lol looks like everything i was trying to to build or buy a template for in one spot. thanks i’ve downloaded it. i like the simplicity and clean look of it
Thank you so much for downloading! I really appreciate your support and I’m thrilled you like the clean look! BTW I'd be incredibly grateful if you could share a short testimonial here: senja.io/p/notion-everything/r/zcl99a Your feedback will help other users make informed decisions and help me continue improving the template 🙏
Hi Craig! Thanks for checking. The system currently handles fairly sophisticated recurring schedules, like every Tuesday/Thursday patterns or first/last business days of the month. However, more intricate patterns like "second and fourth Tuesday of the month" aren't supported in the scheduling system yet. We're noting these kinds of requests for future enhancements, though! Would that be a no-go for you without it?
@@notioneverything I have my own custom "second brain" system I put in place and, as far as I can tell, notion has no way to handle those complex recurrences. It's the one area I can't figure out. Just curious if you had done something like it. The only thing I can think of to make this work is to parse out something into a third party processor and back into notion, but haven't messed with it yet. Everything else seems doable with formulas and automation in notion. A lot of calendar apps include this functionality as a drop down selector. I imagine notion could implement this, but perhaps it's not on their roadmap.
Hi Quentin, thank you for this great template. It's really worth the price. 👍 I downloaded the content calendar, too and I'm thinking about ordering the Finance template. How do I integrate them in the template in the best way? Thank you for your help.
Thank you Sandra! And thank you for the kind words! Well, you could simply favorite the three templates so you can access them easily from your sidebar in Notion. You could even place the two additional templates inside your Second Brain navigation page, in the "More" section for example. And if you're looking to integrate them even further, you could create relations between databases based on what you're trying to achieve. How would you like to integrate the different templates together?
Thank you Sandra! And thank you for the kind words! Well, you could simply favorite the three templates so you can access them easily from your sidebar in Notion. You could even place the two additional templates inside your Second Brain navigation page, in the "More" section for example. And if you're looking to integrate them even further, you could create relations between databases based on what you're trying to achieve. How would you like to integrate the different templates together?
@@notioneverything Hi Quentin, Thank you very much for your prompt reply. Thinking about the content calendar, it would be good if I could copy the databases to the dashboard of the databases of the 3.0 template to be able to connect them to the marketing area, for example. However, I'm not sure whether this is a good idea. 🫣 With the financial template, a connection to my goal dashboard would also be important to me in theory. Unfortunately, I don't know whether I'm just making a small mistake here or whether I simply don't have enough experience with Notion. Maybe it's all much simpler. Best regards Sandra
hey! thanks so much for these videos! I just recently saw your first one on how to build the 2nd brain template, and now comparing to this new version i see you added the knowledge hub. I still don't see the added valew of this over the area "resources". As i undersand, you simply add to resources anything related to knowledge from podcasts, books, academic papers, etc
Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you noticed the Knowledge Hub, but there's actually much more that's been added compared to the basic template from the first tutorial. The Knowledge Hub is indeed powerful - it allows you to store both personal notes and external resources (documents, websites, information) that you want to save for later. What makes it even more powerful is the Topics system, which helps you organize and retrieve information efficiently whenever you need it. The new version also includes several other powerful features like: - Goal tracking and management - Contact management - Productivity pages (like My Day) - Smart task prioritization - Time tracking capabilities And much more This template covers pretty much everything you need, now and in the future. I hope this helps you better understand the difference :) Let me know if you have any questions about any of these features. Happy to help
Thank you for this video and your clear explanation, I am probably getting your template today, and I was wondering if I translate the titles of each block (tasks, projects, etc.) into Spanish, would that affect the formulas, buttons or any other configuration? I can perfectly work on English if this makes it easier, I was just wondering, and also making sure I wasn't going to mess it up by translating the titles. I would also like to know if the progress forumula in the habit tracker could be adapted in case you have non-daily habits, otherwise it could demotivate you if you see you had 60% progress in "yoga session" because you didn't click it all days... and maybe the objective is to have 2 sessions in a week. Does this make sense? By the way, I just bought it!
Thank you for getting the template and for your questions, Ana! Let me give you more details: Regarding translation - you can absolutely translate everything in the template! You can freely translate all text, page titles, database names, and database properties without affecting any functionality. There's just one important exception: in the Tasks' database, be careful with the Status options names: you must keep the "Done" status name unchanged, as it's specifically used in formulas to calculate active tasks for areas. Changing this would break those calculations. Pro tip: Don't forget to also translate the database templates for Areas, Projects, and Topics. This way, whenever you create a new entry in these databases, the generated page will automatically be in your preferred language. Regarding the habit tracker - the current implementation in Second Brain is specifically designed as a daily habit tracker. At the moment, it doesn't support weekly completion goals or adjusted progress bars based on weekly targets. While this is an interesting feature request that could enhance the template's flexibility, it would require developing a more advanced system. I'll definitely consider this for a future update of the template! Hope this helps :)
Thanks for asking! The nice-looking summary uses Notion's style() function to create that clean code-like appearance. The basic format would be: .style("c", "b", "green") Where: - "c" gives it that code block look - "b" makes the text bold - "green" sets the text color The actual counting formula behind it is more complex as it's integrated with the whole system, but this styling approach will help you get that clean, modern look for your numbers! I hope this helps 😊
lol looks like everything i was trying to to build or buy a template for in one spot. thanks i’ve downloaded it. i like the simplicity and clean look of it
Thank you so much for downloading! I really appreciate your support and I’m thrilled you like the clean look!
BTW I'd be incredibly grateful if you could share a short testimonial here:
senja.io/p/notion-everything/r/zcl99a
Your feedback will help other users make informed decisions and help me continue improving the template 🙏
Thanks for this video ! Finally, someone that explain Notion clearly !
Thanks, Hugo! I'm glad you found the explanation helpful. Notion can be a bit overwhelming, but once you get the hang of it, it's a game changer!
3:35 quick note n drag
looks nice. have you figured out complex recurring yet, like every second and fourth Tuesday of the month?
Hi Craig! Thanks for checking. The system currently handles fairly sophisticated recurring schedules, like every Tuesday/Thursday patterns or first/last business days of the month.
However, more intricate patterns like "second and fourth Tuesday of the month" aren't supported in the scheduling system yet.
We're noting these kinds of requests for future enhancements, though! Would that be a no-go for you without it?
@@notioneverything I have my own custom "second brain" system I put in place and, as far as I can tell, notion has no way to handle those complex recurrences. It's the one area I can't figure out. Just curious if you had done something like it. The only thing I can think of to make this work is to parse out something into a third party processor and back into notion, but haven't messed with it yet. Everything else seems doable with formulas and automation in notion. A lot of calendar apps include this functionality as a drop down selector. I imagine notion could implement this, but perhaps it's not on their roadmap.
Hi Quentin, thank you for this great template. It's really worth the price. 👍 I downloaded the content calendar, too and I'm thinking about ordering the Finance template. How do I integrate them in the template in the best way?
Thank you for your help.
Thank you Sandra! And thank you for the kind words!
Well, you could simply favorite the three templates so you can access them easily from your sidebar in Notion. You could even place the two additional templates inside your Second Brain navigation page, in the "More" section for example.
And if you're looking to integrate them even further, you could create relations between databases based on what you're trying to achieve. How would you like to integrate the different templates together?
Thank you Sandra! And thank you for the kind words!
Well, you could simply favorite the three templates so you can access them easily from your sidebar in Notion. You could even place the two additional templates inside your Second Brain navigation page, in the "More" section for example.
And if you're looking to integrate them even further, you could create relations between databases based on what you're trying to achieve. How would you like to integrate the different templates together?
@@notioneverything Hi Quentin,
Thank you very much for your prompt reply.
Thinking about the content calendar, it would be good if I could copy the databases to the dashboard of the databases of the 3.0 template to be able to connect them to the marketing area, for example. However, I'm not sure whether this is a good idea. 🫣
With the financial template, a connection to my goal dashboard would also be important to me in theory. Unfortunately, I don't know whether I'm just making a small mistake here or whether I simply don't have enough experience with Notion. Maybe it's all much simpler.
Best regards
Sandra
hey! thanks so much for these videos! I just recently saw your first one on how to build the 2nd brain template, and now comparing to this new version i see you added the knowledge hub. I still don't see the added valew of this over the area "resources". As i undersand, you simply add to resources anything related to knowledge from podcasts, books, academic papers, etc
Thank you for your comment! I'm glad you noticed the Knowledge Hub, but there's actually much more that's been added compared to the basic template from the first tutorial.
The Knowledge Hub is indeed powerful - it allows you to store both personal notes and external resources (documents, websites, information) that you want to save for later. What makes it even more powerful is the Topics system, which helps you organize and retrieve information efficiently whenever you need it.
The new version also includes several other powerful features like:
- Goal tracking and management
- Contact management
- Productivity pages (like My Day)
- Smart task prioritization
- Time tracking capabilities
And much more
This template covers pretty much everything you need, now and in the future. I hope this helps you better understand the difference :)
Let me know if you have any questions about any of these features. Happy to help
Thank you for this video and your clear explanation, I am probably getting your template today, and I was wondering if I translate the titles of each block (tasks, projects, etc.) into Spanish, would that affect the formulas, buttons or any other configuration? I can perfectly work on English if this makes it easier, I was just wondering, and also making sure I wasn't going to mess it up by translating the titles.
I would also like to know if the progress forumula in the habit tracker could be adapted in case you have non-daily habits, otherwise it could demotivate you if you see you had 60% progress in "yoga session" because you didn't click it all days... and maybe the objective is to have 2 sessions in a week. Does this make sense?
By the way, I just bought it!
Thank you for getting the template and for your questions, Ana!
Let me give you more details:
Regarding translation - you can absolutely translate everything in the template! You can freely translate all text, page titles, database names, and database properties without affecting any functionality. There's just one important exception: in the Tasks' database, be careful with the Status options names: you must keep the "Done" status name unchanged, as it's specifically used in formulas to calculate active tasks for areas. Changing this would break those calculations.
Pro tip: Don't forget to also translate the database templates for Areas, Projects, and Topics. This way, whenever you create a new entry in these databases, the generated page will automatically be in your preferred language.
Regarding the habit tracker - the current implementation in Second Brain is specifically designed as a daily habit tracker. At the moment, it doesn't support weekly completion goals or adjusted progress bars based on weekly targets. While this is an interesting feature request that could enhance the template's flexibility, it would require developing a more advanced system. I'll definitely consider this for a future update of the template!
Hope this helps :)
What formula did you use to have such nice looking summary of number of taska/projects/notes assigned to the Area?
Thanks for asking! The nice-looking summary uses Notion's style() function to create that clean code-like appearance.
The basic format would be:
.style("c", "b", "green")
Where:
- "c" gives it that code block look
- "b" makes the text bold
- "green" sets the text color
The actual counting formula behind it is more complex as it's integrated with the whole system, but this styling approach will help you get that clean, modern look for your numbers!
I hope this helps 😊