My Notion Life OS Beginner's Guide: How To Setup A Second Brain! # 1

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This is how to get started using Notion to organise your life. It's Part 1 of my step-by-step Notion Life OS beginner's guide on how to set up your second brain in Notion to manage your tasks, projects, goals & notes all in one place. This video (Part 1) covers navigation, using the PARA method, setting Goals setting up your projects in Notion. Enjoy! 📣 Get Notion Life OS here: bettercreating.com/lifeos & watch the full tour video here: • My Complete Notion Sec...
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00:00 A Beginners Guide To Using Notion As Your Second Brain
00:50 What is A Second Brain? The Idea Behind The Best Notion Setup!
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05:02 Clearing Sample Data from My Notion Life OS Templates
07:28 How To Set Areas & Resources In Notion Life OS: The PARA Method
12:08 How To Set Your Goals In Notion Life OS
18:00 How To Setup Your Projects in Notion Life OS
22:34 Managing Tasks in Notion Life OS: The Brain Dump
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Hi, I'm Simon and I'm collecting great ideas, tools and tech to help you live your best productive and creative life: On this channel you'll find all things Notion, well designed productive tech, & great ideas on business & self development. Other than doing this, I work as a freelance creative in theatre and film and love motorcycles, coffee and minimalist design.
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@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Hi pals, it's here as requested by many! The 1st in my video guide series to setting up and using a 2nd Brain system in Notion. Enjoy - more to follow shortly! 📣 Get Notion Life OS here: bettercreating.com/lifeos & watch the full tour video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNR9ga-Xq6_GgWg.html

@SpellboundHaven 8 ай бұрын

Hey Simon, I just wanted to extend my heartfelt thanks for the comprehensive onboarding guide. Your work is genuinely making a difference in how I organize my life. Keep up the fantastic work! 👏✨

@PhilvSassen 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! This is incredibly helpful.

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

You are welcome. Took a while to process the feedback but here they all come! Spread the word! :)

@jeffreydodds4586 11 ай бұрын

Thanks Simon for this step by step guide. I’ve never used Notion before. - just what I’ve been looking for.

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Welcome to the channel :)

@gailpowell9131 11 ай бұрын

Loved the video. Looking forward to the explanation of formulas and roll ups for the clippings counter. I am working on clarifying my resources management in Notion and having separate databases for clippings, documents, and notes. I'm eager to keep watching the rest of the series. :)

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! and yes, Sounds good!

@hilalm.397 11 ай бұрын

My favorite Notion Guru

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Ah chucks. Thanks!

@michaelchika4048 11 ай бұрын

You have been my inspiration. It is painful that I don't have the money to purchase your template but I am currently building my own life os and I am using this your template and system as an inspiration. I love the layouts and how you organize everything. Hopefully mine will be ready. Thank you @better creating for this template. It is an inspiration for me.

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you! And you can do it! do check out my Notion from Scratch Build series playlist too - could be helpful for what you are up to! great to have you following the channel!

@michaeltroehler8558 10 ай бұрын

Excuse me but how much are they?

@Stephen_Lafferty 10 ай бұрын

Oooh - 99.2k subscribers! Almost at the silver award plaque!

@BetterCreating 10 ай бұрын

Woop

@brandonphilip2112 10 ай бұрын

Hi Simon do you have a demo on how to create the updated habit tracker

@BetterCreating 10 ай бұрын

Hi there! I have a video tour on how it works - but there are not any videos on how to build the tracker on Life OS as it’s a large set of elements and databases. This is the tour. New Notion Habit Tracker! My Life OS Bullet Journal Guide 2023 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nKx9f5d5vr2oiH0.html. I do however have a great simpler habit tracker build as part of my Notion From Scratch series - check the channel playlists for that :)

@davidroseborough 10 ай бұрын

I dont have a "Start New Year Plan" button. Is there an update that I need?

@nioxic77 11 ай бұрын

i really like this... i mean, it's great. looks good. I just dont have the time, to sit and edit various notes and add tons of stuff to my daily tasks etc etc etc I look at my calendar once, maybe twice per day. i only put larger events in there, not... "7:00: eat cereal", "7:30: shower", "7:50: put on clothes" etc This would be such a time consuming system to keep up-to-date, that i just cant fathom, that anyone would want to. taking notes is great - keeping a good calendar is great.. but i dont think you really do need this, at all. I know NOBODY who does anything like this, in the real world. Still - it looks great.

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Haha - this is brilliant. Yes - what you describe I agree would be extreme! I spent 2 months making a system, a week setting up everything and since then have spent 3-years with 10x more time, less stress and more effective output from it. Work income and life are very different. It’s all about perspective. However I definitely don’t micro manage and track. every minute of my life. :)

@danieljamespm 6 ай бұрын

When I try to update the year report from 2023 to 2024 it just erases it. Unless I keep the title as New Year Template 2023. As soon as I erase the number 3 the whole template disappears. I just want it to say 2024 and have all my goals and milestones linked to it

@danieljamespm 6 ай бұрын

Nevermind. I think I figured it out. I created a new template and linked all my new goals and milestones to that template and I think we are where we need to be. Thanks!

@BetterCreating 6 ай бұрын

Ah got to hear. Yes: you need to create a new year, and then adjust the goals and milestone to link to that new year or create new ones… Hope that’s solved it for you! :)

@mannymistry68 3 ай бұрын

Hi. I just bought your Life OS templates and whilst I want to watch these videos to learn how to use and adapt them, and your videos show a lot of how things look once they are set up, I am stuck with your templates. The reason is, because I am not finding step-by-step instructions on how to import them into my Notion. And when I click on import and try to upload the files, they don't upload. The zip file don't upload or if I drill down to the individual files, they can;t be selected. I love how you have set up Notion and would love to start doing the same and adapting it, but I think I need more step-by-step instructions from the very beginning to follow to set it up using your templates. This is why I am stuck and I hope others are needing the same step-by-stepo approach that I need as well

@BetterCreating 3 ай бұрын

Hi there, and thanks for downloading - please duplicate the template into your workspace as you would with all Notion templates. You may be trying to import icon files or the help documents you have downloaded. In the download you will see a PDF with the template link within that. Click on the link to the template in that pdf and it will take you to the online copy of the template. From here you can select the duplicate option top right to add to your workspace. See Notion help for details on duplication of templates. PS. If you are brand new to Notion, do remember my life OS templates are big, so start setting yourself up in one area and explore how it works, and enjoy the journey! I do share instructions on the download pdf and very rarely find customers having an issue - but any more help needed to access, do email at notion@bettercreating.com Thanks, Simon

@mannymistry68 3 ай бұрын

@@BetterCreating Hi. Thanks for your response. I do appreciate it. I think I am going to give up on Notion and just go back to my Outlook, Apple Notes and Tasks in Outlook. Whilst I can see how powerful Notion could be, for those of us who have spent years and years using the tools we are used to, the learning curve can take so long (for busy people) and self-learning may be possible, but Notion is not self-explanatory and intuitive enough for new users to shorten that learning curve within a reasonable length of time to start getting some value out of it in the near term and then build on that. If I find a service where I can pay someone to build it for me, I might think about migrating to it

@Giusie79 11 ай бұрын

Love the videos.... hate the typing sounds (sorry)

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

Haha thanks! And sorry about my keyboard!

@Giusie79 10 ай бұрын

@@BetterCreating no worries. Even that won’t stop me from watching.

@BetterCreating 10 ай бұрын

@@Giusie79 haha - cheers!

@caskraker 11 ай бұрын

The amount of time spend to set up, grow, expand and maintain a Notion environment can be better spend to just do your work. Notion is for people like you, making money by making lengthy tutorials for fools.

@BetterCreating 11 ай бұрын

I haven’t found that. The few months I invested in setting mine up has transformed my work and efficiency for years! Not least relieved a lot of anxiety of remembering and holding things in my various freelance work. I think what you say can definitely be true in some cases, but I would be careful not to tar everything with the same brush and write off, what for me, has transformed my work and given me way more time for living and doing stuff! Cheers. :)

@caskraker 11 ай бұрын

@@BetterCreating Have you ever counted the hours spend on Notion? Compared that with the time saved? I did.

@JRBardown 10 ай бұрын

@@caskrakerso why are you here still watching Notion videos??

@caskraker 10 ай бұрын

@@JRBardown Why are you here making senseless comments?

@JRBardown 10 ай бұрын

@@caskraker I’m here learning and appreciating the content. You’re here on every video jawing about how it’s not useful or doesn’t work or for fools, etc. Seems like you waste more time bitching about it then either implementing the system or just moving on. Stop trolling.