Hey all! I've just released a HUGE new video with updates to this recurring tasks system, as well as a way to completely AUTOMATE your recurring tasks for free. Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/gHVTJWIB2No/видео.html
This is really interesting and very inventive. Thanks for the contribution, but I think I'll stick with my simple method: I use a "Recurrence" column with the "Select" property. If I have a recurring task, I just use a tag in that column that specifies the frequency of the recurrence (e.g., "Weekly-Wed" "Yearly-Nov 30" "Monthly-1st" etc. - I have about 20 tags and I add more when I need them). I look at whatever the recurrence tag for the task says, and I reset the due date accordingly.
BRO!!! That’s AMAZING! I always talk about your videos with my students (I have an English course in Brazil) and yesterday we were having a debate about that (scheduling daily tasks)! I’m sharing it with everyone right now! You’re the best! 🚀
Just started using your tasks template and it is phenomenal! I’ve customised it a little bit and added a new “someday” view that shows all tasks without a due date or with one that’s more than 7 days in the future. Just added my first weekly recurring task to the system and it’s working so well. Thank you for the template and the explanations.
I wanna create a habit tracker that records if I procrastinated on a task or it was something out of my control. you did a video about this once, it would be nice if you can implement it in Notion instead of on paper.
I'll definitely take a crack at it! We tried to implement it in Notion earlier this year and ran into some snags, but I've learned a lot since then and Notion's had more than a few updates.
www.notion.so/Habit-tracker-for-comment-7be8f47a83d942b89ca2d8a889edb96c I have one like that( I think, it's really simple so maybe you're looking for something more complex), it's in spanish but I can explain it. Create a week with Monday's date. Inside the week there is a table, one row for each day of the week. On sunday before that week(use the reminder for this), You place a dot ( · ), if you plan on doing X habit on that day and so on. When the day arrives you can check if done, X if procrastinated and write the reason why or circle (o) if there is a reason that is not an excuse to not have done it. Hope it helps :)
Awesome! The best solution for recurring tasks on Notion out there! In my case Dog Training Exercises. Finally I have control over my exercises to come up every so often. I can assign to every exercise the cycle in which it shall reappear: Heeling - every day, Distance Control - every 3 days, new exercise - every day, Chin Rest - every 14 days.....and so on. This way I can see on one glance which exercises I want to train today or this week and never forget about the older or not so important exercises. Thank you so much for this!! Just a liiiittle funny thing: when I put 1 in the interval it gives me 2 days between Due and Next Due. ...😍
I just downloaded notion yesterday because of your videos and it has already helped me so much. Honestly your videos are so helpful, I watch one to motivate me to work every morning
Thanks Thomas!! Really useful video, you released this video at the perfect time, I had just stopped using Notion and switched to google calendar for my tasks since I couldn't figure out a method of implementing daily tasks into Notion and I thought there was no system in place for tracking tasks or habits in such a way that it was intuitive and effective enough for me, but you solved it!
Alright, I'm a little mad at you. Or RUclips. Or Somebody. See, I've been looking for something like Notion for about 6 months and I finally found it and your videos on it during my semester break (Online Freelance English Teacher). The PROBLEM is that I have 15 NEW classes next semester (so yeah, new videos, new material, new students) and I REALLY need to be in create-content mode and now I'm in organize-all-the-things mode. AND, as I'm sure happens with anyone on the first couple of gos with Notion, I created a big-old database table with all my classes (28) and now I can't figure out how to grab the sub tables and put them in other databases. AND, I have zero time to figure it out. All that to say, THANK YOU for making these. I'll be haunting you during my breaks until I can figure it out.
Can you make a video on the Below: Goal: Create a dynamic pre-populating planner 1. Have a database that holds daily pages that are unique in name to the day they reference, and repeat specifically for the day. So on monday, i expect to see mondays page within the database created. 2. Have a tag to those entries for the week they represent. so all of the unique days in one week should share a common tag. (hopefully custom date settings enabled) 3. have a database template view as a weekly planner with linked views to each original data - along with linked views to a habit tracker, and weekly priorities. 4. the weekly template needs to sit inside of a database as well, and get created repeating every Monday. Then all of the daily related entries nested in the weekly template are stored in a database as well. Love your videos! I recommend you and ur videos to everyone at work.
Just found the second channel! I gotta say Thomas, you outdid yourself. I was already using the RUclips Project Tracker and Notes tracker, and like how you structured both of them. I'm constantly looking forward to new Notion material from you, and it's cool to see how deeply you've dived into this app - I can tell you've found it as life changing and us in the community have. Also appreciate how you focus on the learning process -- I've learned so much about Notion over the past years and actually understanding the inner mechanics is so vital to creating and tinkering with Notion to fit the almost infinite number of use cases for its potential. One question: Is there a way to connect the checkbox with a "Not Started/In Progress/Complete" select? This would be fantastic as I love seeing tasks in a kanban style view.
I just found another way on how to probably do this. Once we have a set of recurring tasks, we add a Calendar view by Due Date and move them easily to the next due day. Like, say you have some stuff to be done every week on Monday. Chest and Back Workout and another task that says you have to monitor your portfolio, then all you do is once these two tasks are done, go to Calendar View and filter to Calendar by and select all tasks from Monday this week and drag it to next week.
This is the best recurring task solution by far/by now. The problem is always that new templates come with new formulas and I've done my share of mistakes when trying to use only that part and move it/copy to my existing Tasks database. _This_ time I've moved all my tasks into this template, rescheduled (yes, time consuming) and added old Properties one by one and re-established the relational databases. I do appreciate you work with this and thank you for it, but Notion should have recognized the need for this and made it an option in the app.
Glad you found this helpful! I'll probably have even more robust task templates in the future, so I'll add this note now: As long as your personal databases contain the same properties (with exact names) as the ones mentioned in my formulas, you should be able to copy-and-paste them without any problems :)
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you. How on Mother Earth do you find the time to reply? Impressed. Now I'm clogging your traffic with one more note to read, but just for the record - I appreciate it.
This can be done with Zapier or automate. It's slightly clunky but the workflow within notion is simpler in the long run. You just click done and you're done. You still need the reoccurring internal in the DB
I could be interesting to have a certain amount of next due dates available to be able to point all of them down. Some formula where you interlink the previous value on or something. Still figuring this one out in terms of formula! Great Job Tomas! Very much appreciated! Much Love, Karsten
i had the issue on paper journals that writing down recurring to dos and not doing them became the norm to me (i seem to approach lists in writing everything i should do, not bein able to do all of them and focusing on what i'm told to do asap usually leaving the daily things that add up behind and it becomes background noise i don't notice after awhile) since i'm new on notion, i want to use that feeling of novelty as a way to reapproach my tasks, duties and priorities and so far (starting my third week) i've been able to do more in two weeks than i have since november : since i'm INTP, to do lists tend to work better for me than schedules set in stone so i've put everything i want do in the near future on a task list, make a new page every week as to not let it fall in the background of my mind and force myself to work with the system of a 9 to 5 (im unemployed atm and it's a way i've found not to feel like i'm constantly doing chores and i know i'm gonna have free time and most importantly no guilt in the evening, doesn't help that the task i hae the most is cooking dinner for my family and well it's something that happens after 5 so i'm really loose and super indulgent with the system, that's the key : better is good enough, or done is better that perfect)
@@ThomasFrankExplains Sir, please help sometime I have anxiety upon that I don't have required systems which I think I don't so please make video on a full system that a student needs.
Seeing as how much effort went into this, I can say it would be a much better idea to implement a Tapermonkey script that would allow you to do a lot more. The only caveat is that you have to know Javascript and Css to be able to do it.
That definitely works as well! I was using Todoist for tasks during the last couple of years that I've been learning Notion. At this point, though, I want to move tasks into Notion so I have a single system for everything, and so that my tasks can be associated with content and projects.
I wrote a line hope you like it: "So the time again comes, it comes as it goes and then what is left is, wind gusting on the tree which has one or two leaves of autumn."
Thanks Thomas. I am brand new to Notion and watching your content has got me all jazzed up about it. To clarify, if I have a weekly recurring task, I have to manually change the task date each week so that it shows up in as a To-Do on my Calendar and Next 7 Days views ? Is there no way for it to self-recur? Also, once I check 'done' for that weekly task, it will vanish from those views until I remember to change that date? Thanks.
cant you just use a button to mark as done and create a duplicate record with the new start and end date calculated from the current date? This way you get to keep a history of your work and don't have to manually change the date each time.
You could, but it's a bit of a tedious process especially on mobile. You'd have to duplicate the row, check it off, and then manually go change the due date. Personally, if I really needed a record of each time I'd done the task (I can't think of many times I would), then I might put a table within that task that has a "On or Before Today" filter. I could go in, create a row and check it off just for record-keeping, then move the Due Date on the task itself like normal. Hopefully, we won't have to jump through these hoops in the future once Notion implements a true recurring tasks feature!
@@ThomasFrankExplains I mean automate those steps you mention in the first sentence of your reply...or is it not possible to generate new records and calculate it's value based on the values of the record which the button you're pressing belongs to?
Hi, I really like your videos, but I'm having trouble with this template. I think you've updated the template and formula, so the table you're making in this video doesn't work with the new formula. Edit: it's working now, but I had to figure it out for a while. It might be worth updating this video as it has changed the formula and the way the table works.
Hi Thomas, I'm trying to copy and paste the template for the next due but after pasting it in the formula page in Notion it's not letting me click the 'Done' button. It's grayed out. How can I fix this? Thanks!
Agreed - it's definitely easier! However, I know some people want to move their entire productivity system into Notion, so hopefully this helps with that. Additionally, there are some pretty huge benefits to moving tasks into Notion for my own workflow. For one, they can be associated with individual pieces of content, which have their scripts, b-roll lists, sponsor requirements, and other info right in Notion as well.
Love this manager. Is there a way to easily manage tasks, for example, the same day every month with this method (within the same template) or would that need to be its own system or formula?
Hmm - by that, do you mean you'd like to set an interval like "The 1st of each month" rather than using a simple number of days? If so, I believe the answer is yes; however, the formula to achieve it is quite a bit more complicated. I tried writing something to achieve this, but I haven't quite got it yet - but I'm working on it! The main issue right now is accounting for the differing numbers of days in each month: some have 30, some have 31, and February is especially difficult with its occasional leap years. I believe I'll need to add Created Time and Edited Time properties to the template, along with a First Due property that will record the first due date you ever set. With that, the template will be able to "remember" the first date it was set, and to set the next interval based partially on that. Fortunately, due to the way this system works, you can sort of "fake" this functionality right now. Since you have to manually set the Due Date, and since Next Due is only a guide that tells you where to set the date, you're not forced to choose that exact date - you can adjust it slightly when needed. For example, if you wanted "end of the month", but an interval of 30 is messing things up on 31-day months, you can just move it one day further than Next Due tells you.
This is a really great template i copied the formula but considering im Australia, my calendar is Day/Month/Year not the US version ... is there a way to change that as it seems to have transferred over anyway
Thank you for your sharing. It's really great and helpful. I wonder If we could add automation reminders in the column of "Next Due"? because I have many column like "Next Due", ex: Due 1, Due 2,.... . Thanks a lot again!
AWESOME!! ??? Only having one issue.. I am using your template, Filters seem to all be correct. However when I check task done it is not going away. Not sure what I am be dong wrong. Any Suggestions??
Thank you! I've fully moved on from Todoist at this point (except for groceries). There's just too much value in being able to relate my tasks to pieces of content that I'm working on, and to be able to spawn template instances for complex processes.
So... thought BEFORE watching the video. If one has a recurring task each week, wouldn't it become a habit after a while and one would hopefully not need to be reminded every.single.time? Just a thought.
Very interesting. Thanks a lot, Thomas. I'll check out the template AND study it as well. On one hand I like manually copying the done task and moving it a week out since it embeds it into my mind much better and on the other I like this type of method.
Hi, You are doing a really good job :) I used the Ultimate Task template. However, I have a problem with Formula in status. I can't see green and white dots. After copying from the template again, a square and a circle appear instead of the green and white dots. How can I fix it?
Hey all! I've just released a HUGE new video with updates to this recurring tasks system, as well as a way to completely AUTOMATE your recurring tasks for free. Check it out here: ruclips.net/video/gHVTJWIB2No/видео.html
This is really interesting and very inventive. Thanks for the contribution, but I think I'll stick with my simple method: I use a "Recurrence" column with the "Select" property. If I have a recurring task, I just use a tag in that column that specifies the frequency of the recurrence (e.g., "Weekly-Wed" "Yearly-Nov 30" "Monthly-1st" etc. - I have about 20 tags and I add more when I need them). I look at whatever the recurrence tag for the task says, and I reset the due date accordingly.
BRO!!! That’s AMAZING! I always talk about your videos with my students (I have an English course in Brazil) and yesterday we were having a debate about that (scheduling daily tasks)! I’m sharing it with everyone right now! You’re the best! 🚀
I'm a simple man. I see Thomas's new channel I subscribe to new channel.
Love this😂
Thanks for pointing out that this is actually another channel 😂 RUclips recommended me this video and I just assumed it was from his regular channel.
Amen! 🙌
Me too!
Just started using your tasks template and it is phenomenal! I’ve customised it a little bit and added a new “someday” view that shows all tasks without a due date or with one that’s more than 7 days in the future. Just added my first weekly recurring task to the system and it’s working so well. Thank you for the template and the explanations.
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i got reminded of this channel thanks to the newsletter. Really digging this video and the whole vibe of the channel
I wanna create a habit tracker that records if I procrastinated on a task or it was something out of my control.
you did a video about this once, it would be nice if you can implement it in Notion instead of on paper.
I'll definitely take a crack at it! We tried to implement it in Notion earlier this year and ran into some snags, but I've learned a lot since then and Notion's had more than a few updates.
@@ThomasFrankExplains thank you😁I am gonna try some ideas and send some a template of them if possible. so we all could help each other here
www.notion.so/Habit-tracker-for-comment-7be8f47a83d942b89ca2d8a889edb96c
I have one like that( I think, it's really simple so maybe you're looking for something more complex), it's in spanish but I can explain it.
Create a week with Monday's date. Inside the week there is a table, one row for each day of the week. On sunday before that week(use the reminder for this), You place a dot ( · ), if you plan on doing X habit on that day and so on.
When the day arrives you can check if done, X if procrastinated and write the reason why or circle (o) if there is a reason that is not an excuse to not have done it. Hope it helps :)
@@KikeM99 it doesn’t allow access so we can’t see it
Awesome! The best solution for recurring tasks on Notion out there! In my case Dog Training Exercises. Finally I have control over my exercises to come up every so often. I can assign to every exercise the cycle in which it shall reappear: Heeling - every day, Distance Control - every 3 days, new exercise - every day, Chin Rest - every 14 days.....and so on. This way I can see on one glance which exercises I want to train today or this week and never forget about the older or not so important exercises. Thank you so much for this!! Just a liiiittle funny thing: when I put 1 in the interval it gives me 2 days between Due and Next Due. ...😍
I just downloaded notion yesterday because of your videos and it has already helped me so much. Honestly your videos are so helpful, I watch one to motivate me to work every morning
This is a well tought workaround... but it's a workaround. We want notion to implement this basic feature!
I just love your recurring task template and copy it over again repeatedly and use it.
Thank you so much for taking the time and consideration to teach us how to build the template aswell. Very much appreciated!!
Thanks Thomas!! Really useful video, you released this video at the perfect time, I had just stopped using Notion and switched to google calendar for my tasks since I couldn't figure out a method of implementing daily tasks into Notion and I thought there was no system in place for tracking tasks or habits in such a way that it was intuitive and effective enough for me, but you solved it!
Glad it was helpful!
@@ThomasFrankExplains On a completely unrelated note, I’d loved to see a video where u explain how u structure your guitar practice routine.
I really don't structure it! I just leave guitars laying around my house all over the place so I'm encouraged to pick them up often.
Alright, I'm a little mad at you. Or RUclips. Or Somebody. See, I've been looking for something like Notion for about 6 months and I finally found it and your videos on it during my semester break (Online Freelance English Teacher). The PROBLEM is that I have 15 NEW classes next semester (so yeah, new videos, new material, new students) and I REALLY need to be in create-content mode and now I'm in organize-all-the-things mode. AND, as I'm sure happens with anyone on the first couple of gos with Notion, I created a big-old database table with all my classes (28) and now I can't figure out how to grab the sub tables and put them in other databases. AND, I have zero time to figure it out.
All that to say, THANK YOU for making these. I'll be haunting you during my breaks until I can figure it out.
Can you make a video on the Below:
Goal: Create a dynamic pre-populating planner
1. Have a database that holds daily pages that are unique in name to the day they reference, and repeat specifically for the day. So on monday, i expect to see mondays page within the database created.
2. Have a tag to those entries for the week they represent. so all of the unique days in one week should share a common tag. (hopefully custom date settings enabled)
3. have a database template view as a weekly planner with linked views to each original data - along with linked views to a habit tracker, and weekly priorities.
4. the weekly template needs to sit inside of a database as well, and get created repeating every Monday. Then all of the daily related entries nested in the weekly template are stored in a database as well.
Love your videos! I recommend you and ur videos to everyone at work.
Just found the second channel! I gotta say Thomas, you outdid yourself. I was already using the RUclips Project Tracker and Notes tracker, and like how you structured both of them. I'm constantly looking forward to new Notion material from you, and it's cool to see how deeply you've dived into this app - I can tell you've found it as life changing and us in the community have. Also appreciate how you focus on the learning process -- I've learned so much about Notion over the past years and actually understanding the inner mechanics is so vital to creating and tinkering with Notion to fit the almost infinite number of use cases for its potential.
One question: Is there a way to connect the checkbox with a "Not Started/In Progress/Complete" select? This would be fantastic as I love seeing tasks in a kanban style view.
This is a great template. You put your heart and soul into it and we appreciate it.
I just found another way on how to probably do this.
Once we have a set of recurring tasks, we add a Calendar view by Due Date and move them easily to the next due day. Like, say you have some stuff to be done every week on Monday. Chest and Back Workout and another task that says you have to monitor your portfolio, then all you do is once these two tasks are done, go to Calendar View and filter to Calendar by and select all tasks from Monday this week and drag it to next week.
Thomas you're a treasure. Thank you for sharing so much with us. I truly appreciate it.
that is rad I put all the stuff I frequently do and that really made me feel so relieved. that is the missing point in the notion I was lacking. THnks
This is the best recurring task solution by far/by now. The problem is always that new templates come with new formulas and I've done my share of mistakes when trying to use only that part and move it/copy to my existing Tasks database. _This_ time I've moved all my tasks into this template, rescheduled (yes, time consuming) and added old Properties one by one and re-established the relational databases. I do appreciate you work with this and thank you for it, but Notion should have recognized the need for this and made it an option in the app.
Glad you found this helpful!
I'll probably have even more robust task templates in the future, so I'll add this note now: As long as your personal databases contain the same properties (with exact names) as the ones mentioned in my formulas, you should be able to copy-and-paste them without any problems :)
@@ThomasFrankExplains Thank you. How on Mother Earth do you find the time to reply? Impressed. Now I'm clogging your traffic with one more note to read, but just for the record - I appreciate it.
This can be done with Zapier or automate. It's slightly clunky but the workflow within notion is simpler in the long run. You just click done and you're done. You still need the reoccurring internal in the DB
I could be interesting to have a certain amount of next due dates available to be able to point all of them down. Some formula where you interlink the previous value on or something. Still figuring this one out in terms of formula! Great Job Tomas! Very much appreciated! Much Love, Karsten
Dude u r INSANE ITS SO WONDERFUL OMG.
THANKSS!!!!, Now I can fully enjoy Notion
its a very usefull tool thankyou for sharing Thomas
Nice channel!! Glad to be within first 50 subs!!
Great job Thomas ! Super clear video, and thanks for the template as well !
My pleasure - hope you find it useful!
Thanks so much for this amazing video! I’m very much a beginner & was wondering how you would set up a recurring task to occur only on weekdays?
I can only say THANK YOU!
It works so beautifully! Yay!
Awesome! Made my day!
is there any way to make this effective in a calendar view?
Thank you! Just what I've been looking for.
This is EXACTLY what I needed. Thank you sooooo much!!
i had the issue on paper journals that writing down recurring to dos and not doing them became the norm to me (i seem to approach lists in writing everything i should do, not bein able to do all of them and focusing on what i'm told to do asap usually leaving the daily things that add up behind and it becomes background noise i don't notice after awhile)
since i'm new on notion, i want to use that feeling of novelty as a way to reapproach my tasks, duties and priorities and so far (starting my third week) i've been able to do more in two weeks than i have since november : since i'm INTP, to do lists tend to work better for me than schedules set in stone so i've put everything i want do in the near future on a task list, make a new page every week as to not let it fall in the background of my mind and force myself to work with the system of a 9 to 5 (im unemployed atm and it's a way i've found not to feel like i'm constantly doing chores and i know i'm gonna have free time and most importantly no guilt in the evening, doesn't help that the task i hae the most is cooking dinner for my family and well it's something that happens after 5 so i'm really loose and super indulgent with the system, that's the key : better is good enough, or done is better that perfect)
IF THIS THOMAS DIDNT EXIST, I'd Be literally LOST.
Thanks for your work
This is so helpful! Thank you, Thomas!
!! sick
Yay a new channel with awesome content from Thomas \^-^/
The Code Freaks me Out!
Great explanation Thomas .. thanks
HEY! LOVE YOUR VIDS!
This is awesome! Thanks so much, man.
You're amazing at organizing and structuring those tables in Notion!!
Fantastic!
Thanks a lot!
is this your new channel
Yep!
Hello, Sir please make a video on how to make good study habits and more effective and efficient study techniques
I've made lots of videos on those topics - check out this playlist! ruclips.net/p/PLx65qkgCWNJIBzsXii5b6hze09et4cu5n
@@ThomasFrankExplains Sir you have changed my life
@@ThomasFrankExplains Sir, I am in School so I don't have to many plans and tasks to do so should I use notion or I can do this on paper.
@@ThomasFrankExplains Sir, please help sometime I have anxiety upon that I don't have required systems which I think I don't so please make video on a full system that a student needs.
@Thomas Frank One thing you missed is a deadline. Every job has a deadline. Could you please tell me how can I add that?
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thank you!!
When I pasted the code into the Next Due column, it said Property not found: prop('Due')
Maybe you’ve called the “Due” column
“Date” or something.
Thank youu franks
Nice, but how to make the next due date of property Date so we can setup notification for it ?
Simply amazing !
This was so helpful!!
Thanks for your sharing, nc template
The podcast brought me here!
Ay thanks for listening!
119 subs. That's gonna escalate quickly. SMURF!
Seeing as how much effort went into this, I can say it would be a much better idea to implement a Tapermonkey script that would allow you to do a lot more. The only caveat is that you have to know Javascript and Css to be able to do it.
I have been seeing this guys on my monitor for a while now. Good content
I use Notion for task management, but use Reminders/Fantastical for the few recurring ones I have. No sweat.
That definitely works as well! I was using Todoist for tasks during the last couple of years that I've been learning Notion. At this point, though, I want to move tasks into Notion so I have a single system for everything, and so that my tasks can be associated with content and projects.
I wrote a line hope you like it: "So the time again comes, it comes as it goes and then what is left is, wind gusting on the tree which has one or two leaves of autumn."
About to start online class
Oh wait I’m gonna check this out!
Thanks Thomas
Cool! Thanks!
Thanks Thomas. I am brand new to Notion and watching your content has got me all jazzed up about it.
To clarify, if I have a weekly recurring task, I have to manually change the task date each week so that it shows up in as a To-Do on my Calendar and Next 7 Days views ? Is there no way for it to self-recur?
Also, once I check 'done' for that weekly task, it will vanish from those views until I remember to change that date?
Thanks.
Sir. You are a god. Thank you!
excellent!!!!!!
Awesome! Thank you.
How do I set recurring tasks that run from Monday-Friday?
So this is my first video lesson to attempt to use Notion for the first time. Wow! Why does this seem so difficult?
This is a pretty advanced lesson; if you're just starting, I'd recommend this series: thomasjfrank.com/fundamentals/
great video it helped a lot
Thank you very much!
cant you just use a button to mark as done and create a duplicate record with the new start and end date calculated from the current date? This way you get to keep a history of your work and don't have to manually change the date each time.
You could, but it's a bit of a tedious process especially on mobile. You'd have to duplicate the row, check it off, and then manually go change the due date.
Personally, if I really needed a record of each time I'd done the task (I can't think of many times I would), then I might put a table within that task that has a "On or Before Today" filter. I could go in, create a row and check it off just for record-keeping, then move the Due Date on the task itself like normal.
Hopefully, we won't have to jump through these hoops in the future once Notion implements a true recurring tasks feature!
@@ThomasFrankExplains I mean automate those steps you mention in the first sentence of your reply...or is it not possible to generate new records and calculate it's value based on the values of the record which the button you're pressing belongs to?
Dude, that formula is crazy stuff. hahah
Thank very much u bro
thanks!
Hi, I really like your videos, but I'm having trouble with this template. I think you've updated the template and formula, so the table you're making in this video doesn't work with the new formula.
Edit: it's working now, but I had to figure it out for a while. It might be worth updating this video as it has changed the formula and the way the table works.
I'd love to see a "Spaced Repetition" template
8:31 why is that when he moved the date to Oct 19, the task was removed from the view?
Hi Thomas, I'm trying to copy and paste the template for the next due but after pasting it in the formula page in Notion it's not letting me click the 'Done' button. It's grayed out. How can I fix this? Thanks!
I love Notion but I feel like it’s easier to simply use Todoist or Things 3 for task management
Agreed - it's definitely easier! However, I know some people want to move their entire productivity system into Notion, so hopefully this helps with that. Additionally, there are some pretty huge benefits to moving tasks into Notion for my own workflow. For one, they can be associated with individual pieces of content, which have their scripts, b-roll lists, sponsor requirements, and other info right in Notion as well.
Love this manager. Is there a way to easily manage tasks, for example, the same day every month with this method (within the same template) or would that need to be its own system or formula?
Hmm - by that, do you mean you'd like to set an interval like "The 1st of each month" rather than using a simple number of days?
If so, I believe the answer is yes; however, the formula to achieve it is quite a bit more complicated. I tried writing something to achieve this, but I haven't quite got it yet - but I'm working on it!
The main issue right now is accounting for the differing numbers of days in each month: some have 30, some have 31, and February is especially difficult with its occasional leap years. I believe I'll need to add Created Time and Edited Time properties to the template, along with a First Due property that will record the first due date you ever set. With that, the template will be able to "remember" the first date it was set, and to set the next interval based partially on that.
Fortunately, due to the way this system works, you can sort of "fake" this functionality right now. Since you have to manually set the Due Date, and since Next Due is only a guide that tells you where to set the date, you're not forced to choose that exact date - you can adjust it slightly when needed. For example, if you wanted "end of the month", but an interval of 30 is messing things up on 31-day months, you can just move it one day further than Next Due tells you.
Pretty Impressive mate
This is a really great template
i copied the formula but considering im Australia, my calendar is Day/Month/Year not the US version ... is there a way to change that as it seems to have transferred over anyway
Can this be used to instead of modify the task create a new one?
if I set the recurring days as 1, the task will not be showed in the canlander view for today and tomorrow ?
Thank you for your sharing. It's really great and helpful. I wonder If we could add automation reminders in the column of "Next Due"? because I have many column like "Next Due", ex: Due 1, Due 2,.... . Thanks a lot again!
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First, this is making me seriously consider Coda and Airtable, more.
Second... dude, feed your cat! (jk re cat (sort of)--love your channel)
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AWESOME!! ??? Only having one issue.. I am using your template, Filters seem to all be correct. However when I check task done it is not going away. Not sure what I am be dong wrong. Any Suggestions??
If it’s recurring, checking done won’t make it go away - is that the issue?
hi dude! i wish you can help me, i follow your steps but for some reason the original date of the non recurring task doesn't show up in the formula
This is great - how do you link it into Project tasks and events - would you just add a relational column to your projects?
thank you thank you thank youuuuu
the state wont change on mine!! what do i do?
As ever Thomas - excellent video. I love this nitty-gritty stuff.
But tell me you still use Todoist.
Thank you!
I've fully moved on from Todoist at this point (except for groceries). There's just too much value in being able to relate my tasks to pieces of content that I'm working on, and to be able to spawn template instances for complex processes.
So... thought BEFORE watching the video. If one has a recurring task each week, wouldn't it become a habit after a while and one would hopefully not need to be reminded every.single.time? Just a thought.
Very interesting. Thanks a lot, Thomas. I'll check out the template AND study it as well. On one hand I like manually copying the done task and moving it a week out since it embeds it into my mind much better and on the other I like this type of method.
Hi,
You are doing a really good job :) I used the Ultimate Task template. However, I have a problem with Formula in status. I can't see green and white dots. After copying from the template again, a square and a circle appear instead of the green and white dots. How can I fix it?