 If you want to be truly productive then you should consider using Notion. Now I recently switched from every note to Notion and since then my productivity skyrocketed. The reason for that is that Notion is a very advanced productivity app but at the same time it's very complex so it does take some time to set it up and since I want that Notion brings your time not takes it away I'm gonna show you how I use it in my everyday life for private and business things so it's gonna boost your productivity as well and at the end of this video I'm gonna share with you my top three Notion hacks so stay with me till the end. Hey friends welcome back to my channel my name is Greg and I'm an online entrepreneur creating content that will help you become more productive and mindful. If there's topic interest you then consider subscribing below and join our amazing community. Now Notion is an all-in-one workspace that you can use for private and business things. You can create different tasks, projects, you can import data from Google Docs and many different tools you can create calendars, tasks, checklists, databases, you can link different tables to there and so on. It's a really very well functional tool compared to ever know that I used before it is so much more advanced which can be a benefit for some but also disadvantage because well it does take some time to set it up so now let me show you how I use Notion for my private things every single day. All right here is how I use Notion for my private things so this is my private account I have my know-how here my health data personal things books ideas there are something different stuff that I share with ours and the rest of the things. Now I want to first show you how you can use Notion for building or creating habits and tracking different habits that you want to set up so I want to show you my health here notebook so in the health area I have my weekly health status now what is this actually I want to show you one of those that it's completed so as you can see here we have different columns here you can sort this you can group by different ways you can add different properties you can filter different tasks here or different tabs in this case there are many different features you can add obviously and you can add different views now I have a table view then there's a board view a timeline calendar list gallery and so on so you can see different features you can optimize this as much as you want now for the complete one that's one the thing so I'm tracking weekly my what kind of food I eat some of the activities I I will do every single day and then I try to track my sleep quality my readiness level my stress energy and so I see how well I'm performing and maybe I can identify different things that influence my health for example so well what you can see here well that's how I use it so like all the food that I eat I just mark it if I ate something I shouldn't eat I'm gonna write well yes that I did it and then I can you know here in this column or in this row basically I can add a different notes and then there's those are like scores for my aura ring stress energy levels well you know some of my private things if I had like if I worked out and my general health status and and that's you know something you can open this as a page obviously you can go back and you can just move this from you know in progress to complete it you can add different groups you can assign those things and it's very simple using such a tool in this case notion and those features that you can see on to create different habits you can for example once you're in here here you can like instead of one day have here a property which is text you can here choose like multi-select or you can choose select for example there's one more here go checkbox you can put checkbox in and you can just check if you did something or not so there are many different options available and I really really loved it now another thing I want to show you is how I use a notion for creating my know-how basically for reading books and then I'm just making a summary of those books now I use this template and I think it's from Ali Abdel or Thomas Frank I'm not sure I took from one of those guys the basic template and then I optimized it to serve my needs so here you can see all the books that are right there those books are not all of them but I'm just like copying them from Evernote into this system now and those are some of the self-development books that I read in 2019-2021 so as some business books as well so yeah this is something in the process but that's how it looks like so I have the name of the book the author you know what's gender then yeah like when I finished it and over a rating but that's not everything I see here first of all here I can sort like I can just choose fiction or non-fiction books or what I usually have like everything here and if I go into one of those books like the art of living which I just read and I'm gonna make a review soon about it because it really changed my life then here's what I see here I see you know I write here the book in three sentences which is a short summary then how I discovered it who should read it how the book changed me which actions should I take this is something I added new so after reading this book what should I do with it what should I do with the newly gathered know-how and then here's the summary and the notes and my top quotes at the end so for example how you can use this is well you can add here new book and then I just basically open it and here we have a template ready so it's a non-fiction and fiction template so you just click on fiction for example or well this takes yeah and we do like another one new book too and here we go and we open the non-fiction tab here is what you're gonna see just give me a second here we go so you can see the whole template then and that's it it's super simple adding a new books summaries and a lot of stuff that are important for you and that's how I use notion for my private life and really as you can see it's obviously the skyrockets my pretty skyrocketed because it's super simple to use and it has so many great functions how about my business life well I use notion for my business as well and here this is my private account you can see that here and I can just quickly switch to my business account it's very simple so you can have many different accounts here it's something that I recommend doing so that you kind of a separate between business and private life and here are different different things that I have here so I have different ideas collaborations all about my youtube videos my team blog content and research also there's a competition part so my competitors are starting and social media I'm still adding some different stuff in but yeah that just so you see how it looks like now I want to show you how I use notion for creating my youtube videos now I took this process again I'm not sure if it was Ali or Thomas I'm not really sure about it I'm sorry Fred but I took from both the guys some things because they made the whole setup I think yeah sorry I don't know the youtube was taken from Thomas Frank I'm sure about it but I changed it made quite a lot to to serve my needs so for youtube here is what you can see so there are different views obviously as I've as you've seen before here we have like different columns so there's a the ideas I'm working on they're just like some general stuff and and then I just move a video from general to idea once I start working on it there's a research part scripting part review part ready to film which is well what we're doing right now with this video sent to editor and all the videos that were published and my process usually looks like this I just add in a new video again test and as before I have some premade templates give me a second here you go as a project template you open it up and you see everything and so like status publish day sponsor text etc etc so that's how I use it for youtube and you can customize this any way you want now one of the good things about notion is that you can use different templates now if you go here under templates you see what kinds of different templates that you can just import in and then basically customize them to serve your needs and that's what I did as well for some of the templates so yeah you need to spend some time finding the most well the most useful templates for you some of them are pre-installed already so this helps a bit but yeah anyway that's how I use it for youtube obviously is for different stuff as I said before and you can basically use notion for everything you want to however I don't use notion for two things that many people use I don't use it for journaling I use still basically journal so I do like I take handwritten notes because I think it's more beneficial I just like it more it's easy to write things I want to forget how to write things with my hands so that's why I don't use notion for this even though it's pretty well you could use it definitely it's it's pretty strong especially like if you go into the private section you're gonna find it out and like you can you can add different templates and so on and secondly I don't use it for task management obviously notion has a pretty strong pre-advanced system for taking or creating tasks and managing tasks and assigning tests to the right people but I still prefer using Asana for that it is I think it's easier to set up it just works well and for now I'll stick to Asana but well if someone convinces me I might try using notion for that as well well let's find out now before I share with you my top three hacks of using notion I want to show you something else so here is how you can import or add different stuff different blocks into Avernote so you just press here and you can see different options like text page you can add to the list you can add different headings quotes dividers you can mention a person date reminds emojis and then there are all the databases of tables and lists galleries and you can just add this as an inline into the page or as a full page which is a separate page you can obviously add in images video and audio files you can embed different things you know different yeah figure my hair uh framer you know different popular apps loom pdfs and so on so there are lots of different different options so we can offer you different colors like backgrounds and stuff so yeah it's pretty cool pretty simple to use and I'm pretty sure you're gonna love it once you start using it now a couple of things that I really love about uh notion is that you can also have calendars in then of course as I said you can embed different things it's pretty minimalistic tool as you can see you can add different icons and here you can add background background images if you want to um so but you can keep it very minimalistic if that's what you prefer and by the way guys there is a free version available so really cool now my top three hacks um I mentioned in the beginning of the I'm gonna show you top three hacks of using notion and here they are first of all here I have different uh basically uh so there's one workspace and here I have different main pages what you can do is you can use only one main page and then have all other pages as sub pages within this one page and basically on the left side you're gonna see only one page and then many different sub pages now some people prefer it that way but I personally like to have more pages uh because they're scrolling or finding all the data that they're searching for as much quicker at least in my opinion the second thing is that you can set a certain page as favorite so if you go up here already press it on the right hand side you're gonna see it up here favorite um and once you use a certain page as favorite you're gonna see it up here on the left side so once you stop working on this page you can just click this again and it's not gonna be seen here this is gonna save you tons of time and last but not least you can import templates from different creators like I mentioned for Ali Abdel and Thomas Frank I love those two guys so um those two guys and many others create different templates for different processes and you can just import those templates into your notion and everything works so you don't have to figure out everything by yourself and this is another feature I really love and want the best hacks using Notion as you can see Notion is a very advanced app that has many different features and benefits but it is not the only app that I use every day for 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