A small but helpful workflow tip for taking video notes; when I'm taking notes on a video in Notion as you talked about ~10:00, I put the video directly underneath the line I am typing on. That way, as I complete a note and hit enter, the video moves down the page with me. When I'm done, I move the video back up to the top!
Hi Max, I am currently trying to integrate my university stuff to this system, how did you do yours? I feel a little lost on how I should integrate my Uni life to this 😅😊
So eye opening. I don't think people realize how convenient gallery views are on mobile. Definitely will be using them more. Amazing content as always!
August, this info is invaluable. Especially for someone like me, new to Notion and terrible at organization. One quick question I have: What is the reason to include the green References block inside each page, when the individual media/notes are already linked under the title? **EDIT** Nevermind this question I get it now! You're actively refining your own knowledge of the topic inside that topic's knowledge vault page. I can see how having that References block is helpful now. Sorry I guess it wasn't clicking with me at first.** I never realized I wasn’t a “systems thinker” until I started watching your videos. Discovering that has actually allowed my thinking to become less scattered and far more effective, thus relieving personal stress from so much data coming in. I can’t thank you enough!
09:53 - On the small irritation of being pushed away from an embedded video as you make notes - What I now do is take notes *above* the video. Then, when I've finished the video, I drag it to the top and clean up the notes which are now underneath. (Could also duplicate the embed and make notes between the two, to save the need to drag it up afterwards).
This is pure gold! I'm experiencing one problem at the moment though. I've integrated readwise with notion and everything looked good in the beginning. Now, it won't categorize my saved media. It still saves into Notion, but no categories. I've heard other people have had the same issues and would really appreciate if somebody could help out. Thanks again Bradley - and everyone here!
Amazing set up, as always! I was also EXTREMELY excited when you mentioned Dr. Andrew Huberman. Have been getting so many insights from him as well (and saving them into my Media Vault, of course)!
August, amongst another masterclass training filled with so many implementable gems -- this one I esp liked: 09:53 " open up a separate window with another notepad. entering your notes there. and then when you finish copy paste them underneath." Brilliant. TY!
Another powerful video, in which you take Notion to new levels of usability. I really like your use of the Gallery view to create a much more intuitive user interface. I never cease to be amazed at the power of Notion, yet I feel that we are at the start and that there is so much more to come as Notion is continuously developed and regularly updated. Exciting times!
August, Thank you for this! I love knowing that your system evolves over time. Helps me feel validated because my own systems have changed with time as well. Always learning! Great video!
Calling out the upcoming Course that you tweeted about and linked in the show notes here. I cannot wait for this to go live. I have only been able to implement about 40% of the total system. So, I definitely need some coaching.
Awesome Dan, the course will be the fast lane into the system -- and show how to endlessly customize it and apply to your life. Thanks for calling it out here!
@@augustbradley + @Dan Collins - August, you know how to say the words that make my heart beat faster. Esp phrases like "the course will be the fast lane into the system." Dude, you had me at "fast lane"! And I'm prob not as accurate as Dan -- but I know my implementation could improve. tho, this new update on the ME dashboard sure does make it for fun and interesting. Plus, breaking the Media Vault from it's monolithic look into easy-on-the-eye (and mind) subjects was certainly inspired. Besides which, I 'hate' Dan for being more thoughtful and such for mentioning the soon-to-be-released course. [ -jk, Dan. You're a great guy] Can'tWaitCan'tWaitCan'tWait. It's going to be EP-IC!
@@auraoflightvibes Personally, I hope August gets filthy stinking rich off of the course. He has been more generous with his intellectual property than any content creator I have ever seen online. And to top it off, his "free" content is some of the richest and most impactful content, paid or no. So, charge what you want. you've earned it and you deserve it. Of course, my hope is you charge $1.50 and every one in North America buys the course. ;-)
Thats a pretty good idea! Love to see how important is tagging and see the same MEDIA vault for instance on different views. Thanks for sharing, let's keep growing aour second brain!
Also I'd like to point out another way to take notes on PDF files you might have around. In Google Drive I have a dump folder of handbooks, guides, manuals, etc. that I then link to Kami (a Google Drive plugin for a web pdf reader, with the same functionality as the Kindle reader). Then in a text cell (text, not URL) within the Books Vault I'll add just an emoji of a cloud or a CD, select it, and I'll assign the Kami link to it. Its a very clean way to mask large links in a better way.
Thanks August! I like the new media vault interface. Really looking forward to the PPV overview. So far I've done a pretty good job implementing this system for work, but need to add more facets of my life into it. As I fine tune this system, I see this truly being able to help organize thoughts and help me determine where I should focus my energy. Truly invaluable. Thanks again!
@@augustbradleyAugust, this sentence - "Lots more to come", that you are using so often, always gives me a lot of hope and power to act. I even start to use it in my own life for my projects and goals:) Thank you!
Really good update. Am still building my system - so this is very timely. Also stoked to hear you'll be doing more videos. Am especially interested in how to manage client projects - hope that gets covered sometime. Keep it up, this system works much better than others I've tried.
Awesome, as usual. So clear, with a lot of insights... What impresses me the most is how far and how endlessly you can adapt Notion to your own needs - without doing something new from scratch. Thanks again !
If you want to take notes on a YT video (9:55 in your video), there are three other ways that come to mind (other than opening a notes app and copy-pasting the notes): 1) You open another instance of Notion with -N and have the video run in one window while taking notes on the same page (!) with no worries about scrolling away from the video. 2) If you are ready to open another note-taking app, you might as well click on the YT link and watch the video in RUclips while taking your notes directly in Notion. 3) You might just create two columns and watch the video on the left side while taking notes on the right side (which will postpone your scrolling problem, not solve it, admittedly) - or you just take your notes ABOVE the video. That way you can keep watching and take your notes. Hope this helps.
Yes, #1 is what I had in mind when describing this - I would open Notion as may notes app (of course!), to the same page as the video, with it playing in one window and taking notes in the other window of the same page. An even better way to open a second Notion window is hold Cmnd on Mac (Ctrl on PC) and click on the link you want to open second window - that link opens in a the window view.
This is a great layout. I was just starting to figure out how to streamline the lay out for this when I started watching this video. It's fantastic! It is more fun and engaging. Thank you!
Very Beautiful and clean! I've loved it! I'm curious about the mindset and identity sculpting, I don't know if you are intending to show that, but I've started already to build mine. You put just inspirational stuff there? Or valuable knowledge too? I wish you grow even more! I like people pursuing maestry like I do.
I’d love to learn about this too, August! What are your best sources of inspiration to fill it and also to learn more about mindset. I’ve started meditation recently and would really love to have more resources to fill my vaults with for visualization and mindfulness/mindset things of that nature!
Both! Build it with the wisdom that you want to be an integral part of your life. I will do a video on this for sure. Burt stat now, don't wait. Thanks Guri!
This series is really incredible August, you rock! I love your system, I feel I've been missing this my whole life trying to hack a system across many different apps. I would like to start implementing something similar in Notion. How would you recommend going about it? Just subscribed to your newsletter - do you give your templates one by one? Should I wait for your course for an easier start? Will it contain the core templates of your system? Thanks again for making such high-quality content!
Hi August! I have been following you for a while and I am profoundly impressed by the content of the videos that you post and the pace at which you do it! I guess it really proofs how the system you've developed is functional. However, since some of the first few videos you've posted I have really been curios about how you conduct your 'Visualisation practices', are you planning on doing a video on that as well? Thank you
I love this enhanced version, much more clean and functional. The next video in your series is great also, addressing questions I had. I have been wondering how (and am trying) to set up a full dashboard for a more intensive and specialised course (such as a certificate or degree) within the training vault. To add a new course takes you into the page with all the properties. Is this the page you would set up a detailed dashboard? Or would you start with a fresh clean page? How would you integrate it into the current system? I hope to find a clean, straightforward and streamlined way to do this. Thank you again. Your system of centralisation and automation has completely transformed things for me.
Hi August, thanks for sharing this updated version of the Mind Expansion!!! Your camera and lighting are great. Could you please share your camera/lighting setup? Thank you.
I want to build this so bad but it is way over my head lol. I will just take a little chunk at a time and try to build it. Gonna take a long time since I am not very techy :) I do love these videos tho so ty for making them.
Just go in small pieces at a time, or take what is relevant to your needs. Or you can look into the course linked to above which will give you the built system and we will focus on how to apply it to your life (no need to build it yourself in that case). There is no one right approach, keep with it Karen!
Hey August! Thanks for the video. How did you merge the Book Vault database with the Media Vault Database? Is there a quick solution to merging dashboards in Notion?
Regarding note taking on video, I have some dancing lessons going on and I have to split videos, highlight different timestamps and assigning different move names and so on, I found a tool that did just that: ReClipped. Its pretty new and it has integration with RUclips (also One Drive and Google Drive) and Notion , I don't know if its well known or not around the community, but here's my 2 cents.
Wow! Your system is sure complete but, as someone with ADHD my head is absolutely spinning with the amount of information you have going on. It just seems really overwhelming and I can't see myself being able to deal with the information load. Nicely done though, and good on ya if it works for you.
Instead of opening another page to enter notes on a video, could instead just embed a "Quick Notes" GoogleDrive doc specifically for immediate notetaking, and then shrink that window on the page. That would let the page in the embed keep scrolling but keep the notion page where it is. Then copy/paste.
Hi @august , Your videos are really nice & helps a lot. Keep up the good work. Just one thing to ask , I didn’t find any videos on Pipeline on your channel , Pillars and Vaults you have demonstrated very well. Am I missing something? Have you already uploaded pipelines videos and I am not able to find it?
Sorry about the confusion Learner - most of it has been on Pipelines! 🙂 These are all Pipelines: Tasks/Action Items, Projects, Goals, Content Creation Pipeline, Daily Action Zone. I will do a video or two soon that will give the full overview of Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults.
Love the new look. I had just finished setting up the Mind Expansion dashboard yesterday using the old video and I saw this one today. Much prefer the new look to the Notes & Ideas section. I see you have combined your library and media vault into one. I have a separate vault for academic literature which has a lot more columns such as authors, journal/conference, year, DOI, research project etc. Is this something that would be better suited to its own vault or is there a way to combine it into the media vault?
Hey Andy, I'm in the same boat here. I tend to keep one library (helpfully called "The Library") for academic books, ebooks, and journal articles, and then a separate databased (I've called it "The Vault" just to differentiate) for anything non-academic (blog posts, videos, podcasts etc). This system helps me to keep a bit of separation between work and non-work media, even though there are obviously overlaps in everything (fwiw I'm a media academic)
@August Bradley, Ok... so now I've gone thru this training and made all the amazing tweaks alongside you. So now I want that amazing template in ALL my pre-existing Knowledge Vault topics [Categories? what are they called?]. Got a good way to update all the previous K-Vault entries to the new, improved version?
Excellent improvement. I am going to utilize this idea. Also August - did you find a way to capture highlights from audiobooks (from Audible)? I am still struggling with that as I listen to audible a lot and pausing and typing notes isn't working that effectively.
Thanks Kamal. No perfect way for audio books, either enter note into Notion or in Readwise through the manual input option. Apparently Audible/Amazon won;t give third parties access to do something like what Airr is doing with Podcasts. Unfortunate.
The next batch of templates will be part of the upcoming online course, that template pack will be huge covering just about everything. But the current free template collection is still one of the most extensive and powerful Notion template collections anywhere.
@S. Wu - I was where you are this past March and I can tell you from experience that watching the trainings and building your template from scratch is the FASTEST way to start mastering Notion. Sure, August has the finest N templates I've seen. And in the beginning, like many beginners -- I was a template hoarder. Over time, I deleted most of them. Then a couple of months in, I was confident enough to start modifying August's templates [gasp! I know... I know...]. And whenever I could grab a moment, I was pulling his apart to see how he structured them and why. Soon after, I didn't care whether he released a template or not bc I could build my own. Fairly fast. A few weeks ago, he did a training on a Sales & Marketing dashboard w/another Notion luminary, William Nutt. I must have missed the notice that he was providing the template for free, bc I built one myself. I just rewatched the video and built it alongside him. I'm telling you, my virtual friend -- being given templates is the seductive booby prize. Sure, it's fast and easy but it also keeps you dependent on others to make Notion your own. Sure, get August's free ones up above by signing up for his newsletter. They are the finest in the Notionverse. And of course, use them. Study them. The structure under the hood is like fine art, a beauty in it's elegance and simplicity. But always keep your eye on the prize -- you want to knowledge and experience of being able to build your own, according to YOUR needs, not someone else's. And the only way to get there is to learn how to build them yourself.
@@walterterry9970 I appreciate your suggestions, FYI I have signed up before posting questions, and I do agree with you that building my own may be a better route.
August Thanks ever so much once again. Gave great difficulty moving my data from Evernote to Notion because of a bug in Notion that cannot accept or convert tables from Evernote (and I have 15,000 notes). Can you please do a video like you did at Keep Productive about how using Roam and Notion with Notion and Evernote?
Hey August, (QUESTION) PLEASE READ I don't use Readwise, I can't afford the premium price and don't use a phone so am I missing out on doing all of this manually?
Hey August I am building/built what I call a Modular Degree. It is a self-curated (hopefully down the line I can use AI or digital mentors or something for the future tool) list of courses and edu resources for someone to either pursue a skill, or even a degree's worth of knowledge. Been marketing it as an alternative to college even. I bring this up because I've been using sheets then airtable, and now Notion to organize it all. It is a pretty neat system that one day I hope to show you, but I was wonder how your Mind Expansion could fit into this Mod Degree system. You don't seem too caught up in courses, but I have like a couple hundred in my list. It wouldn't fit in this dashboard you made here, at least in the current form. Just some food for thought mate.
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION! (PLEASE READ) August, Is there any alternative to Airr Quotes? Us android and Computer Users need an alternative to it for Podcasts.
How do Notion Web Clippings and and Readwise syncs make it into the same database? I can’t seem to get them to line up into the same table. Notion web clippings imports as an embedded page within my Readwise media vault, and not as a record in the database
Hello, thanks for the video! I have a question: at 1:40 i can see your big headers like "Knowledge Aggregation". How do you format this with both a text color and background color? A header can only have one of both, a callout has a small font ... not sure how to achieve this? Thanks!
Greatings feom England. Was keen to explore your work with the aim of moving forward with you. Appologies if we are being dumb but refering to the 'New knowledge vault template' at 0.08, we have been searching for it high and low on your sites but sadly, to no avail. Would really appreciate the link to said dashboard. Many thanks in advance.
Hi Ersatz, greetings! Ah, that is a fair point of confusion, Unfortunately, in Notion there are three types of "templates", and Notion the term "template" for each. I was referring to a "database template" that you create inside a database and can apply to each new entry in that database (I am showing you ideas here for a database template so you can re-create in your own system if you wish). The second type of "template" is a template button inside of pages, and the third is what you are referring to, where a full Notion page can be duplicated as a template. Confusing having the same word describing three different things. The current free template pack that enables duplication for other users has all of my temples (for that category of template) that exist. Haven't made a public duplication template for any of the Knowledge Management sections yet. I will be making a new massive template collection of this type covering just about everything in the system for the online course that I'm launching soon. Hope that helps!
August, when you tweak your templates, like you did in this video, do you have to manually go back to all the other documents that were created with the "old" template and manually update them or is there a process you can use to automatically update the older pages to leverage the new template?
If the old page does not have any custom content, you can delete the old template material/formatting. A blank page in the old one will let you re-apply the new template. It is manual, but quick and easy for each one.
Readwise seems to export Airr podcasts to Notion categorized as articles. Is this behavior the same for you, or are you still manually adding Airr highlights?
Yes unfortunately that's the case right now, I have spoken with the top readwise people about it and they have it on their list to change so it saves them as podcasts.But hasn't happened yet.
I have been watching all of your videos in order and I am creating your whole system (Including what is not shared on the template) and changing it to adapt it to my circumstances (Engineering student), after showing my friends they are very interested in it. Would you be okay with me sharing a template publicly to the engineering students community? I will of course credit you as the original creator of the system since this is your amazing creation and I just adapted it and added a couple more database systems
I think it is best for people to build their own workspace to fully understand its inner workings. I will be provide extensive templates in the upcoming Notion course, but those will come with deep training on how to use them in life.
I recorded the cell phone screen separately, then added it when editing. But you can bring a cell phone screen in using software such as OBS or vMix (though it's a bit complicated).
August this is so insightful, thanks so much. I've being watching your videos for some time now and just transformed my entire Notion workflow into what you are showcasing here. I have a question though, right now I am using Obsidian as my external knowledge management system. After you published the notes and ideas video in which you describe how you connect and related notes with content inside Notion I started wondering what happen with your workflow to send information to Roam as describe here: ruclips.net/video/JeUPihMsCnE/видео.html I tried to use your current notes within Notion but I found that is lacking something that I think is quite valuable from applications like Roam and Obsidian and that's the back link. Even when you can do that manually with Notion I prefer it to be automatic for now. Did you stop using Roam or are you using it in a different way now? Thanks again for all the help with Notion and all the teachings; keep up the good work!
Good questions Rafael - yes, I'm losing interest in Roam. It's interesting and has real value, but Notion does so much more and the ability to have notes and media resurface in the right place takes it further than anything I have seen in Roam/Obsidian (which is more random and less deliberate at resurfacing). Also the burden/work of maintaining the bridge across the two apps is a lot of work. I like the back-link feature, but that's not enough to compete with so much more in Notion (for me) -- If we can get that backlinking in Notion soon, then it will be game over 🙂. But these things are very personal, and others find more value in Roam/Obsidian so of course you should decide for yourself. This is just my perspective. But I think most people do not realize how far Notion can go at contextual resurfacing, which is the most important part of knowledge management to me. Good thoughts!
@@augustbradley Thanks so much for your reply. Indeed I am still going back and forth between Notion. Back links is super important to me because of the exact same thing that you mention about resurfacing. I am using Notion as a second or even third stage filtering process. When I get to the knoweledge lab I am almost certain that I will move some pieces of information into Obsidian. The other thing that I like and saw the difference between Obsidian and Notion is that I can make connections at a very granular level and since I have most Knowlege Labs topics replicated in Obsidian the difference is that at that level I have smaller pieces of notes that I can link together and conform something new when I do that normally in Obsidian then I move the content into Notion. I am still experimenting with this approach and I agree having backlinks in Notion would be a game changer. I definitly waiting for more content from you to keep learning about this fascinating topic of knowledge management. Thanks again
A small but helpful workflow tip for taking video notes; when I'm taking notes on a video in Notion as you talked about ~10:00, I put the video directly underneath the line I am typing on. That way, as I complete a note and hit enter, the video moves down the page with me. When I'm done, I move the video back up to the top!
That is the best solution yet! Thanks Rob.
@@augustbradley it's the least I could do!
Or... just get 2 monitors for your PC and run the video on a 2nd screen. It gives so much comfort!
this dude is an alien from the dmt world who has transcended into earth to teach us mortals the secrets of life
I am so glad I implemented this Notion system before school started. Now with school in session, I can tell how powerful the system truly is.
Hi Max, I am currently trying to integrate my university stuff to this system, how did you do yours? I feel a little lost on how I should integrate my Uni life to this 😅😊
Finally my week can start hahaha
Nice Danilo, first comment prize! 🏆
@@augustbradley hahaha, thank you
@@anonymerdude4501 The full master template will be part of the course I'm launching very soon: is.gd/notionppv
@@anonymerdude4501 it's out!
Very well done. Nice improvement
Thank you very much!
Thankyou August, this is so amazing
So eye opening. I don't think people realize how convenient gallery views are on mobile. Definitely will be using them more. Amazing content as always!
August, this info is invaluable. Especially for someone like me, new to Notion and terrible at organization. One quick question I have:
What is the reason to include the green References block inside each page, when the individual media/notes are already linked under the title? **EDIT** Nevermind this question I get it now! You're actively refining your own knowledge of the topic inside that topic's knowledge vault page. I can see how having that References block is helpful now. Sorry I guess it wasn't clicking with me at first.**
I never realized I wasn’t a “systems thinker” until I started watching your videos. Discovering that has actually allowed my thinking to become less scattered and far more effective, thus relieving personal stress from so much data coming in. I can’t thank you enough!
09:53 - On the small irritation of being pushed away from an embedded video as you make notes - What I now do is take notes *above* the video. Then, when I've finished the video, I drag it to the top and clean up the notes which are now underneath. (Could also duplicate the embed and make notes between the two, to save the need to drag it up afterwards).
Genius
This is pure gold!
I'm experiencing one problem at the moment though. I've integrated readwise with notion and everything looked good in the beginning. Now, it won't categorize my saved media. It still saves into Notion, but no categories. I've heard other people have had the same issues and would really appreciate if somebody could help out.
Thanks again Bradley - and everyone here!
Amazing set up, as always! I was also EXTREMELY excited when you mentioned Dr. Andrew Huberman. Have been getting so many insights from him as well (and saving them into my Media Vault, of course)!
Thanks, Dr. Andrew Huberman is awesome isn't he!
August, amongst another masterclass training filled with so many implementable gems -- this one I esp liked:
09:53 " open up a separate window with another notepad. entering your notes there. and then when you finish copy paste them underneath." Brilliant. TY!
Another powerful video, in which you take Notion to new levels of usability. I really like your use of the Gallery view to create a much more intuitive user interface. I never cease to be amazed at the power of Notion, yet I feel that we are at the start and that there is so much more to come as Notion is continuously developed and regularly updated. Exciting times!
I completely agree on all fronts Stephen, it's a good time to learn, grow and create with the platform.
August, Thank you for this! I love knowing that your system evolves over time. Helps me feel validated because my own systems have changed with time as well. Always learning! Great video!
All systems evolve over time, because pope and contexts change. A system should be adaptable and flexible. Thanks!
Calling out the upcoming Course that you tweeted about and linked in the show notes here. I cannot wait for this to go live. I have only been able to implement about 40% of the total system. So, I definitely need some coaching.
Awesome Dan, the course will be the fast lane into the system -- and show how to endlessly customize it and apply to your life. Thanks for calling it out here!
@@augustbradley Looking forward to it too! Hope you consider making it afforable for us!
@@augustbradley + @Dan Collins - August, you know how to say the words that make my heart beat faster. Esp phrases like "the course will be the fast lane into the system." Dude, you had me at "fast lane"!
And I'm prob not as accurate as Dan -- but I know my implementation could improve. tho, this new update on the ME dashboard sure does make it for fun and interesting. Plus, breaking the Media Vault from it's monolithic look into easy-on-the-eye (and mind) subjects was certainly inspired.
Besides which, I 'hate' Dan for being more thoughtful and such for mentioning the soon-to-be-released course. [ -jk, Dan. You're a great guy]
Can'tWaitCan'tWaitCan'tWait. It's going to be EP-IC!
@@auraoflightvibes Personally, I hope August gets filthy stinking rich off of the course. He has been more generous with his intellectual property than any content creator I have ever seen online. And to top it off, his "free" content is some of the richest and most impactful content, paid or no.
So, charge what you want. you've earned it and you deserve it.
Of course, my hope is you charge $1.50 and every one in North America buys the course. ;-)
Thats a pretty good idea! Love to see how important is tagging and see the same MEDIA vault for instance on different views. Thanks for sharing, let's keep growing aour second brain!
Also I'd like to point out another way to take notes on PDF files you might have around. In Google Drive I have a dump folder of handbooks, guides, manuals, etc. that I then link to Kami (a Google Drive plugin for a web pdf reader, with the same functionality as the Kindle reader). Then in a text cell (text, not URL) within the Books Vault I'll add just an emoji of a cloud or a CD, select it, and I'll assign the Kami link to it. Its a very clean way to mask large links in a better way.
When will you cover the Business and Life/Home sections, so we can get some inspirations for our own systems?
I just want to say Thank You for all these ideas for information organization, especially for this "tags database", it's very handy 👍
A great update it looks much tidier and more user friendly. I will make similar changes to my setup.
Great Susan!
Thanks August! I like the new media vault interface. Really looking forward to the PPV overview. So far I've done a pretty good job implementing this system for work, but need to add more facets of my life into it. As I fine tune this system, I see this truly being able to help organize thoughts and help me determine where I should focus my energy. Truly invaluable. Thanks again!
Great to hear Ryan! Thanks for there feedback, lots more to come.
@@augustbradleyAugust, this sentence - "Lots more to come", that you are using so often, always gives me a lot of hope and power to act. I even start to use it in my own life for my projects and goals:) Thank you!
Really good update. Am still building my system - so this is very timely. Also stoked to hear you'll be doing more videos. Am especially interested in how to manage client projects - hope that gets covered sometime. Keep it up, this system works much better than others I've tried.
Awesome, as usual. So clear, with a lot of insights... What impresses me the most is how far and how endlessly you can adapt Notion to your own needs - without doing something new from scratch. Thanks again !
Impressive! These episodes have changed a lot in my daily life!! Thank you!
If you want to take notes on a YT video (9:55 in your video), there are three other ways that come to mind (other than opening a notes app and copy-pasting the notes):
1) You open another instance of Notion with -N and have the video run in one window while taking notes on the same page (!) with no worries about scrolling away from the video.
2) If you are ready to open another note-taking app, you might as well click on the YT link and watch the video in RUclips while taking your notes directly in Notion.
3) You might just create two columns and watch the video on the left side while taking notes on the right side (which will postpone your scrolling problem, not solve it, admittedly) - or you just take your notes ABOVE the video. That way you can keep watching and take your notes.
Hope this helps.
Yes, #1 is what I had in mind when describing this - I would
open Notion as may notes app (of course!), to the same page as the video, with it playing in one window and taking notes in the other window of the same page. An even better way to open a second Notion window is hold Cmnd on Mac (Ctrl on PC) and click on the link you want to open second window - that link opens in a the window view.
Another good one, August. Going to implement some of this into my own system.
Really looking forward to the identity sculpting videos.
Great Nick! I'm looking forward to it too.
This is a great layout. I was just starting to figure out how to streamline the lay out for this when I started watching this video. It's fantastic! It is more fun and engaging. Thank you!
Very Beautiful and clean! I've loved it!
I'm curious about the mindset and identity sculpting, I don't know if you are intending to show that, but I've started already to build mine.
You put just inspirational stuff there? Or valuable knowledge too?
I wish you grow even more! I like people pursuing maestry like I do.
I’d love to learn about this too, August! What are your best sources of inspiration to fill it and also to learn more about mindset. I’ve started meditation recently and would really love to have more resources to fill my vaults with for visualization and mindfulness/mindset things of that nature!
Both! Build it with the wisdom that you want to be an integral part of your life. I will do a video on this for sure. Burt stat now, don't wait. Thanks Guri!
Its; coming for sure!
This series is really incredible August, you rock! I love your system, I feel I've been missing this my whole life trying to hack a system across many different apps. I would like to start implementing something similar in Notion. How would you recommend going about it? Just subscribed to your newsletter - do you give your templates one by one? Should I wait for your course for an easier start? Will it contain the core templates of your system? Thanks again for making such high-quality content!
Hi August! I have been following you for a while and I am profoundly impressed by the content of the videos that you post and the pace at which you do it! I guess it really proofs how the system you've developed is functional.
However, since some of the first few videos you've posted I have really been curios about how you conduct your 'Visualisation practices', are you planning on doing a video on that as well? Thank you
I love this enhanced version, much more clean and functional. The next video in your series is great also, addressing questions I had. I have been wondering how (and am trying) to set up a full dashboard for a more intensive and specialised course (such as a certificate or degree) within the training vault. To add a new course takes you into the page with all the properties. Is this the page you would set up a detailed dashboard? Or would you start with a fresh clean page? How would you integrate it into the current system? I hope to find a clean, straightforward and streamlined way to do this. Thank you again. Your system of centralisation and automation has completely transformed things for me.
Hi August, thanks for sharing this updated version of the Mind Expansion!!!
Your camera and lighting are great. Could you please share your camera/lighting setup? Thank you.
I want to build this so bad but it is way over my head lol. I will just take a little chunk at a time and try to build it. Gonna take a long time since I am not very techy :) I do love these videos tho so ty for making them.
Just go in small pieces at a time, or take what is relevant to your needs. Or you can look into the course linked to above which will give you the built system and we will focus on how to apply it to your life (no need to build it yourself in that case). There is no one right approach, keep with it Karen!
@@augustbradley I am very happy to hear that there will be a course :)
thanks so much!
Hey August! Thanks for the video. How did you merge the Book Vault database with the Media Vault Database? Is there a quick solution to merging dashboards in Notion?
Regarding note taking on video, I have some dancing lessons going on and I have to split videos, highlight different timestamps and assigning different move names and so on, I found a tool that did just that: ReClipped. Its pretty new and it has integration with RUclips (also One Drive and Google Drive) and Notion , I don't know if its well known or not around the community, but here's my 2 cents.
Wow! Your system is sure complete but, as someone with ADHD my head is absolutely spinning with the amount of information you have going on. It just seems really overwhelming and I can't see myself being able to deal with the information load. Nicely done though, and good on ya if it works for you.
Instead of opening another page to enter notes on a video, could instead just embed a "Quick Notes" GoogleDrive doc specifically for immediate notetaking, and then shrink that window on the page. That would let the page in the embed keep scrolling but keep the notion page where it is. Then copy/paste.
No need to say anything, just applaud👏 Hahh
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Hi @august ,
Your videos are really nice & helps a lot. Keep up the good work.
Just one thing to ask , I didn’t find any videos on Pipeline on your channel , Pillars and Vaults you have demonstrated very well.
Am I missing something? Have you already uploaded pipelines videos and I am not able to find it?
Sorry about the confusion Learner - most of it has been on Pipelines! 🙂 These are all Pipelines: Tasks/Action Items, Projects, Goals, Content Creation Pipeline, Daily Action Zone. I will do a video or two soon that will give the full overview of Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults.
would love if you could share a sample of this mind expansion and knowledge hub system!
How do i implement tags in every relevant database to find data throughout notion and not just the tags for one database.
Love the new look. I had just finished setting up the Mind Expansion dashboard yesterday using the old video and I saw this one today. Much prefer the new look to the Notes & Ideas section.
I see you have combined your library and media vault into one. I have a separate vault for academic literature which has a lot more columns such as authors, journal/conference, year, DOI, research project etc. Is this something that would be better suited to its own vault or is there a way to combine it into the media vault?
Hey Andy, I'm in the same boat here. I tend to keep one library (helpfully called "The Library") for academic books, ebooks, and journal articles, and then a separate databased (I've called it "The Vault" just to differentiate) for anything non-academic (blog posts, videos, podcasts etc). This system helps me to keep a bit of separation between work and non-work media, even though there are obviously overlaps in everything (fwiw I'm a media academic)
Will you be doing a video on working with others? Do I share my task database with the team? Plus how you set up your client database?
Yes, I will get to teams. It's easy if it's someone you trust and can share everything with. Trickier if you need private sections of databases.
Why aren't the books and training vaults also part of the template, just media and notes?
@August Bradley, Ok... so now I've gone thru this training and made all the amazing tweaks alongside you.
So now I want that amazing template in ALL my pre-existing Knowledge Vault topics [Categories? what are they called?].
Got a good way to update all the previous K-Vault entries to the new, improved version?
Excellent improvement. I am going to utilize this idea. Also August - did you find a way to capture highlights from audiobooks (from Audible)? I am still struggling with that as I listen to audible a lot and pausing and typing notes isn't working that effectively.
Thanks Kamal. No perfect way for audio books, either enter note into Notion or in Readwise through the manual input option. Apparently Audible/Amazon won;t give third parties access to do something like what Airr is doing with Podcasts. Unfortunate.
Thank you, subscribed - but wondering when will the Mind Expansion template be available for download?
The next batch of templates will be part of the upcoming online course, that template pack will be huge covering just about everything. But the current free template collection is still one of the most extensive and powerful Notion template collections anywhere.
@S. Wu
- I was where you are this past March and I can tell you from experience that watching the trainings and building your template from scratch is the FASTEST way to start mastering Notion.
Sure, August has the finest N templates I've seen. And in the beginning, like many beginners -- I was a template hoarder.
Over time, I deleted most of them.
Then a couple of months in, I was confident enough to start modifying August's templates [gasp! I know... I know...]. And whenever I could grab a moment, I was pulling his apart to see how he structured them and why.
Soon after, I didn't care whether he released a template or not bc I could build my own. Fairly fast.
A few weeks ago, he did a training on a Sales & Marketing dashboard w/another Notion luminary, William Nutt. I must have missed the notice that he was providing the template for free, bc I built one myself.
I just rewatched the video and built it alongside him.
I'm telling you, my virtual friend -- being given templates is the seductive booby prize.
Sure, it's fast and easy but it also keeps you dependent on others to make Notion your own.
Sure, get August's free ones up above by signing up for his newsletter. They are the finest in the Notionverse.
And of course, use them. Study them. The structure under the hood is like fine art, a beauty in it's elegance and simplicity.
But always keep your eye on the prize -- you want to knowledge and experience of being able to build your own, according to YOUR needs, not someone else's.
And the only way to get there is to learn how to build them yourself.
@@walterterry9970 I appreciate your suggestions, FYI I have signed up before posting questions, and I do agree with you that building my own may be a better route.
Would you be able to do a version for university?
August
Thanks ever so much once again.
Gave great difficulty moving my data from Evernote to Notion because of a bug in Notion that cannot accept or convert tables from Evernote (and I have 15,000 notes).
Can you please do a video like you did at Keep Productive about how using Roam and Notion with Notion and Evernote?
I am developing the biggest nerd crush.
Ha! Thanks a lot for all your support Tyler and the comments all over Twitter. Really appreciate your tossing my name into those open discussions.
Hey August, (QUESTION) PLEASE READ
I don't use Readwise, I can't afford the premium price and don't use a phone so am I missing out on doing all of this manually?
Hey August I am building/built what I call a Modular Degree. It is a self-curated (hopefully down the line I can use AI or digital mentors or something for the future tool) list of courses and edu resources for someone to either pursue a skill, or even a degree's worth of knowledge. Been marketing it as an alternative to college even. I bring this up because I've been using sheets then airtable, and now Notion to organize it all.
It is a pretty neat system that one day I hope to show you, but I was wonder how your Mind Expansion could fit into this Mod Degree system. You don't seem too caught up in courses, but I have like a couple hundred in my list. It wouldn't fit in this dashboard you made here, at least in the current form. Just some food for thought mate.
Nice Dustin! Sounds intriguing, looking forward to learning more about that.
VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION! (PLEASE READ)
August, Is there any alternative to Airr Quotes? Us android and Computer Users need an alternative to it for Podcasts.
How do Notion Web Clippings and and Readwise syncs make it into the same database? I can’t seem to get them to line up into the same table. Notion web clippings imports as an embedded page within my Readwise media vault, and not as a record in the database
Hello, thanks for the video!
I have a question: at 1:40 i can see your big headers like "Knowledge Aggregation". How do you format this with both a text color and background color? A header can only have one of both, a callout has a small font ... not sure how to achieve this? Thanks!
Hi August, what are your thoughts on Zettelkasten and how does it merge with your system? Thanks! :)
@@augustbradley any insider news in that sense? Is Notion going to implement it? :)
Álvaro Ybáñez : No inside news, just hopeful on that front. But have approaches in mind.
@@augustbradley Thanks for taking the time to answer August. Eagerly waiting for your next video! :)
August where do you take your notion icons from pleasee tell wee will live to know
Greatings feom England.
Was keen to explore your work with the aim of moving forward with you. Appologies if we are being dumb but refering to the 'New knowledge vault template' at 0.08, we have been searching for it high and low on your sites but sadly, to no avail. Would really appreciate the link to said dashboard.
Many thanks in advance.
Hi Ersatz, greetings! Ah, that is a fair point of confusion, Unfortunately, in Notion there are three types of "templates", and Notion the term "template" for each. I was referring to a "database template" that you create inside a database and can apply to each new entry in that database (I am showing you ideas here for a database template so you can re-create in your own system if you wish). The second type of "template" is a template button inside of pages, and the third is what you are referring to, where a full Notion page can be duplicated as a template. Confusing having the same word describing three different things.
The current free template pack that enables duplication for other users has all of my temples (for that category of template) that exist. Haven't made a public duplication template for any of the Knowledge Management sections yet. I will be making a new massive template collection of this type covering just about everything in the system for the online course that I'm launching soon. Hope that helps!
August please show us how to get your emojis lmao
August, when you tweak your templates, like you did in this video, do you have to manually go back to all the other documents that were created with the "old" template and manually update them or is there a process you can use to automatically update the older pages to leverage the new template?
If the old page does not have any custom content, you can delete the old template material/formatting. A blank page in the old one will let you re-apply the new template. It is manual, but quick and easy for each one.
Readwise seems to export Airr podcasts to Notion categorized as articles. Is this behavior the same for you, or are you still manually adding Airr highlights?
Yes unfortunately that's the case right now, I have spoken with the top readwise people about it and they have it on their list to change so it saves them as podcasts.But hasn't happened yet.
I have been watching all of your videos in order and I am creating your whole system (Including what is not shared on the template) and changing it to adapt it to my circumstances (Engineering student), after showing my friends they are very interested in it. Would you be okay with me sharing a template publicly to the engineering students community? I will of course credit you as the original creator of the system since this is your amazing creation and I just adapted it and added a couple more database systems
I think it is best for people to build their own workspace to fully understand its inner workings. I will be provide extensive templates in the upcoming Notion course, but those will come with deep training on how to use them in life.
Does anyone know how he mirrors his cell phone to his computer by any chance? I need to do the same thing for work but cant figure it out
I recorded the cell phone screen separately, then added it when editing. But you can bring a cell phone screen in using software such as OBS or vMix (though it's a bit complicated).
@@augustbradley thanks for replying August!! Love all the videos I appreciate it
August this is so insightful, thanks so much. I've being watching your videos for some time now and just transformed my entire Notion workflow into what you are showcasing here. I have a question though, right now I am using Obsidian as my external knowledge management system.
After you published the notes and ideas video in which you describe how you connect and related notes with content inside Notion I started wondering what happen with your workflow to send information to Roam as describe here: ruclips.net/video/JeUPihMsCnE/видео.html
I tried to use your current notes within Notion but I found that is lacking something that I think is quite valuable from applications like Roam and Obsidian and that's the back link. Even when you can do that manually with Notion I prefer it to be automatic for now. Did you stop using Roam or are you using it in a different way now?
Thanks again for all the help with Notion and all the teachings; keep up the good work!
Good questions Rafael - yes, I'm losing interest in Roam. It's interesting and has real value, but Notion does so much more and the ability to have notes and media resurface in the right place takes it further than anything I have seen in Roam/Obsidian (which is more random and less deliberate at resurfacing). Also the burden/work of maintaining the bridge across the two apps is a lot of work. I like the back-link feature, but that's not enough to compete with so much more in Notion (for me) -- If we can get that backlinking in Notion soon, then it will be game over 🙂. But these things are very personal, and others find more value in Roam/Obsidian so of course you should decide for yourself. This is just my perspective. But I think most people do not realize how far Notion can go at contextual resurfacing, which is the most important part of knowledge management to me. Good thoughts!
@@augustbradley Thanks so much for your reply. Indeed I am still going back and forth between Notion. Back links is super important to me because of the exact same thing that you mention about resurfacing. I am using Notion as a second or even third stage filtering process. When I get to the knoweledge lab I am almost certain that I will move some pieces of information into Obsidian. The other thing that I like and saw the difference between Obsidian and Notion is that I can make connections at a very granular level and since I have most Knowlege Labs topics replicated in Obsidian the difference is that at that level I have smaller pieces of notes that I can link together and conform something new when I do that normally in Obsidian then I move the content into Notion. I am still experimenting with this approach and I agree having backlinks in Notion would be a game changer.
I definitly waiting for more content from you to keep learning about this fascinating topic of knowledge management. Thanks again
to much useless talk, just tutorials bro, pls