Simplify Calendars, Checklists and Habits with Notion

It can be easy to think that a rigid and automated organization structure diminishes freedom and reduces time to a set of dull checkboxes. But what about those half hours wasted deciding what to watch, eat, where to go, and what to do? There needs to be freedom within our lives, but daily chores have a tendency to inefficiently sprawl and goals without implementation plans are sure to remain out of reach. Automating the many things that need to be done (but do not require much creative thought), frees up mental capacity, time, money, energy, and more [1, p 46]. The freedom of not needing to daily, hourly, or minute-ly reorganize thoughts is big because it frees up mental space and energy to engage in the activities themselves.

My Notion system is imbibed with my priorities and makes lower-level (yet time-consuming) considerations for me so I don’t have to worry about wasting my days through aimless wandering. I worry less about forgetting important to-do’s. I rest assured that I am not passively living out someone else’s vision for my life that I don’t care for.

Within my Notion I have two primary branches; action-oriented workspace and thought-oriented workspace. I have dedicated several posts to my zettelkasten, which is thought-oriented. I have documents and record-keeping pages, which are structured more like archives. This post/video is about my Action Zone systems, and how my small daily deeds fit into my organization program. I hope my system can provide some ideas for yours!

References:

[1] Clear, J. (2018). Atomic habits an Easy & proven way to build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. New York, NY: Avery, an imprint of the Penguin Random House LLC.