My Best Notion Habit Tracker Yet! How To Build Good Habits

[@BetterCreating]

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[@amrelqady9288]

Hi 👋 I'm in love with your templates, But here in Egypt we've a payment in foreign currencies limitation. Is there another method to get those templates? Thanks in advance ❤

[@LifeGameDesign]

I love how there is a yearly progress bar. I assume you thought of this already but I'll ask anyways. Is there a way that we can also have a weekly or monthly progress bar of all the habits for our week/month so we can shorten the feedback loop of achieving habit targets? Cheers Simon! Long time fan :D

[@danbrown1815]

The eisenhower matrix would be a great addition and the 7 habits continuum...eg tag tasks that are dependent/independent/sharpen saw.

[@apollotull2343]

Trying to automate the Day cration but everytime I click save it stays set for "repeat off". Anyone else ran into this and have a fix?

[@elisacordeiro4497]

Simon, I love this. I actually watched your previous habit tracker video and it inspired me to put my own spin on it, but what I've done is exactly what you've done on this video haha. I wanted a better control of the habit logs and I didn't want to log them directly in the habit page, also I needed an overview of which days I had done the habit. I also loved your setup because it could accommodate weekly habits and not just daily habits

[@BetterCreating]

Ah nice - great to read! Yeah - love this system! Perfect balance of power but not over complex :)

[@SIMplycoya]

@@BetterCreating I followed your previous habit tracker video as well and it's been great, but this new system is even better! I've been going over it in my head and I can't seem to figure out the formula to link total logged with the habit button action to update the concat report 🥺🥺

[@Doctor_CoRo]

How did you do it? I’ve been trying to find a way to relate the “total logged” but I can’t find it

[@elisacordeiro4497]

hm.. my total logged is a rollup. I have a habits database and a dates database and my habit button edits the dates database relating the specific habit that I did that day. In my habits database I have a rollup that sums all the days (related pages) that have been logged for that specific habit

[@luisamartinez4739]

Thanks again! You’re so great 🎉

[@Be1VEVO]

Is there a tutorial from Simon to this new days database? Didn’t find it

[@mmzlearning]

🚨10:35 You have to change that in your own language if Notion is not in English!!! It's best to write instructions about what should be there, in every language in which Notion is available. @Today (English) @Heute (German) @..

[@sandrinem.-z.6115]

Great video which allowed me to make a couple of interesting tweaks to my own setup, so thanks for sharing ! Would love to see the "Build a Chain" view form your Days database :)

[@zainabomar7574]

Just subscribed this whta I was looking for

[@BetterCreating]

Wohoo! Welcome to the channel :)

[@LukeMostert-j1q]

Hi @bettercreating I purchased your Simple Life OS yesterday and the habit buttons don't appear to be doing anything. I click them the message pops up that it reacted, but nothing changes on the logs themselves. Could you please let me know how to fix this? Thanks (I have not edited it and I tested the duplicate - experiencing the same problem)

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks for downloading! You should make sure you have created a new day in the Days database first with the database template with the name of that entry being @Today - that is what links the button. Best thing is to set the @Today template to repeat each day as an automatic repeat. :).

[@tousoldfriend]

Can someone help me understand please how to make square boxes to put things in? I mean like at 0:45 he has the 'Log & Journal' database inside a square boundary. I am new to Notion and can't figure it out.

[@BetterCreating]

It’s a / Callout block - just set it to default colour for this look. :)

[@josephlynch4615]

hey simon, loved this so much. Wondering how to adjust the system to have all habits measured in 90 day cycles across the year?

[@BetterCreating]

I would simply run them for a 3 month period linked to the year: easily done: just set start and end date. You could then potentially roll up the totals into a wider year report. :)

[@bostonwhisper2401]

Anyone else having a problem with the auto create day? I see the days record created, but its not adding the date and wont show up on the graph. If I manually add the date in the database they do show up

[@samsondawit]

same problem. Did you manage to fix it?

[@markusmaier8197]

@@samsondawit , I had the same issue as the automation seems not to be running for an automatically created entry, in the free version at least. But adding @Today in the Date field of the template does the trick.

[@stevenope909]

I have the paid version and cannot get the AUTO REPEAT to work on the Today view. The REPEAT stays in Off. Any help is appreciated.

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Steve, - yes - this seems to be a strange Notion bug with duplication recently. I've deleted the Template page for the database in the templates and recreated it. Please try either doing the same (delete the database template, create a new one and make the heading '@Today' (selecting the when duplicated option) You can also search Unsplash for 'White' to find the same cover for the template if you wish. Then try changing the repeat to daily and see if this works... let me know at [e-mail]. The alternative could be to duplicate a new copy to your workspace now I've done the above to the template. Thanks! Simon

[@stevenope909]

@@BetterCreating I sent you a message as requested. I duplicated the template and deleted the original. then set the Date field and renamed the duplicate to the original name and set the repeat. It seems to be working okay now. Thanks so much.

[@MarioSanchez-z8n]

can you share the template please?

[@st.stephen4438]

Hi Simon, A nice update to the Habit Tracker and a nice explanation video (though there is a little transmission glitch at 1:25). Anyway, I have a question about linking entries from the Journal directly into the Tracker (I'm referring to last year's Complete Life OS, but I'm guessing it may be in this year's version as well). I do my Daily Reflection first thing in the morning. There is a field for Mood where I can select how I feel at the beginning of the day. Later in the day when I go into the Tracker and select the current day to log habits and exercises, there is also a field for Mood. Would it be possible to link these two fields so what I add for my mood in the morning it's automatically added to the day in the Tracker? Or did you set this up intentionally with the idea that a person's mood could/would change during the day and thus allow that to be captured? Just curious.

[@onekeiway]

Hi Simon - I own the 2023 Life OS and wondering how to obtain an invite to the Discord so I can download the habit tracker template? Thanks in advance!

[@Rowan-l3i]

If you go on 2023 life os template, there should be an invite link in the template. I joined recently

[@onekeiway]

Thanks! I’ll go check out and see 👍🏾

[@YN-vu8bb]

Like your channel very much. can you explain how I can make this button by my own? I don’t get it

[@BetterCreating]

Ah wonderful thanks. Ah - the Notion buttons: tricky to explain in a comment; just checkout the Notion guide pages for more :) it basically relates a habit database to a days data database and then counts the number of relations in the habit database :)

[@Rachelo17]

How do you make the total logged roll up? Mine doesn't count the specific habits

[@BetterCreating]

I think I make a count of the days form the days database related to the habit (in the habit database), and then turn that into a report…

[@Rachelo17]

@@BetterCreating so I need to make a formula in the days database to count a habit and than in the habit database I should sum this number?

[@valentinemuloyi]

Amazing video, what software do yo use to make your vidoes and do you edit them yourself ? please help with this

[@Cristyclau]

I'm afraid I can't use this tutorial because I can't connect my logs in the "today" page to the logs in the Habit page :c

[@chidiwidi4148]

how do i clear out your entries? i’m a complete beginner and i bought your template

[@BetterCreating]

Ah yes - see instructions in the guide: BUT: go to the system databases page at the bottom, select the options you want to delete with the check box on right and press the delete button. :) Thanks for downloading! :)

[@chidiwidi4148]

cheers, my checkboxes seem to be on the left side, also can i delete using a shortcut? hopefully it won’t delete everything at once

[@chidiwidi4148]

i managed to delete it but the days with the yoga and meditation are still showing, should i just delete the days completely?

[@benjenkins2415]

Do we need to pay for Notion Plus to get the automation to work?

[@BetterCreating]

No it works I believe since I created it, but you can’t edit it or add your own. :)

[@benjenkins2415]

Thanks, Simon. Amazing work as always.

[@chidiwidi4148]

do i need to have days already logged with data for the line graph to show all other days?

[@BetterCreating]

To see empty days - yes - You will need to ensure there is a day entry for each day generated with no habits linked : they would show as 0 and on graph.

[@chidiwidi4148]

@@BetterCreating thank you for your response sir it means alot to me, lastly, what do you advise i do with the already logged days, as in the days that have passed by? do i delete each day everyday or does it refresh automatically where it just shows the current day/entries? because the logged days building up will make the document very long to scroll down to and navigate

[@foxy2348]

Goals for 2024: watch less habit optimizing videos

[@BetterCreating]

Haha - nice.

[@mmzlearning]

In der alten Version wird aufgebaut!

[@kaymann8007]

Pro-Tip: If you need a tutorial for it, it's too complicated to use.

[@BetterCreating]

A full guide is in the template, and I hope that the overview here will help with that. I’ll be sharing a full tutorial once this is part of. My larger second brain template. Thanks :)

[@Zoeee36]

Simple minded

[@VICEJAX]

so? leave that? if its how you are facing life then im sorry for you bro photoshop is hard to learn, so? every industry sodtware is so

[@chidiwidi4148]

how do i refresh the graph please? i cant see any button to refresh @BetterCreating

[@GabetasOreo]

When you hover on it you should see a refresh in the upper right corner