Is one of your “outs” for the new year procrastinating your work or falling behind on your goals? Do you want to lock in for 2025? Then your “in” for 2025 should be using Notion!
If you haven’t already heard about Notion, it’s an application made to maximize your productivity. People use it to take notes, manage projects, keep track of habits, or make to-do lists. It’s an online workspace where you can customize everything to suit your needs. So how can you start using it to organize your life?
Let’s break down how Aashna Sanghani created her school organization template as an example. To find other templates, you can explore Notion’s marketplace!
A school organization template
As you can see, she split the page by creating two columns, which you can find by clicking the add button, scrolling until you reach the “Advanced blocks” section, and then choosing the number of columns. Once it’s added, you can adjust where you want the split to be.
The “To-do’s” section of Aashna’s template showcases a table you can access by clicking the add button and scrolling until you reach the “Databases” section. This table can change to show either a table format or the board format, which is more of a vertical list.
Once created, you can add different types of information (in the picture to the right), like the status tags as seen in the template.
In her template, the clock in the top left corner is an embedded item. You can embed many different types of items into Notion, like Spotify songs and YouTube videos. For example, to embed a Spotify song, you simply copy the embed code for a song in Spotify, and paste it into the embed input field found in the “Embeds” section.
