Outline or Script Your YouTube Videos in Notion

1. Introduction: Create YouTube Scripts and Outlines in Notion: In this course, I'm going to expand on a previous course where I taught you how to create this content planning notion dashboard. And instead, we're going to go through how to create this template to be able to script or outline out your YouTube videos really, really easily by using a simple template that you can put in for all of your YouTube videos. Now you can jump into the next lesson and get started with creating this template. 2. How to Create a Template: To have a way that we can easily create our video scripts every single time that we want to create one. We're going to create what is called as a template in our notion that database. So I'm going to do this within the content planner that I created in a previous course. That of course will be in the description below if you're interested in that. But you can do this in any dashboard or database that you already have in your notion. So I'm going to scroll down and you can click on any of your content pieces anywhere to be able to do this. So I'm just going to use my YouTube schedule and I'm going to just click on this content piece called How to build a dashboard in Notion. And what I'm gonna do is if I scroll down, you can see it says press Enter to continue with an empty page or create template. And so what I'm gonna do is click this, create a template. And now I have my template for the video scripts that I'm going to create. So what this essentially does is allow me to control what a page in this dashboard looks like. I can customize the fields, I can customize the empty page what that looks like to allow me every single time that I'm creating a new video script. I don't have to constantly change those things. So what we're gonna be doing throughout this course is setting up this template so that whenever you're coming in to create your video script, it's really easy for you to go ahead and get started and just plugging the content and get started working with that script. 3. Template Name and Properties: So the first thing you wanna do when you're creating your template is name it and set its properties. So we're gonna give this a name. I'm going to call this YouTube outline. And then I can set any of these properties so that when I enable this template, it's automatically adding these properties to ever content piece that I have, e.g. one thing I'm going to set is the platform. This is going to be a YouTube video because I'm making this template specifically for my YouTube video outlines because of the field I already said that created this days between creation date. I'm going to leave my published date empty because I don't necessarily know what day I want to publish it. And another thing I'm going to set as the media, obviously this is going to be a video since it's a YouTube video. So now whenever I'm creating my YouTube videos, all I have to do is click YouTube outline on my templates and it will automatically fill in these two fields for me so I don't have to worry about it. So that's filling out the properties of your template. Next, we're going to set up the actual page area of the template. 4. Your Template Structure: So now we're going to set up our main page area. And before I do this, I'm gonna go ahead and open this in a full page so I can completely see what I'm working with there. So I'm gonna go ahead and click that. And that's going to open it up to a full page. And the next thing I'm gonna do is personally for me, I like to have the full width to work with. So I'm going to come up to these three dots and click full width so that that is now the full width of the page. I'm going to show you how I do my video outlines and I actually do them in three different columns. On the left column, I do my scenes, my middle column, I do my actual outline. And on my right column I do my links or external content. And so what I'm gonna do is now drag these. So I'm gonna take my outline and I'm going to drag it all the way to the right-hand side of my page on the first line where it says scenes and when I drop it, it's creating a second column. Now, I'm gonna do the same thing with my links, drag it all the way to the outside of my outline and drop it. So now I have these three different columns here. And if you hover right in here, you can see that this line appears here and this allows you to adjust the width of your columns. So what I can do is I can make my outline my biggest coal. So now all I have to do is come under outline and press Enter. And now I can start outlining my video. What you can do here is if you follow a really similar script for your video. So let's say you have an intro, then you have your main content, and then you have your outro. You can actually go ahead and incorporate those within this page template. I'm going to say my introduction. And what I'm specifically going to do is click these six dots over here so that I can turn this into a toggle. I can toggle my introduction on an off. I'm going to click these dots and I'm going to say turn into right here. And I'm gonna say Toggle heading one. This is now my introduction, and I'm going to give it a different color. So I can click those six dots again. And I'm gonna give it a maybe a pink background color. This is my introduction. So now I can type in bullet points. I can type in just general texts. So I could say maybe a general template for my videos is in this video, I am going to cover how to do. Then. I'm just going to put in an underscore for that. Then I could say my name is Elanor I Sturm and I could say that this is my general introduction. So all I have to do whenever I'm doing this is highlight my text and enter in what I want. You can also remove this and just have this being here so that you know, you need to finish that line. What's nice now is I can actually just toggle this up so that I have my introduction here, but I don't have to see this every time. I'm going to leave it toggled UP. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to press enter and this is going to give me a new space that's not included in that introduction. I'm going to press Enter again and I'm going to title this My main content. I'm going to turn this into a toggle heading one. And I'm going to color it the background, a different color. So let's do blue. So now I can enter my main content in here. One thing I might do is I might do a bulleted or numbered lists. So let's do a numbered list. So maybe I'm going to do this as my first point, my second point, and so on. So I can just have, my first point is this main sub-point example. How to implement. Maybe this is how I like to structure how I talk about my different points. And then all I'm gonna do is copy these three. I'm going to click here and press Shift Tab to move me out and I'm just going to paste it. So now I can have as many as I want Shift Tab to move it out and paste it again. And so I'm going to say my second point and my third point. So this is already ready to go, like just whenever I'm getting started, all I have to do is come in here and fill this out and I'm good to go. Then for my last one, I'm going to come back up here and press Enter. And I'm going to put my altro or conclusion. Again, I'm going to make this, that toggle one heading and I can click those outside to give it a new color as well. So maybe let's do purple here. And now on the inside, I can write out what my altro would typically be. So I'm going to leave it to where every end of a line is where I'm going to input information. So if you want to see blank, check out this video here. And if you're interested in check out this video here. Here you can see I've just basically made it where the end of these two is where I'm going to input information. And this is just my typical altro, so that's already done. I don't need to redo that for every single YouTube video I do. So this is going to be my main thing after I create my outline is when I would come in here and write scenes. So I'm going to show you how I would do that later on. And the same thing with links and external content. I'm able to write this out as I'm actually writing my outline out. So now this is ready to go. I can now use this as an outline. I'm going to click back and navigate back to my just content planner here. And in the next lesson, we're going to go through how to apply and use the template we just created. 5. Using Your Template: The last step now is simply to use our template that we just created. So if I come back into how to build a dashboard, what I can do is when I scroll down now instead of it saying an empty page or create a template, it says picket it. And now you can see my YouTube outline templates right here. If I click YouTube outline, you can see it's now filled in the template I just created. I no longer have to constantly fill that in. What I can do is I'm going to say how to build a dashboard in Notion. And I can again just expand this out so we can view it as a full-page. I can have this down here if I wanted to include more information down here, I can. My first point is going to be what is a dashboard? Second point is going to be how to create a dashboard. Then my third point can be how to use a dashboard. And in this case, I might not do this because this is going to be more of a tutorial style video. And so then I can go to my altro and I can say if you want to see how to create a template, if you're interested in using Notion for content planning, check out this video here. I've just very quickly, I haven't had to reset it up like you would if you're just coming in with a blank page. And so now I can say this in my intro scene, this is going to be me facing the camera. And then down here all of my main content is going to be Notion screen capture tutorials. So I'm basically using my scenes to show what is this video actually going to show. And then my altro, just press Enter to go to where that is, is going to again be facing camera. And then I'm going to have end screen inlays of, of the videos. So this is telling me what I'm doing. If I was doing a talking head for my different points, I might have the camera to the left of me and then the camera to the right of me than looking straight on things like that to create interests. I also put in my screen overlays. So if I'm going to put a logo up on the screen, I will do all of that here and then my links to external content. So maybe one of the things that I want to talk about on page one is I can say, if you want to get started, quicker, download my getting started notion dashboard. And then I could input the link right here for that dashboard. So this also helps whenever you're going into actually upload your video, you know what links you need to include in the description, because they're over here and you know when to talk about them in your script as well. Then I would come down here and put my different videos. So I would say video, create a template and then video content planning. So narrow, I have a script here that allows me to easily be able to look at what I'm doing. So in the next lesson, I'm going to cover how to actually export this. So you don't have to be looking at this and Notion, you can print it off and use it whenever you're actually working through creating your YouTube video. 6. Exporting Your Outline: So when you're getting ready to film a record your video, you most likely don't want to have to have this notion page up, especially if you're doing a screen recording, to be able to download it, to print it out or have it in a non notion of place. It's really simple. Just come up to these three dots up here. And what you're gonna do is hit Export. And so what you can do is export it as a PDF. You can export everything or you can have no files or images. You can use a letter format or other types of formats if that's better for you. The scale percentage. So you can make it smaller or larger depending on what you want to include on a page. Then if you have business, you can include sub-pages or you can create folders for sub pages. We're not gonna do either of those in this case, so we're just going to export just the PDF. So click export. And then I can open that in a new window. Or if you go to your downloads, you can open it in something like Adobe. And now it's still going to have your properties up here, but now you have your three different content points and it stays in line. So here I can easily see what my scenes were, what my different links were, and all the points that I want to cover within this video to be able to do that. And it will automatically and toggle your headings for you. If you had a heading toggled when you tried to create this, it will toggle that so that you'll be able to see what was underneath all of those different headings. I hope this helps you be able to outline or script your videos in Notion, using a content planner in notion.