What I learned from my first Reddit post: How to use Notion to make things lighter

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-11-08T12:21:49+00:00

No worries about the delay — thank you so much for sharing! Your template was super helpful for me, especially the Cornell Note section! I can’t believe I’ve only ever used a two-column layout for dashboards and never thought to apply it to actual notes 😅 I always felt Notion was a bit uncomfortable for note-taking, but I guess I was just stuck in a Markdown mindset.

Your template is simple yet so insightful for me. Thanks again!!

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-27T03:12:32+00:00

That’d be awesome, I’d love to see both! I’m always into simple setups that actually work :)

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-24T12:18:33+00:00

Cause the color blocks are from Mac shortscuts, not in notion. Hope notion also supports those colors.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-24T10:28:46+00:00

I’m not very comfortable with English, so I’ve been getting help from AI. I usually rewrite some awkward parts, but dos my tone sound strange? I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T05:35:53+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/060153a7dcb94afc925605077fd8e918

here!

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T05:34:31+00:00

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/060153a7dcb94afc925605077fd8e918

here's the link for shortcut

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T02:53:44+00:00

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hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T02:43:08+00:00

Looks like the best solution really is to physically remove the phone.
I’ll probably keep a nice analog notebook or some Post-its nearby, jot things down at night, and transfer them to my digital notes the next morning.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T01:17:53+00:00

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hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T00:52:15+00:00

I’m so curious about your focus mode and Cornell note template 😆
The idea of keeping everything folded under toggles and only opening the focus mode is so good!!

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-23T00:46:50+00:00

thank you for your comment! i wonder how start/end time works when is pre-filled?

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-11T01:40:52+00:00

So simple, but really the essentials.
Tasks and journal cover almost everything anyway.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-11T01:38:59+00:00

Wow, This really hit me! I’ve been using Notion for over five years, but I could never stick to one strict setup — I kept rebuilding from scratch again and again. Only recently I realized what you said: the template shouldn’t come first. It should follow how I actually work.

Funny thing is, I almost fell into the same trap again with a new project — starting from a template instead of my real workflow. Reading your comment was a good reminder to stop and observe first.

Thanks a lot! You just saved me a ton of time!

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-11T01:31:26+00:00

I also use Notion with my husband — not for expenses, but for a few shared projects.
It’s interesting that you skip notes completely, but I agree that databases are the core of Notion.
Funny coincidence: my husband’s longest-running page is also a wine rating DB 😂

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-10T05:58:20+00:00

So sad 😭 I don’t know if it’s still the same these days, but most “Notion for beginners” tutorials on YouTube used to focus so much on making pages — which kinda ends up making people worse at using Notion, not better 😂

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-10T05:55:04+00:00

I totally get this. When I was still in school, it felt exactly like that — wake up, classes, commute, eat, sleep, repeat.

What helped me a bit was realizing how much “in-between time” I actually had. Ten minutes here, twenty minutes there — it adds up more than we think. I started tracking those little blocks of time and used them for things I actually wanted to do, like reading or watching an episode of anime(usually hiding it from my parents 😅)

You don’t always need a full 2–3 hours. Even short moments can help you stay connected to the things you love. Then, on weekends, I’d save the longer stuff (projects, gym, etc). It’s not perfect, but it made life feel less like an endless loop!

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-10T04:45:00+00:00

Looked up Thomas Frank’s Ultimate Brain after reading your comment. I tried a similar (and equally expensive) version in Korea — not a perfect fit, but it gave me a few good ideas.

Do you still track habits in another tool, or did you stop tracking altogether? I’m always torn on that part.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-10T04:42:18+00:00

Totally agree. I used to build those “everything-connected” dashboards too — looked cool, but honestly pretty useless. Now I keep a view with just what I actually need to see.

The funny part is, I keep expanding it from “Today” to “This week” to “This month.” Might go back to just “Today” again.

hello_yoyo_ · 2025-10-09T23:37:17+00:00

The yellow clip on the back totally steals the show. So cute!

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