Regarding the celebration of my official move to Notion from physical journal, I decided to share my monthly setup for the upcoming October. As background, I’ve been picking up and exploring Notion for about two years now, but it’s rather difficult for me to create and build an efficient system for tracking tasks and productivity in general. It’s just recently I realized that I prefer a very simple setup and covering all I want to track in one place.

I always put theme in every monthly page. In the middle of the year, I decided to use monthly strategy, as I think one month period is enough to look on and evaluate my own progress towards goals, habits, and anything between. For this October, I used black and orange color palette.

In the beginning of the page, I put a calendar to see important events and schedules. As for now, I only put fasting schedules because I do not have the other schedules yet. I want to have a joyful experience in using Notion, so I put orange flower picture which is suitable with this month theme.

Under the calendar, I put quick access links to pages that I considered important or related to the current goals or habits. Next to it, I put my current goals. It looks like there are a bunch of them, but really they are mostly atomic goals. I was struggling in achieving my own goals, so starting this month I decided to reduce those goals into their atomic form in one month period. I hope I could achieve them all before the end of this October.

Below it there are links to Genshin pages, which are the source of the inspiration for this digital bullet journal. I was having difficulties in sorting and remembering lot of information in game, so I decided to create my own wiki based on my inventories and characters I have. I made it very simple and easy to access, which made me realize I also have to do the same for the tracking and journaling.

I also create list of habit that I expanded from goals that I’ve created before. The goals are for one month, so I have to build a system that consists of the daily tasks to do to achieve that one-month-goals. I also write reminder that consists of non-habit tasks, mostly eventual tasks that have to be done in certain circumstances.

The last part is the weekly schedule. I like to lay out all of the tasks in weekly basis, I dunno it works really well for me, and assign all the habits and tasks to each day. In that kanban board, I only show 3 days of the week, but I already assign habits and tasks to the remaining days. I also put completion properties, to check whether I have completed the task or not on that day.

I decided this setup after doing experimentation in this August and September. Of course this setup could be counted as experimentation too because nothing is fixed, but I hope this could works well for the next one month so for the next chance I could implement 1% rule for this setup. (am kinda tired trying this and that method and setup tho but this is super fun!