3 Great Ways To Organise Your Reading (Notion, Reading journal & Goodreads)

[@sammalneito]

could you consider doing a video just about that notion-app and how you've made your layout etc? interesting!

[@kirahnewton7684]

That is exactly what I was thinking, I would live to see that because it is so beautiful and is probably so helpful.

[@camimvasquez]

Yes! That would be so useful because have no idea what I'm doing in it lol

[@kb-ih7ni]

I really hope Leonie does this, or makes her template available in the Notion library hahaha she basically made her own local GoodReads XD

[@sammalneito]

@@kb-ih7ni I made something like this and it's not really difficult but I have no idea how/where she got that reading bar status :(

[@kb-ih7ni]

@@sammalneito yeah that's the only thing i'm missing really.

[@sivaprakash1247]

Me: Gets inspired to create a journal. Also me: Creates a journal on how to organize the journal

[@TheBookLeo]

ahahaha love that

[@cjsextras]

Literally what I was doing while I watched this video lol

[@Doublehelix_]

@@cjsextras d..did you finish making notion journal? im a it late but BUT im trine make it now.. *sighs

[@flamingaish]

been there done that 😭

[@ravenquills92]

I would love to see a video on Goodreads alternatives! I’m using Storygraph in conjunction with Goodreads. I like Storygraph, but I find the search function a little clunky. I do love how you can tell them what tropes you love so that they can tailor your recommendations page better!!!

[@TheBookLeo]

i really want to try out storygraph as well!

[@chanyeolswife5235]

Have you checked booksloth?

[@ravenquills92]

찬열의 아내Chanyeol's Wife Oooh I haven’t, but I will now!!!

[@americanbookdragon]

@@chanyeolswife5235 Unfortunately booksloth isn't for nonfiction readers at all.

[@TheFloMachine]

@@americanbookdragon Nor for non-english speakers/readers, at least not one with a language that isn't well known like french or spanish are, they might be alright. But, as a norwegian, Booksloth doesn't work at all, they had very few of my books on the site.

[@Natali_Talis.Library]

I want to move to storygraph, so would love to see you try out Goodreads alternatives!

[@lauraevans6285]

Storygraoh is great, reccomend signing up to the beta if you havent already ❤📚

[@DanielCifer]

Never got into the habits of taking notes while reading but now that I saw this maybe I should start doing it. Sometimes I find it hard to recall a certain detail that I like from a book while talking to someone about it since I never noted anything down.

[@soulgalaxywolf1024]

I started using Notion and a reading journal very recently. I wanted to start writing notes about the books I read, so I could write reviews, remember the books I read, understand what I like and why, and note the technical and plot stuff. I'm a writer, so I want to be more aware of how others write their books. I'm doing hybrid notes, too, because the notes I take are long (reader and writer), and I don't want to fill up a notebook with just my notes for one book. I imagine I would prefer writing overviews for my physical reading journal like you do while writing more extensively in the Notion app. It also helps to have a phone instead of a journal while I'm taking notes since I just have to use one hand and I don't have many places to put down my notebook comfortably. I like the way your notion reading than mine. I think I'm going to rearrange things a bit. Also, I'm new to Notion, so I don't know everything I could do on there yet. I also plan on snagging that spread you use in your reading journal for my own. I'm a chaotic note-taker, and would like to have many different ways of putting stuff down, lol. great video :3c

[@americanbookdragon]

I think everyone is jumping ship from goodreads to Storygraph. It's still in beta, so it will be awesome when it will be done.

[@afomiatibebeselassie5882]

Definitely. The UI looks really neat and i hope they will also develop an app in the future

[@KaraToNihongo]

@@afomiatibebeselassie5882 on their instagram they show how to get the app! I have it on my phone~☆

[@afomiatibebeselassie5882]

@@KaraToNihongo ohhh yeah it worked. Thanks

[@rachaels7893]

I love knowing stuff like this too! I have three ways as well. 1. I use Goodreads (currently swapping to Storygraph) just to mark books as read and have a public list of everything I've finished. 2. I have a yearly books read spreadsheet, and a wishlist spreadsheet. 3. I have two notebooks, one for fiction one for non-fiction. I make notes on the books, jot down quotes and capture my feelings. Don't use that for every single book, just ones that I had things to say about. That's why I still use a digital tracker for all read books. Notion looks awesome. Now I'm going to download it and spend ages setting it up instead of actually reading 😂

[@TheBookLeo]

the amount of time i've spend setting up my notion is ungodly

[@kittyact180]

I also LOVE seeing how people organize! It's an interesting way to see how people process information aannnnnnddd if you did a bullet journal video I would 100% watch it!

[@romycullen17]

do you have a notion template? I love how simple yours is

[@bookishlandings4445]

Ooh yes goodreads alternatives! I started using thestorygraph a couple months ago and I'd be interested in hearing about other ones

[@NilaR93]

I use storygraph to track my reading now, the page is still in its beta phase, but it's so great and very inclusive, and gives recommendations based on moods as well as genres 🙌🏾 I'd love to see a video where you try it out!

[@cjsextras]

I’ve always really wanted to have a reading journal instead of my jumbled notebook mess and your reading journal is definitely giving me some ideas for how I can go about doing that. I might actually be able to start one next year! Thanks for the ideas and the great video overall💖

[@emaanrana4074]

I loved your reading journal!! It’s such a great idea and yours looks so pretty ✨ Also Ik you’re a booktuber but if you could I would love to watch a video where you show all your notion pages and how you set it up.

[@ReadingRia]

I use goodreads and my reading journal, people keep recommending storygraph but I’m too attached to the familiarity of goodreads 😅

[@queerpoetssociety_]

Yeah, the same thing happens with me 😀

[@jamison1D]

I'm trying to move away from goodreads so I've definitely been using a combination of notion and storygraph to organise my reading (it's so nice seeing storygraph love in the comments), i'd also be super keen in seeing a notion tour/set up vid if you were ever to consider filming something like that! it's so interesting to see how other's set theirs up in terms of aesthetic and functionality !!

[@iHanna]

I love that you've found a system that works for you, even if it's in 3 different places. I use Notion for all reading notes and adore how simple it is to add in data, rearange information and make lists based on different criteria. Kind regards from a fellow KZbinr! 🎉

[@TehBuggy]

I’d love to see you try the Goodreads alternatives! I’ve been so curious about them but haven’t taken the plunge yet.

[@abigase135]

try storygraph for a while, it's really good

[@MargaretPinard]

Love the Overall Book Stats spread header--really sparkles ✨🌌

[@julibaro575]

I love organization videos! I'm such a nerd hahahah I keep track of my reading in a lot of diferent ways. Notion seems a little bit too complicated for my taste, so I use Keep, the notes app from Google, which is very simple. There I have my currently reading, my Library TBR (books that I want to read and I know I can take from my local library), montly TBR's, a DNFs list, a list of all the books that I have read in the year, and a montly page tracker. My overall TBR is way too long, so I have it in a separate spreadsheet. I also have a very detailed spreadsheet for the books I've read in the year and lots of graphs. In my bullet journal, I have a page tracker, just because it looks beautiful, a list of the books I've read that month with some stats, and also separate pages for some reading projects and readathons. I use Goodreads just to upload my reviews. I write them on Keep when I finish the book, and a couple of weeks later I write the GR review. Yeah, that's a lot, I know.

[@wintersonnet]

Really thanks for this, I wasn't too happy with my Notion reading list and you inspired me on what to do to make it better.

[@RichardDominguezTheMagicIsReal]

a video on goodreads alternatives would be wonderful

[@KS-ks6wz]

Please do a flip-through of your reading journal 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@TheBookLeo]

i showed everything i have in this video! (it's not a very extensive reading journal yet haha)

[@KS-ks6wz]

The Book Leo oh... then can I hope that maybe someday this might be a future video..? 😬

[@TheBookishMom]

I just picked up a new reading journal to try to keep myself more organized!

[@powerpuff4ever]

Notion is such a strong fit for my personality - I’ve basically put my whole life in there at this point 😂 but I never really thought to organize my reading on it beyond just a general tbr so I’m coming away from this with a ton of ideas

[@lani6700]

I use excel, but I've been really loving thestorygraph recently! They have mood, tone, genre, pacing, and trigger filters which is just incredibly handy. Plus it just looks and functions so much nicer than Goodreads

[@TheBookLeo]

oh that sounds amazing!

[@rxzqq]

Please do a tutorial on the graphs you used for the counter and the layout you used for the how far it is in the month in notion. Sorry if you don’t understand. I’m trying my best to explain

[@AnniesBookNook]

I love this! I just use good reads right now but I want to make a journal to keep track of readathons especially

[@Stephanie-el2xh]

love your style as well as the organization tips! I am a Virgo Sun sign, and I appreciate practical things of course. Great videos!

[@TheLiteraryApothecary]

Girl, Whatever works for you, works for you! No judgement here :) I totally get using different methods - I use Goodreads, plus a spreadsheet from the Read Harder Challenge, plus a notebook of quotes from my reading as my reading journal. It sounds disorganized but it makes me feel much more organized than I used to be.

[@ofwavesandpages]

I only use Goodreads to keep track of my books (I've tried the new platforms that have been launched recently, but I'm so used to Goodreads, it was hard to change and create habits there), and I also have a recently-created Excel document with all the books I own, but I'm so sure I'll forget about it in a few weeks hahaha For personal use, I have a couple of journals, but I prefer Notion! I've been using it for around two years, and it's been great - I just love how everyone is starting to use it more too, and I can take inspo to decorate my pages :P

[@DannyHatcherTech]

Being a long time Notion user and digital nerd I would move all the paper journal into Notion and combine the databases using relations and have a gallery view for the page covers. I would also probably clip the books into Notion so I get all the info in there but that is me 😁

[@alinevitoria5604]

Your notion looks so good hahaha I always do a simple design but I wanna try something different now.

[@teanlit2949]

I'm so glad you put this vid together. It's great to see how other people keep themselves organized. I'm a reading journal kinda girl, I don't do too much with digital platforms. Thanks for sharing!

[@sil3nthunter1]

Leoni, you could use that tbr part by sticking sticky note to that place (each month new one). I do that in my notebooks, it also make that page "extraordinary:-)" with colours.

[@lyannastarkweather]

Thank you for showing us how you organize your reading. I just downloaded Notion a few days ago, so your video is super helpful to see what it can do. Right now I just use Goodreads and an Google Sheets spreadsheet to track my reading. No reading journal yet. I want to make one, but I don’t know what I want it to look like yet.

[@spastrana2392]

Would love to see a video of the Goodreads alternatives. Also a video on how you create/styled your Notion!

[@samsamuels8328]

Very useful video, thank you for that 👍 Realy liked the last way with the Notion app 👌 The Jewish new year just started yesterday, so I guess it's time to start orgnize my reading. (and my life in general 🤣)

[@aaaacarolina]

you're clearly reading my mind because I just started a reading journal two days ago and I need tips! Now I have them ahaha

[@OnTheMiddleShelf]

You just blew my mind with that Notion app!! Definitely going to be looking into that.

[@bu3asalli]

For tracking my reading progress, I'm using Red Gregory's template, I added a visual progress bar using a tutorial by Productivity Corner.

[@ashleyschnepf2631]

Wow! I have never heard of Notion! Feeling super inspired now!!

[@dsoquist]

Both you and Daniel Greene have mentioned the downsides of goodreads (incidentally I found out about you from the time you went on his channel, and I’ve been following you since). Right now I’m keeping a list of all the books I own in a note on my phone, and another list of all the books I’ve actually read in another note, but this video has piqued my interest, so I would like a video on goodreads alternatives.

[@1dsuperlover]

You have no idea how excited you got me about Notion👀 I need it. Now.

[@gabyflores6344]

I use goodreads just to keep track of the book I’m currently reading and my yearly reading goal. I use the app Book Buddy to log all my books (read/unread, finished, library rentals, wish list, books I own, etc) and I made an excel sheet too. I have my own reading notebook that I use to write all my thoughts and feelings, but it’s def not as pretty as yours haha

[@stephen456]

That journal is incredible. Absolutely incredible.

[@SkylerReads]

I'm obsessed with videos like this!

[@hay_bail1]

On notion, how did you set up your progress bars?

[@jasminel7177]

it's a widget installed off of the site indify! just did it myself

[@orkiramaryllis8878]

is it free?

[@bu3asalli]

@@orkiramaryllis8878 yes

[@polly2900]

⭐️would love to see video on goodreads alternatives.

[@blacklabelz9]

I loved this video. I need to return back to bullet journaling. I fell off and I’m not sure if I should continue with my old journal or let my ocd kick and and buy new journal to start over. If anything that decision is going to make me procrastinate even more lol!

[@jwinkies3011]

I use goodreads and an excel spreadsheet to track my reading! I like having my own digital tracker so I can customise it and add as many piecharts as I like :D

[@TheBookLeo]

ohhhh piecharts!

[@lyannastarkweather]

Yes to pie charts. My spreadsheet has like eight of them. They are very satisfying to look at.

[@irenegrijalvotarres]

I also use Notion to organise my TBR but mine is way more unnecessarily complicated than yours xD I organise my TBR by month and sort the books within the month by availability (do I own it, or is it ready to borrow or on hold at the library, etc), status (currently reading, to read immediately next, etc), how much I want to read it, genre and length. Then I also have different views to show books from different sources (owned physically or as ebooks, from library, Scribd, Netgalley, to purchase, etc), the ones I'm currently reading, audiobooks available right now, and a few others. My favourite view is the calendar that shows the covers of the books I've read on the days I finished them.

[@thebookstamp9976]

Notion look so useful. I’m going to have to check it out. I would love to watch every booktubers version of this too!

[@joanamarques6184]

That video about trying goodreads alternatives sounds really good!!

[@sathvikareddy8229]

Your journal is so pretty!! I wish I weren't lazy to make one.

[@chanyeolswife5235]

For creating a data base for all your books, instead of Goodreads, I would like to recommend 3 apps: my library, bookshelf, and handy library. It works the same way that goodreads.

[@Lokster71]

I'm late to this but I use Goodreads for short reviews and to remember what I've read. I'm getting old so memory is not what it was. But I've got something that I call the 'Ridiculous Reading List', which is an Excel Spreadsheet, built over a couple of years. It started off from the 1000 Novels List in a Guardian article, but I added poetry, drama and Non-Fiction so it now has 3335 books on it, of which I've read - so far - 343 (although I've not counted every book I've read off of the list because I read a chunk of them before I was 18.) It's an utterly insane list - especially as I added publication dates and page counts (approx) for them all but I like it as a goal. It's probably impossible to read them all. And, in some cases difficult to get hold of copies. For example I added a small 'Great Dutch Books' list to it as I was supposed to be coming to the Netherlands in June 2020 but obviously couldn't and I can't find an English translation of Thomas Rosenboom's Publicke Werken. It's like tilting at literary windmills. Apologies for the long comment.

[@chibi_ahgase]

I woke up today thinking about how I want to organize my reading along side of using goodreads and your video pops up. This must be fate.

[@TheBookLeo]

fantastic!

[@disastart]

i really enjoyed the vid!! i'm a sucker for organization, spreadsheets and all that, and rn i'm v curious to try and get into using notion... i currently use a spreadsheet on google drive as well as goodreads to track my reading, but i'll probably change to the storygraph by the end of the year 😊😊

[@mrandisg]

New sub! Loved this video. It gave me a lot of great ideas! I've been thinking about setting up a reading journal this year, and this just gave me more motivation to do it! I also recently started using Notion, so the TBR kanban board is an awesome idea too! Thanks for sharing! 😊

[@brunm]

I feel the same, I love watching how other people organize their reading

[@brunm]

GIRL THE NOTIFICATIONS smh

[@lyndiemaydeles7260]

This is something that I need... thank you for this... love from Philippines

[@MargaretPinard]

Sounds like you're really making Notion work for YOU--always a good balance of power with the tech 😝

[@alexandrasstudio5308]

This was very good! Everything you do in the Notion app I do it in my bullet/reading journal. I should try this app!

[@reeyuhbeegale]

I use an excel file, which was originally created by another booktuber, later on I revised it to fit my needs and the things I want to keep track of when it comes to reading. :) But I'm going to try out the Notion also, sounds interesting!

[@peasalexandrowicz790]

This made me start my own reading journal!! Thank you! 😊

[@sunnys_journal2027]

you should try using StoryGraph (it's like goodreads, but better for sure)

[@sleepisfortheme3845]

Would you consider doing a guide on how you created your Notion pages because I am stuck and it doesn't look the way I want to?? How did you make the different trackers lie so neatly by each other instead of all being different pages???

[@flouee6513]

Nice video! Your Journal is lovely with drawings, my handwriting is so bad I have trouble reading my journal sometime lol. I love your handwriting and stickers in journal

[@bremcdonald]

Try web clipper and gallery view in the data base to create a digital library.

[@glacyneyla-booksmanga]

I love book organisation videos too, so thank you! 😘

[@malex__1891]

I'm in the middle of creating a whole bullet journal setup in Notion so I totally get the obsession 😅 For books I track my reading on Goodreads and I have a couple of very detailed Excel spreadsheets. Not sure yet if I'll do anything book related in Notion as I cannot get rid of my spreadsheets anyway (I like building up complex stats and charts 😁).

[@mattkean1128]

My chair I can't sit in because it's full of books seems to be working just fine, thank you. Think how great it will be stumbling upon those journals in 20-30 years, rather than having all those notes tucked away in some digital corner.

[@charleslyger2968]

I would love to see a video from you on Notion, looks really nice and organized! mine looks so dull hehe.

[@raeanncardoza684]

I was just using the notion template for the reading list but i dont love it, i would love for you to set up a template for us with the widgets etc. Do you think we could organize by emoji like a ghost emoji next to the ghosts story etc

[@purvipoojary1232]

Yes that's what I'm doing!! It looks pretty cool too.

[@tnan123]

Really helpful! Notion is great! I always tell myself to use it more for all my digital organization :)

[@ramirorojasortega4634]

The statistics on your reading journal was cute

[@janbabb]

Hi! do you think you could make this a template or perhaps make a small tutorial about how to do a similar layout? I really loved how you organized it and I'm new to notion and not completely sure how to use it correctly

[@sillyslicker1]

I would love to see you testing out alternatives to Goodreads! Please 😁

[@annika4446]

i am a new subscriber and i love your channel. i could listen to your accent forever!💕💕

[@mysteriouspsyche]

Yes! Try out goodreads alternatives! I’d love to see that!

[@readinglegend1155]

Thank you for talking about Notion i think the site/app will change things for me i was writing down things in separate notes on a notpad on my phone and it got confusing now with notion I will be able to type it once and have it on my PC and my phone.....which will be useful with my disability....

[@Abookandacup]

You convinced me to try notion, I'm struggling a bit on how to set the layout but slowly getting there haha

[@legomaster9190]

It took me like a half a day or close to a whole one to make everything look remotely nice. After that I was hooked for a while and then left Notion for a month or two, just now going back to it and making some new alterations to the layout. It seems to be a project that's never (or at least almost) complete! Still a fun application to use and if done properly, I guess it can help you keep on track with stuff and all!

[@Abookandacup]

@@legomaster9190 I tried on it too ... still experimenting cause I have not taken the time to update it 🤣

[@peculiaritea]

O mijn god ik ben echt een organisatiefreak (want chaotisch brein) en ik had nog nooit van Notion gehoord?! Ik moet eigenlijk studeren en nog wat werk doen maar ik ga echt NU Notion downloaden. Ben eergisteren begonnen met een project om m'n ongelezen boeken te lezen so this is perfect! I'm blaming you!

[@TheBookLeo]

ahh superleuk! hoop dat je wat aan notion hebt!

[@peculiaritea]

@@TheBookLeo Love it already! Het is wel ingewikkeld om erachter te komen waar alllllll die opties voor zijn, maar dat was die jongen gemaakt heeft die je linkt is echt GORGEOUS. Wou dat ik dat gewoon kon copy-pasten.

[@mushr8msqnb74]

can you make the notion reading list like a template? or just show how you did it?

[@felicityhemming9987]

Loved this video! Super interesting and thanks for all the tips! Was wondering if you could share your notion template for this with us - I'd love to create the progress bar but struggling with other templates I've found online and am not very good as programming it myself...

[@tanaybhomia2784]

Thank you for keeping it real...

[@shizayaaa]

I use goodreads but jeez they need to fix that up, at the moment i'm trying booksloth. Also, love the way you organize on notion, i need to learn to do this!

[@NeilBruder]

Loved seeing your book journal notes. It’s very simple but elegantly done. And it’ll be so nice in a few years to look back and read the little bullet points on the books you read in a certain month or year. Would it be as enjoyable to look back through a text file on your computer? I think not. :D

[@sophien9440]

Thank you for inspiration!

[@agnetebutk]

i've downloaded notion to my phone after i saw unjaded jade's video too. was hesitant, but your video has convinced me to use it :D Also, why don't you track books you're currently reading on goodreads? (i like that it converts how many pages you read to how much you've read I percentage)

[@TheBookLeo]

honestly just because i'm too lazy to update it lol

[@emmaphillips4881]

please do a goodreads alternatives!! it would be so helpful!! :D

[@midnightsnacks24]

a notion tour? pretty please? :)

[@sayingoodbye4]

Can you share your design of this reading notes on your notion?

[@annabellebrand9423]

omg pleaasse do a video on how you use notion for your life!!

[@rachellewiski5969]

this video came at the perfect time because i just organized my iphone with the new update and now im on an organization kick

[@Carla-ec7ze]

Great video !!! I hope this becomes a thing on booktube haha i wanna watch all the videos on how people organise their read and tbr books. I‘d love it if you made a video trying out goodreads alternatives. I think leena norms just made a video goodreads where she tries out a beta version of an alternative app...

[@TheBookLeo]

yes i also saw that video and really enjoyed it

[@supermario35327]

leo i noticed your waring book earrings and thought it was cute

[@MsBlulucky]

I use Goodreads, StoryGraph (still in beta but looks very promising), and WhatsApp. I have a WhatsApp group with my best friend and every time one of us finishes a book they will write a short review. So it's keeping track of what I've read, my opinions and I also get recommendations. Edit: and I also have a massive excel sheet for all the books I own, including editions, original title and even ISBNs... I'm a sucker for excel 😂

[@elflockswaim9326]

I wish I could try and replicate your notion layout because it has so many cool features I'd love to use!