#gloomstudies

A dashboard highlights the important things in your life, whether it's your events, your deadlines, or your to-dos. In Notion, we can create a dashboard that automatically updates every day. Here's what mine looks like.

Here’s the breakdown of what you see when you click the ‘today’ dropdown.

Next I'll talk about how I actually track my habits! I use databases in Notion to do this. Essentially, in my main page or dashboard, I have a dropdown which shows me what habits in my routine I need to do today, and what value they're filling in my life. These reset every day depending on which day it is. How do you set this up? I'll show you!

Create a new database page. I like to use the calendar for my habits. Once you create a new page on your database, go to the properties section. I have 3 properties: Do date (when I will do the habit), value (what bucket the habit fills in my life), and done? (a checkbox to click if I did the habit). I create this and repeat for whatever days that week I'd like to do the habit. On your main page, create a linked database, which is essentially a live copy of your database that updates the original and vice versa. I like to use the table view for my daily spread. Click Filter, and set the following:

This means habits that are scheduled for today that are not currently finished. If you like, you can create other views of the database that will let you see the habits you completed today. Habits that you don't finish will stay where they are, since we don't want them to overwhelm you the day after. Don't think about 'catching up' when it comes to habits! Just take them one day at a time.