Productivity In Notion

Productivity With Notion

Designing the World's Best Productivity Engine inside the World's Best Productivity Software

By: Ben Mumma

I've chased for a while various systems to help juggle all the different aspects of life in a never-ending quest to, well, get better at it.

Among other things, that quest led me to spend two years founding my own company and our productivity platform, WeAchieve.

But for a host of reasons, I've been really impressed by Notion's capabilities to provide a best-in-class productivity system, if you design it!

Thus, this is my series explaining the design of that best-in-class productivity system in Notion! This will be broken up into many parts, but each will cover a core piece of the architecture and be relatively self-contained.

So keep an eye out here for updates:

Part 1: Notion Notion Notion!

A semi-brief overview of all the cool stuff that Notion enables you to do!

Part 2: Managing Projects In Notion

The core of my productivity system is "projects" which serve as a home for any self-contained thing that I am working on.

Part 3: My CRM

I've had designs for a personal lightweight CRM (relationship manager) for a while. With Notion, I've been able to build a simple and robust system that does everything I need!

Part 4: Tasks Tracker 1.0

Part 4b: Task Update: On To "Do Dates"

How I've built my own task management system to walk the line between chaos and over taskification!

Part 5: Notion Architecture: Memories

Notion as a Second Brain and my system for tracking memories large and small!

Part 6: Monthly Metrics

I use months as the center of tracking my progress in life across a number of dimensions. This is how I setup a monthly table to track various metrics over time.

Part 7: Daily Tracking in Notion

My daily tracker is a mix of three things that in the past would have required separate apps: habit tracking, mini journaling, and a picture of the day. Notion makes it seamless to combine all three of these into one simple flow!

Part 8: Topic Database

Topics act as a way to tie all of my writing (public and private) as well as content I read and projects into a single space. With the introduction of backlinks, this becomes quite powerful!

Part 9: Task Manager 3.0

I've revamped my task management again to create what I can humbly describe as THE BEST task manager I've seen in Notion!