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1. Welcome to the Class: A content creator currently producing content on
a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis for all of these social media
platforms and need a way to categorize everything
and not lose yourself in all of these thousands of files, you've come
to the right place. So in this notion class for
content creators right here, we're going to build
together on real time the notion system that I've
utilized and I've used for the past five years of
creating content and has completely streamlined my
content creation journey. Don't know me, my
name is Lambros. During the past five years,
I've been a creative. I've generated tens of millions of views with my content, and, of course, I've
produced countless of hours of videos. And you
know what that means. Countless of gigabytes of
footage and data to be stored. The day that I downloaded Notion and I started
interacting with it was the day that my content
creation process was completely streamlined and finally all I had to focus on was creating. In this course right
here, I'm demonstrating exactly the content
system that I use to categorize everything
inside of notion, and we're going to
be building yours again on real time together. At the end of this
course, you will have a notion workspace created and tailored to your content with a
content calendar, an awesome way to store all of the information
around your videos, titles, domnas, descriptions,
all that stuff, ways to categorize and store different ideas for
different projects that you may outside or in
parallel with your content. And finally, I'm going
to also introduce you the awesome
Finance tracker and habit tracker that I
have been using for more than five years now has
completely changed my life. On top of that, by
enrolling in this course, you will also get access to all of the different templates
that we're going to be using, so you don't need
to browse notes and marketplace, download them. You can just download them for free in the course right here. So I'm very happy
to have you here. Let's once and for
all streamline your content creation
journey with this awesome notion workspace that we're going to be
creating together, right? So I'm going to sing in the
first lesson of this course.
2. Understanding the Class Project: I'm very happy to have
you inside of the course. Welcome. And in this very
short first lesson right here, I'm just going to be delivering the class project
that you're called to complete by the
end of the course. So the class project of the
course involves you taking a screenshot of the notion workspace that you
have created, again, according to the
information that I delivered to you in
this cross right here, and let us know in the
class project description below what your
content is about. So let us know what
videos do you create and to who you target
your videos towards, right, your target Avatar. So I'm going to be personally reviewing every single one
of your class projects, and it's also a very cool way to connect with me as your
instructor, right? So enough with
this introduction, let's move into the
content of this class.
3. Notion 101: Quick Overview for Creators: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this lesson in which we're
going to be overviewing, we're going to be
doing a walk through around the general
interface of notion, as well as exploring some of the awesome templates
that you can find inside. Now, for future reference, I want you to know that every single page we're
going to be creating, every single, let's say, pillar we're going to be
structuring around notion can be also recreated
with templates, right? This is a common understanding. Notion is very cool
because you can actually download and source templates that other
people that are also experts have created. That being said, it's very very, very important for you
to know how to create some basic elements
inside of your pages without needing to rely on
templates because trust me, at some point in
your notion journey, you will be called
to create something that only you have
imagined, right, that you cannot source
from a template, so I want you by the end of the squares to be able
to do that, right? So enough with
this introduction, welcome to the first
lesson of the squares. Now, this right here is the, let's say, general homepage, you can see inside of Noon. So what do we see here?
We have the main screen, and on our left, we have this small
interaction menu. In interaction menu, we
have the search button, the notion AI button,
the home button, inbox, right, and then
our private pages. So here you can add every
single page that we create, right, will be added right here. Then we have our settings, our templates and trash
very, very simple. On top of that, you
can invite new members in your notion, let's say, page. So this right here is say,
my whole notion page. I can invite more
members to either view, edit, right, and
contribute to this page. And right here, we have more, again, options, we
have Notion email, and we can also explore
Notion calendar, which are separate applications. So we will not mess up with these for now. Now,
what do we see here? We can see that Notion actually wants us to create a new page. And once we press this button, I'm going to click
this button in just a second and show you what happens when you
create a new page. But for now, let's analyze even further
the homepage of Notion. So you can see
that, first of all, Notion calendar is a big thing, and we're going to
have a separate lesson on Notion calendar and how to utilize the power
of Notion calendar, right? So you can also connect Notion calendar to Google calendar to sync your events
across all platforms. And, of course, you can, of course, learn.
These are reads. Those are articles in which you can understand further
how to utilize notion. For example, you can learn here, the ultimate guide to
Notion templates or here how to customize
and style your content, right, and some of the
featured templates. Now, the whole point of notion is to create different pages, and these different
pages can also be recreated as templates. So let's see what
happens when we create a new page, right? If I click on New
page, you will see that this new page is created in my private page list
right here, right? Now, this new page right here, we can name it something. Let's name it Test one, right? And next to test one, you can see that
I can add icons, I can add covers, or I
can add some commons. For example, in the covers, you have some pre
existing covers that you can add,
which is very cool. And a common thing
in notion that we love to do for some
reason is to add icons. So let's add an icon right here, which are usually emojis. We can add, for example, the
emoji right here, right? You can see in here in
our private section, Test one, which is our first page is
indicated by this emoji. In general, I love to
add emojis to my pages. I usually don't add covers, actually, but I
always add emojis, so I can differentiate each
and every single one of my pages with emojis. Now, what are the abilities
that we can do here? The first thing is
that, again, notion, you can see that notion
this platform guides us to utilize very much
two of its features. The first one is Notion AI, which is so cool and so awesome. And we're going to be
utilizing the power of Notion AI because it's the
latest tool of the platform. You're going to see huge
difference when you learn how to use Notion AI, right?
And templates. Notion AI and templates
are the two things that this platform really wants
us to know and understand. And, of course, in this class, you will become a master of Notion AI and utilizing
Notion templates. On top of that, we can create different databases by
ourselves and different forms. But all of this can also
be done with Notion AI. Now, this is not a lesson in which we're going to be
diving deeper into Notion AI. This will be done
in next lessons. What I want to show you in
this session right here is the general overview of the
software and its features. All right, so this is how
you create new pages. Now, once you write
something a new page, you can write notes
and then below notes. It's just like Apple notes, for example, you
can write stuff. And once you press slash, right? You can either press
space to open the AI. This is how you access
notion AI, right, just by pressing space, or you can click on Slash. And once you click on Slash, you have the ability
to access all of these different
tools right here. All right, slash is the
one button that you will really be using
inside of notions. So let's see what we
can access with slash. First of all, you can
change, let's say, the font from basic
text to heading, right, heading one,
heading to heading three. You can add bulleted lists. You can add numbered lists, a to do list, right, a different page
inside of a page, which is something
that we will be utilizing a lot, right,
different quotes, tables, and all of these
can also be done with AI. So, for example, if I'm
here on test one, right? And I'm writing something,
I can click on space, open the AI and ask for AI to create a new page, for example. Right. Okay, I have a small
spelling mistake here. It's to create a
new page inside of Notion AI and ask for
more stuff around this. Now, we don't want
to do this for now. We were on the space part. So again, create a new page, callous text dividers, tables. We can use Notion
AI again through slash to continue
writing an article, ask question, ask about
this page, all that stuff. And of course, we can
import images, videos, audios, codes, files,
and web bookmarks. All of this we can also
do with different ways. So we can, for
example, drag and drop different images inside of
here in order to import them, but we can also do it this way. So click on image, and we
can either upload an image and beta link. Right,
all that stuff. So, these are the basic features that you need to know
inside of a page. We're going to be creating
lots of pages, and, of course, we're also going to be utilizing some templates. Now, how do we
utilize templates, and what are templates? So templates are of course, predesigned pages
from other people that we can directly download and apply to our
notion software. How do we access templates? Either access them from here. So inside of one of your pages, you can add a template
inside of your page or you can go to home, right, and scroll down
to future templates. Another way, of course, to
access templates is from here. So interaction menu on your
left, click on templates. And these are all of the
templates that you can utilize. Is the hub for all the
templates that you can utilize and add to
your notion workspace. Now, I want you to
remember one thing. Please, if you open this
template tab right here, you will be, again, you will see all of these
different templates. You will be absolutely amazed, just as I was, right, when I first learned about
all of these templates, and you want to, like,
download them all. Please do not download them all. Like, it's going to be
very overwhelming for you. And at the end of the
day, I do not want you to be overwhelmed
and have like 20 different templates
that don't know which template to use and
which template not to use. And suddenly, you're just
a productivity freak and you're not actually
being productive, right? You're just an
enthusiast, right? So what I want you to
do is to download, perhaps some templates
that you like, and I'm going to guide you,
of course, in downloading the correct templates and
just stick with them, right? I do not want you to
have decision fatigue just because you just have access to all of these
templates right here. So you can see that we
have so many templates, project timeline templates,
for example, right? You can have a project
and gold hub, right? Dates template, right?
All that stuff. And if you go back
to marketplace, you can see that we have
networking templates, right, finance templates,
project roadmap templates. And if we type on YouTube, you will actually
see that we have lots of YouTube
templates, right? A YouTube video script creator, right, or a YouTube
video script basic. Let's see if they have
thumbnail templates. I'm very curious. So
let's type thumbnail. Mm hmm. So video
YouTube checkld. We have a thumbnail designer. It's actually free.
So right here you can see the title of the template, the price of the template. This is a YouTube
script free template This is a YouTube
thumbnail free template. And if I click on it, right, you will see you
will get to view the template or
even download it. So, for example, this is the
thumbnail designer, right? Then if we view
the template, Oh, it actually redirects us to the website of this
person right here. So you can see that this is
the creator of template. And again, all many different people can
create templates. Of course, when you
download templds, you can see who the creator is. For example, Notion created
this template rate here, which is the simple
weekly to do list, right? And you can see also the
rating of the template. So this template is
rated 4.8, right? So many different
templates to work from. You can check out the
templates yourself. You can have Discover
work, life, and school. Those are like the
four big categories that Noon has categorized
its templates. And whenever a template
is created by Notion, you obviously know
that it's going to be of superior quality
will not have any bugs. It will just work perfectly. So this is work, right? We got live templates. So for example, entertainment, dating, wellness, nutrition,
website building, hobbies. This is a personal finance
tracker that you can use, for example, a habit
tracker, a journal, right? You can keep
journaling on notion, a gold timeline tracker, a journey optimizer, right, if you want to go on a new
journey, for example, right? And we got more templates
around work and around school. So in school here,
again, student life, student leaner, teaching,
class notes, all that stuff. So many, many templates, I will not go into too much detail here because you can imagine that we
have so many templates, we will never get done
with a thon rate here. But again, in this lesson, we did a small brief overview
of the homepage of notion. We did a small brief overview
again on the templates, where to source the templates, how to access the templates, and how to distinguish
between who created the template and potentially
the rating of the template, which reflects the quality
the template itself, right? And in the next
lesson of the scores, we're diving into creating our first page after, of course, the test page
created right here, which is going to be
the I page, right? So more information
about the I page in the next lesson
of the scores. And trust me, you're going to have fun creating the inpage.
4. The In-Basket: Organize & Prioritize Tasks: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
to the lesson in which we're going to be discussing
about the in basket. Now, again, the in basket is a concept discussed in
this book right here, which is called
Getting Things Done, the Art of Effortless
Productivity by David Allen. Now, when I read this
book for some reason, I paid huge attention. I underlined the key points, and I really managed to digest all of the concepts
inside of this book. Now, I would actually recommend you to check
this book out because it's a very valuable
book if you want to streamline any productive
process, really. But the biggest thing
that I took from this book was the so
called in basket, the ultimate way, right, to categorize different
tasks that will be inevitably right handed to you and delegate them in
the most correct way. And Notion is actually
an amazing tool to apply the in basket and
structure your in basket. Now, in this lesson right here, I'm going to show you not
only what the in basket is, and I'm not only going to help you understand the
concept of the in basket, but we're going
to be structuring your in basket together. So enough of this
introduction, let me show you exactly
what I'm talking about. So as you can see, what
we did here is that I created a very simple
page which I called in. This is the inn. You can
call it also the in basket. Is this how we spell
basket? I'm not sure. Anyways, let's add an icon, actually, and let's add
a basket icon, right? So this right here is
the so called in basket. Every single task
that you're handed, right, will go inside
of the in basket. And this is just
some information, some guidance to
help you understand what the in basket is. So in general, whatever item is handed to us and whatever
task we called to complete goes immediately
inside of the in basket without you needed to think
about it on the spot. So let's say that
you're on an airplane, you're on a taxi,
you're somewhere else, you're not on your setup,
right on your computer, and you have an idea, something that you
need to do, right? You do not keep it in your mind because whatever is in our mind, it's like, short memory storage. It's going to be deleted in some minutes, potentially
some seconds. So you immediately put it
inside of the in basket. All right? So these are the
so called captured items. Now, once we've captured
an item and once this item is inside
of the end basket, on a second time basis, we get to process
this item, right? So again, whenever we have something new
inside of the in basket, we just mention it, and then we get to process it when we have time to sit on
our computer, for example. And these are the questions
that we ask ourselves. Is this actionable? This is the first questions
you need to ask yourself. If it is actionable, all right? Then you move this item to
the next action folder, and we're going to be
creating all of these folders in the
station right here. If it's not actionable, right, we either add it to
our reference material or to the so called
someday maybe folder, right, or to the trash. If it's not actionable.
If it is actionable, we move it to the
next action folder. Now, if actionable, right, does it take less
than 2 minutes? So this captured item, can it be completed in
less than 2 minutes? If it can be completed
in less than 2 minutes, you need to do it
immediately, right? If it can't be completed
in less than 2 minutes, then you either
delegate it or defer it to its proper next
step here. All right. So let's delete this, and let me show you
how we're going to be structuring our in basket. So in order to do this, right, what we're
going to be doing is I'm going to be
clicking on Slash. And, of course, we can create
our Ibsket with notion AI, but for now, we are going to click on slash and
write the word table. So right here, we have a table, and we just created a new table. All right? In the first column, we're going to write
the word item, right? Because right here, we're
going to be mentioning all of the different items that we get delegate in our in basket. In the next column, we're going to note
the date, right? So when did this item occur? And all of the items will be occurring in again, every date. So for example, let's say that
today is March 10, right, and we have car repair, right? So March 10. Tomorrow, I might have a new
task, for example, right? So the tomorrow's task
will go below that, right? And the next column is going
to be the status, right? Now, the status can be
one of those three. It could either be unprocessed.
It could be deferred. Or it could be completed. These are the three
different statuses, right, that you could have. Now, this right here
is our in basket. Obviously, this is just again, this is just more
information for you to understand what's happening
inside of the in basket. But this is going to
be our in basket. From here, you can add
more colums right? And you can delete
them or from here, you can add more columns
dropping down, right? Now, of course, in order
for in basket to work, you need to have another folder, which is going to be
called reference. Another folder, the
someday maybe folder, and a trash folder. We already have a trash
folder right here. So let's go ahead and create
these two next folders. So two next folders is, again, the page Glc on page Enter, and I'm going to
write here reference. All right. And when I go back, you can see that right here. You can click again to go
back on the in basket. So here we can see our new page we've just created,
which is reference. And the next page I'm
going to be creating is the Sunday maybe page. So how do we do
this? Again, I click Below reference, click on slash. Again, page, so Enter
to end the page, and I paste Someday
maybe, right? So I can go back
again from here. Let me move grammatically
right here. So you can see I
have this go back button exactly as we have on the web so go back and
have the reference, someday maybe, and
we don't need to create a trash page
because we can directly move something
into trash, right? So do you want this
information right here? We can keep it or
we can delete it. This right here is
our in basket, right? So we have our item, our
date, and our status. So let's say that something new occurs in your in basket, right? Whenever you're on the
go, you're just going to be writing right here. So we're going to be
writing, for example, let's say that you need to send an email to client, right? This is a new thing that just
occurred to our in basket. Date, let's say it's going to be occurring tomorrow, right? For now, this is
unprocessed, right? So what's going to happen?
This is unprocessed. When I sit on my desk, right? To potentially do this, right? To send the email to the client, I remind myself that, okay, I need to send email to the client and it
is unprocessed. Does it take less
than 2 minutes? If it does, I'm going to
be doing it right now. If it doesn't? If it doesn't take
more than 2 minutes, then I get to either
delegate it or refer it. And this is how
you will be noting every single one of
your tasks down. Again, this is an
actionable thing, right? So we need to take action. But if it's not an actionable
thing, so for example, um, let's see what could
not be an acable thing. Someone hands me a map
map, handout sort, right? So someone just
literally hands me a map of the city, right? This obviously, he hands me this map
tomorrow, for example. This right here, it's
still unprocessed, right? Obviously, this map right here, I need to process it somehow
because it will always be in my in basket if I don't process it. So what do I do? I add this map to the
reference material, so I go ahead and I'm going to be pasting this
map right here. Like, obviously,
you get a point. Like, I'm just going
to paste the map here. I'm going to create a new page, which is going to
be, for example, let's say, city
resources, right? And in the city resources page, I'm going to add the
map that this again, friend of mine, for
example, gave me. And once this is done, I can either click
on Completed, right? So so I know my task completed, or I can just literally delete this and move it away
from my in basket, right? So this is the in basket. This is how I use in basket. And again, another
item, for example, that could be is thumbnail. Edit, right? So to
Edit Ethamo, right? And this occurred on, let's say, tomorrow, right? So any single task that you get to complete goes
to the end basket, and this is a way again for you to delegate your
different tasks. You do not need to keep things on your memory,
on your mind, right? You need to write things
down, and Notion is actually an amazing note
taking application. So a destination for you to note things down for you
to know when you sit down on your desk and
you have the time and you have the
energy to apply to the completion of
your tasks to know exactly how to navigate and
how to manage your tasks. So this, ladies and
gentlemen, was the basket. As I mentioned in the first
lesson of the scores, and we're done with
the basing overview, as I mentioned in the first
lesson of the scores, we're done with a basic
overview of Noon. And we also discussed
about the In basket, how to create this small
addition to your productivity. Now it's time to actually
install our calendar inside of our Non Workspace
calendar is going to be one of the most again, powerful features of notion
that we're going to be utilizing and we're going to do this in the next
lesson of the scores.
5. Build a Smart Content Calendar in Notion: Ladies and gentlemen, I
would like to welcome you to the third installment of
the scours in which we're going to be discussing
and we're going to be actually constructing and creating our calendar
inside of notion. Now, just do a small recap of what we've done
up until this point, we've set foundation by, again, doing a simple walk
through through the software. We discussed about the
different templates that you can download and where
to source them, right? The difference between
free paid templates and how to evaluate templates
based on the reviews. And then in the previous
session of the course, we created our in basket, which is just a
mechanism, if you will, a system on how
to sort new tasks that come again along your
journey as a creator. Now, it is time in
this session right here, create our calendar, which is going to
play a huge role and a very important role in this content creation
journey of ours. And on the way, of course, that we utilize notion. As a creative person myself, I do not like using so many different
apps for note taking, for planning, and, of
course, my calendar. That's why I keep everything
inside of notion. Let me show you this session
right here, of course, how to do it yourself, right? So this right here
is the interface of our in okay basket
that we created. We again, went through this process in the
previous lesson. So how will we
create a new page? How are we going to be
creating a new page and how are we going to be
adding the Calendar? To create a new page, you go to your Interaction menu right here and you click on this
button right here. Which is the creating
new page button. As you can see next to it, you have the
shortcut to do this. And this is command. So
by clicking Command and, you can create a new
page with a shortcut. For the sake of this video,
let me just click here, and you have your new page. Now, this new page, of course, we're going to be
naming calendar, right? Actually, with one L. I'm
very bad at spelling, right? And now it's time to actually create our calendar right
here. So how do we do this? On here, you can see it
says get started with, and you have the AI database
forms and templates. The first way to do this
is to source a calendar, already pre made calendar
from a template, but we don't want to do this
because it's very simple. Import a simple calendar
inside your notion page. We do this by clicking
these three dots right here and calendar. And just like that, we
created our calendar. Congratulations. So we
can also name it again, calendar, here you go. Now, in this calendar, you will see that we
have obviously the view of all of the different
dates, right? And it goes back. If you click on the
date, you can go back, for example, to see
previous months, right? Now you can see
that will also have the option to open
this in calendar. And what notion
refers to as calendar is a so called notion calendar. Now, the notion calendar is
a third party application. It's not actually a
third party application. It is developed by Notion, but it is another
application that you can download that will act
as an external calendar. What does this really mean? Is that Notion calendar pretty much connects
with your computer. It gives you notifications
to your computer. You can also connect Google, right Google calendar
with Notion calendar. You have everything integrated. So if you have people booking calls with you right on Google, and you want to transfer
this to notion, so you have the
same notifications automatically popping up
in your notion calendar. You can do this with
notion calendar. If you just want a
simple, very basic, easy to go calendar to mention your tasks
for the next day, notion calendar works perfectly, and I have been using this
for about 40 years now. It has never failed me. So very simple how we create new
projects and new tasks. Let's say that we
have something, for example, for
Wednesday, right? I create plus I press a plus
icon. I name it something. So let's say that I
have, for example, to shoot shoot YouTube. Alright? Video one. Oh, my God. I'm so bad at spelling. Shoot YouTube Video one.
You see the date here. You can also change the date to whenever you want. You
can set reminders. For example, remind
me one day before. Remind me two days before, remind me one week ago, or one week before, right? So you can obviously
set reminders to have, and they will also pop up as reminders on your phone, right? And you can also set
some tags, right? So, for example, you
can create tags. Let's say this is urgent. That's right here. We just
created an urgent tag. Or we can create another tag, which is time sensitive, right? Or we can create another
tag, for example, which says to delegate, right? These are different tags,
and you can use them. You can create as many
tags as you want, and you can use them
in your calendar. On top of that, you can add, of course, more properties. Properties meaning,
let's say, a URL. Let's say for this YouTube
Video suit right here, you want a resource
from a website. You can add it right here. Right? And you can paste
this link, for example. And now you have
this you would have this URL if you wanted to have more information
about the YouTubevide. So anything you
want to attach to this project you have in that day, you can
add it from here. So you can, again, add
dates, persons media files, so let's say if you want
to attach, for example, an image that's going to be helpful for your YouTube video. You can do this by attaching
it from here or a URL, a phone, an email, a formula, all
that stuff, right? You can do it from here. On top of that, you can connect like
Google Drive, you can see, you can connect Github, you can connect Figma, all
that stuff, right? On top of that, you can also, of course, start in every single event you
create on the calendar. You can create pages,
templates, images. So every single event you
create on your calendar in notion can act as a separate
category or separate page. So, for example, let's
say that you want to be very detailed about
this YouTube video shoot. You can have one page, which is going to
be, for example, the crew of the
YouTube video shoot, and you type things
down regarding the crew of your video shoot. And once you go again
back, I clicked on back. You can see we have our
page, which is the crew. And once I click it, I go to
the page which says crew. On top you can
mention, for example, let's say, you can
have another page, which is going to be
location info, right? So if I go back here again, you can see what have
crew location info regarding YouTube
shoot number one, which is urgent or
time sensitive, and it's going to be happening. You can see it right here on the 12th of the month, right? And as you can see, we
can also add icons. We love, like, adding icons. On Noon, everyone adds icons. I don't know why. I also
kind of enjoy adding icons on Noon, right? You can make it a full
page if you want, more information
about it and go back. So you can see that pretty much what Noon gives
us the ability to do, you can add icons also here. Let's add a carat. Right? So you can see that what
pretty much notion gives us the ability to do
with its calendar is to add in the event, right, that we add, we can
have them as new notion pages. So this event that we have on March 12 acts as a complete
a new notion page, and we can add as
much information as we want to each event. So we added, like, information about the crew information
about the location. We can add URL, we can add tags, um we can
add, of course, start time. So when does it start? It is a full date, right? Is it a full day
thing? It's not, for example, you get the points. So you can change
all of these things. And again, once
you create again, new event on Notion calendar, it will be automatically
synced with Google calendar so
you don't need to worry about happen what's happening inside first calendar
and the second calendar. If you connect both together
using Notion calendar, they will be sync. All right? This is how
I manage everything. And once you create
two or three events, let's say, for example, you
want to duplicate this event, you can right, click on it, and click on duplicate if this is a recurring
event, right? Or if this event will
take three days. You don't need to go
ahead and duplicate this again and slide it here and then duplicate it again
and slide it here. What you can do is you can drag it like this. So now
it's a three day event. It's not a one day event, right? It's different because these events we created. I'm sorry. So if I go ahead and
duplicate this two times, three times, right?
So here and here. These are one day event
that stick for three days, but this is a one,
three day event, if this makes sense,
and of course, we duplicated them so there's
not much to see here. I'm just showing you. All right? So that's what I like to do. You can not only do this
for YouTube content, obviously, you can do this with planning vacation, for example. Let's say that
you're staying from the 12th to the 15th in Greece. You could name this,
for example, Greece. Right? Greece, travel, right? Of course, change the
icon to Greece. Right. And you have more information about so where are
you going to stay, what you're going to
eat, cool restaurants. So whenever you want to
tap into this category, you just click on this and
you see what's happening. On top of that, if
you go up here, you can see that you can sort
based on the tags, right? You can sort based on the tags
of the event you created. That's why it's
important for you to add tags, which are cool, and it just help you navigate through the different
events of yours. Now, to end things
with the calendar, you can see that by
clicking plus here, you can add more stuff
next to your calendar. So as funny as it may sound, you can add another calendar
next to your calendar, which is a bit tricky. Apart dramatic and new calendar.
Let me just delete this. You can add more
stuff like a gallery, forms, lists, charts. What I do and what I
would advise you to do is just have at this
point of of course, just the in basket
and the calendar. And, of course, I want you to change the icon
of the calendar. Let's have a map or,
like, world, right? The world. That's better. So we have the in basket,
then we have the calendar. Now, up until this point,
again, we discussed, I think most of the things
that go down in the calendar, what happens inside
the calendar, how to create new events, how to tailor new
events, how to treat these new events as new pages. And now it is time Okay. So okay. So this concludes our lesson around
the calendar, right? We discussed some basic
features of Notion calendar. We could have gone
into more detail here, but I do not want to
overwhelm you with all the features inside of,
again, Notion calendar. What I want you to know is
how to create new events in every single day that
you have a new event, how to add more information
inside of these events. And by now, we have the in
basket completed, right? The in basket with all
of the information it sign up there and
the calendar view. So what is the next step here? The next step is to move into the second module of the
scores in which we're going to be discussing in further detail the creative part of notion, how to really
utilize the power of notion as a creative person. I'm going to be doing this by creating our first big category, which is going to be
the project category. So more information about this in the next lesson
of the scores.
6. Sort & Manage Projects Like a Pro: Come to the lesson in
which we're going to be categorizing and
organizing our project, right, our ideas
inside of notion. Now, for me, it's very
important to disclose, right, the fact that it's completely different to have
a folder, right, a special page for your YouTube
things with video ideas, family Ds, and all that
stuff and your projects. I really feel like every
single creator should have a separate
folder on notion or, in fact, in any, let's say, documentation application
that you use, right? And this folder should be
dedicated for his ideas, right? You will see that as a creative, as a creator, if
don't have already. You will be having multiple
ideas to develop, right, new digital products, new, let's say, software, a
website, and that stuff. And all of these
ideas should have a special place in notion
in order to nurture, right? Now, in my case, because I have
multiple ideas, right? I have multiple things,
multiple, I guess, businesses, right, and
products, digital products, and all that stuff,
I sort everything inside of my project
folder in notion. In this right here, I'm
going to show you how to create this project
folder, right? And I'm going to
be brainstorming with you on a one on one basis an idea of a digital product and how I would tackle
this if I were. So with a completely
blank canvas in notion, how it would go about
and create, let's say, the perfect project page for this idea of mine by using templates as well
as my original, let's say, content
ideas on notion. So universe for being here, let's open Notion. I'm going to show you
what I'm talking about. Right. So here we
are inside of Noon. And of course, in
the previous lesson we discussed about the calendar. So a til this point, we have the in basket with
information about, let's say, the new tasks that come in
Norway and our calendar. So now we're going to
create a new page, and we're going to name this
page projects, right? Ideas. Now, obviously, Stuff that
go in the basket can, of course, be delegated into the projects and ideas section. It really depends on if
they are actionable, right? So you can either add stuff into your in
basket and then to the projects and
ideas or directly to the project and
ideas section. It's good for you,
though, to have, again, a project
and ideas section. Let's add our icon. So what should we ad?
What should we add? Let's see. I think a crown
or a light bulb there. Projects and ideas, cool stuff. Now, for each project
and each idea of yours, right, you can have
a separate page. So how do we do this?
We click on slash. And on Slash, we click on page. So let's say now, right, that you want to create a
digital product, right? So let's say digital
product idea, right? Digital product
one, for example. Let's say that this digital
product is a let's see. Let's see. An eBook. You want to create digital
product ads and eBook. So how would I go with this? Obviously, right
here, we're going to plan everything regarding
our digital product. Now, you can start typing,
if you will, in typing, what's happening in the Ebook and who's going to
be referring to, who's the Ebook going
to be referring to in your target audience,
all that stuff. What I like to do before
I start creating all of these different
categories inside my ideas and my
digital products, I always like to browse
templates, right? So we can go on templates,
and we can browse these. So, for example, let's say, academic research,
destination guides, test prep, design portfolio, weekly planner, all that stuff. Let's go to work.
Right? Let's see if we find something in work. We have product, for
example, we have marketing. All of these are different
templates that we can utilize, right inside our ideas,
enterprise, teaching, right? Founders, engineering,
consulting agents, no profit, real estate, sales, startup would also be a category and we could check out design
freelance IT managers. So let's start, for example, with, let's see, product, right? Because again, we're creating
this digital product. It's ebook, so we would like
to check these out, right? So we got product and Strategy Team Hub, and
this is created by NSN. It has a 4.9 rating,
which is good. Product team in a
box, product roadmap. This could also be good, right? Analysis venture capital. We don't want this
product designer, right? So these are a bit
more, let's say, optimized, and they're
also not free. Alright, so we could do
the product roadmap, right? This is good. The product strategy
and Team Hub actually has a better rating, but let's see actually the
product roadmap, right? So you can see, again, Alright. Okay, so it like allocates what happens according to
time in your roadmap. Let's see, so we can see
different pages here. Okay, so this is after let's say our app
would be developed, our Ebook would be developed. Anyways, let's add it. It's completely
free. We can add it. And you can see that the
template is being added. It needs some minutes
before it's being added. Anyways, let's go back
to the marketplace now. Another thing we could
do, for example, right? Let's segue through these, we did product, right? So let's see more of them. Hm. Let's go and test
on work, right? Some more. So marketing, for example, right?
Content calendar. We will be using
this on our YouTube, marketing team in a box, right? Notions marketing Wiki,
right? That's also good. That's also good.
Let's move in to see something else that we could utilize in our digital product. Social media planner, we're
going to be using this on YouTube, project
product antraker. This is also good,
right? Let's see. So the loantraker is also good. This is something that
we could add, right? Let's see product product
marketing, right? Ecommerce product
manager. That's good. Right? Sales confidence survey, brands insights,
right? Let's see. Let's click on this. So keep
track of your launches and align cross functional teams at every stage of bringing
a product to users. This could also be, for example, something
that we could add. Now, you can browse and
marketplace yourself. You can see yourself different. Again, templates
that you can add. In general, what I like to do is I always like to have a page. So I create pages inside of
my projects and my ideas. So I always create one page
for brainstorming. All right? That's like a non negotiable. A page for brainstorming.
And you just need to type. You don't need any
crazy template. If you want to create something,
you can click on slash. So you can click on space
and you can write the AI to describe something
for the AI to write if you can find
it as a template. But I always in my
projects create, again, a different page
for brainstorming. I always create a different
page for my target Avatar. All right? These are
non negotiables, and you should also
have these pages. A brainstorming,
a target avatar, you need a new page,
right, for marketing. That's also very,
very important. And you need a final new page for sales conversion
tracking. All right? These, of course, are
some pages that you want to have if you're going
to be selling your product, but these are the
more important, the most important
pages you have. What I like to do also is potentially create
a new page, right? Bear with me here in
which I'm going to title it, for example, templates. Let's go back to our project, and you can see that
I usually have like my templates Gill
see what this is. Okay. Okay, so all
of these, right? All of these right here are different
pages that we created, and we want to have them inside of our digital
product number one, which is debook So
what we do is that, again, I select all
of these pages. I drag them and drop them
inside of Digi Product one. So now if I click on
digital product one, you can see that all of
the pages are inside here. Now, another thing we
can do for example, you can see the product
roadmap is finally right here, next door projects
and our ideas. So I can take the
product roadmap and drag it inside
projects and ideas. Here's the product
roadmap, right? You can click this
again and drag it inside digital product one, which Dibook so this is
again, our product roadmap. We can have this being
the first page, right? So before you dive
into brainstorming and target out and
marketing and all that stuff and sales
conversion tracking, you have your product
roadmap, right? So if you click this,
you can access, again, the product roadb you can see, it's very
sophisticated. You can add stuff right here. You can also import open
things on calendar. You have a tutorial on how to use the product
roadmap, right? And again, different
tasks text by project, all of the tasks, you need to, of course, delete all these. And start with your own tasks,
you get the point, right? So there's a lot of things
that you can change here. Now, again, I do not want you to be overwhelmed
with these templates. Templates are cool.
They can be useful. You can utilize them
and all that stuff. But it's very easy for you to fall into the pitfall
of just you know, going through templates and trying to understand templates, and you're going to
lose a big amount of time and energy trying to
understand these templates, find one that works for
you and stick with it. In my case, you know,
whenever I create a roadmap, a product, I just keep
it very, very simple. I create all of these folders,
a brainstorming folder, target out our marketing
sales conversion, and potentially templates if I want to have more
templates, right? So templates or reference
material, for example. In the brainstorming folder, I just write as much stuff
as I want to brainstorm, again, regarding my idea. Again, do not be afraid to
write as Mu stuff as possible. You can use AI. Also
to summarize it. In the target avatar,
I mentioned, like, all of the details regarding the target avatar that's
going to be consuming the content or this
product in order for me to know exactly who I'm going to be targeting, right? In the marketing, again, What I like to do is that I like to take the
tencor problems of my target avatar and create video solutions for
these ten core problems, right, and utilize these
video solutions to funnel people to purchase
my eBook, right? So, for example, let's say
that my digital product is an eBook around, let's say, time efficient
workout plans for CEOs. So what I like to do is that in my target avatar set, I
like to say, for example, my target avatar is a CEO, and I write as much detail as possible regarding
my target Avatar. I do this with GBT. And then I brainstorm like the
ten core problems that my target avatar has. And in the marketing, what I
like to do is that I like to create video solutions to elaborate on these
ten core problems. Then I go ahead and create these video solutions on YouTube videos, right
as YouTube videos. And in these YouTube videos, this is how I market those digital products
that I create, and I've created multiple
digital products this way and sold them this way. Now there's a saying
that says that you cannot improve something
if you don't measure it. That's why it's very,
very important for you to track your sale to
track your convergence. How many people clicked
on the YouTube video? How many people viewed
the YouTube video? How many people moved from the YouTube video to the landing page of your digital product? How many people downloaded
the digital product, right? All of that stuff
you need to convert. And this is why you
always need to have a separate page in your
products and your ideas, right, regarding sales and conversion and how it is absorbed
by the market, if it is absorbed by
the market, right? So you need to test
all that stuff. What I would Again, suggest in this
case of yours is, again, do not get
overwhelmed with templates. There are so many
templates you can use. Pick one, have a
basic roadmap of your product or to help you
brainstorm your product. There are many templates
actually around brainstorming, which you can use and just
keep it very, very simple. So this is how I like to keep
my projects and my ideas. Again, this was a project,
for example, right? Ebook. Let's say that you
have another project now, give you a short example
before we're done. But I don't want to overwhelm you with
information here, right? Let's say that another
project of yours is, let's say, coaching, right? And it's yoga. Is yoga coaching. So what I would do in this case is that I would
create definitely a page around my
target Avatar, right? Absolutely. I need a page
for my target Avatar. I would probably also have a website if I'm doing yoga coaching for people
to find out about me. So I would have
another page would be website resources, right? So this actually would
be another page of mine. I would create
another page which would be email automations. And in this page,
I would write all of the emails that are,
you know, automated, and I would send to every single one of my clients that
enrolled into my coaching, so I know where to
find these emails. Again, I have a
coaching business, so I know the pages that you need to have
on Notion, right? Another page that I would
have would obviously be a page with my
clients, right? So here I would name every
single one of my client. For example, let's
say, one client of mine is Lambros right? Me. Okay. And inside my clients, you can see that
I created another page of one of my clients. And inside each
one of my clients, I usually have calls with my clients personally on
my coaching business. So I create another
page for each call. So let's say that's
call number one, uh on boarding, what
happens inside this call. So in this call happened X, Y, Z, Y, and I can share this
page with my clients. So this is what I usually do. If you have a coaching
business, this works perfectly. So again, what we
did, we created a yoga coaching page
in our projects, brainstorm our target
Aatar website resources, email automations, clients,
and finally, very, very important sales
Right, slash conversions. Very important to track your sales and track
your conversions. So you can see, and you can use, actually, your creative
ability, right, your creative advantage to brainstorm different
pages that you would like to have inside of each
and every project of yours. So this is just basically how easy we created
just two projects. The one is the eBook, and let's add a um I add emoji for eBook and an emoji
for our yoga. All right. Very important to add emojis. We do this in the notion world. We add Mojies in our projects
in our pages, right? So this is basically how you create new projects
and you create new ideas, and this is how I want
you to approach this. In general, I love, okay, I like templates. I like downloading stuff
and utilizing, you know, the creativity of other people
that have already spent, like, way more time and
energy than me, right? I notion designing
these templates, but it can be overwhelming, and decision fatigue is real when you're browsing
all of these templates. The best way to approach this is to just create your own pages, I think, and I really believe
that it's very simple. The approach that we follow
here it's just very simple and it's something that anyone can follow based on
your creativity. And when you create these pages, right, you get to understand what you want, what
you don't want, and you do not have anything
inside of your notion workspace that is potentially
not needed, right? Because it can lead
to decision fatigue. I've been running
my businesses for four years this way with notion, and everything just
works perfectly, right? So, now we're done with
the projects and ideas, and we've closed this chapter, it is time to move
into categorizing and analyzing our content,
our YouTube content. And that going to be happening in the next
dozen of the scores. So thank you're seeing
the next dozen.
7. Create a YouTube Hub: Organize Video Ideas: Of course as a content
creator as a creative, usually, our creative
hub is YouTube. I like to think of
YouTube as let's say the house of
all of my content. This is where the
content is produced and distributed primarily. And then secondarily, I can also redistribute
the content and convert the long form content
from YouTube into short form content to be distributed in short form
content consumption. Let's say, websites like, Okay, Instagram, Tik Tok, real
you at the point, right? But everything starts from
YouTube and everything originates by having
an organized again, content creation hub, if
you right? For YouTube. And for that, we can
definitely use Notion, and I have been using Notion. I'm going to show you exactly how to create the
different categories and different pages that you want inside of this hub that we're going to be
creating that will, of course, aid you into producing more content
and automating, if you will, systemizing the
process of content creation. Again, I've done
this multiple times. This is how I'm able to produce such big long form
content pieces every single day,
and it works, right. So let me show you exactly
what I'm talking about. So these right here, of course, our projects
and our ideas, and now it's time to
move and actually create a new page in our
private page right here. So from here, I
create a new page, and I'm going to call this page. Alright, YouTube, let's
say, YouTube Hub, right? So this is going
to be the hub for everything inside
our YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel, right,
involves analysis, right? And execution. Before execution, before pressing record,
before creating your content, you need analysis. And Analysis in the
YouTube channel really comes down into choosing the correct
Target avatar, choosing the correct
target audience. So of course, we're going to create a page inside
of YouTube hub, which is going to be
called Target audience. All right? It's extremely
important for you. Whenever you're creating
any content piece, this could be a digital product or this could be a
YouTube channel. You need to identify your target audience and more specifically
your target avatar. So inside this page right here, you get to mention all
of the information regarding your target
audience, right? So where do they
hang out online? What are their let's
say demographics, audience demographics,
and all of that. And the more you describe
your target audience, the better and
everything comes into play with the creation
of your target avatar. I've stressed the importance
of creating a target Avatar multiple
times in my courses, and I'm going into
huge detail in target Avatar creation in my content creation
master class, the six hour master
class with all of the information on again, how to get you from zero
to content creator, right? But we need also a new page inside of our target
audience page, which is going to be
called Target Avatar. Inside this Target Avatar page, I want you to mention as much detail as possible
regarding your target Odor. So you can use, again, GPT also to help you
with brainstorming, again, who your target Autor is. I want you to give them
a name, give them again, describe their everyday life
or one day from their life. So I really want you to describe the target
Audor here, right? So what is the first
page in our YouTube hub? It is our target audience. And again, inside,
we have information regarding our target
audience and, of course, a description
of our target Avatar. Now, there's a bit more here that it's very important
for you to understand. Inside our target
Avatar all right? Or potentially not inside the target outdoor page because this might get a bit
too overwhelming. But next to our target
Avatar, we need a new page, which is going to be called
the ten core problems, right? These right here are the ten biggest problems that
your target Avator faces, right, that of course are
related to your niche. So let's say that you want
to create a YouTube channel around vehicles around
cars, car reviews, right? A core problem of
your target outer, who's probably, like, a young
dude that just likes cars, is that he, for example, cannot have access to very limited premium cars
because he can't afford them. This could be one of
his ten core problems. So it's important. Bear with me here. It's
important to mention the ten core problems
of your target outer. Why? Because we're going
to be setting foundation, again, brainstorming
our target audience, brainstorming and
creating our target outer and understanding his ten core problems is the foundation that we're
going to be setting, right? For this page right here,
which is our next page, which, of course,
our video ideas. All right. Video Idas
slash brainstorming. Now, this page right here, used to be the biggest
struggle for me. I used to struggle very much
with content ideas, right? Every time I had
all this energy, all this fashion, and
I wanted to share it. I wanted to create
videos, right? I knew that I wanted to create, but I didn't know which
videos to create and what topic I should instruct, right, or I should
create a video on. And I had this personal
challenge of mine to create one video every
single week, right? And I did this for two years. Actually, I created weekly, posted weekly for two years, and every single week
was the same problem. I didn't know what
video to create. By using this framework
that I'm teaching you in this course right
here, all right? And by reverse engineering, the whole idea and
strategy of content, you will never run
out of video ideas. Because why we brainstorm
our target audience, we create our target avator, we brainstorm the ten core
problems of our target avatar. And then we create video solutions to these ten core
problems, and guess what? The ten core problems of your
target Aator aren't ten. There are 100, 300, 400, right? There are as many as
you can brainstorm. And with the power
of GPT and AI, you can brainstorm
as many problems as again, you can
imagine, right? Infinite problems you can brainstorm from
your target Aator. So we get to solve now these
problems with our videos. For example, let's put
this into perspective. Let's say that your
target audience, right, it's someone who wants
to create content, right? So target audience is aspiring
content creators, right? You create Target Davdar. What is his ten core problem? Let's say that a core problem
is that he can't right? Can't afford a
camera. All right? Or another of his core
problems could be shy to talk to the I'm so bad at
spelling to the camera, right? Or another core problem doesn't know how to edit. Right? These could be like three of the ten core problems
of your target Avatar. What do we do now we
copy these, right? Copy, go back to YouTube app, Video ID is brainstorming,
paste, right? Just like that. Paste. Next to each one of your core problems, your target Avars core problems, and these do not have to be ten. This could be 20,
30, 40, 50, right? You brainstorm the idea of the video solutions
you're going to be creating. For example, can't
afford a camera. What would be a good
video solution to this? Hm, let's see. How how
to create viral videos. It doesn't need to be that click Bay the title, but
you get the point. How to create viral videos
with your phone, right? How to create viral
video with your phone. You can brainstorm more
solutions to this problem. For example, kind
of for a camera is, let's say, again, core problem, how to create viral
videos with your phone. How or most value for money. Cameras for beginner
creators, right? Or I this is a bit more
recommended based title, how I got X result, for example, 1,000 views, 10,000 views with right? Normal input. This is another great
title, for example, how I got 1,000 or 10,000
views in this case, with again, my phone with only only my phone, right? And you just start brainstorming
and brainstorming and brainstorming
different title ideas, right, for this
again core problem. So again core problem
can afford a camera. You can see how creative
varias with your phone. Most value for money camera
for beginner creators, how I got 1,000
views only, right? With only my phone.
Change the color of the ten core problem
so you don't get confused here, okay? Let's move this here. Shy to talk to the camera. Let's see. Um, how to create faceless YouTube content, right? This is a good one. So I talked
to the camera number two, how to talk to a camera, right? Piece number three. So I talk the camera.
It could be like how to improve your your storytelling. And another more
click Baby title here could be, for example, I stopped paying for editing, and my channel went viral. How about this? There's a click Bay title
in which you could be like, I stopped paying
for editing because I improved my
storytelling skills, and my channel went viral. This is how I
managed to do this. You get the point. This is not a YouTube creation tutorial. I guess I'm showing you how I brainstorm ideas and how this
whole YouTube hub works. Right, doesn't know how
to edit, of course, like simple Final Cut
pro editing guides, how to edit for beginner
content creators. What are we achieving here with these video
solutions, right? We are achieving to
attract our target avatar. That's the most important
thing with every single one of these video
solutions that we provide, we tailor our content
to appeal exactly. The more videos we create, we tailor our content to appeal exactly to this singular person which is
our target outer, and this is how we attract
our target avatar. And guess what happens
when we attract someone that we
already have outline. Then we already have
attracted with intent. Then we can really tailor
our approach into also potentially monetize
this audience in a great way in which
they're both happy. Like our audience is
happy because they get value and we know exactly how to tailor and deliver
value to them, and you get happy
because you know exactly who you're
attracting, right? So in the YouTube hub, again, you have your target
audience, very important. The video ideas, brainstorming, and then of course, we
need a content calendar. And this is when you can
actually use a template. So if we go templates
here, right? You can see you can
type YouTube, right? Oh, my God. I'm so
bad at spelling here. YouTube. All right. And let's see which we could create. YouTube video script. In general, I do not
support scripting. I'm not a fan of scripting. I do not like scripting. I do not never When I coach
people on a one on one basis, I never tell them to
script their videos, and I don't want you to do this. The YouTube manager,
we could do this. We could absolutely add
the YouTube manager. Let's see. Video
production workspace. Okay, 4.7 rating. Let's use the YouTube
manager actually. We have this YouTube
con Creators checklist. I think the YouTube
manager would be better. Let's see what we got. Mm hmm. Okay. So I think it's
a bit overwhelming. I do not like I
do not like these overwhelming, these
overwhelming templates. I think they do not work for us. We get to work for them, right? YouTube OS. I think this could be good YouTube
operating system. A YouTube notion template
to organize your business. Okay, it's 129 bucks, so we do not want to spend so much in this right now.
Let's see another one. The YouTube creators checklist. So we have channel name, channel Link,
creating a channel. This is not that
this is not good. Let's see. Content. Content
calendar. That's better. Let's see if you
have some notions. Okay, so Notion has actually
some content calendars. This is good. Let's
click on this. So we have campaigns in
process. This is good. So you can definitely
have a content calendar. I just don't want
you to download something that is too
complicated here. Let's try it again. Content calendar. They like to make these templates.
Complicated. I'm not a huge fan
of this. Let's see. Let's see blog editorial
calendar, content planner. That's better Instagram
content planner. All right. I think
we could check this out. All right,
that's better. That's better. So you can also check the status of your videos and how they are integrated. Let's add, right? Let's add it. And we're waiting for it to
be added right here on our b. You can see this loading screen. This means that it's getting
installed in our hub, right? So once we're done with the video ideas and we brainstorm our target Avatar
and our target audience, let's see here's the
content calendar. Let's drag it inside here.
You have right here. The next step, obviously, after analysis is production. And if a social media
content calendar will help you with production, we can browse the content
calendar right here, right? If adding a template of a content planner will help you take action, right? Do so. If it won't and it
will just occupy space in your YouTube
hub, remove it. The simplest thing that you
can do if you don't even want to use a social media
planner is this. You go here, all right, or you click on slash, right, and you add a calendar. So let's go here. Call
divider translate called Gallery
calendar view, right? And we click on calendar view. And just like that, you added I don't know
if you got this, you added a whole calendar
in your YouTube hub. So this calendar is, again, integrated
inside of YouTube Hub. It is the same
calendar with this. So it's the same exact calendar, but you get to tweak staff. So this could be, for example,
your content calendar. You can see on the fifth, create new new or best value for money camera video, right? So you see, like, on the fifth of the month,
create this video. This is another way
to approach this. Or, of course, if we
remove this Okay, let's actually
delete the database. Yes. You can also, of course, use this calendar, right as your YouTube
hub content calendar. You get the point, right? Now, we mentioned how to
create YouTube hub in order to brainstorm
your target after and gather ideas and information
for your YouTube videos. After you taking action, right, which is the
most important thing, the next important thing is analyzing the
performance of your videos. And we haven't even
mentioned Tamils yet. Cause Tamils is going
to be another category and another workspace, right? It's very important for you to understand how to measure
the results of your videos. And once you measure
something, that's the only way that
you can improve it. So in the next lesson,
I'm going to show you how to create a new
folder in which we're going to be measuring the key
performance indicators of your videos so you can just tailor your content
for success, right? So I'm going to see you in
the next son of the squares.
8. Thumbnail Creation: Build Your Notion System: So, ladies and gentlemen, up until this point, we
have enriched, of course, created and enriched
the YouTube hub, right, with our video ideas. We took our target
Avatar, which, of course, we brainstorm, and we
created our target orient. We brainstorm the ten core problems of our target audience, and we converted these ten core problems into video ideas. This is how you will never
run out of video ideas again. Now, in these video
ideas, again, we managed to brainstorm all of these different
videos that we can create for our
YouTube channel inside of the YouTube hub. Now, it all comes down into
shooting these videos. But before we upload these
videos, a very special, very important, right,
and very special box that you should check
are the thumbnails. Now, the process
of designing and creating a thumbnail
isn't that hard. I actually have
many courses on how to create and design
thumbnails, right? I usually use Canva
personally for my thumbnails. What is kind of tough with
thumbnails is having, again, one certain location
somewhere in your computer, one, let's say, app, in which everything
is inside there. You can see all of
your thumbnails. You can collect all
of your thumbnails. You can compare all of
your thumbnails and also note down some key
performance indicators on how these
thumbnails performed. So this is what we're doing
in this video right here. So in this lesson, I'm going
to show you how to enrich the YouTube h by adding the
option of thumbnails, right. So being able to note
your thumbnails down, add your thumbnails in
every single one of these YouTube videos will be brainstorm to be created, right? So again, by the
end of this lesson, you will know exactly how to categorize your thumbnails in a way in which you will not
get lost cause trust me, you're going to be
creating lots of content, and every single
content piece has a thumbnail and the
worst feeling ever, and to be honest with you, like 100% transparency I've been guilty of this
mistake, right? I create a video. I
shoot a thumbnail. I load the thumbnail
with this video, and then I completely,
let's say, Do not categorize
this thumbnail. It's sherre in my computer, but I can never find it, right? So this ends here, let me show you how to end this
nightmare, okay? So here we are inside
of the YouTube hub, and you can see that if I click this button right
here, we are inside. And what we have up until this point, our target audience. In this case, of course, for the sake of this
demonstration here, it is aspiring
content creators and our video IDs slash
rainstorm Ming. So there are two ways to start
categorizing your thumals. The first one is to actually
create a new page, right, and name this page
thumbnils, right? We all need some sort of
thumnil sorting system. This is one option
that you can do. So how do we age how do we
categorize each thumbnail? We click on Video IDs and let's say that you want to produce
this video right here, right, how to create viral
videos with your phone. So you copy this, right? You go back to thumbnails
and you paste it right here. And this you select afterwards, and you can see from here, you can turn into page. So again, what did we do here? We select this, right? And we clicked on
these Redts here and these re dolts open this menu right here,
and you can press, click on turn into page, and now this is
turned into a page, which is the page of
this video, obviously. So what happens in this video? You can add your
script, for example, or you can have a script
as another page, right? So you can actually turn this into another page in which you can
click on the script, and now you can mention your
script right here, right? So this is the first
thing you can do. The second thing is
that, of course, you can create a new page and name this page,
thumbnails, right? So in this page, you
would note down all of the different thumbnails
of your video, right? But I do not like this
method right here. Why? Because it just adds too much traction into
the whole process. What I like to do is that I would like to go to video
IDs, brainstorming. And whenever, right, for each and every single
one of the tangle problems of my target After, you can see that I have
these video solutions, I immediately just turn these video solutions into
pages right here, right? So turn into page. Right? Okay, it also added it also created one
of the Dangre problems. It turned it into a
page. But now we can turn it actually into
a page by itself. I just moved it downwards, turn into page. So here it is. We have a new page, and
we're going to be creating a page for each and every
single one of our videos. So what you want to
add in this page are two, three things. The first one is title
variations, right? You want to test two
or three different titles for this video. So for example, how to create viral videos for your phone. This is the first title. I pasted it here, and below, I add how to shoot videos with your phone or how to go
viral with only your phone. You get the point. You
add title variations. Next, you want a new page, and which is going to
be the description? Description of the video. Now, you can obviously
create the description in the same page in which
you're going to be uploading the video in the YouTube,
let's say studio. But I think that it's better
for you to brainstorm everything in notion
and then just copy paste into YouTube.
That's the best thing. The next thing you can obviously
do is to add the script. And I'm not a huge
fan of scripting. I've said this multiple times. I do not like
scripting by videos. What I like to do is outline the process or
the flow of the videos. For example, start
with hook Alright, I can add, I can mention
three hook variations, right? Then 0.1, and you
mention your 0.1. After that, 0.2, and
you mention your 0.2. You get the point,
conclusion. Right? That's it. So this is how you
script your video, right? Finally, of course, the Tumble umbel or
thumbnails, right? You will have thumb A, Tamel B, Tubal C, right? There are many ways to add
your thumbnails here, right? The first way is that you can immediately drag and
drop your thumbi Let me drag and drop one, so you can see what
I'm talking about. This, for example, a thumb
of one of my videos, right? I can drag and drop it. Now, the Tamil is embedded
right here, right? It's not stored, it's embedded. So, for example, this is
like a thumbnail, right? You can see that it's
being uploaded in notion. Below each thumbnail, what
I like to do is that I like to paste the
notion link, right? So the link of the
notion page that I used to edit the
Samnil, right? So in this way, I have all of the thumbnail variations of each and every single
one of my videos. And I also have
the link again of the notion page that I used
to edit the Smil right here. So in this way, again,
you can both see the thumbnails and
you can immediately, let's say, identify them online, go ahead, tap in and
apply some changes. So let's say, for example,
for a future video of mine, I would
use the Sam nail. I would want to use
the Stumnil right, but change something change
very slight detail, right? This wouldn't be done
if I hadn't saved the Samnil somewhere
with the link of, of course, the Canva project that I used to edit this, right? So in this way, you know, again, YouTube have in the video
I is brainstorming, everything is just brought
together in an amazing way. So every single one
of your videos, as you can see, you will find in here all of
the information, right? So how to create viable
leaders with phone. Immediately, you have
different title of variations, different descriptions,
different scripts, right, the scripts, the
thumils, everything. So these are the elements
that your video should have. And I think that, in my opinion, this is the best
way to categorize these templates right here and these elements into
your YouTube channel. Now, regarding analyzing
key performance indicators and measuring the success, of course, of your thumbnails
and your YouTube videos, this is extremely
important, right? But the only reason why I
do not actually integrate, you know, some statistics and some video analytics in
notion, it's very simple. Videos are always
gaining traction. They're always gaining views. They're always growing, right? So I don't want, like, to have one snapshot of the success of my
video and notion, and then my video keeps
growing, for example, you need to be
constantly updating data if you're going to be
importing data in Notion. And that's something that
might actually cause, decision fatigue and you
do not want to be every day gathering data and
applying it to Notion, because you can just enter the data and analyze the data and view the data from YouTube. So there's no reason to start
storing data and storing data notion when you have them available
on YouTube analytics. So my take here is that you
shouldn't actually import data and key
performance indicators and thumbnail performance
and all that stuff. In notion simply because you can do this intrinsically
on YouTube. The other things you
can absolutely do and make sure to do this in every single video of
yours. So it's very simple. It took us just some minutes doing this less than 10 minutes, and I also demonstrated it,
so it just took more time. Again, tele variations,
description, script, thumbnails. That's it. Right.
This lesson right here concludes the creation
of the so called YouTube hub. It's just a simple way to
categorize your YouTube videos, your YouTube scripts,
your YouTube thumbnails and just again, bring some antidote to
chaos, if you will, in this YouTube life because
it can get again, really, really exhausting, trying
to figure out where to source all of these files and where you've
stored everything. And I just hate storing things
in folders. In my MacBook. I absolutely love
Noon to do that. Do not forget to add
your images, right? I'm going to see you in the next video in the
next dozen, again, of the scores in which we're
going to be discussing about the Finance tracker one of the best templates that you can download
right now into Nan. I'm going to show you how
it works, how I apply. It's actually the only
template that I've downloaded from Noson
and I every single day, I do not mess with any of
those other templates. I find them very,
again, complicated. But this one you will
absolutely love, right? So more information about this in the next
lesson of the course.
9. Track Income & Expenses in Notion: Ladies and gentlemen, I
would like to thank you, first of all, for sticking up until this point
of the scores. Trust me, this lesson right here includes
extremely, extremely, extremely important
data sets that I wish I knew when I was
starting out with my three creative businesses
that I've structured, again, with notion, and all
of the finances, all of the accounting
of all three of my again creative
businesses is done by this amazing template
that I'm going to show you. Again, as I mentioned in the conclusion of
the previous lesson, I do not like notion
templates that much. I like being creative, creating my own templates,
creating my own projects. But in this case, we need some more
advanced coding, let's say, inside of notion in order to be able to track
all of these finances. This, again, notion template right here really
saved me, right? And I mean saved because it's so easy to track your income, track your expenses, and
have, in general, again, an overview always with you of what is happening inside of your business
because trust me, I've said it multiple times and I've said it and I'm
going to say it again. If you don't track something,
you cannot improve it, and you can also not know if it's going
well or not, right? So you can see that with this finance tracker,
which of course, you can access also from
your phone wherever you are notion is also
available on mobile, you will see huge results, and it's just an amazing
way to also display your work and the income that you're generating
with your business. So let me show you
what I'm talking about and how to tweak
this finance tracker. So this right here is, again, the marketplace, the template marketplace with
all the templates. Now, if you search for income expenses or
Expense income tracker. This is what I
want you to search for expense income tracker. The first one is the
one we're looking for. I've tried many of them, many different variations, stuff created by Notion.
I didn't like them. This is the one that I
like and I use, right? I absolutely love. Let's try add it again. I've added it multiple times. You can see it. Every year,
I add a new one because I keep a yearly expense
income tracker. So this is it. Expense, income, tracker. What is the first thing we
do? We change the icon. Okay? And of course, it's going to be something money related. Let's Let's do the
stock going up, right? Ah, that's actually what
I use in my workspace. Okay, so how do we input
data in this workspace? So first of all, we have these This is like tutorial,
know how to use it. We do not want this, so
we can delete it, right? Now, what can we see here? We have the different months. So May, April, right,
we not want this. Just go ahead and do the exact
same things that I'm doing here in your income
and expense tracker. So again, May 23, April 2023, these
are not relevant, obviously, because
we don't have 2023. You can have a gallery view of the months or a table
view of the months. I prefer the table view,
personally, me, right? Let's still leave the two.
Now, these are false values. We do not generate this income. This is like for demonstrating
purposes, right? We do not know this. We haven't generated this. It's just pre added due to
the sake of demonstration. So how do we tweak the stuff? Whenever you have an expense or an earning, as
you can imagine, you click either this or this, two buttons, very simple. Add earning, add expense. So let's add an earning.
Let's say that we generated $10, right,
from our website. March. What do we
do? Continue, right? So right here, you write the name of your
earning, for example, website, sale, or new digital
product download, whatever. Now let's move to categories. Each earning of yours and each expense should be
categorized, right? And all of these are
different categories that you can have. Sales work. We do not want these
categories, right? They're kind of boring,
kind of boring. We do not want sales,
we not what works. What I do, for example,
is that I have a category called
passive, right? And you get to create this category in your case
because you don't have it. So create passive and
another category, which I call active, right? And we create active. And, of course, we change
the colors because this shouldn't be the
colors of earnings. Passive, blue, active, right? Let's change it to Blue, right? So green, blue. So let's say the website sale was
a passive earning. So, this means that I didn't
invest my time and energy directly for this earning.
We don't care about this. Amount earned, obviously, you mentioned how much you made, let's say, I made 100 bucks. You do not need to add dollars. It's going to be automatically
saved as dollars. You can see $100, right? The date, obviously, when did you made this? When did
you make this money? So it was, for example, March 6, right, six months 2025. And which month, again, you should add also
the month again here. So let's go ahead
and you can see we have two months at the
moment, April and May. We do not want these months. We're going to be deleting
them. Let's add March. And whenever you add a month,
if it's not there already, right, you can just create
this month, so March. If we click away, you will
see that we have this, which is called March 2025,
and we have a new sale. So again, this May 2023, right? We do not want it, so can
delete pages of May 2023, which can delete April 2023. So just go ahead and
delete everything else. Okay, not everything here. May everything that is
already pre registered, we delete because it will, of
course, ruin our data here. So April, May, we delete. And just like that, check how
neat and awesome this is. We just added our new earning, which is a website sale. You see it's passive, $100, March 6 on March, right? And you can see here again, automatically on our
table in our months, we have how much did we spend? How much did we earn
and our balance. You can see we have amount
earned 100, balance 100. Let's say that a month we had another sale, for
example, right? It was Skillshare. Revenue, right?
Skills or revenue. And we made $460. Oh, I'm sorry. This
is the category. Skills or revenue, it
was passive, right? Because I didn't
invest my time and energy directly
instructing these people. These people say that they consume courses that are
already on Skillshare. So it's passive. And by the way, you don't need to add, like, you know, the category
every time if it's passive, it's active, just a
suggestion of mine. So let's say we
made $470, right? And when we make it, we made it in March, right? March, and there we go. Click away, you will see
that we have another again, revenue in March, 470. And down here, you can see
March amount earned 570. So it just does the calculations here and gives you the earn
and the balance. Let's say that we have
an expense now, right? So add expense, continue, right? Let's say that we
have course, Editing. I sent the scores of
Kilsar to an editor, right when you have these
different categories. Let's, of course, delete them.
We do not care about food. We do not care about
subscriptions. All right. The editing was, for
example, business. Expense. This was a
business expense. For example, let's say. Oops, I didn't create it. Expense. Alright,
let's make this. Let's say, for example,
we're going to make business expense red. Business expense.
Okay. Amount spent. Let's see that we spend $50 for the ending of
the course, right? And again, you don't need
to add the dollar sign. It is automatically registered
when March 14 and again, in a month we select March. And if you click
away, you can see that right now in the
expenses, there you go. Business expense $50, and it's of course editing.
So now check this out. You have amount spent 50, amount earned 550, and
it did the calculation. So the balance is 520, right? So let's say that now the next
month comes, for example, and it's April and you want to register again your Skillshare. Revenue, right? So we go category,
passive, revenue. I'm bad at spelling.
Amount earned. Let's say we made $850
this month, right? When should change the date, obviously. So it's now April. Choose the date
which you registered the payment, April 17, right? And month, we
create a new month. So in order to
create a new month, you just type the
new month there, and it will suggest you to
create this new month, right? So click on April, and this month is
automatically created. So you are here again here, select month, April. Oh. No. We can delete the page trash. Okay, so here it is April
2025, Skillshare revenue 870. So again, we have March, and we will also
see April in a bit. This is how you use the
income and expense tracker. It is simple, it is
basic, and it works. This is why I absolutely love
this template right here. I've used it for many years. I've used it for my
personal finances. I've used it for three
of my businesses, right. So I have literally four different income
expense trackers, right, in which I register
every time that I have like an earning
or an expense. That I want to track, I always track it with this
income and expense tracker. And it's so cool because
most people track their income and expenses if they track their
income and expenses. They track them through notes like their note taking
up on the phone, and it's just a huge
pain in the *** to do without this amazing
template break here. Right? I'm very
happy you made it until the end of the
starting right here. And in the next lesson and the final installment of the
scores, I'm going to see, I'm going to show you another awesome template that
you can use, right? It's a habit tracker, which if used correctly, it will act as a
journal of yours, and it will just make your
life so, so much better. So more information about this in the next lesson
of the scores.
10. Build a Habit Tracker for Consistency: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the final installment
of the scores in which we're topping everything up by
creating and obviously downloading the template of our personal habit
tracker, right? As I mentioned in the previous
lesson of the scores, and multiple times
throughout the lessons, if you do not track
something, you cannot improve it and you cannot also know that it's
not working properly. This is why we love
to track our habits, and you might think that, again, finances and
habit trackers, they might be unrelated
with YouTube, you're wrong. YouTube and content creation,
and it's a marathon. It's really not a
sprint, it's a marathon, and it relies in forming
the correct tactics, habits and systems
around the production, distribution of your content. So a habit tracker is extremely important for
your YouTube journey. Let me show you exactly how I approach habit
tracking with notion. So the habit tracker that we're going to be consuming
and uploading at this point, it's going to be
Noons habit tracker. There's one right
here. So if you search a Noon marketplace,
Habi tracker, right? You will get access to this. We can either preview or add it, let's directly add it, right? So it is being added,
as you can see here, and here it is in, again, the notion page that we have
created. And how cool it is. You have the in
calendar, the calendar, the basket, the projects, YouTube Hub, income
expense tracker, and now our habit
tracker, right? So again, in the very
common sense of notion. It gives us a small tutorial
on how the stemplade works. If you click on this,
you can see that you can have all of this
demonstration on how it works. So the habit tracker
automatically creates a new habit
card every day and uses buttons to
check off the habits you completed that day, how
the stem blade works. Delete all habit cards in the streak view below when
you're ready to start, right? Each day, a new habit card will automatically appear
12:00 A.M. And obviously, you can change this, right? You can also add a new
entry by clicking New and press the buttons
above to check off your habits each day, right? Add new buttons with
each of your habits. Click on the gear
next to the button to see how you can recreate
the button functionally. The Progress formula can be edited if you add
or remove habits. You can learn more
about the formula property by clicking this link, and it will get you
to Notion's page. So again, you can delete all of the cards in streak
when you're ready to start. This is the streak, obviously, these are all of the consecutive days in
which you have the streak. And again, this rate
here is the streak. So you can go ahead and completely select all of
these and delete them, right? We do this once again. So here, here, delete, right? All of these are deleted, deleted, deleted,
don't want these. Right here. And we can
start with new habits, right, and change the things
that we want to have. So this happens every day. Today obviously changes
every single day. It's going to be
generated every day. And if again, we click
on start a new page. Okay, so this is
today's, for example, habit, and we can
change this, right? So let's say that I don't want
journaling as a property. I want to be Run five K, right? So run five K. Here it is. We have run five K. Or for example, it
already had running. We can do uh, create shoot, for example, shoot
a video, right? Yeah, 8 hours of sleep is
good and meditation, right? So time created,
you can see it's created March 15, right? And you check these off
whenever you're done or not. So you can see that as you're
checking these buttons, the progress progresses, right? So, for example, right
now, we have 50% because we already
checked like two boxes. If we check everything,
we have 100%. You can add properties,
obviously to add more habits. For example, let's say, drink Water, right there, this new habit of yours,
drink water, right? Oh, actually, let
me add another way. I've noted added a
new habit, right? We can do is that we can
duplicate actually a habit. So meditation meditation one, and you can change meditation
one to drink water, right? So now you can see,
these are different, and you can also check this
or uncheck this, for example. So this is just a way
to add a new habit with the check
button next to it. For now, we do not want it, so we're going to
delete this property, and you have these
properties right here. So what's going to
be happening is that pretty much every single day, these will be generated
again and again and again. You will be able to
also see your streak, right, and what
happened in this month. So, for example, this
is the month, right? They will only have
one day created. But if you go to your
streak, you will see, again, all of the different pages
created every single day. So it's like we
have coded, right, this template right here to create these pages every
single day at the same time. And you can see on your
screen on your streak. You can check or uncheck,
again, all of these. And down in your streak, as you go through the days, you will see how many shoot
video habits did you check? How many meditation habits
did you check, right? How many hours of sleep did
you check as a habit, right? You get the point. So this is
how the habit tracker work. Again, very simple, very basic. I also like to delete
these all right? So it's as simple as possible. If you upgrade your plan and obviously notion
can be upgraded, and I absolutely do
not recommend you upgrading notion because I mean, it's been working perfectly
for me as is that being said, if you find value and you wish to upgrade it and you do so, you will see that you
will just get more data. For example, you will get
data around meditation, data around data, step all of the different habits
that you have added. It will just give you
more data around them. That's what upgrading
will give you. But if you just want to stick
on these habits and not analyze right what's happening and just get notified
every single day, and check these boxes. This, again, habit tracker
is awesome, right? So, this was the final again, page that we added
in our notion, again Hub in our notion
thing that we created here. So to do a small recap of
what happened in this course, we had the in basket
where you get to register every single new action that
you get to complete or not. This is the simple algorithm
that you get to follow when deciding what to do with
each action of yours. After the in basket, we moved
to the calendar, right? We analyzed how to
import a calendar, how to add things
to your calendar. And again, different
tags, different location, how to add stuff again around every single new event that
you create to your calendar, how every event acts
as a page, right? Then we moved into the
projects and ideas. Every single creative
needs to have projects and ideas as a special
category in notion, right? In this case, for
example, I gave you a simple example of a digital
product as a project, right, an idea, and
as yoga coaching. So let's say you have a yoga
coaching business, again, how to brainstorm your target Dava and how to sort
the information there. After that, some website
resources if you Yoga website, email automations, clients
sales and conversions. And the sales and conversions, you can actually obviously track with the expense
and income tracker. Moving on, we discussed
about the YouTube hub, the reason why you're here
and you click in the Squares, which is pretty much the most important part
of this whole framework. YouTube is the home
of your content, and it's very important to
have everything sorted out. The most important
thing before we even work on the YouTube videos themselves is to know our target Avatans Avatar, and
our target audience. So this is why, again, we brainstormed our target Avatar when we added
all of the information around our target Avatar inside of the
YouTube Hub, right? And of course, we did
is that we took and brainstorm the ten core
problems of our target Avatar. Based on these ten core problems
that are noted in here, you can go to video
Ideas and suggest brainstorm video solutions that you could
work and you could produce as YouTube videos for the ten core problems
of your target Autor. So, for example, for
the core problem, can't afford a camera, right, you have the solutions, right, most value for many cameras
for beginner creators, how I got 10,000 views
with only my phone. So again, all of these
are video solutions to solve the problem
of your target outer, that is, for example,
can't afford a camera or Shi Ti camera. These
are ten core problems. Now, for each and every single one of these
video solutions, we created a page, right? And these pages, every single video should create should have different
title variations because it's important
for you to write down at least ten titles
for each video and then conclude to the
one that you like the most description
variations, right? Obviously, or one
description, at least, noted, sorted, and figured out inside of notion, the
script of your video. And if you don't like to
descript your videos like me, you can add the outline of
your videos right here. And, of course, thumbnail
variations of your videos. You can directly drag and drop your thumbnails to your notion
page and then below them, add your Canva link or the link of where
you edited the Samuel. So whenever I want, for example, to edit this tama right
here, I can go to Canva, click on the link below
this tunnel that will redirect me to the C editing page and tweak
some stuff there, download it, and then boom, it's on my YouTube video, right? So this is pretty
much what happened. And this is how we
structure our content in a way in which it's very
organized, right, very neat. Then we had the income
and expense tracker, the most amazing template
that you can download. Trust me, from notion,
you add your earnings, you add your expenses,
everything is sorted out around
months, and you can see, obviously, right here,
it does the calculation, so it told you what you
spent, what you earned, and then the final balance that you have
throughout the month. And if you keep adding and adding and adding all of
these different months, you will see that you
get an awesome sum at the end of the year,
and you might think like, Wow, my work is being rewarded, for example, what a
cool year this was. It's actually a very good
way to reflect, right? You will be surprised,
of, for example, what you did regarding expenses and earnings
one year ago, right? So it's also a good
way to reflect. Finally, we had
the habit tracker a way to track your
habits, of course, and check boxes of
repetitive habits that you want to encode
to your everyday life. Again, if you don't
track something, you cannot perfect it, right? And of course, you
do not know if you are insufficient somewhere
if you do not track it. So the habit tracker
is an awesome way to just keep track of
what's happening, and stay productive throughout
this YouTube journey. Because, again, the YouTube
journey is around systems, it's around processes
and processes need to be automated by the subconscious
mind in order to see right growth overall, right? Because we have compounding
growth that you will set your growth as a
concret will be linear, linear, linear, and
then exponential. In order to reach this point at which your growth
is exponential, you need to stick to the
daily habits that make you creative and
make you successful. So thank you very
much. I'm going to see again the thank you
message of the scores.
11. Final Thoughts & Thank You!: Congratulations. You made it. I would like to
personally thank you for sticking up until the end of the course and
playing full out, consuming the whole content. This really, really
means a lot to me. If you find value in
this course right here, and you want more courses
around content creation, digital product creation,
thumbnail design, and all that stuff,
you can check out the rest of my courses in
this profile right here, and you will really, really
help me out if you also left a positive
review in the score. Thank you very much. I'm
going to see you either on my YouTube channel or in the
next course that I create.
LAMZ, Creative Internet Pioneer
