Lifetracking with Notion

For a few years now, I’ve been tracking goals, aspirations, projects, and a lot of other things in a fairly complex Notion-based setup.

Over the years, I’ve modified, tweaked, and designed my way to an easy-to-use and robust system that works well. It’s flexible and useful and requires limited input, except where I’ve designed it to do more heavy lifting.

I used to track things day-by-day, but after a couple of years doing that, I decided the value was not worth the effort. Now I’ve got a weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly set up that covers mostly the highlights and essential markers, leaving the minutiae to automated things. This has freed up a fair amount of time and brainpower to spend on other things while still allowing for a regular cadence of learning from reflection, which I think is highly valuable.

While it’s a low priority, I would like to share the system. Either in template form or via write-ups. It took quite awhile to build, both initially and as it was refined over time, and I think it could be of great use to others. The seeds of my system were built from scratch, following guides and advice provided by August Bradley, Marie Poulin, and others, and over the years, I’ve changed it a lot. If anyone stumbles across this journal and wants to learn more, I highly recommend checking those two out. In the mean-time, here’s a shot of what it looks like. The front door, so-to-speak. I’ve got one of my projects—my novel work—exploded. That’s another template I’d like to share at some point. It’s based off of something I found via Reddit a while back, but I’ve heavily modified it and will continue to do so.

My Notion set up