
- 12:51doing this area you're prompted to pray
- 12:54for these
- 12:56things and as we're going to see in a
- 12:58little bit here this is all actually
- 13:00baked into your daily planner as well
- 13:03but as you're setting these things up
- 13:05building out your prayer list and all of
- 13:06that making all the right connections
- 13:08that's going to ensure that they show up
- 13:10in the right contexts so that you're
- 13:11prompted to pray for the right things
- 13:13and so you're always always reminded hey
- 13:15this is a spiritual Endeavor this isn't
- 13:17just about um me trying to do this in my
- 13:20own power okay next let's talk about
- 13:23Knowledge Management so this is how you
- 13:25use the template to manage notes
- 13:27resources notebook books and tags so
- 13:31briefly let me explain what I mean by
- 13:32that by notes and resources I mean notes
- 13:35that you generate so that might be
- 13:36meting notes or a journal you could keep
- 13:39in here resources I mean things you
- 13:42capture from outside so for example a
- 13:44YouTube video you want to watch later an
- 13:46article you want to read later a podcast
- 13:48episode things like that and then
- 13:50notebooks and tags are two ways of
- 13:52organizing them so if you ever use
- 13:54something like Evernote or a folder
- 13:56based thing a notebook is kind of like a
- 13:58folder that you can put them in and then
- 14:00tags are a way to sort of free associate
- 14:03different ideas or concepts people
- 14:05organizations Etc with your notes and
- 14:08resources and this is all handled in the
- 14:10library section of our template so let's
- 14:13go over there now Library contains all
- 14:15of your notes resources notebooks and
- 14:18tags so at the top we have a sort of
- 14:21inbox area so I could create something
- 14:25new just jot it down real fast quick
- 14:28note
- 14:30um add whatever I want to this blah blah
- 14:34blah um and not do anything with it I
- 14:36don't have to do anything with it right
- 14:37now and that's a good way to capture
- 14:40stuff and then anytime you get in here
- 14:41you can sort them out um into where they
- 14:44need to go but let's just jump jump back
- 14:46in there to show you how we might sort
- 14:48this out so maybe I'd move it over to
- 14:50reviewing and you can actually do that
- 14:52here as well just by dragging it but now
- 14:55this is reviewing and I have this quick
- 14:57note maybe I want to file it I'm going
- 14:59to file this as a meeting
- 15:03note and maybe I want to add a uh tag to
- 15:09this so under here I'm going to add a
- 15:12tag and let's say it was a meeting with
- 15:14myself I guess and I'll add Reagan Rose
- 15:17as one of those I can select a type for
- 15:21this and so I'm just going to call this
- 15:22a
- 15:23note and you'll see how this all filters
- 15:26out in the other sections and I'm going
- 15:29to say I'm going to add a short
- 15:31description
- 15:32here uh short meeting with Reagan just
- 15:36to give myself some context when I'm
- 15:38glancing at this later I'm going to say
- 15:39that looks good um again I can also
- 15:42associate any of these notes with a goal
- 15:45so if I had some goal I was working on
- 15:47and this meeting concerned that I could
- 15:50attach it to that
- 15:52goal uh similarly I can down here I can
- 15:55add associate it with a project
- 15:59I can also add tasks because often you
- 16:01know you have uh tasks that spin off
- 16:05from meetings that you have or notes you
- 16:07can add those directly here and those
- 16:09will become uh those will appear in your
- 16:11task area of the template we can also
- 16:14again associate prayers we can also add
- 16:16other library items so if you want two
- 16:18notes to sort of backlink to each other
- 16:20you can do that here as well and that'll
- 16:23give you an option to see what other
- 16:24notes are available you can search for
- 16:26them
- 16:29and you can add them by hitting the Plus
- 16:31or you can create a new task here which
- 16:34will just be whatever you titled
- 16:38this all right but for now let's call
- 16:40this good let's mark it is saved it'll
- 16:42disappear from our little inbox
- 16:44processing area and that's okay because
- 16:47now it's gone down into our saved items
- 16:50area here you have different uh filtered
- 16:53views so all will show you all types of
- 16:56notes um remember when we selected the
- 16:58type note for this there it is these are
- 17:01all filtered by type this also works for
- 17:03articles you've saved um you can do this
- 17:05for YouTube videos I'll show you example
- 17:07how to save some of those in a later
- 17:09video podcasts PDF books journals right
- 17:13so you could actually use this for your
- 17:14personal Journal if you wanted to I like
- 17:17to leave it on all so I can see them all
- 17:18but once you add a lot of notes
- 17:20obviously this can be overwhelming so we
- 17:22uh we have these filter
- 17:24options what about notebooks well I
- 17:26tagged this uh note that I made as
- 17:29meetings you can see this other note uh
- 17:32in this note section is also um added to
- 17:35the notebook meetings down here is that
- 17:38notebook this is just a simple allinone
- 17:41place to to see any note associated with
- 17:44a notebook and so you can quickly jump
- 17:46into them it's just an organization
- 17:47thing but you can attach an entire
- 17:51notebook to a domain of stewardship uh
- 17:53for example this fitness and exercise
- 17:56one I have this notebook associated with
- 17:58my physic phical domain of stewardship
- 18:00because these are articles things that
- 18:02I'm saving notes Etc that are going to
- 18:04help me with exercise nutrition or
- 18:06things like that that's the point of
- 18:08this notebook and so I Associated it
- 18:10with that
- 18:14domain tags are simply another form of
- 18:18organization and I've created three
- 18:21types of tags people topics and
- 18:24organizations and just like with our
- 18:26notebooks and with our notes we can view
- 18:28them all here and it just gives us a
- 18:29nice clean list of all of our people
- 18:32topics and organizations but if you want
- 18:35to filter you can do that here as well
- 18:37so I have two people here if I click on
- 18:40my name you'll remember I just
- 18:41Associated this note with it again quick
- 18:44way to see uh all of the notes
- 18:47associated with this tag this is great
- 18:49actually for topics so I don't think I
- 18:52have any notes here yet for nutrition
- 18:54but if you had a specific topic you it
- 18:56was just very Loosely defined it wasn't
- 18:58enough that you wanted to create a whole
- 18:59notebook about it this is a great way to
- 19:01tag those and then you know organization
- 19:03can emerge from that and when you start
- 19:05to do a project or maybe researching for
- 19:07something you're writing doing this you
- 19:09have everything organized really neatly
- 19:12for you you don't have to dig through
- 19:13reams of paper or unfiled notes to find
- 19:16it and at the very bottom here we have
- 19:19favorites recents and archives so any
- 19:22note if you check this box next to
- 19:24favorite will appear here so this is the
- 19:27maybe the stuff that you're most Focus
- 19:28focused on your active things this
- 19:30recent one is based on uh whichever ones
- 19:34have been edited most recently so last
- 19:36time you opened them those will show
- 19:38here and then archived is anything that
- 19:40you mark As archived so let's uh give an
- 19:43example here's my quick note I just made
- 19:45I want to Archive this that means you're
- 19:47not deleting it so it's still searchable
- 19:49still findable but it no longer will
- 19:52show in any of these saved views but you
- 19:54can still find it under archive or if
- 19:57you search notion you'll still be able
- 19:58to find it that's a nice clean way to
- 20:00remove things without deleting them
- 20:02permanently next I want to give you an
- 20:04overview of the daily planner this is
- 20:07where you're going to see your priority
- 20:08tasks and projects your morning routine
- 20:11can be done here as well as a built-in
- 20:13habit tracker this is one of the unique
- 20:15ways that we've approached building this
- 20:17planner is yes you have all these
- 20:20dashboards but there's also a nice way
- 20:23each day to just zoom in on what you
- 20:25want to see just for today and that is
- 20:28done through through the daily planner
- 20:30area see where it says planner and
- 20:32habits this is where you create a new
- 20:34planner so I'm going to delete the one
- 20:35that I made for today so I can create a
- 20:37fresh one for you just as an example and
- 20:39so this is sort of just like a checklist
- 20:42and so you could jump in here in the
- 20:44morning and say okay let's do my morning
- 20:47routine maybe you have your schedule
- 20:49here built into the template again I'll
- 20:50show you how to edit these in a moment
- 20:52um just so you know what times you've
- 20:54planned to do everything and then each
- 20:56of these has its own section prayer oh
- 20:58wait here's all the prayers that we had
- 20:59created each day I can just come in here
- 21:02and say all right today it's Monday
- 21:04let's pray for my health and for the
- 21:05unbelievers that I know because that's
- 21:07what I want to pray for on Monday and
- 21:09once I'm done with that I can say let's
- 21:11mark prayer done for today I can go to
- 21:14organize this is just uh clarifying what
- 21:17tasks and projects you're going to do
- 21:18for the day but this is linking you off
- 21:20to the tasks and projects dashboard
- 21:22where you actually select what your
- 21:23priority projects and tasks are for the
- 21:26day so right from your routine you're
- 21:28actually going to build out your
- 21:30schedule for the day it'll jump you over
- 21:32there and then you can jump right back
- 21:33like I just did and you'll be done with
- 21:35that so let's pretend we did that we've
- 21:37organized great word that's reading the
- 21:39Bible so if you use our Bible reading
- 21:42plan thing uh you can jump right over
- 21:46and start using it again I'll show you a
- 21:48quicker way to do this um when I show
- 21:50you how to edit the template but say you
- 21:53don't want to use our Bible read tracker
- 21:54you can also just write down uh in here
- 21:56treat almost like a journal what did I
- 21:58read today what are some lessons from
- 22:00per ref personal reflection application
- 22:02things I got from this great what did I
- 22:04read in the Bible let's mark it done
- 22:08Exercise this if you have an exercise
- 22:11program I have the example of Don Lor's
- 22:13free 8we program in here I actually have
- 22:16this saved in the template for you um
- 22:19Don Lor of Layman's Fitness he has a lot
- 22:21of great free programs you can do he's a
- 22:23Christian he he kind of works um your
- 22:26faith into the programs but I saved that
- 22:29here so like you can see how this
- 22:31allinone really starts to become
- 22:33powerful when you can just jump right to
- 22:35the exercise program you needed to do
- 22:37without going on another device or
- 22:39finding a PDF or some piece of paper
- 22:42it's all in the same
- 22:46system and so let's assume we did our
- 22:48workout plan we'll mark exercise done
- 22:52what about reading and writing this is
- 22:54the r in our
- 22:56um Paradigm that we use for power
- 22:58mornings uh you can jump over to your
- 23:02library maybe you want to read some
- 23:04articles that you've saved you could do
- 23:07that or you could jump into your journal
- 23:10and write in there if you want to do a
- 23:12little bit of journaling within the
- 23:13system but again you don't have to use
- 23:16those things you could also just say oh
- 23:18this is just a prompt to remind me I
- 23:20want to read the book that I have maybe
- 23:21a physical book somewhere or write in my
- 23:23physical Journal that's fine
- 23:25too let's mark reading and writing done
- 23:27for the day
- 23:29so that's the whole morning routine
- 23:31section but where this gets really
- 23:33powerful I think is your daily planner
- 23:35allows you to see just your priorities
- 23:39like we said before it can be a little
- 23:40bit overwhelming when you see everything
- 23:42on those big dashboards all the stuff
- 23:44that you've stored in there all I want
- 23:46to see is what's important because I
- 23:48only want to work on what's important
- 23:50today and so what this does here is you
- 23:53have these four areas and they're all
- 23:55filtered by anything that's been
- 23:57selected as a priority so if I open up
- 24:00this purchase Turbo Tax um task you'll
- 24:04see that it's marked as a priority
- 24:06that's why it's showing here no nothing
- 24:08that's not a priority is showing here so
- 24:10let me remove it as a priority it's not
- 24:12there so this is a great way for you to
- 24:16select what you want to work on for the
- 24:18day and only see that if you remember
- 24:21during the organized part of our morning
- 24:23routine this is when we chose what tasks
- 24:25and projects we were going to do for the
- 24:27day you can do this during your weekly
- 24:29reviews too or whenever you want but
- 24:32we've made the conscious decision to
- 24:35divide up uh planning from execution so
- 24:39you use these dashboards use these
- 24:41different areas in the notion template
- 24:43to plan the work you're going to do but
- 24:45when you get into the daily
- 24:47plan all we want to do is work we are we
- 24:50want to have decided in advance what
- 24:52we're going to work on and just do that
- 24:53stuff so that's the point of these
- 24:54priorities we recommend you don't choose
- 24:56more than three tasks to work on in a
- 24:59day um and those can be connected to a
- 25:02specific project or not you can grab
- 25:04whatever tasks you want and as you do
- 25:06them they will disappear because as I
- 25:09mark them done let me undo that but the
- 25:12same is true of priorities so maybe you
- 25:15want to focus just on your priority
- 25:17project today and here I've marked the
- 25:198we fitness program as my priority
- 25:22project and I have that set as doing I
- 25:25can see all the to-dos associated with
- 25:27it these are not these are priority and
- 25:29non- priority ones are all showing here
- 25:31and I can see any connected resources
- 25:34and so very easily from my daily plan I
- 25:37can say okay it's time to work on my
- 25:38project of the day what is it ah yes I
- 25:42can get right in there and get to work I
- 25:43can even take notes on
- 25:46it uh right within here create new task
- 25:50mark them done as I go Etc I can see
- 25:53what I finish when they're done
- 25:58same is true of goals with have priority
- 26:00goals here and priority domains again
- 26:02it's Focus all this area is just showing
- 26:05me what are my priorities right now when
- 26:07you're working you don't need to see
- 26:09everything you just need to see what's
- 26:11most important and that is how the daily
- 26:13planner helps you do
- 26:15that we have some other sections here uh
- 26:18it looks like it generated the same
- 26:20thing twice I'm just going to delete
- 26:21that for you we also have the daily
- 26:23notes area and this is just again a
- 26:26place where you can jot stuff down some
- 26:27people like to keep work log where they
- 26:30um just say you know at
- 26:321050 I worked on X uh or just scratch
- 26:38Pad right so as you're living out of
- 26:39this document while you're working today
- 26:41you can have this little scratch Pad
- 26:43maybe some of those things will turn
- 26:44into tasks later maybe they won't but
- 26:46it's just a record of any extra stuff
- 26:48you want to keep track
- 26:50of now let me go back out to the main
- 26:54page and show you
- 26:56something your planner is also a habit
- 26:59tracker so I was showing you as we went
- 27:01that we were marking these habits as
- 27:02done these are also shown here in more
- 27:06of uh just this is filtering by the last
- 27:08week I believe no the past two weeks so
- 27:1114 days it'll show you sort of the
- 27:14streaks that you're on and it even tells
- 27:15you what percent are marked checked so
- 27:18let's say I did I skipped reading my
- 27:19Bible Well out of the last two days I'm
- 27:21at 50% completion this is just a a good
- 27:25sort of way to track how you're doing on
- 27:27these different
- 27:28areas that's also visible down here in
- 27:32the calendars area I can see all of my
- 27:35past um daily planner sessions and their
- 27:38goals in them too so I can go back in
- 27:40time and look at old ones if I want to
- 27:41or just kind of add a glance see how I'm
- 27:43doing to my habits well I hope that
- 27:45overview was helpful to you gave you
- 27:47some tips for how to use notion or even
- 27:49just gave you some idea of the
- 27:50possibilities for customizing this thing
- 27:53um if you want to grab that template you
- 27:55can get it at Christian productivity.com
- 27:58again it comes with a full course on how
- 28:00to use it and set it up as well as a
- 28:02short little crash course on how to use
- 28:04notion if you've never used this program
- 28:06before thanks for watching I'll see you
- 28:08in the next video
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