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:

1. Go to → configure template button

2. Link desired database

3. 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:

COPY TEMPLATE