🗓 Reflection Journal 2020
This template is intended for those seeking a journal/habit tracker hybrid in Notion, general personal dashboard inspiration, how to implement linked databases into template buttons or all of the above. Included is one habit tracker, a daily journal template button with simple linked database remote, journal prompts and my color coding system for mood tracking.
Let's get right into it. This is a tour of my January journal which I call a "check off" system. When every habit is checked off, a status formula returns a result. In order to store every checkoff day and journal entry, I created an archive that not only contains my activity but also provides something like a "heatmap" when I implement color coding to the page links.
The Header
The very top of my dashboard contains a linked view of habits (triggered by /link database) in the last week using → filer: is within → the past week.
The Daily Habit Tracker
I made a toggle to hide my main Daily Habit Tracker. It is used to update the weekly view up top and provides and straight forward archived list of habit checkoffs.
Properties included:
Emoji - I use this to give me another visual element for completion beyond the status formula. The rocket emoji is for complete and x is for incomplete.
Day of Week - select - Necessary for weekly view.
Progress - formula - returns straight forward if all checkboxes true, then complete result
Date
Daily Journal
I made a template button that sits snug under my habit tracker archive → configured to prompt daily reflections and has two linked database remotes for easy implementation of daily checkoffs. In my case, I have a mood tracker alonside my habit check. (This template doesn't include mood tracker but I do provide a link to the template inside)
Steps to creating a remote database input inside template button:
Go to → configure template button
Link desired database
Filter → day is today
*Remember that when archiving journal entries filter must change to → day is exact date
THe Journal Archive
At the bottom of my dashboard is a toggled journal archive. I've always wanted to implement a heatmap board for my mood. Notion does't allow me to fill in cells yet (bit annoying), but I managed a workaround for my heatmap dilemma. Like I mentioned before, I included a mood tracker in my daily checkoff but if you don't want to use that, this method is a lot more efficient.
Step 1: Make a color key. Here is mine → blue = neutral, green = good, red = bad, orange = tense, yellow = okay
Step 2: Turn every journal entry into a page if it isn't already.
Step 3: Change the color of the background.
Here is an example of the inside of one of my journal pages:
