Plan a Productive Day using Notion (Free Template)!
About this video
Jeff Su describes a five-minute morning workflow in Notion he has used since the week of October 19th, 2020, built around a weekly agenda template. Notion is free for personal use and the video is not sponsored; he says he adopted it after watching Ali Abdaal’s video on organizing content. The setup has an Agenda Master Page holding two templates — the master itself and the Agenda Page — plus the editable source template in the middle and the current week’s page on the left. A template button generates a new week’s agenda page; at week’s end you drag the finished week down in the master and create the next. Each weekly page is titled in year, month, and day format so pages sort chronologically, starts Monday and ends Sunday (example shown: March 1st to 7th), and includes a toggle calendar view that can be hidden. The core is the Highlight concept from Make Time by ex-Googlers Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky: pick one thing you will get done today for sure — it does not have to be work, examples include playing computer games for one hour, going to a cafe for 30 minutes, go karting for three hours, or reading for one hour — write it in the morning daily section along with something you are grateful for and something to let go of, and block it on your calendar (e.g., 1:00 PM reading Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon) so it is not deprioritized. Below that are daily routines (he tries to meditate, stretch, and read), an overview of work streams for the week with high-level milestones (his example tracks YouTube plus YouTube Red and a Facebook community outside his core job), and daily versus weekly to-do lists built with a template button or /to-do checkboxes. Postponed items are dragged to weekly action items, the section is revisited a couple of times a day, completed daily to-dos are dragged to an archive page for a clean slate, and he notes he uses Todoist to capture ideas and filters only useful ones into Notion.
Key takeaways
- Use a weekly Notion agenda (Agenda Master Page + template button) titled in year-month-day format, running Monday to Sunday, and generate a fresh page each week
- Start each morning by choosing one Highlight from Make Time — the one thing that must happen today — and calendar-block it so it survives new demands
- Pair the Highlight with daily gratitude and let-go entries and routine tracking to anchor the 5-10 minute planning ritual
- Track weekly work-stream milestones alongside daily to-dos; drag postponed items to the weekly list and revisit the planner a few times a day
- Archive completed daily to-dos to a separate page for a clean slate, and capture raw ideas elsewhere (he uses Todoist) filtering only useful ones into Notion
Episode details: published March 9, 2021 · 7:39 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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