@@augustbradley Your Notion videos have changed my productivity life! I am now seeing what inputs produce what outputs and able to fine tune them and reinforce the most productive actions. All thanks to you!
I've been adding each section of the system one-by-one and have just caught up with the videos. It's an amazing system that's already improved my productivity. I'm really grateful for you making the whole thing public.
I don't know where to start I'm just beginning are there templates or a step by step how to that's simple to follow and not as fast I love the concepts
My God! I don't know how I lived without it all the time! It's amazing! This is cool! It's perfect! Ideal! I do not know what else to say! This is the best thing that happened in my life. I'm happy. Of course, it saddens me that my convolutions were not enough to create such an idea. But I am very glad that I found this idea here!!!
I feel like I am standing on the edge of a cliff with an hang glider and I am about ready to jump and fly! I've been adding ideas to tasks lists for years and getting overwhelmed each and every time. It seems so simple to keep them separate. It's a good idea, just not the good time. I am excited to see how you turn Notes & Ideas into Action Items. I cannot wait for the videos! I'm ready to start percolating. The system I have in place so far is already amazing. Seems I think of new things to track in Notion every day. Stuff that never had a good place before. Stuff that needed a table so I could see all the data at once, but also needed a document and images for more details. I struggled to keep it all togrther. Notion does it all. The best thing about Covid was finding Notion and then you. Thank you, August.
Thank you August for taking the time to create all these videos and share with us your view on the System Thinking. How you turn Notion into a such great tool that helps us build our day-to-day life to the next level through the System Thinking is invaluable.
I was using basic pages in Notion before I discovered your channel. Now almost all of them are databases and I find them to be incredibly useful. Thank you so much for doing this!
Nice Anwar, Databases are so much more capable than solo pages. The most amazing thing to me is that in Notion each database entry is a fully functional page -- this presents mind-blowing possibilities. It's why I initially switched from Airtable to Notion.
Great job! THEN since I'm on an Android phone with buttons, I set up a web browser with the notion "Quick Notes" table as the home page and set the "Bixby" button to open that browser when clicked. So I pick up my phone, press the button on the side, use voice to text to capture the note on the fly, and have it in my Mind dashboard when I'm ready to deal with it! Thank you for this.
I just finished designing and implementing everything, This is by far the best birthday gift I am going to give my self. I saw this video listed as private and waited to be able to comment and thank you. I haven't said this a lot of times in my life but I don't have the words to tell you how much I appreciate you for doing this.
Awesome Fadi, this is truly a gift that will keep on giving. I'm curious, how/where did you see the video listed as "Private"? When was it visible as private? Thanks!
Hey Augusta, First of all, thank you for making so much high quality content available. It’s been tremendously helpful to me as I put my finger on some misalignment in my life and simultaneously found notion as part of a “second brain” hunt. Had a question about notes and ideas - I wonder what sorts of things end up in this vault? Over the last several weeks, every good idea I’ve had has had a better home - in the knowledge vault, in the media that generated it, or aligned with a project it supports. Is this just a temporary home to facilitate quick entry? Or do ideas live here permanently?
Firstly, thank you August for everything you've been contributing on RUclips. I'm a student of your PPV system and currently restructuring much of my Notion to incorporate these lessons. Previously, I had a hierarchal folder structure of categories. (When I transitioned over from Evernote, I created multiple levels of nested-folders since we were just limited to one-nested folder in Evernote) My main categories are similiar to your Pillars, and the sub-category folder topics are similiar to the Knowledge Lab Topics. So a Health & Fitness folder, for example, would contain various databases: grocery list database, workouts database, weight tracker, recipe database, etc. If incorporating the Notes & Ideas database, do i transition each of my folder contents to a single entry of the Notes & Ideas Vault? Or would you still maintain these bigger databases within a folder and use Notes & Ideas for simple, short notes?
I get so excited every time a new notification from your channel pops up on my screen! You have changed the way I view my life. I'm grateful for the vaulable content you share with us and for the opportunity to learn from your videos to building my own life system. This is a huge game changer in my personal life as well as advancing my career. Thank you so much!!🙏
Hi August, thanks for your video. Also great to read comments from other people. In my case I'm using evernote but certainly I have to do efforts to engrain the tool during the working day. I really appreciate your videos. Keep healthy all of you.
Thanks José! Try using Notion for the sections of Evernote that you're most actively engaged with, I thin it will open up new possibilities for you. Either way, we are blessed to have so many great tools!
Hey August, congratulations on your channel growing so quickly! I had a thought while watching this video, maybe we see a vlog from your side as to how your typical day looks like and how you use Notion in a single to give more context to the users. Also maybe you can tell us how much of your notion usage in on mobile and how to use it efficiently. Cheers!
Hi August! Amazing content you are sharing with us. Thank you. One question: I see you use the categories column. What is your opinion about using a system-wide tagging system such that when you add a piece of content, be it podcast, book, notes, etc, you tag it accordingly (marketing, health, productivity, etc)? This way, you can open that tag and see all contents (media vault, notes, etc), system-wide, related to that topic. Is there any advantage of using the local database category (the way you use it), compared to the generalized tagging option? Thank you again!
Hey August, another great step for the Life OS, thank you so much! I have been gradually building and adapting mine with all these great resources you have been sharing and this is particularly good one as I really lacked a good system one for the capturing of notes and ideas that power my knowledge areas. Having this as a system is really powerful, especially also allowing the notes to surface in the contexts where they are relevant. On that note I am thinking about to playing with an extension of your "Category" field and make it a Database of "Knowledge Categories" so that I can reuse the same categories cross all the different Vaults (e.g.: Knowledge Sources, Notes and Ideas, Knowledge Lab, etc...). By doing that you also get a great "aggregation" of all the things related with a particular category. Maybe something interesting for you to consider too, I will share how it goes for me as I experiment with it. Thank you again and keep up with the great work!
I will be covering it, but not immediately. Covering the personal system first, then will do some business elements that integrate nicely with the core system.
♥️Firstly thank you so much August for creating such precious quality content. Appreciate for every minute of every video you’ve published 😊 I’d LOVEE to get your suggest on where it would be best to store info for example: 🥘 Recipes (table), 🏠 House Renovation (table) Thank you
I've broken up "house Renovation" into discrete PROJECTS, aligned with the 'home admin' PILLAR. So it's "Re-do the office" which has action items like 'paint, build desk, etc' For recipes, feels like you should have a separate vault for that. Hope this helps!
Next level Notion...mind expanded! Thank you deeply for assisting us in advancing our Notion skills, awareness and joy. Is there a "Notes and Ideas" template?
Awesome CJ, its great to all learn and grow together! No template for this one, but it's a pretty simple database. Don't wait, just dive in and create it!
Hey, great content as usual. Really helpful and to the point. I have a small suggestion. Could you zoom to the specific part of the screen while you are explaining that part? Its difficult to see what is written in the part you are explaining in this way of presentation. Thanks a ton.
Great suggestion, let me see if I can figure that out. Have several episodes already recorded, so any changes won;t be immediate. But I will dig into this. Great suggestion Favas.
@@augustbradley No issues.. Take your time.. Am ready to wait. I don't mind even if you don't make any changes. Because the quality of the contents is too good.
Yes, now that the Notes & Ideas Vault has been introduced, add a relation to Projects and then embed a self-referencing table view of Notes & Ideas in the project DB template -- just like the self-referencing Action Items table view. And then you'll have it integrated, with notes and ideas resurfacing in context in the right place at the right time.
Terrific video as always! I've hit a bit of a snag however: lately with one of the companies I work with/at, we've deployed Microsoft 365 and in an effort to bring in people to use task/project managers rather than bits of paper, scattered emails and so on, I'm pushing to use Planner in Teams. That means about half my activities are now there, and Notion's limitations are ever more apparent (half task managers in the world integrate in 365)... Though using only Planner for tasks is just as limiting for the lack of freedom and breadth that Notion gives you. I'm considering whether to only use Notion as a Vault, which is where it probably shines as much as Roam, if not more, but it's kind of an impossible choice at the moment. This Notes & Ideas Vault particularly seems to me to make much more sense and to be easier to approach than Zettelkasten or other similar approaches to ideas and knowledge.
I have a Master Journal that has the Notes & Ideas, a Dream Journal, a Psychedelic Journal, a Main Journal and my 5 Minute Journal that is linked to the Daily Tracking DB because I love to have the Daily Tracking DB linked to my Journals and at the end of the day I can see all my entries in the differents journals from the Daily Tracking. It is super easy to have a different template for each, and the properties are the same for all of them except I don't use the active/Archive one I Also have some DB inside of some of the journals, for example I have a Trip Log inside the Psychedelic Journal That give me more properties that I need for that one. But Anyways Thanks For This Series At first I was reluctant to use a complex system but now I see the value of it, especially the Vaults, the vaults just sell me the system haha. Thank You A Million! 🙏
Hi August, i am amazed by your video every single time. When you release your course, i will be the first one to sign up for it. One question related to the project and the content creation pipeline. If i have a book to write, where should i put this action? As a project or... because i cannot find any places in the content creation pipeline... i was trying to understand your sentence, "small than a project but bigger than a task"...i still couldn't get the meaning what kind of action or task will that be. And i marked my series of articles as a project. Did i put it wrong?
For a book, I would set completing or publishing the book as the Goal Objective (and your reason "why you want to write the book" as your Value Goal). Then break each step along the way into Projects: Research >> Make Outline >> Write 1st Chapter >> Write Chapters 2-5 >> Chapters 6-10>> ... >> Find Publisher, etc...
@@augustbradley Oh, pinpointed - my hurting point, what's a project and what's a task? In my eyes writing sa book is a project within a goal objective of "becoming a writer" or "publishing my book"... But let's swing it to my field. I want to create an online slide guitar course (oh God, not _another one_ ...) and that's concrete enough to be a project, then all the research, creating licks, lessons etc are tasks. Then subtasks could be to choose concrete songs och create licks etc etc. Am I thinking wrong here?
Is there a way to make a common view in the database (with filter / sort configured) that way when we link to it we don't need to configure it with a custom view again
Hey August, Another great video. I've added one additional database to my system, AREAS. It's sort of based on the PARA concept, but I feel it still has a place in your Pillar, Pipelines and Vaults System. I use "Areas" as a sub "Pillar", to house specific areas of interest. This gives me a dedicated page that's linkable throughout the system where fit. For instance, I substituted my "Areas" database for the "category" column in the Notes and Ideas Database. You've been a great help and I hope this feedback is beneficial. Thanks Again!
Thanks! If that additional layer of nuance under Pillars is helpful, than that's a great solution. But I encourage you to use a better more precise title than "Areas" -- can anyone think of a less descriptive word that "areas"? One of the (many) problems with PARA, is it's so badly titled and labeled, creating endless confusing and internal logic contradictions.
@@augustbradley Thanks for responding. I agree "Areas" may no be the best name, its just familiar. Maybe "Interest"? I look forward to seeing your video on the knowledge lab. I implemented the "Area" into the system before an understanding of your knowledge lab. I may be getting ahead of myself, but I feel the knowledge lab is a better and more precise method of keeping up and organizing areas of interest. Before, i was needing a place to organize ideas and notes for a particular subject. I feel I may end up removing my areas database altogether. My only drawback as of now is that; Pillars are broad scoped and there are only a few of them. My Areas were specific and I have bunch of them, The knowledge Lab is specific and also only for current things, which limit how many there are. Where would would I store info for things I'm not currently working on by may need to access in the future? As I'm typing this I now realize I may have been using the Areas as a Wiki of sorts/TAGS system vs the knowledge base your creating. I will wait for your next video to see how you pull everything together with the knowledge lab. Thanks Again!
@@djt3204 I agree the Knowledge Lab is better for topics of interest (I will be changing that name yet again, to Knowledge Vault -- will put Vault at the end of all the Vault names to be more clear). Dived your Pillars into smaller units, I suggest somewhere between 6 to 15 of them, depending on your range of activities. They are basically categories to cover all aspects of your life. They are not PARA Areas, but rather a full categorization of your life. They are not maintaining a level, they are just keeping organized. Will do a video on the difference.
@@augustbradley I feel the Knowledge Vault can be used to accommodate both present and future actionable-knowledge-capsules by integrating a property called Term (short, medium, long) into the database. With this approach, noise can be reduced by hiding knowledge-capsules that aren't the main focus for say a particular quarter. I hope this helps.
If an idea comes from a course you are taking notes on how do you recommend we link to the course module? The course module is in it's own dashboard setup unlike the structured media or book content.
How should I differentiate between Notes & Ideas data base with Media Vault, while most of my ideas are related to the media vault? So should I be making notes of the article/video/podcast in notes & ideas or in the Media Vault?
If it's related to any form of media, then the notes go in the media vault with the entry of that particular media item - whether it's an article, a book, a video, or whatever. The notes and ideas database would be independent ideas not connected to a media item. Hope that helps!
Wow another video You are on fire 😅 I have been watching your roam research video and that's why I still don't understand why I need notion for ideas, notes etc I mean notion obviously is amazing for lots of kinds of things But roam is great for having knowledge capturing systems So why do you still using notion for that
Thanks Ali! I'm finding just the opposite, with this knowledge management system in Notion, why do I need to use Roam? Notion is beating Roam on every level for me, largely because each part of the system is enhancing each other part. Roam is fun and interesting, but Notion just gets shit done - so much easier to find, use, and build on. In the Notion approach, the right Notes & Ideas resurface where they are needed when they are need -- doing projects, client work, exploring bigger topics and aggregating ideas in the Knowledge Lab. Roam can't touch any of this. Plus Notion has a great Web Clipper, Roam is endless copying and pasting manually. I'm drifting away from Roam for all these reasons. If Notion were to add bi-directional links inline (in the page workspace, not just in database properties), there would be no reason to ever use Roam. Even now it's a stretch to justify using Roam.
@Louise Beattie Hi Louise, I have been intrigued by Roam but just find Notion makes things happen on a much higher level -- including capturing, processing and accessing information.Her is a video on how I have been using the two together: ruclips.net/video/JeUPihMsCnE/видео.html - the dream scenario for me would be to have Roam-style inline bi-directional linking inside Notion. Best of both. Notion is a full software platform, while Roam is largely an innovative feature. Hopefully that feature will shoe up in other platforms.
@@augustbradley , thanks for this quality content. As a big Notion user (and promoter), are you in contact with @Notion product team? It would indeed be amazing to have inline bi-directional links and they should know it!
@@hugomartin6663 Notion did add inline bidirectional links, type [[ to create the link inline.More here: www.notion.so/Create-links-backlinks-cb3c406403c940b68af52de121e05474
I was going through building this and I had an idea, rather than adding all book notes into Book entry as text, what if we create a note entry for each chapter notes into Notes database, and link it with Book entry? Wouldn't that make it easier to linkup notes of same category through different books, if that makes sense?
**Video Summary** 0:00 Intro The last two videos covered different kinds of inputs into our knowledge management system, books and media more broadly. This video looks at the notes and ideas vault which is designed for capturing our own ideas, thoughts and inspirations. It's possible a piece of media could spark a thought that you might find valuable later and you'd enter it here. If the thought came up during your consumption of a video/article that you thought was worth capturing then you'd ideally put that thought into the capture of that video/article. If you're working in a team, this is where everyone would enter their thoughts and ideas The design of this aims to enable quick and easy capture of ideas and other parts of the system that we'll cover in the next 2 videos are about how to extract and have the information that we capture in this vault resurface at the right time and place. This largely happens in the Knowledge Lab, but in other instances like team profiles. Firstly we'll cover how to set up the notes and ideas vault and then how to set up quick capture mechanisms in the right contextual locations so when notes and ideas come to you, they can be entered quickly and efficiently. 3:06 Database Setup 2:35 Looking at the command centre we enter the mind expansion dashboard The past 2 videos covered The Library, Media Vault and The Academy which is where we capture books, media and course information respectively. Today we are looking at the Notes & Ideas database which lives in the Vaults section of the PPV organizational structure. This is a particularly interesting vault for the capture of our own thoughts and ideas or ideas from media that we might not want to capture entirely. The notes and ideas you create will be given a title and elaborated upon in the workspace 3:50 One of the best things about Notion is the capability of the workspace inside the note when compared to other apps You can capture anything from quick thoughts to paragraphs, tables, organization of data etc. Keeping Notes Narrow in Scope The idea of the notes contained within this database is that they're individual, self-contained nuggets These are not fully-fledged explorations of broad ideas, they are tightly confined in scope The idea is to have all these pieces attach to bigger ideas in the Knowledge Lab or potential sources of information Sources of information will typically only be linked if that source was the inspiration for the idea One note could be linked to several knowledge lab topics (through a relational link), each entry in the Knowledge lab is a broad topic that you build up from many different sources. As you're thinking about notes, keep them narrow in scope and modular, even if some notes are similar. When creating a new note we will out the properties 6:35S Status: Active The default status for new notes, there is an Archived option for when things are no longer relevant. 7:10 Enabling Filtered Views Filtered by active status If you're working in a team it's important to have notes filtered by Contains "Me", not your full name option. "me" means that anyone who is logged in and viewing this database will have new notes assigned to their name 8:00 If you're using your own solo system you don't need this, or the created by property The category property could be useful for both individuals and teams. In the team implementation, each category would be a department e.g. Sales, Marketing, HR, Admin A view can then be created for each category for the entire team to see as they go in This category setting allows you to have dashboards elsewhere where only the relevant notes and ideas for that section are being seen. Sort is typically done by last edited, but the creation date is also useful Filtered is by active and within a week or so 12:25 Quick Entry Setup There are 2 important aspects to a notes and ideas database, one being quick and easy input and the other is that it resurfaces at the right time and place. The latter will be explored in the coming videos. To establish quick entry we have a point in the mind expansion dashboard. This dashboard is set as one of the favourites There is also a quick entry point on the command centre 13:20 Toggle for the notes and ideas inbox Another one is in the Action Zone 14:30 Toggle for the notes and idea inbox Sort and filter 16:20 This works really well on mobile 17:04 Closing Thoughts What's really interesting is how we make these quickly entered notes and ideas resurface at the right time and place contextually. In most cases, this is done in the knowledge lab Sometimes you want the to resurface in the context of teams Notes and ideas are all about quick entry and capture, and then availability later on which is what this system hopes to achieve.
I currently have different 'Notebooks' that are different databases, with one master notebook (Dashboard) that I sort them through. I got this approach from Thomas Frank who was trying to emulate Evernote. Is there a disadvantage to this that I am not seeing? I know I could accomplish the same thing with filter views of the same notebook.
I love Thomas Frank's work (his Notion content creation template was genius!), but why mimic Evernote when you can do so much more and better with interface design in Notion? Regardless, there is no benefits and several drawbacks to having each "notebook" (ie, separate topics) be separate databases. First, any structural change to one has to then be made to the rest. Waste of time. But more importantly, you do not ever have the ability to pull multiple combinations of notebook topics into a single view when they're separate. And each relation to another database will have to be set up separately for each Notebook, instead of one relational link connecting to all notebooks - so you would have a ton of extra relations properties, then for each entry it would take extra time to click and set up each notebooks relational selection(s) independently. Many more reasons but this list is a good start. There's no advantage to the separate notebooks at all unless they're using totally different properties, which is unlikely since they are all the same thing (i.e., notebooks) just with different topics. I suspect he did that just because it was simpler to organize in his mind, but independent embedded databases with filtered views creates the same outcome on the page/dashboard. a single select or multi-select property will sort and categories them perfectly. Hope that helps!
"Ideas-Fog" or "The Mists of Time" ? At 12:13 in the bit about filtering to only show ideas *within the last week* - because, as stated there: "beyond a week I don't even remember it". That triggered me: are there some deeper points going on here (psychology, philosophy, methodology): *forgetting as a natural mental decluttering process* (as opposed to a weakness) ? *Permaculture* (in the Marie Poulin sense)? In more detail... Personal context: I suffer from a constant profusion of ideas - way too many to sensibly utilise: Ideas-Fog. Several significant ones have been "years ahead of their time" (though not developed by me) - arguably implying an advantage in retaining them over such periods. Others have been more specialist - such as particular and novel types of artificial neural network (started as an idea, became a mainstay of my work) and yet others are truly tiny. And no sense of prioritisation among them. Not convinced I can change from within; this mind-type appears hard-wired. So instead I look to philosophy, the community and the computer. I had hitherto (until absorbing the 1-week filtering point) imagined employing my eventual "2nd brain" (in the most general sense, including PPV - or is there a better umbrella term?) to *compensate* for my memory limitations, so that ultimately no ideas would ever be forgotten. Surely recognising the need for ideas-decluttering, my natural mechanism would only be (in terms of this Vault) to *consciously* remove them from view, by *deactivation*, as opposed to having their "disappearance" arranged automatically. My inner hoarder reassured that nothing was actually getting deleted. In contrast, the deliberately fielded "1-week maximum" filter actively *encourages* their disappearance from one's awareness at least, dropping back and fading into the mists of time. Interesting... Underlying the filtering-out of "old" ideas, I guess there must be a more fundamental, philosophical point at work: a concept of "forgetting is *good*". Hadn't expected that. Not only *accepting* the forgetting of ideas beyond one week but actually *reinforcing* this (e.g. through the described filter criteria). The polar opposite of what I had expected to achieve - namely the managed aggregation, secure storage and occasional reminding of a "treasure trove" of magic ideas, any of which might one day find their "season of success". Perhaps only 1% in practice, but that 1% more than justifying the "wastefulness" of the remainder. The "speculative research" mind-set. Concluding... Overall, is it a good idea to accept and even flow with "forgetting" ? As opposed to regarding it as a negative, opposing it and even striving to engineer a fix for it? Does any established philosophy resonate with that viewpoint ? Does the creative's (idea-driven) use-case differ significantly from the do-er's (goal-oriented) use case" ? Can/should they be merged ? Room for compromise ? Annual skimming through all ideas in the past year - or ever ?
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.” ― Steve Jobs
I feel like Roam can create nice discoveries, but is unreliable as the core system -- too fragmented and inconsistent. Too hard to find things and unreliable for discovery (even though it can create some nice surprises on occasion). I'm hoping for bi-directional linking in Notion and other platforms soon, Roam is really more of a great feature idea than a full system platform like Notion - at least for the way I approach things.
@@augustbradley Ahh I see. Yes as a solid platform, notion is definitely better and that's exactly why I subscribed to your channel! Thanks for your reply :D
On the Command Center, how do you get the page-mentions to display the diagonal-arrow on the left of the icon (i.e., [arrow] [icon] [title])? For me, it's displayed as [icon] [arrow] [title].
I'll think more about this, I have an idea on how to do it but not sure if it would be fluid and dynamic enough to handle large volumes. But potential. Will add it to my R&D list and potential future video.
Just one tip for you about RUclips: "When you say in the beggining of the video about " how to create" gives the impression it's a tutorial, but it's not. It could be better saying "I'll show you guys how I've created my system and give you some ideas about Notion systems."
He is teaching you how to create, I think he intentionally doesn't provide everything as templates or a step by step breakdown in order for you to get your hands dirty. I have been using Notion for a year, but nothing came close to me learning this system than just trying to make it my self while he explains how he uses it. I hope I made sense 😂
@@fadipola7533 I agree with you, I'm a Notion pro too, however it's just a tip for the video don't be misundestood, because I love the August's content and he desearves to grow even more.
Sure, if he provided all his templates it would have saved me some time. But I wouldn't have nearly the same understanding of the system-nor would I have known what to tweak along the way to make it best suit me-if I hadn't created my system alongside August's videos.
@@geoffjball Hear, hear! Totally agree with that. I've made the progress I've made due to the quality of the trainings, working alongside @August and having to build some of the templates from scratch -- making mistakes, going back to the video, figuring out what I did wrong and correcting them -- and then learning from that. As Yoda said to Skywalker in "The Last Jedi": "The greatest teacher, failure is."
Knowledge Hub -> Knowledge Lab Ahah! I caught your correction :-) Seriously, great and useful work as always. It's making me reflecting and building my customized system. Step by step. Thanks a lot.
Who completed watching the amazing series (29 videos til now)? Hit like :)
yes! Competly worth it, on my second round revisiting my favorite parts now
You are the reason I love notion even more.
Thanks Aditya, that means a lot to me to hear this!
@@augustbradley Your Notion videos have changed my productivity life! I am now seeing what inputs produce what outputs and able to fine tune them and reinforce the most productive actions. All thanks to you!
@@ClassicGhost Awesome Tony! Super happy to hear this.
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I've been adding each section of the system one-by-one and have just caught up with the videos. It's an amazing system that's already improved my productivity. I'm really grateful for you making the whole thing public.
Great to hear this Xeract! Super happy to hear you're seeing the benefits already. This approach really changes lives when people commit to it.
I don't know where to start I'm just beginning are there templates or a step by step how to that's simple to follow and not as fast I love the concepts
My God! I don't know how I lived without it all the time! It's amazing! This is cool! It's perfect! Ideal! I do not know what else to say! This is the best thing that happened in my life. I'm happy. Of course, it saddens me that my convolutions were not enough to create such an idea. But I am very glad that I found this idea here!!!
I feel like I am standing on the edge of a cliff with an hang glider and I am about ready to jump and fly! I've been adding ideas to tasks lists for years and getting overwhelmed each and every time. It seems so simple to keep them separate. It's a good idea, just not the good time. I am excited to see how you turn Notes & Ideas into Action Items. I cannot wait for the videos! I'm ready to start percolating.
The system I have in place so far is already amazing. Seems I think of new things to track in Notion every day. Stuff that never had a good place before. Stuff that needed a table so I could see all the data at once, but also needed a document and images for more details. I struggled to keep it all togrther. Notion does it all. The best thing about Covid was finding Notion and then you. Thank you, August.
Fantastic to hear all this Cindi! Congrats on your progress.
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." -Lao Tzu
Your series really takes Notion to the next level! Another excellent video as always.
Thanks Stephen! We'll take this even further in the next few videos.
Thank you August for taking the time to create all these videos and share with us your view on the System Thinking. How you turn Notion into a such great tool that helps us build our day-to-day life to the next level through the System Thinking is invaluable.
Absolutely Ludovic, that's what it's all about! We build, learn, and grow better together.
I was using basic pages in Notion before I discovered your channel. Now almost all of them are databases and I find them to be incredibly useful. Thank you so much for doing this!
Nice Anwar, Databases are so much more capable than solo pages. The most amazing thing to me is that in Notion each database entry is a fully functional page -- this presents mind-blowing possibilities. It's why I initially switched from Airtable to Notion.
Great job! THEN since I'm on an Android phone with buttons, I set up a web browser with the notion "Quick Notes" table as the home page and set the "Bixby" button to open that browser when clicked. So I pick up my phone, press the button on the side, use voice to text to capture the note on the fly, and have it in my Mind dashboard when I'm ready to deal with it! Thank you for this.
Perfect! That's the way to do it 😎. Now capture every thought or idea, and put them to good use.
I just finished designing and implementing everything, This is by far the best birthday gift I am going to give my self. I saw this video listed as private and waited to be able to comment and thank you. I haven't said this a lot of times in my life but I don't have the words to tell you how much I appreciate you for doing this.
happy birthday :-)
Awesome Fadi, this is truly a gift that will keep on giving.
I'm curious, how/where did you see the video listed as "Private"? When was it visible as private? Thanks!
I saw it in the play list in the morning. I only noticed it because I knew there was 28 and suddenly it became 29.
@@wenjing269 Thank you. It's on the 31st. Here I am sitting thinking I will be all alone this birthday😂 and a stranger made my day.
Hey Augusta,
First of all, thank you for making so much high quality content available. It’s been tremendously helpful to me as I put my finger on some misalignment in my life and simultaneously found notion as part of a “second brain” hunt.
Had a question about notes and ideas - I wonder what sorts of things end up in this vault? Over the last several weeks, every good idea I’ve had has had a better home - in the knowledge vault, in the media that generated it, or aligned with a project it supports.
Is this just a temporary home to facilitate quick entry? Or do ideas live here permanently?
Firstly, thank you August for everything you've been contributing on RUclips. I'm a student of your PPV system and currently restructuring much of my Notion to incorporate these lessons. Previously, I had a hierarchal folder structure of categories. (When I transitioned over from Evernote, I created multiple levels of nested-folders since we were just limited to one-nested folder in Evernote) My main categories are similiar to your Pillars, and the sub-category folder topics are similiar to the Knowledge Lab Topics. So a Health & Fitness folder, for example, would contain various databases: grocery list database, workouts database, weight tracker, recipe database, etc. If incorporating the Notes & Ideas database, do i transition each of my folder contents to a single entry of the Notes & Ideas Vault? Or would you still maintain these bigger databases within a folder and use Notes & Ideas for simple, short notes?
I get so excited every time a new notification from your channel pops up on my screen! You have changed the way I view my life. I'm grateful for the vaulable content you share with us and for the opportunity to learn from your videos to building my own life system. This is a huge game changer in my personal life as well as advancing my career. Thank you so much!!🙏
Fantastic Monique, I can't tell you how much it means to me to hear this. So happy it has been impactful for you!!!
Hi August, thanks for your video. Also great to read comments from other people. In my case I'm using evernote but certainly I have to do efforts to engrain the tool during the working day. I really appreciate your videos. Keep healthy all of you.
Thanks José! Try using Notion for the sections of Evernote that you're most actively engaged with, I thin it will open up new possibilities for you. Either way, we are blessed to have so many great tools!
August, thanks for the amazing content!
Great Again. Thanks!
Hey August, congratulations on your channel growing so quickly! I had a thought while watching this video, maybe we see a vlog from your side as to how your typical day looks like and how you use Notion in a single to give more context to the users. Also maybe you can tell us how much of your notion usage in on mobile and how to use it efficiently.
Cheers!
Hi August! Amazing content you are sharing with us. Thank you.
One question: I see you use the categories column. What is your opinion about using a system-wide tagging system such that when you add a piece of content, be it podcast, book, notes, etc, you tag it accordingly (marketing, health, productivity, etc)? This way, you can open that tag and see all contents (media vault, notes, etc), system-wide, related to that topic.
Is there any advantage of using the local database category (the way you use it), compared to the generalized tagging option?
Thank you again!
Love it❤️❤️❤️
Amazing content - thanks again! :)
Glad you found it valuable Patryk!
Once again. YESSSSSSSS!!!!
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Prof Xavier, you X-Notion students are following 😊
hee hee
Superb!!
Hey August, another great step for the Life OS, thank you so much! I have been gradually building and adapting mine with all these great resources you have been sharing and this is particularly good one as I really lacked a good system one for the capturing of notes and ideas that power my knowledge areas. Having this as a system is really powerful, especially also allowing the notes to surface in the contexts where they are relevant. On that note I am thinking about to playing with an extension of your "Category" field and make it a Database of "Knowledge Categories" so that I can reuse the same categories cross all the different Vaults (e.g.: Knowledge Sources, Notes and Ideas, Knowledge Lab, etc...). By doing that you also get a great "aggregation" of all the things related with a particular category. Maybe something interesting for you to consider too, I will share how it goes for me as I experiment with it. Thank you again and keep up with the great work!
Hi August, do you have plans to cover the Biz/Client Ops area soon? I feel like this is the biggest hole in my system right now!
I will be covering it, but not immediately. Covering the personal system first, then will do some business elements that integrate nicely with the core system.
♥️Firstly thank you so much August for creating such precious quality content. Appreciate for every minute of every video you’ve published 😊
I’d LOVEE to get your suggest on where it would be best to store info for example: 🥘 Recipes (table), 🏠 House Renovation (table)
Thank you
I've broken up "house Renovation" into discrete PROJECTS, aligned with the 'home admin' PILLAR. So it's "Re-do the office" which has action items like 'paint, build desk, etc'
For recipes, feels like you should have a separate vault for that. Hope this helps!
Next level Notion...mind expanded!
Thank you deeply for assisting us in advancing
our Notion skills, awareness and joy.
Is there a "Notes and Ideas" template?
Awesome CJ, its great to all learn and grow together! No template for this one, but it's a pretty simple database. Don't wait, just dive in and create it!
Hey, great content as usual. Really helpful and to the point.
I have a small suggestion. Could you zoom to the specific part of the screen while you are explaining that part? Its difficult to see what is written in the part you are explaining in this way of presentation.
Thanks a ton.
Great suggestion, let me see if I can figure that out. Have several episodes already recorded, so any changes won;t be immediate. But I will dig into this. Great suggestion Favas.
@@augustbradley No issues.. Take your time.. Am ready to wait.
I don't mind even if you don't make any changes. Because the quality of the contents is too good.
I was surprised to see that the Notes & Idea vault is not related to Projects. Do you have a system to capture quick thoughts related to Projects?
Yes, now that the Notes & Ideas Vault has been introduced, add a relation to Projects and then embed a self-referencing table view of Notes & Ideas in the project DB template -- just like the self-referencing Action Items table view. And then you'll have it integrated, with notes and ideas resurfacing in context in the right place at the right time.
Terrific video as always! I've hit a bit of a snag however: lately with one of the companies I work with/at, we've deployed Microsoft 365 and in an effort to bring in people to use task/project managers rather than bits of paper, scattered emails and so on, I'm pushing to use Planner in Teams. That means about half my activities are now there, and Notion's limitations are ever more apparent (half task managers in the world integrate in 365)... Though using only Planner for tasks is just as limiting for the lack of freedom and breadth that Notion gives you. I'm considering whether to only use Notion as a Vault, which is where it probably shines as much as Roam, if not more, but it's kind of an impossible choice at the moment. This Notes & Ideas Vault particularly seems to me to make much more sense and to be easier to approach than Zettelkasten or other similar approaches to ideas and knowledge.
I have a Master Journal that has the Notes & Ideas, a Dream Journal, a Psychedelic Journal, a Main Journal and my 5 Minute Journal that is linked to the Daily Tracking DB because I love to have the Daily Tracking DB linked to my Journals and at the end of the day I can see all my entries in the differents journals from the Daily Tracking. It is super easy to have a different template for each, and the properties are the same for all of them except I don't use the active/Archive one I Also have some DB inside of some of the journals, for example I have a Trip Log inside the Psychedelic Journal That give me more properties that I need for that one. But Anyways Thanks For This Series At first I was reluctant to use a complex system but now I see the value of it, especially the Vaults, the vaults just sell me the system haha. Thank You A Million! 🙏
Hi August, i am amazed by your video every single time. When you release your course, i will be the first one to sign up for it. One question related to the project and the content creation pipeline. If i have a book to write, where should i put this action?
As a project or... because i cannot find any places in the content creation pipeline... i was trying to understand your sentence, "small than a project but bigger than a task"...i still couldn't get the meaning what kind of action or task will that be.
And i marked my series of articles as a project. Did i put it wrong?
Many thanks.
For a book, I would set completing or publishing the book as the Goal Objective (and your reason "why you want to write the book" as your Value Goal). Then break each step along the way into Projects: Research >> Make Outline >> Write 1st Chapter >> Write Chapters 2-5 >> Chapters 6-10>> ... >> Find Publisher, etc...
@@augustbradley Thank you so much August for your quick reply!!! You are my youtube GOD.
@@augustbradley Oh, pinpointed - my hurting point, what's a project and what's a task? In my eyes writing sa book is a project within a goal objective of "becoming a writer" or "publishing my book"... But let's swing it to my field. I want to create an online slide guitar course (oh God, not _another one_ ...) and that's concrete enough to be a project, then all the research, creating licks, lessons etc are tasks. Then subtasks could be to choose concrete songs och create licks etc etc. Am I thinking wrong here?
Excellent ideas , when you you going to release your course ? hope its going be game changer ..looking forward to it ..
In about 2 months is the game plan. I will give it my everything, my very best all-out game-changing experience.
@@augustbradley Thanks and looking forward to it..
Teach It!
you nailed the first row!
First place prize to Stephen prize!🏆
Is there a way to make a common view in the database (with filter / sort configured) that way when we link to it we don't need to configure it with a custom view again
Hi August, I just wonder if it is possible to download your pageicons anywhere, because I really like the design of these.
Thanks James. I get them form a variety of sources, but one of my favorites with a lot of them is flaticon.com
I get mine from icon8.com :)
@August Bradley - Life Design thank you
Hey August, Another great video. I've added one additional database to my system, AREAS. It's sort of based on the PARA concept, but I feel it still has a place in your Pillar, Pipelines and Vaults System. I use "Areas" as a sub "Pillar", to house specific areas of interest. This gives me a dedicated page that's linkable throughout the system where fit. For instance, I substituted my "Areas" database for the "category" column in the Notes and Ideas Database. You've been a great help and I hope this feedback is beneficial. Thanks Again!
Thanks! If that additional layer of nuance under Pillars is helpful, than that's a great solution. But I encourage you to use a better more precise title than "Areas" -- can anyone think of a less descriptive word that "areas"? One of the (many) problems with PARA, is it's so badly titled and labeled, creating endless confusing and internal logic contradictions.
@@augustbradley Thanks for responding. I agree "Areas" may no be the best name, its just familiar. Maybe "Interest"? I look forward to seeing your video on the knowledge lab. I implemented the "Area" into the system before an understanding of your knowledge lab. I may be getting ahead of myself, but I feel the knowledge lab is a better and more precise method of keeping up and organizing areas of interest. Before, i was needing a place to organize ideas and notes for a particular subject. I feel I may end up removing my areas database altogether. My only drawback as of now is that; Pillars are broad scoped and there are only a few of them. My Areas were specific and I have bunch of them, The knowledge Lab is specific and also only for current things, which limit how many there are. Where would would I store info for things I'm not currently working on by may need to access in the future? As I'm typing this I now realize I may have been using the Areas as a Wiki of sorts/TAGS system vs the knowledge base your creating. I will wait for your next video to see how you pull everything together with the knowledge lab. Thanks Again!
@@djt3204 I agree the Knowledge Lab is better for topics of interest (I will be changing that name yet again, to Knowledge Vault -- will put Vault at the end of all the Vault names to be more clear). Dived your Pillars into smaller units, I suggest somewhere between 6 to 15 of them, depending on your range of activities. They are basically categories to cover all aspects of your life. They are not PARA Areas, but rather a full categorization of your life. They are not maintaining a level, they are just keeping organized. Will do a video on the difference.
@@augustbradley I feel the Knowledge Vault can be used to accommodate both present and future actionable-knowledge-capsules by integrating a property called Term (short, medium, long) into the database. With this approach, noise can be reduced by hiding knowledge-capsules that aren't the main focus for say a particular quarter. I hope this helps.
If an idea comes from a course you are taking notes on how do you recommend we link to the course module? The course module is in it's own dashboard setup unlike the structured media or book content.
How should I differentiate between Notes & Ideas data base with Media Vault, while most of my ideas are related to the media vault? So should I be making notes of the article/video/podcast in notes & ideas or in the Media Vault?
If it's related to any form of media, then the notes go in the media vault with the entry of that particular media item - whether it's an article, a book, a video, or whatever. The notes and ideas database would be independent ideas not connected to a media item. Hope that helps!
Wow another video
You are on fire 😅
I have been watching your roam research video and that's why I still don't understand why I need notion for ideas, notes etc
I mean notion obviously is amazing for lots of kinds of things
But roam is great for having knowledge capturing systems
So why do you still using notion for that
Thanks Ali! I'm finding just the opposite, with this knowledge management system in Notion, why do I need to use Roam? Notion is beating Roam on every level for me, largely because each part of the system is enhancing each other part. Roam is fun and interesting, but Notion just gets shit done - so much easier to find, use, and build on. In the Notion approach, the right Notes & Ideas resurface where they are needed when they are need -- doing projects, client work, exploring bigger topics and aggregating ideas in the Knowledge Lab. Roam can't touch any of this. Plus Notion has a great Web Clipper, Roam is endless copying and pasting manually. I'm drifting away from Roam for all these reasons. If Notion were to add bi-directional links inline (in the page workspace, not just in database properties), there would be no reason to ever use Roam. Even now it's a stretch to justify using Roam.
@Louise Beattie Hi Louise, I have been intrigued by Roam but just find Notion makes things happen on a much higher level -- including capturing, processing and accessing information.Her is a video on how I have been using the two together: ruclips.net/video/JeUPihMsCnE/видео.html - the dream scenario for me would be to have Roam-style inline bi-directional linking inside Notion. Best of both. Notion is a full software platform, while Roam is largely an innovative feature. Hopefully that feature will shoe up in other platforms.
@@augustbradley , thanks for this quality content. As a big Notion user (and promoter), are you in contact with @Notion product team? It would indeed be amazing to have inline bi-directional links and they should know it!
@@hugomartin6663 Notion did add inline bidirectional links, type [[ to create the link inline.More here: www.notion.so/Create-links-backlinks-cb3c406403c940b68af52de121e05474
I was going through building this and I had an idea, rather than adding all book notes into Book entry as text, what if we create a note entry for each chapter notes into Notes database, and link it with Book entry? Wouldn't that make it easier to linkup notes of same category through different books, if that makes sense?
**Video Summary**
0:00 Intro
The last two videos covered different kinds of inputs into our knowledge management system, books and media more broadly. This video looks at the notes and ideas vault which is designed for capturing our own ideas, thoughts and inspirations.
It's possible a piece of media could spark a thought that you might find valuable later and you'd enter it here.
If the thought came up during your consumption of a video/article that you thought was worth capturing then you'd ideally put that thought into the capture of that video/article.
If you're working in a team, this is where everyone would enter their thoughts and ideas
The design of this aims to enable quick and easy capture of ideas and other parts of the system that we'll cover in the next 2 videos are about how to extract and have the information that we capture in this vault resurface at the right time and place.
This largely happens in the Knowledge Lab, but in other instances like team profiles.
Firstly we'll cover how to set up the notes and ideas vault and then how to set up quick capture mechanisms in the right contextual locations so when notes and ideas come to you, they can be entered quickly and efficiently.
3:06 Database Setup
2:35 Looking at the command centre we enter the mind expansion dashboard
The past 2 videos covered The Library, Media Vault and The Academy which is where we capture books, media and course information respectively.
Today we are looking at the Notes & Ideas database which lives in the Vaults section of the PPV organizational structure.
This is a particularly interesting vault for the capture of our own thoughts and ideas or ideas from media that we might not want to capture entirely.
The notes and ideas you create will be given a title and elaborated upon in the workspace 3:50
One of the best things about Notion is the capability of the workspace inside the note when compared to other apps
You can capture anything from quick thoughts to paragraphs, tables, organization of data etc.
Keeping Notes Narrow in Scope
The idea of the notes contained within this database is that they're individual, self-contained nuggets
These are not fully-fledged explorations of broad ideas, they are tightly confined in scope
The idea is to have all these pieces attach to bigger ideas in the Knowledge Lab or potential sources of information
Sources of information will typically only be linked if that source was the inspiration for the idea
One note could be linked to several knowledge lab topics (through a relational link), each entry in the Knowledge lab is a broad topic that you build up from many different sources.
As you're thinking about notes, keep them narrow in scope and modular, even if some notes are similar.
When creating a new note we will out the properties 6:35S
Status: Active
The default status for new notes, there is an Archived option for when things are no longer relevant.
7:10 Enabling Filtered Views
Filtered by active status
If you're working in a team it's important to have notes filtered by Contains "Me", not your full name option.
"me" means that anyone who is logged in and viewing this database will have new notes assigned to their name 8:00
If you're using your own solo system you don't need this, or the created by property
The category property could be useful for both individuals and teams.
In the team implementation, each category would be a department
e.g. Sales, Marketing, HR, Admin
A view can then be created for each category for the entire team to see as they go in
This category setting allows you to have dashboards elsewhere where only the relevant notes and ideas for that section are being seen.
Sort is typically done by last edited, but the creation date is also useful
Filtered is by active and within a week or so
12:25 Quick Entry Setup
There are 2 important aspects to a notes and ideas database, one being quick and easy input and the other is that it resurfaces at the right time and place. The latter will be explored in the coming videos.
To establish quick entry we have a point in the mind expansion dashboard.
This dashboard is set as one of the favourites
There is also a quick entry point on the command centre 13:20
Toggle for the notes and ideas inbox
Another one is in the Action Zone 14:30
Toggle for the notes and idea inbox
Sort and filter 16:20
This works really well on mobile
17:04 Closing Thoughts
What's really interesting is how we make these quickly entered notes and ideas resurface at the right time and place contextually.
In most cases, this is done in the knowledge lab
Sometimes you want the to resurface in the context of teams
Notes and ideas are all about quick entry and capture, and then availability later on which is what this system hopes to achieve.
Hey guys how do we get a dark mode of the flowchart?
August I just wanted to ask where do you get your Icons from? By the way I love your content so much and can't wait for the full course :)
Thanks! For icons check out flaticon.com. And the course is here! www.yearzero.io/notion-course
Where can I find the transcripts of these videos?
I currently have different 'Notebooks' that are different databases, with one master notebook (Dashboard) that I sort them through. I got this approach from Thomas Frank who was trying to emulate Evernote. Is there a disadvantage to this that I am not seeing? I know I could accomplish the same thing with filter views of the same notebook.
I love Thomas Frank's work (his Notion content creation template was genius!), but why mimic Evernote when you can do so much more and better with interface design in Notion? Regardless, there is no benefits and several drawbacks to having each "notebook" (ie, separate topics) be separate databases. First, any structural change to one has to then be made to the rest. Waste of time. But more importantly, you do not ever have the ability to pull multiple combinations of notebook topics into a single view when they're separate. And each relation to another database will have to be set up separately for each Notebook, instead of one relational link connecting to all notebooks - so you would have a ton of extra relations properties, then for each entry it would take extra time to click and set up each notebooks relational selection(s) independently. Many more reasons but this list is a good start.
There's no advantage to the separate notebooks at all unless they're using totally different properties, which is unlikely since they are all the same thing (i.e., notebooks) just with different topics. I suspect he did that just because it was simpler to organize in his mind, but independent embedded databases with filtered views creates the same outcome on the page/dashboard. a single select or multi-select property will sort and categories them perfectly. Hope that helps!
"Ideas-Fog" or "The Mists of Time" ?
At 12:13 in the bit about filtering to only show ideas *within the last week* - because, as stated there: "beyond a week I don't even remember it". That triggered me: are there some deeper points going on here (psychology, philosophy, methodology): *forgetting as a natural mental decluttering process* (as opposed to a weakness) ? *Permaculture* (in the Marie Poulin sense)?
In more detail...
Personal context: I suffer from a constant profusion of ideas - way too many to sensibly utilise: Ideas-Fog. Several significant ones have been "years ahead of their time" (though not developed by me) - arguably implying an advantage in retaining them over such periods. Others have been more specialist - such as particular and novel types of artificial neural network (started as an idea, became a mainstay of my work) and yet others are truly tiny. And no sense of prioritisation among them. Not convinced I can change from within; this mind-type appears hard-wired. So instead I look to philosophy, the community and the computer.
I had hitherto (until absorbing the 1-week filtering point) imagined employing my eventual "2nd brain" (in the most general sense, including PPV - or is there a better umbrella term?) to *compensate* for my memory limitations, so that ultimately no ideas would ever be forgotten. Surely recognising the need for ideas-decluttering, my natural mechanism would only be (in terms of this Vault) to *consciously* remove them from view, by *deactivation*, as opposed to having their "disappearance" arranged automatically. My inner hoarder reassured that nothing was actually getting deleted. In contrast, the deliberately fielded "1-week maximum" filter actively *encourages* their disappearance from one's awareness at least, dropping back and fading into the mists of time. Interesting...
Underlying the filtering-out of "old" ideas, I guess there must be a more fundamental, philosophical point at work: a concept of "forgetting is *good*". Hadn't expected that. Not only *accepting* the forgetting of ideas beyond one week but actually *reinforcing* this (e.g. through the described filter criteria). The polar opposite of what I had expected to achieve - namely the managed aggregation, secure storage and occasional reminding of a "treasure trove" of magic ideas, any of which might one day find their "season of success". Perhaps only 1% in practice, but that 1% more than justifying the "wastefulness" of the remainder. The "speculative research" mind-set.
Concluding...
Overall, is it a good idea to accept and even flow with "forgetting" ? As opposed to regarding it as a negative, opposing it and even striving to engineer a fix for it? Does any established philosophy resonate with that viewpoint ?
Does the creative's (idea-driven) use-case differ significantly from the do-er's (goal-oriented) use case" ? Can/should they be merged ? Room for compromise ? Annual skimming through all ideas in the past year - or ever ?
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”
― Steve Jobs
I feel like Roam is more suitable when you want these captured ideas to be interconnected to one another.
I feel like Roam can create nice discoveries, but is unreliable as the core system -- too fragmented and inconsistent. Too hard to find things and unreliable for discovery (even though it can create some nice surprises on occasion). I'm hoping for bi-directional linking in Notion and other platforms soon, Roam is really more of a great feature idea than a full system platform like Notion - at least for the way I approach things.
@@augustbradley Ahh I see. Yes as a solid platform, notion is definitely better and that's exactly why I subscribed to your channel! Thanks for your reply :D
On the Command Center, how do you get the page-mentions to display the diagonal-arrow on the left of the icon (i.e., [arrow] [icon] [title])?
For me, it's displayed as [icon] [arrow] [title].
i noticed that too, but does it make a difference?
Has anyone created a space repetition database for study o keep struggling to make one
I'll think more about this, I have an idea on how to do it but not sure if it would be fluid and dynamic enough to handle large volumes. But potential. Will add it to my R&D list and potential future video.
@@augustbradley legend
i thought i could be the first...
You were super close Wenijng, you sill get a ribbon! 🏅
Just one tip for you about RUclips: "When you say in the beggining of the video about " how to create" gives the impression it's a tutorial, but it's not. It could be better saying "I'll show you guys how I've created my system and give you some ideas about Notion systems."
He is teaching you how to create, I think he intentionally doesn't provide everything as templates or a step by step breakdown in order for you to get your hands dirty.
I have been using Notion for a year, but nothing came close to me learning this system than just trying to make it my self while he explains how he uses it.
I hope I made sense 😂
@@fadipola7533 I agree with you, I'm a Notion pro too, however it's just a tip for the video don't be misundestood, because I love the August's content and he desearves to grow even more.
Sure, if he provided all his templates it would have saved me some time. But I wouldn't have nearly the same understanding of the system-nor would I have known what to tweak along the way to make it best suit me-if I hadn't created my system alongside August's videos.
@@geoffjball Me neither, he is the Best!
@@geoffjball Hear, hear! Totally agree with that. I've made the progress I've made due to the quality of the trainings, working alongside @August and having to build some of the templates from scratch -- making mistakes, going back to the video, figuring out what I did wrong and correcting them -- and then learning from that.
As Yoda said to Skywalker in "The Last Jedi": "The greatest teacher, failure is."
Knowledge Hub -> Knowledge Lab Ahah! I caught your correction :-) Seriously, great and useful work as always. It's making me reflecting and building my customized system. Step by step. Thanks a lot.