Ways to Check In with Yourself
What I personally use, and you could too. I check in with myself everyday.
1. Asking myself if there’s anything that’s bothering me at work
Sometimes I’m bothered by work I’ve been procrastinating about; or reaching out a contact I know I should’ve reached out to earlier. I then start making a list on my notes, making bullet points for each task.
Noting it down helps me visualise what I need to do, and ensuring that I get it done.
I do this by using prompts. I write these down in my notes app, I open them whenever I decide to check in with myself.
These are my work check- in questions:
A. Am I stressed at the moment?
B. If I am, why?
C. What do I need to do for myself right now?
D. Do I need someone else’s help for this?
E. If yes, who is that person?
F. What do I need to do today in order to end my day with a peaceful mind?
2. At social events - going to the bathroom alone to collect myself
Sometimes, at events, I’ll go to the bathroom for 5 minutes to regroup myself. I ask myself how I’m feeling and what I’m feeling… if I’m at a party, this is the point where I consider if I can drink* more or not/ sober up a bit. I also take the time to make a semi decent game plan.
A. How am I feeling?
B. Am I in a state where I can drink more?
C. When was the last time I drank water?
D. Am I hungry?
E. How am I getting home - do I have a cab booked, is someone going to drop me, am I going home by myself?
F. Do I want to leave right now or am I having a good time?
*I do not encourage minors drinking - please drink responsibly
3. Using this free app called How We Feel
I absolutely adore it. It helps you check in with your feelings, identify them, understand triggers and show you a different perspective on handling things.
Personally speaking, I’ve set the reminders to 3 times a day (morning, afternoon and evening) so that I can track myself better.
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Evernote to Notion Tutorial!
As an avid Notion user whose first love was Evernote, I was also very upset at the sudden high charge and limit of Evernote to 50 free notes... I already had 565 notes in there, and was a fan of the simplistic yet useful mechanism for taking notes with a click, organizing them in notebooks, and being able to use tags, archived files, etc.
So I have taken it upon myself to recreate the mechanism as closely as possible.
This is my final result: easy to make into your own!
Template link, though I suggest looking over this tutorial most of all:)
I also have to say, I love how it is relatively great for the mobile option as well! Especially with my gallery views and button for new notes.
**I recommend using a computer/laptop for this!
Step 1: Importing all your notes
- Instructions directly quoted from the Notion website:
You can import all of your Evernote data into Notion in one go, and retain its organization.
From the import window, choose Evernote
Sign into your Evernote account.
Authorize Evernote to connect to Notion.
Once your Evernote account is linked, check the boxes next to the notebooks you'd like to move and click Import
Your Evernote notebooks will appear as pages in Notion's sidebar. Inside, you'll find your notes as items in a list database.
Each note can be dragged and dropped anywhere else within Notion
Step 2: Move notebooks into ONE database
Let all your notebooks load correctly -- I personally checked the amount of notes each notebook had to match the ones in Evernote. The notebooks will go into the Notion pages on the sidebar like the picture, and each page will automatically add the notes into a NEW DATABASE table, which tells the amount of notes at the bottom.
Create a new blank page: this will be your EVERNOTE HOME layout
Inside this page, create a New Database (preferably in Table form)
This will be the MAIN DATABASE
In this database, click ...
Then click + Add a new property and click Select.
I named the property "notebook". Then include in the options all the different notebooks you had in Evernote! Here is my specific example:
4. Add ALL the notes to the new database
Each "notebook" is automatically a separate database, we don't want that!
With tedious work, copy all the notes from the first notebook into the new database
Go into the first "notebook" (on the sidebar, just imported from Evernote) and press CTRL-A or Command-A to select all the notes. Then copy them with CTRL-V or Command-V.
Then go into your EVERNOTE HOME LAYOUT
Paste the notes into your MAIN DATABASE
Make sure the notes are inside the database, they will be part of the MAIN DATABASE table!
WARNING!!! BEFORE PASTING THE OTHER NOTEBOOKS' NOTES:
After pasting the First Notebook notes on the MAIN DATABASE, put the correct notebook property in each one!
I could not find a better way to do this than selecting a Single Note > Click on the "Notebook" property > Select the preferred notebook ("plot/story ideas") > click away > click back on the square until it is selected (the whole square turns blue) > then copy it (CTRL-C or Command-C) > then select the rest of the notes in that property column (like in picture 3) - and pasting the property to all of them at once.
(select property + CTRL-C or Command-C)
(select the rest of the notes - for ease, click on one, then press SHIFT and arrow down!)
(Paste the property to the rest of the notes all at once)
-- Thank you @ myself for complicating a very simple procedure --
Continuing:
5. Next - copy and paste the notes of each note book into the MAIN DATABASE, each time making sure you add the "notebook" property as said in Step 4.
For ease: I found it helpful to sort the notes (... > Sort > Updated > Descending)
When this is done, you should have all your notes into a single database (MAIN DATABASE), organized by notebooks.
Make the Evernote Home Layout - 2 options
*If you're new to Notion, you will slowly get the hang of databases, don't worry. I am making this as detailed as possible:)
Option 1: Use my free template!
Please let me know if you have any problems accessing it.
Option 2: Follow my instructions and make your layout your own
You can follow my steps as I create my preferred layout, and change things around (magic of notion) to make this into your own.
I prefer to make my page Full Width, Small text, and change the font (upper right corner: ...)
With the space bar I give some space to the whole ordeal.
Now, what exactly am I saving from a normal Evernote Home Page?
Recent notes
Scratch pad
(Would be so very easy to get a pinned note, and recently captured as well, though I don't do this in this tutorial)
Notebooks Gallery Tutorial
Press anywhere on the page > Click + > Scroll and Click on Gallery View > Click New Database
It should look like this
This here is a new database that we will call "Notebooks Database"
Each page shown there can be each notebook, and if you don't wish to show it in Gallery view, and instead have a simple list, you can!
For that Press ... > Layout > List
I will continue showing how to make the Gallery View like my own layout however:)
You can customize each page by clicking on it, changing the name (to each notebook you have), adding a cover and icon, however you wish.
Notion Tip: Instead of having to download images, you can Copy Image Link to almost any GIF of image on Google, Pinterest, etc, and then pasting the link!
Make sure you select "Page Cover" to be shown for your Notebooks Database Gallery View!
... > Layout > Gallery > Card Preview > Page Cover
My final result:
Notion Tip: To hide the name of "Notebooks Database", click the three dots ... next to it and click Hide Database Title
2. Recent Notes Gallery Tutorial:
To explain how to add the RECENT notes view I will make a video:
This is exactly what I do:
Make space after the title > Move a Block next to another Block to create 2 columns > Drag the Notebooks Database Gallery to Column 1
In column 2: Add a New Gallery View > Choose Main Database > Add whatever Properties you would like shown > Sort > By Created Time/ Updated Time (depending on preference)
For this one, make sure you put "Page Content" to be shown
... > Layout > Gallery > Card Preview > Page Content
3. New Note Shortcut Button Tutorial
To add a button so you can quickly add a new note like in Evernote, do the following (shown in the video below)
Click anywhere > + > Button > Add page > (Add page to) "MAIN DATABASE" > (Delete the name property) > + Add another step > Open Page > Select Page > New Page Added
Explore all the other features of this new button!
4. Finally, customize each Notebook Page:
Click on each Notebook page > Add a Gallery/List/Table view > Filter > Choose selected notebook tag > Sort > Updated time > Descendant
(video/gif tutorial shows how i personalized mine, I still have more stuff I want to add but those are the basics!)
BONUS: Add a Scratch Pad
Click anywhere > + > Add a Toggle List > ::: > Customize color
OR
Click anywhere > + > Add Callout > Customize color and Icon
Thank you for following this tutorial and I hope it was helpful and less daunting for new Notion users after the Evernote downfall:) Please send any questions, feel free to add your own ways to make things easier and other tips and hacks you may have!
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