This is the sixth 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.
I've always been fascinated by numbers and attempts to quantify things. I consider it innate to my personality, for better and for worse. As a kid I was utterly fascinated by the baseball stats in the newspaper each week, and I advanced to building Excel worksheets to track pretty much anything you can think of.
The concept of metrics was a huge part of WeAchieve, and is something I want to see improved within Notion. It is simply a little clunky to work with numeric data in Notion and lacks a bit of flexibility. And it certainly lacks a good way to visualize those numbers if you do get them!
That said, what I settled on for this system was to focus on monthly metrics. These do a fair job of balancing short-term and long-term.
These trends are still in the early phases, but ultimately will provide valuable in seeing how things change over time and motivating improvement. I have some benchmark for this: I've long used monthly running mileage to play some games to motivate myself. Whether the goal is to beat the prior month, beat the same month last year, do the largest total for the year, or hit an all-time high, there's always a target to go for once you have a few months of data.
So what metrics am I tracking each month? Here's the current list: