3 Great Ways To Organise Your Reading (Notion, Reading journal & Goodreads)
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
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here we have a video about how i organise my reading and keep track of all of my books, tbr and opinions in 3 different but useful ways! i use my reading journal (in my bullet journal), i use notion and of course also goodreads. Hope you enjoy!
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Hi! My name is Leonie and I am a 23 year old girl who loves talking about books! From YA to non-fiction to classics, I read it all (although fantasy will always be my fave). I live in the Netherlands and go to university, but make booktube videos in my spare time :)
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could you consider doing a video just about that notion-app and how you've made your layout etc? interesting!
That is exactly what I was thinking, I would live to see that because it is so beautiful and is probably so helpful.
Yes! That would be so useful because have no idea what I'm doing in it lol
I really hope Leonie does this, or makes her template available in the Notion library hahaha she basically made her own local GoodReads XD
@@kb-ih7ni I made something like this and it's not really difficult but I have no idea how/where she got that reading bar status :(
@@sammalneito yeah that's the only thing i'm missing really.
Me: Gets inspired to create a journal.
Also me: Creates a journal on how to organize the journal
ahahaha love that
Literally what I was doing while I watched this video lol
@@cjsextras d..did you finish making notion journal? im a it late but BUT im trine make it now.. *sighs
been there done that 😭
I would love to see a video on Goodreads alternatives! I’m using Storygraph in conjunction with Goodreads. I like Storygraph, but I find the search function a little clunky. I do love how you can tell them what tropes you love so that they can tailor your recommendations page better!!!
i really want to try out storygraph as well!
Have you checked booksloth?
찬열의 아내Chanyeol's Wife Oooh I haven’t, but I will now!!!
@@chanyeolswife5235 Unfortunately booksloth isn't for nonfiction readers at all.
@@americanbookdragon Nor for non-english speakers/readers, at least not one with a language that isn't well known like french or spanish are, they might be alright. But, as a norwegian, Booksloth doesn't work at all, they had very few of my books on the site.
I want to move to storygraph, so would love to see you try out Goodreads alternatives!
Storygraoh is great, reccomend signing up to the beta if you havent already ❤📚
Never got into the habits of taking notes while reading but now that I saw this maybe I should start doing it. Sometimes I find it hard to recall a certain detail that I like from a book while talking to someone about it since I never noted anything down.
I think everyone is jumping ship from goodreads to Storygraph. It's still in beta, so it will be awesome when it will be done.
Definitely. The UI looks really neat and i hope they will also develop an app in the future
@@afomiatibebeselassie5882 on their instagram they show how to get the app! I have it on my phone~☆
@@KaraToNihongo ohhh yeah it worked. Thanks
I’ve always really wanted to have a reading journal instead of my jumbled notebook mess and your reading journal is definitely giving me some ideas for how I can go about doing that. I might actually be able to start one next year! Thanks for the ideas and the great video overall💖
I also LOVE seeing how people organize! It's an interesting way to see how people process information aannnnnnddd if you did a bullet journal video I would 100% watch it!
I love knowing stuff like this too!
I have three ways as well.
1. I use Goodreads (currently swapping to Storygraph) just to mark books as read and have a public list of everything I've finished.
2. I have a yearly books read spreadsheet, and a wishlist spreadsheet.
3. I have two notebooks, one for fiction one for non-fiction. I make notes on the books, jot down quotes and capture my feelings. Don't use that for every single book, just ones that I had things to say about. That's why I still use a digital tracker for all read books.
Notion looks awesome. Now I'm going to download it and spend ages setting it up instead of actually reading 😂
the amount of time i've spend setting up my notion is ungodly
do you have a notion template?
I love how simple yours is
I use storygraph to track my reading now, the page is still in its beta phase, but it's so great and very inclusive, and gives recommendations based on moods as well as genres 🙌🏾 I'd love to see a video where you try it out!
Really thanks for this, I wasn't too happy with my Notion reading list and you inspired me on what to do to make it better.
Ooh yes goodreads alternatives! I started using thestorygraph a couple months ago and I'd be interested in hearing about other ones
I loved your reading journal!! It’s such a great idea and yours looks so pretty ✨ Also Ik you’re a booktuber but if you could I would love to watch a video where you show all your notion pages and how you set it up.
I'm so glad you put this vid together. It's great to see how other people keep themselves organized. I'm a reading journal kinda girl, I don't do too much with digital platforms. Thanks for sharing!
I use goodreads and my reading journal, people keep recommending storygraph but I’m too attached to the familiarity of goodreads 😅
Yeah, the same thing happens with me 😀
Love the Overall Book Stats spread header--really sparkles ✨🌌
love your style as well as the organization tips! I am a Virgo Sun sign, and I appreciate practical things of course. Great videos!
I love that you've found a system that works for you, even if it's in 3 different places. I use Notion for all reading notes and adore how simple it is to add in data, rearange information and make lists based on different criteria.
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I just picked up a new reading journal to try to keep myself more organized!
This made me start my own reading journal!! Thank you! 😊
I love this! I just use good reads right now but I want to make a journal to keep track of readathons especially
New sub! Loved this video. It gave me a lot of great ideas! I've been thinking about setting up a reading journal this year, and this just gave me more motivation to do it! I also recently started using Notion, so the TBR kanban board is an awesome idea too! Thanks for sharing! 😊
I love organization videos! I'm such a nerd hahahah
I keep track of my reading in a lot of diferent ways. Notion seems a little bit too complicated for my taste, so I use Keep, the notes app from Google, which is very simple. There I have my currently reading, my Library TBR (books that I want to read and I know I can take from my local library), montly TBR's, a DNFs list, a list of all the books that I have read in the year, and a montly page tracker. My overall TBR is way too long, so I have it in a separate spreadsheet. I also have a very detailed spreadsheet for the books I've read in the year and lots of graphs.
In my bullet journal, I have a page tracker, just because it looks beautiful, a list of the books I've read that month with some stats, and also separate pages for some reading projects and readathons.
I use Goodreads just to upload my reviews. I write them on Keep when I finish the book, and a couple of weeks later I write the GR review.
Yeah, that's a lot, I know.
You have no idea how excited you got me about Notion👀 I need it. Now.
I'm obsessed with videos like this!
you're clearly reading my mind because I just started a reading journal two days ago and I need tips! Now I have them ahaha
I started using Notion and a reading journal very recently. I wanted to start writing notes about the books I read, so I could write reviews, remember the books I read, understand what I like and why, and note the technical and plot stuff. I'm a writer, so I want to be more aware of how others write their books.
I'm doing hybrid notes, too, because the notes I take are long (reader and writer), and I don't want to fill up a notebook with just my notes for one book. I imagine I would prefer writing overviews for my physical reading journal like you do while writing more extensively in the Notion app. It also helps to have a phone instead of a journal while I'm taking notes since I just have to use one hand and I don't have many places to put down my notebook comfortably.
I like the way your notion reading than mine. I think I'm going to rearrange things a bit. Also, I'm new to Notion, so I don't know everything I could do on there yet. I also plan on snagging that spread you use in your reading journal for my own. I'm a chaotic note-taker, and would like to have many different ways of putting stuff down, lol.
great video :3c
This was very good! Everything you do in the Notion app I do it in my bullet/reading journal. I should try this app!
Wow! I have never heard of Notion! Feeling super inspired now!!
You just blew my mind with that Notion app!! Definitely going to be looking into that.
Thank you for showing us how you organize your reading. I just downloaded Notion a few days ago, so your video is super helpful to see what it can do. Right now I just use Goodreads and an Google Sheets spreadsheet to track my reading. No reading journal yet. I want to make one, but I don’t know what I want it to look like yet.
This is such a great video idea! Loved it!❤️❤️
That journal is incredible. Absolutely incredible.
I love book organisation videos too, so thank you! 😘
i really enjoyed the vid!! i'm a sucker for organization, spreadsheets and all that, and rn i'm v curious to try and get into using notion... i currently use a spreadsheet on google drive as well as goodreads to track my reading, but i'll probably change to the storygraph by the end of the year 😊😊
Girl, Whatever works for you, works for you! No judgement here :) I totally get using different methods - I use Goodreads, plus a spreadsheet from the Read Harder Challenge, plus a notebook of quotes from my reading as my reading journal. It sounds disorganized but it makes me feel much more organized than I used to be.
This is something that I need... thank you for this... love from Philippines
That video about trying goodreads alternatives sounds really good!!
I'm trying to move away from goodreads so I've definitely been using a combination of notion and storygraph to organise my reading (it's so nice seeing storygraph love in the comments), i'd also be super keen in seeing a notion tour/set up vid if you were ever to consider filming something like that! it's so interesting to see how other's set theirs up in terms of aesthetic and functionality !!
Notion look so useful. I’m going to have to check it out. I would love to watch every booktubers version of this too!
Would love to see a video of the Goodreads alternatives. Also a video on how you create/styled your Notion!
Really helpful! Notion is great! I always tell myself to use it more for all my digital organization :)
I’d love to see you try the Goodreads alternatives! I’ve been so curious about them but haven’t taken the plunge yet.
try storygraph for a while, it's really good
Being a long time Notion user and digital nerd I would move all the paper journal into Notion and combine the databases using relations and have a gallery view for the page covers. I would also probably clip the books into Notion so I get all the info in there but that is me 😁
Your journal is so pretty!! I wish I weren't lazy to make one.
Very useful video, thank you for that 👍
Realy liked the last way with the Notion app 👌
The Jewish new year just started yesterday, so I guess it's time to start orgnize my reading. (and my life in general 🤣)
i am a new subscriber and i love your channel. i could listen to your accent forever!💕💕
Please do a flip-through of your reading journal 🙇🏻♀️
i showed everything i have in this video! (it's not a very extensive reading journal yet haha)
The Book Leo oh... then can I hope that maybe someday this might be a future video..? 😬
I would love to see a video from you on Notion, looks really nice and organized! mine looks so dull hehe.
Yes! Try out goodreads alternatives! I’d love to see that!
I use goodreads just to keep track of the book I’m currently reading and my yearly reading goal.
I use the app Book Buddy to log all my books (read/unread, finished, library rentals, wish list, books I own, etc) and I made an excel sheet too.
I have my own reading notebook that I use to write all my thoughts and feelings, but it’s def not as pretty as yours haha
I'm in love with that video
I use excel, but I've been really loving thestorygraph recently! They have mood, tone, genre, pacing, and trigger filters which is just incredibly handy. Plus it just looks and functions so much nicer than Goodreads
oh that sounds amazing!
I loved this video. I need to return back to bullet journaling. I fell off and I’m not sure if I should continue with my old journal or let my ocd kick and and buy new journal to start over. If anything that decision is going to make me procrastinate even more lol!
Great tips! Really needed them😅
Leoni, you could use that tbr part by sticking sticky note to that place (each month new one). I do that in my notebooks, it also make that page "extraordinary:-)" with colours.
I only use Goodreads to keep track of my books (I've tried the new platforms that have been launched recently, but I'm so used to Goodreads, it was hard to change and create habits there), and I also have a recently-created Excel document with all the books I own, but I'm so sure I'll forget about it in a few weeks hahaha For personal use, I have a couple of journals, but I prefer Notion! I've been using it for around two years, and it's been great - I just love how everyone is starting to use it more too, and I can take inspo to decorate my pages :P
I would love to see you testing out alternatives to Goodreads! Please 😁
Nice video! Your Journal is lovely with drawings, my handwriting is so bad I have trouble reading my journal sometime lol. I love your handwriting and stickers in journal
Your notion looks so good hahaha I always do a simple design but I wanna try something different now.
⭐️would love to see video on goodreads alternatives.
I'm in the middle of creating a whole bullet journal setup in Notion so I totally get the obsession 😅 For books I track my reading on Goodreads and I have a couple of very detailed Excel spreadsheets. Not sure yet if I'll do anything book related in Notion as I cannot get rid of my spreadsheets anyway (I like building up complex stats and charts 😁).
Loved this video! Super interesting and thanks for all the tips! Was wondering if you could share your notion template for this with us - I'd love to create the progress bar but struggling with other templates I've found online and am not very good as programming it myself...
Thank you for inspiration!
Notion is such a strong fit for my personality - I’ve basically put my whole life in there at this point 😂 but I never really thought to organize my reading on it beyond just a general tbr so I’m coming away from this with a ton of ideas
Sounds like you're really making Notion work for YOU--always a good balance of power with the tech 😝
love your content keep up the good work!! You inspired me to start my own channel
omg pleaasse do a video on how you use notion for your life!!
oh my god I love the book earrings
For tracking my reading progress, I'm using Red Gregory's template, I added a visual progress bar using a tutorial by Productivity Corner.
I use an excel file, which was originally created by another booktuber, later on I revised it to fit my needs and the things I want to keep track of when it comes to reading. :) But I'm going to try out the Notion also, sounds interesting!
Thank you for keeping it real...
On notion, how did you set up your progress bars?
it's a widget installed off of the site indify! just did it myself
is it free?
@@orkiramaryllis8878 yes
a video on goodreads alternatives would be wonderful
how did you get your homepage for notion to look like that? I'm obsessed.
I feel the same, I love watching how other people organize their reading
GIRL THE NOTIFICATIONS smh
Loved seeing your book journal notes. It’s very simple but elegantly done. And it’ll be so nice in a few years to look back and read the little bullet points on the books you read in a certain month or year. Would it be as enjoyable to look back through a text file on your computer? I think not. :D
I love this app. 🌹🌹🌹
and i can appreciate your work fabulous
Both you and Daniel Greene have mentioned the downsides of goodreads (incidentally I found out about you from the time you went on his channel, and I’ve been following you since). Right now I’m keeping a list of all the books I own in a note on my phone, and another list of all the books I’ve actually read in another note, but this video has piqued my interest, so I would like a video on goodreads alternatives.
I use goodreads but jeez they need to fix that up, at the moment i'm trying booksloth. Also, love the way you organize on notion, i need to learn to do this!
Thank you for talking about Notion i think the site/app will change things for me i was writing down things in separate notes on a notpad on my phone and it got confusing now with notion I will be able to type it once and have it on my PC and my phone.....which will be useful with my disability....
Please do a tutorial on the graphs you used for the counter and the layout you used for the how far it is in the month in notion. Sorry if you don’t understand. I’m trying my best to explain
Hi! do you think you could make this a template or perhaps make a small tutorial about how to do a similar layout? I really loved how you organized it and I'm new to notion and not completely sure how to use it correctly
I Like your book earrings. And, I appreciate these organize ideas. I will try Notion, my notes section on my phone is overloaded. Can you download things to notion?
Thank you for this video I downloaded Notion and am trying to figure out how to use it hahah 😅
I'm late to this but I use Goodreads for short reviews and to remember what I've read. I'm getting old so memory is not what it was. But I've got something that I call the 'Ridiculous Reading List', which is an Excel Spreadsheet, built over a couple of years. It started off from the 1000 Novels List in a Guardian article, but I added poetry, drama and Non-Fiction so it now has 3335 books on it, of which I've read - so far - 343 (although I've not counted every book I've read off of the list because I read a chunk of them before I was 18.) It's an utterly insane list - especially as I added publication dates and page counts (approx) for them all but I like it as a goal. It's probably impossible to read them all. And, in some cases difficult to get hold of copies. For example I added a small 'Great Dutch Books' list to it as I was supposed to be coming to the Netherlands in June 2020 but obviously couldn't and I can't find an English translation of Thomas Rosenboom's Publicke Werken. It's like tilting at literary windmills. Apologies for the long comment.
please do a goodreads alternatives!! it would be so helpful!! :D
This video planted some ideas for me 👀
I also use Notion to organise my TBR but mine is way more unnecessarily complicated than yours xD I organise my TBR by month and sort the books within the month by availability (do I own it, or is it ready to borrow or on hold at the library, etc), status (currently reading, to read immediately next, etc), how much I want to read it, genre and length. Then I also have different views to show books from different sources (owned physically or as ebooks, from library, Scribd, Netgalley, to purchase, etc), the ones I'm currently reading, audiobooks available right now, and a few others. My favourite view is the calendar that shows the covers of the books I've read on the days I finished them.
I use goodreads and an excel spreadsheet to track my reading! I like having my own digital tracker so I can customise it and add as many piecharts as I like :D
ohhhh piecharts!
Yes to pie charts. My spreadsheet has like eight of them. They are very satisfying to look at.
leo i noticed your waring book earrings and thought it was cute
I'm ao gonna get into the notion app
this video came at the perfect time because i just organized my iphone with the new update and now im on an organization kick
I love your Books page! Do you have a link to the template?
doing our best excellent job
Would you consider doing a guide on how you created your Notion pages because I am stuck and it doesn't look the way I want to?? How did you make the different trackers lie so neatly by each other instead of all being different pages???
Love it thank you
For creating a data base for all your books, instead of Goodreads, I would like to recommend 3 apps: my library, bookshelf, and handy library. It works the same way that goodreads.