My Notion Knowledge Hub: Remember Everything You Read with a Notion Second Brain

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks for supporting the channel. I'm really enjoying building this system in Notion, and sharing it in these videos: Let me know below how you organise and collect the content that inspires you, and make sure you subscribe to see more of these videos in your feed. Nice one!

[@little.dragon1246]

I just find you from Thomas Frank's notion that I love to watch. I organized my life with outlook and google calendar, my tasks, habit, and productivity that linked into Alexia that I sync them to Alexia.

[@kellyvanniekerk226]

Thank you for this. I have adhd and went through chemo a while ago and the brain fog is intense. Systems are my lifeline with neurodiversity and I have taken the whole day to hyperfocus on learning notion and building it along to your videos. It’s helped me take the next step into getting back into my life. Appreciate it so much.

[@BetterCreating]

So wonderful to read this and that the ideas here are helping people out! Keep up the good fight and great to have you in the BC Community! Welcome! 🙌☺️

[@natwillsmom]

I called BOI "All the Things" I am a teacher and I am always looking at ideas, lesson plans, resources, etc. I am also a mom and wife who looks up mom and wife things. This way I can put everything into one place and sort it out where it goes. Kind of like a library. I am able to use just one database for personal and educational and easily find what I need. I also love how you leave this open ended (rather than providing a template). It makes it easier for me to learn the system and then customize it for my needs. Thanks for "teaching me to fish".

[@Jaybearno]

I've watched a dozen Notion KMS/Zettelkasten videos and this was the first to really make it click. It's so easy to get tripped up in complexity when designing these, your's was very useful to see. Thanks!

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks pal - that’s great to hear: I stepped it up a notch recently too with some cool capture process: you might enjoy these videos too: Knowledge Capture system: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4LGl3d7fLWrers and Save To Notion: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZnWc2eAgcikbJY :)

[@maryshaw4399]

Thank you so much for this, Simon! I built my own version in Notion and have used it for the last week. With help from your videos I wrote and produced two new music tracks in time for an industry conference deadline. I’ve been procrastinating forever until now so this was a big breakthrough for me. Keep up the great work!

[@BetterCreating]

That’s great to read - so pleased it’s been helping you out and all the best with your projects!

[@ahmedabdelrahman9352]

have been watching your videos for a week now and the inspiration is just amazing!!!

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks so much!

[@sagarkhadka1724]

A system that changed my way of organizing things in a beautiful way. Best software for Knowledge gathering in your own way. Thanks to the team.

[@BetterCreating]

Totally agree - the customisation is what makes it for those who like that!

[@celticheartjules]

Another great video of yours that is full of so much value. I very much enjoy the pace of your Notion videos as I find that I can easily follow along and don’t feel overwhelmed. I have set up mine as a Commonplace Notebook for personal interests and a seperate one to capture ideas/inspiration for my 2 creative businesses. Much gratitude to you, Simon. 💫

[@BetterCreating]

Sounds great Jules and thanks for the feedback! :)

[@rebarcellini]

Loved this video and the idea of having a Bibliography of Inspiration. Now I think I'm going to experiment with using my resources database only for documents and the BOI for truly inspirational stuff. Thank you so much for the tutorial! It was incredibly helpful.

[@BetterCreating]

You are very welcome. Thanks so much for commenting: it’s really motivating to get the feedback. :)

[@ilinzrh]

I think i'm obsessed with your notion videos!! I love watching all your creative systems and I hope I can somewhat incorporate them into my own notion for productivity and achieving goals. Thank you for all the hard work you put into the videos!

[@BetterCreating]

Yay! Thank you! Great to read and thanks for being part of our BC community!

[@jeanwill69]

So happy to get my Bibliography of inspiration notion system working. Thank you, Simon, for sharing this high quality work with us. It adds great value to our life. J-François Montréal, Canada

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Jean-François, how's your bibliography of Inspiration going then? So pleased you've found it useful. How do you find maintaining it?

[@angelovantoorn942]

I’ve had notion for 2 years and hardly used it because I couldn’t make it work for me. Your videos really easily helped me understand how Notion works at a base level. I’m binge watching this series and having a lot of fun. Thank you so much

[@BetterCreating]

Love it! So great to read - yes once you get past the steep starter curve - it gets amazing! Make sure to check out my Notion from Scratch Build Series playlist if you haven’t yet!

[@Mrnai_]

Thank you, Simon! Looks like I finally have a clear vision on how to set up useful knowledge base)

[@BetterCreating]

I have a new video on this subject coming Friday (17th Dec) too so make sure to check that out! It gets better!

[@kucingizuru]

I love your systems. It is working very well for me. Thank you for the tutorial. God Bless!!

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks so much! Great to hear

[@rafaelup]

Great video. Thanks, this videos was very very useful!!

[@BetterCreating]

Great to hear and hope you enjoy building one. Please share with friends who might enjoy it too :)

[@johnnyhacking1460]

Great Video Content. I really enjoyed it! Keep it up!

[@BetterCreating]

Nice one - I will do! :)

[@alastairwhatley8241]

This is great Simon. Really useful and I'm going to try it!

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Alistair, great to hear and thanks for watching. It’s such a great tool - particularly to use for developing ideas around bigger projects i direct.

[@jonathanbrosio505]

Hey Simon, Loving your videos. Already building out my dashboard and seeing the benefits. I'm curious -- I'm having trouble finding the walkthrough where you create the "task inbox" where you add a task quickly, associate the project and then it goes into its respected task category (today, 7 days, etc). Is there a video that goes over that and if so, can you point me to which video it is? OR - I understand how to make a linked table, what filters would I need to apply to it?

[@BetterCreating]

Hey Jonathan, This is the first video build for my system. Making the main task and projects system. How to Manage Your Time Better: context is everything. ‘Build this Notion productivity system with me kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqHHdWmmeK2me7c ‘ There is a second video on the weekly review system that helps you manage projects and tasks without due dates here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnW1hX-umb6Ul9k

[@alfcnz]

13:32 what’s going on? 😳

[@HarmoActive]

Yes, those couple of seconds have reverberated with me, too. :P

[@DigitalBrooke]

Hi. AuDHD here. 7 notebooks. Kindle. Rocketbook notecards. And a multipotentialite. Aka. Imma hot mess. And the PATTERNS is critical. Started Obsidian but not much time. So here for the ride.

[@BetterCreating]

Welcome! I’ve noticed these ideas and systems have really worked for many of my viewers with ADHD. I think you’ll love the GTD system in Notion: check out my recent videos on building a Notion Second brain. 👍❤️

[@ArtofHacksCentral]

It would be nice if you could share that template in the description. Anyways great video 👍

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks for watching - yes - I’m working on a template for my full system at the moment that I want to make available. :)

[@digilocker]

Another cracking video Simon! Only issue I'm having is with the web clipper, none of them seem to be working for me at all today (extensions in any browser) will find my pages but not the databases. Tried about 3. Was just getting excited to start dropping all sorts in there as well! 😁

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks pal. How strange?! Chrome is the only place to use Save to Notion. Check out that recent video of mine - it’s by far the best one and o would think you can get that going. Otherwise reach out to Notion and ask? :)

[@digilocker]

@@BetterCreating thanks Simon, I use edge primarily but chrome extensions do normally work with it fine being a chromium browser. I do think I might have solved the issue though if anyone else comes across it. I use two account profiles for edge and having the extension installed on both instances seemed to caused the issue for some reason 🙂

[@leonardobrunetti2305]

Another Amazing video

[@BetterCreating]

Thanks again!

[@heathergray4880]

As much as i love notion, Obsidian works best for me due to being more secure, futureproof and owning my own notes

[@BetterCreating]

I should spend some more time exploring it I think. I know it’s great if you are knowledge / research focused. :)

[@ALinNZ2]

Very useful. Is BOI the same as your collection of Notebooks? Is it the same database?

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Alistair, it’s not the same database - I use the BOI for collecting links to references quickly and easily, rather than my own work & personal note taking. However - it would be super easy to link the two databases through a relation field if you so wanted. Thanks for watching and hope it helps 🙂

[@alfcnz]

Great videos and nice lighting! So, if I’m recapping correctly, BOI is for long term storage of interesting content while the reading list contains only what you plan to consume. But something on the reading list doesn’t necessarily belong to the BOI, although they share the same underlying database. Am I right? And the reason behind this is to be able to search the entire collection.

[@BetterCreating]

Yep, I’d say that was a fair reading of it! I like I can drop a quick link in the reading list I’m interested in but haven’t looked at, but also not mix it up with the collection of stuff that resonated with me and I’m keeping to reference in the future. That said - I might simplify it. :)

[@alfcnz]

@@BetterCreating it makes total sense. If you read it and deem it worth preserving, you can simply add the BOI tag, and that's it. Very clever! Anyhow, thanks for sharing! 😊

[@andrew_ret6978]

Hello Simon in my case i can't sent a link in my Bibliography from my phone and also from chrome with extention. I think the problem is on a problem to fint the database, both om methods (mobile,chrome) did't showing nothing from my database only the personal home and + New My Links Database. Can you help my with this problem. I'm a PhD student from Greece and i have found your notion videos very accurate and motivated. Thanks, Andrew

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Andrew - thanks for watching - there should be a search bar in the Notion tab on mobile where you can search for the page and see it pop up - click on where Home is listed and you'll see them pop up no?

[@andrew_ret6978]

@@BetterCreating I can sent from chrome(android) to notion but the problem is in database. my app doesn't shows database for example the Bibliography didn't recognize in addon aw database, actually is empty only my home page is showing

[@joramletlora8079]

The page on 'Knowledge Bank' is laggy.. All the other pages works fine, how does this come? I just worked with your template

[@BetterCreating]

Hi Joram, just picking up messages and comments now. That’s strange: perhaps it’s because it is a combined database that carries a lot of elements? However, I’ve not found this and not heard others having issues. Ultimately, there are times when Notion can be slower loading, I’m not sure there is much o can do to help fix it: but I will take a look at the template when I have some time to look at it...

[@little.dragon1246]

@Simon Do you have any notion temple with Google Drives on your website because I am looking for one that has Google sheet, Google Doc, Slide and Form include Budget Basically for Business? Thank you

[@BetterCreating]

Not at the moment. I’m working on new templates for budgeting and Collecting information and links online at moment. Can you explain more about what you mean by a template that has Google sheets etc? Thanks for the message. S

[@Mark4Jesus]

@13:30 what are these voices in my head?

[@BetterCreating]

Yeah - old video - weird glitch mistake! Ha!

[@ricardosendes776]

this one was rather confusing, it seems like an unorganized stash for all possible source materials, hopefully this makes sense as i watch newer videos

[@BetterCreating]

It is definitely a stash of everything you find valuable. The way it is organised to be searched is a) through the tags system to group material, b) the related project / content column where you can link references to the relevant project, c) whether it is something you’ve added to keep, or things you want to consume on a reading list. Hope that helps. I wouldn’t be putting everything ever into it! :)

[@ricardosendes776]

@@BetterCreating ill try to use it and adjust it as my needs start to differ, thank you for this amazing work and showing your system, so far your system is the one that resonated with me the most. Still working on watching your videos chronologically! ;)