As I have just finished this, and was working on my major writing series project within the challenge, I will now simply drag and drop this whole NaNo project page into my main WIP project page, and therefore keep all the wordcounts and subpages created during NaNo. Project Example – my NaNoWriMo Project for this last month.This is not a story bible, but rather a one-page dashboard where my writer support systems are accessible, including links to writer reference resource pages, a writer journal, and pages which contain submission tracking databases and the like. Digital Writer’s Notebook – this is formed from a template collection (and includes links to more templates) for writers, shared originally by Rachel Scarlet, but since customised by myself.The page also links to my daily calendars etc, and to some planning pages. Importantly, the page shows how I have embedded a local weather app, and a writer’s quotes of the day to a sidebar column. Daily Dashboard – this needs further rejigging by me, as I no longer use the workflows found here.In Notion you can also use cover images from NASA or unsplash, or upload your own as I have done. Note that the header or cover images on my dashboards are personally designed by me. Life Wiki page – this is my top level dashboard, with links to my most important pages (these pages can also be “favourited” onto the Notion sidebar for easy access. I think of Notion as the system organiser for my life. In the gallery above I have screenshotted four of my many Notion pages. The personal subscription is fine for me, allowing for lots of resources. There are four tiers from a free tier (you may well run out of blocks on this one, being a writer), a personal subscription (which I am on), a team or an enterprise. Notion can be complicated to learn and setup, but there are a lot of free templates, and youtube videos to get you started. The template button feature allows me to create full pages (with sub-pages) and then set it up as a full template to be replicated at a click of a button. The tasklist, calendar options also allow me to be notified for task due dates. The webclipper works well for me in getting in webpages. Projects are, well, projects – so they have a set date, Areas are anything else that you have a longtime responsibility over (like your health or family, or being a writer, for instance), and Resources are where I collect all my reference documents or links on all subjects, as a categorised set of wiki pages. I run with Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain system of PARA – Projects, Areas, Resources and Archive. Most users start off by creating a personal dashboard of all the most important areas of life, creating an ultimate task list, and a few areas to collect notes within. The pages are sharable and allow for comments also, for work. Notes can be simple text blocks, checklists, toggles (to hide lots under) or embed google docs, PDFs or webpage links. The databases can be filtered and viewed in several formats – list view, datatable view, kanban board, calendar view or a gallery, all with tags, and filtered to projects. Notion.so combines everything you may get in Trello, Evernote, Airtable and Wikispaces. This means you will need to spend some time on learning what you can do, and what you like, before they will provide the overall productivity benefits. Note that the first two are complicated to get to grips with, but mostly because they are fully customisable. I’m always after the best productivity and self-care tools, but lately I’ve switched over to a few which really seem to be setting into stone for me for usefulness, so here they are, my top 6 productivity and self-care tools.
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