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I have quite a lot built in Notion after years of use and while other tools have now replaced or operate better than it, I still use one page in particular every day.
In fact, it is basically never closed and I often pin it to my browser. Let us take a look.
Optimism and Planning
I can not remember exactly where I read this, but the idea of writing down your positives and negatives that come and go in your life is widely suggested.
Be this in the form of a daily, weekly or monthly review, which I also do, or just in some other form. The ability to write down the good, to remind yourself, yet also write down the bad, to help get them off your chest.
Initially, I tried this in a simple list format, which did seem to provide me with benefits, but I wanted more. So I created my “Events” page in Notion.
What is it?
My events page contains a database full of current, future and past events along with multiple properties for various reasons, which I will explain.
Properties include: Estimated date, type, cost, days until, hype, notes and a star rating.
I then have the database sorted by earliest first. This means that I often have events with just 1 or 2 days left until they happen, right at the top of the page. I must emphasise that this database will also include negative things that may happen, which I feel is better to be aware of than to just stick my head in the sand.
Improvements
These came in the form of my beloved linked databases. YES!!!! I love them. But seriously, their application is incredible.
You can effectively automate so much movement between databases and linked databases, but it is through filtering that this truly happens. I have 2 linked databases and my main database.
The first linked database filters all events that do not have a star rating…
