Hi all, how is 2023 so far? Today I would like to share how I use Notion to organize 2023. I know it is February already…. I have been fixing my system here and there, and I finally find a way to do so, so I would like to share it with you!
Templates are at the bottom.
Notion serves as an overview for the year:
1. Yearly goals
These are the 6 categories that are most important to me now, you can modify them according to your priorities.
I use toggles for each goal so that I can put some actionable items under each item. When you set your goals, you want to be specific on what you have to do to reach them rather than just a big picture.
For example, I want to learn how to ride. How am I going to make it happen? First, I am going to ask my sister to teach me. After learning, I will practice bi-weekly for better muscle memory. And after being more familiar with it, I can reduce the frequency and make it a monthly bike ride with my friends!
So the goal and actionable items will look like this:
After you reach the goal, you can simply drag it to the bottom and move on to others.
2. Monthly Recap
There are two parts of planning; the beginning and the end of the month.
In the beginning of the month, I will set this month’s priorities and goals. I keep the goals very simple; only personal and finance, everything other than money belongs to personal eg health, school…
At the end of the month, there will be an end-of-month checklist. A monthly review is also there, it is a short one, just to recap what I have done. If I feel like writing more, I will journal instead.
3. Reading and hiking tracker
For the reading tracker, I like writing a few thoughts after reading them and sometimes those are not enough for a separate book note (find here). So this makes it easier to record.
For hiking, I personally love it so so much that I want to keep track of all the hikes I did ahahah.
It is completely free to include anything you like for example logging your travel, what you have cooked etc….
For more detailed planning, I use Google Calendar (weekly) and diary (daily). Regarding Google Calendar, it shows me how my week is looking and makes sure I won’t over-schedule. As for the diary, I won’t use it every day — only days when I have lots of things to do or when I feel overwhelmed. I use it to write some random meeting notes, packing lists and grocery lists too.
Diary link: https://en.pinkoi.com/product/bqeVuqJX
Conclusion
The template for 2023 setup can be found in the following link, let me know if you find it useful!
https://haileycsc.notion.site/2023-476dff47148e471c85266ecf09d1078a
