This is the seventh entry in a series on my Notion architecture for various life management systems. To see the full series, please visit the home page, Productivity In Notion.
Lots of people have shared how to do "Daily Tracking" on Notion. You can do a quick search of "Daily Tracking in Notion" on YouTube and get a plethora of results.
My approach isn't terribly novel if I'm being honest. The mechanics of daily tracking are pretty straight forward, so it is really about what you want to track about each day, which is going to differ wildly from person to person.
Still, I wanted to provide my setup as a way to give ideas around what to track. Specifically, my daily tracking includes three main areas:
I'll cover each of the three of these and how they work!
Frankly, Notion cannot yet serve a metric-heavy approach to habits that I would like to have, similar to WeAchieve, because the numeric and visual components aren't there yet. That said, there are a few ways to setup something in Notion that does serve the main purposes of any habit tracker:
My setup for doing this is a basic tagging functionality where I have ~12 habits that I'd like to do each day. To add them to a day I simply open up that day and select the subset which I've done.
As you can tell, this makes it quite easy to check off different habits. I've found it easier than the alternative: a check-box based approach where there are 12 columns, one for each habit. That is because finding the habit I need to mark is a lot easier in this view. In addition, the color-coding I've done also helps (blue = health, orange = learning, purple = organized/clean, green = reduce vices).