How I Organize My Reading! || Notion, Goodreads, and Spreadsheets!
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- Опубліковано 12 гру 2020
- Hello hello everyone! Welcome to a video all about organization! I am a data science masters student so organization and spreadsheets are my sh*t! Anyway, join in for a chat all about how I organize my reading and how you can too!
Here is the link to my reading list page template.
www.notion.so/Yearly-Reading-...
All you have to do it click the link and then hit "Duplicate" in the top right corner and it will add the page to your notion account!
Platforms for organizing:
www.notion.com
www.goodreads.com
Platforms for ordering books not from amazon:
bookshop.org
www.thriftbooks.com
My socials:
/ kira
About me:
Hi everyone! I'm Kira and I am a 24 year old graduate student living in Los Angeles who loves chatting about books! From fantasy, to nonfiction, to romance, to classics; I love it all (though fantasy is my true love)!
#organization #reading #booktube #productivity
i love this! i already had a Notion database for my Reading Tracker and my TBR (which took AGES to put together omg) but i took so many elements from your video and that really enhanced my pages 💕
Lots of great ideas here! I've been using Notion for a while and, even so, you've given me some good tips. Thanks Kira!
OMG!! Thanks a lot for this. Recently got back into reading and have been looking for a way to organize things
amazing video. good explanation on how to use notion which I was looking for! Thanks.
from a bookaholic to another... love your organization ideas. Might try them myself :)
Notion seems soooo cool omg! I think I'll try this out for organizing my school stuff and art commissions!
It's seriously so great! I use it for organizing almost everything in my life now!
I love this! Thank you so much for sharing.
I just stumbled onto your channel and I’m glad i did. You speak so clearly and thanks for the captions ! 😁🤩
Aww thanks so much! That's such a nice compliment!
Trying to find a new way to organize my book habit, lol, and am watching this...and thank you. I appreciate you mentioning other places people can buy other than Amazon. I hate that company so much, lol, and use them as a literal last resort. I do use Goodreads unfortunately...but am trying to get used to Storygraph to hopefully make that be my online site, but it is hard.
love this video
This is quite a well-made video. Good editing, good aesthetic, very detailed. I'm surprised you don't have more subscribers!
Aww that's so sweet!
Great database! I have a column with Goodreads rating. I just find it interesting.
Love this!
Ok thanks
I loved your video! Very informative! I do have one question though, what categories make your genre and sub-genre columns? I want to make both of those columns respectfully but I am struggling to separate them. I was wondering what options you had in your genre and sub-genre categories?☺️
This is something I still play around with honestly. I normally have my major genres as fantasy, mystery, sci-fi, nonfiction, romance, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, etc and my sub-genres are more like high-fantasy, urban-fantasy, romance-fantasy, murder-mystery, thriller-mystery, science, health, social justice etc
I'm super curious about the games that you played while watching the Harry Potter movies, care to share those?
Hello, thanks for the info. I'm very new to notion. I want to track all my books. Books and ebooks. Plus Library books I've read etc. Need to track series on different platforms. Ex. Same series but I might have 1 paperback, 3 ebooks and 1 I read from library. I have many books on kindle, kobo and iBooks. Any suggestions?
I would maybe suggest tracking everything you read in one database and you could have multiple columns with the information you want about each book (like maybe one column labeled "platform" where you input paperback, audiobook, or library and maybe one labeled "series" where you input the name of the series if it is a part of one)... then you can organize the database with different "views" and you could view all your books by their different platform categories!
Hi Kira! Good video, very helpful. Have you ever exported the data from Goodreads for use in Notion? I have so many books listed in Goodreads over the years, but would like to move all that data to Notion without having to retype everything.
I have! You have to export your goodreads library as a csv file, then click the 'import' option on the left navigation bar in notion and import this csv. This will create a table as it's own page in your notion. Move this page to wherever you want to track your reading. Then convert the page from a page to an 'inline database.' Then you can add/remove/adjust any columns. From there you can create relationships to goals and other tracking methods etc :) Hope this helps!
Hi Kira, thanks for the information. can you please share your reading list template so we can use it.
Oh yeah sure! I added a link in the description and you all can copy the page as a template!
Just to let you know, The book depository is owned by Amazon
Oh thanks so much for letting me know! I had no idea! In that case I can only recommend bookshop.org more because they are wonderful!
i love this video! i doubt that you will see this - but i have a question: how do you make it so your board is ordered by month? mine orders by everything else other than months? i have tried everything that i can think of and i am really stuck. Thankyou
If you have more than one 'select' properties in your database, in the board view you will have an option to 'group by'. You can select group by: month. Hope this helps!
Hi Jessica! I have a column now where I track my finish date (when I finish reading) and you can order by that! Use the 'date' property type and notion has a built in ordering method for the date format :) Hope this helps!
Ok
How to put book covers, as that would make it more visual?
I would probably put images of the book covers in the 'background' of each book page. Each entry in the table creates a 'page' that you can add a background to. This is where you would add the image of the cover. Then I would create another view of the database that is a 'gallery' view and under 'properties' I would choose to display 'page background.' This will create a gallery view of all the book covers. Hope this helps!
Whats your problem with Amazon???
🙋♀️ Hi new sub
OMG KIRA DO YOU KILL PEOPLE USING A DEATH NOTE NOTEBOOK
Thanks for your template and tutorial. Really appreciate your hard work (♡˙︶˙♡)
If you buy the books new, you actually support the authors who wrote the story. Just saying.
Or….here me out….you can use the thousands of tools that allow you to do all that without constantly managing this overcomplex tracker