How to build: Digital Journal in Notion? (+ free template)

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to The Organized Notebook, we’re here to share discoveries and learnings on productivity and organization. In this video, we wanted to share how to make a journal in Notion.
Journaling has amazing benefits for personal growth as it allows us to reflect on our thoughts, emotions, and experiences. The process helps us gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, capture memories, and cultivate gratitude in our lives. While many people prefer to write in a physical journal, we think a digital journal is also a great tool because it offers convenience and the ability to access it from anywhere with an Internet connection. We hope this build-with-me video will help you get started with journalling online!
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✨Time Stamps✨
0:00 Intro
0:10 Create a new page
1:09 Plan the page layout
1:30 Create “My Journals” & “My Journal Entries” databases
3:07 Re-organize the “My Journals” database and add some journals
6:38 Add relationship between “My Journals” & “My Journal Entries” databases
7:52 Add journal entries and link with the corresponding journals
9:00 Create a default database template in the “My Journals” database
11:00 Apply the default template in the “My Journals” database
12:26 Sort your journal entries by date
13:00 Hide the database title for a cleaner look
13:30 Add a new journal entry
15:40 Learn how to adjust the default database template in the “My Journals” database
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[@joycea.7332]

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I've been watching several Notion videos already and as a beginner, it's so overwhelming and complicated until I found your video.

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for your comment! It is a great source of motivation for us to continue creating these tutorial videos.

[@buthainaali2108]

The only actual journal video out there, thanks!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you for your comment! Glad to hear our video helps !

[@nataliefoos32]

Thank you so much for this video and walking through everything so simply! I've been watching other videos for hours just trying to set up my notes journal with sections and all the other videos made everything so complex for what I wanted to do. You're the best!!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching and for supporting us! We are very happy to hear our tutorial video helps!

[@alexandernunley6108]

Awesome walkthrough! Simple, quick, and easy to understand. Looking forward to your other tutorials!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you! 😊 We’re glad it was helpful!

[@ronnie_kt]

I've never come across such a helpful notion video like this.Thank you very much

[@theorganizednotebook]

You're very welcome!

[@RetropunkAI]

This was exactly what I needed. Just bought a copy. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, keep going!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for your support and for watching our videos! We are very happy to hear you liked our template! 🤍

[@yambasketable]

thanks for the video. i was looking at inspiration how to set up journal with databases and i learnt something new today!

[@theorganizednotebook]

So glad it was helpful! Please stay tuned for more

[@anthonydoan4237]

love love love this template! im really new to using notion so i was wondering if you had a way creating different properties for different journals on the same page?

[@theorganizednotebook]

We’re glad to hear you’re enjoying our template! 😊 Notion makes it so that all databases entries must have the same properties. In this case it wouldn’t be possible to add different properties to different journals. Our suggestion would be that you could add more properties than you need and leave some empty depending on your needs or categorize the journals and create separate databases depending on what properties you want inside! Hope this helps and let us know if you have further questions!

[@anthonydoan4237]

@@theorganizednotebook honestly that would have made my life way easier LMAO. i took the hard route of making each notebook its own database and linked table 🤦‍♂

[@theorganizednotebook]

We did another workshop here on building a journal notebook from scratch! Please check it out : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHuzg2WlnLydp6M

[@user-ii5jh4et3d]

As many others have previously stated this is an excelent tutorial! Finally I started to make sense of Notion after several attempts watching other videos!!!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching! We are very happy to hear you found our tutorials helpful! 🤍

[@sonnyangelSid]

I loved your tutorial! It was easy to follow & I had everything put together in under an hour 😊

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching! We are very happy to hear you liked our tutorials! 🤍

[@thurein4753]

Thank you. This is awesome!!!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching! :)

[@fahadamour1101]

Thank you this video helped me out in multiple ways, I'm making my own template and it solved a lot of my other problems!!!

[@theorganizednotebook]

So glad to hear you found our video helpful. Stay tuned for more! 🤍

[@artyarttalks4854]

Great explanation! Thankyou for this.

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching! 🤍

[@gabs152]

Great way to separate journals into separate topics!

[@theorganizednotebook]

Yes, it's a useful way to organize journal topics!

[@user-nb9xs7mi1t]

Thanks a lot for the tutorial , I just started using notion and this was very useful ❤

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you for watching! We're glad it was useful, stay tuned for more!

[@nucence383]

Great video, easy to understand and follow!

[@theorganizednotebook]

We're glad to hear that it was easy to understand and follow! Thanks for watching our videos!

[@stutidhandhaniablueperidot8719]

THis wa sa very helpful tutorial. Thanks

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much! We are glad to hear you enjoyed our tutorial :)

[@Domjel1]

Thank you.

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you so much for watching! :)

[@SimonCancer-qv3vy]

Thanks

[@theorganizednotebook]

You're very welcome! We're glad it was helpful!

[@bacwirdmaljemand]

great

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you for watching!

[@erikferrada7535]

the filter does not work, as the new one does not appear.

[@theorganizednotebook]

Hi, thank you for your comment. As we'd love to help you out, would you please clarify where you had the issue with the filter function (whether it is in my Journals database or My Journal Entries database?). Please note "Filter" only functions when you apply the filter value and save for the current view.

[@theorganizednotebook]

For more information, please also find in Notion Guide: www.notion.so/help/views-filters-and-sorts

[@qwertyqart]

why not use tags instead of having separate journals.

[@theorganizednotebook]

Thank you for watching our videos! Using tags could also be a solution depending on your needs! In this case, we decided to go with separate journals in case that you would like to add specific journal related content inside of the journals database (For example - Reviews, Reflections, Resources). We also like to be able to click into a journal and see all entries instead of creating tabbed filters or linking to the filter. We hope this clarifies it!