Notion Template

🧠 Build Your Second Brain

Get the template here.

What’s included:

• ✅ A working Notion setup based on the PARA system (and more).

• ✅ A proven structure for capturing, organizing, and reusing knowledge.

• ✅ Lifetime template updates.

• ✅ Email support.

🔍 Content

This is the exact Second Brain system I use every day.

• Inbox:
  • The list of notes and tasks to take care of. For example, when we create a note, it has a State set to To be reviewed. Once we’re happy with its state, we should change it to Reviewed, which will remove it from your Inbox. You may decide to refine this view based on when you believe a note or a task to be ready.
• Tasks:
  • A list of tasks.
  • A task has a Someday field (Checkbox type) to express whether it should be done now or someday.
  • Each task has an optional due date and should be associated to domains (areas or resources) or projects.
• Notes:
  • A piece of content, interpreted through your lens, curated according to your taste, translated into your own words, or drawn from life experience, and stored in a secure place.
  • Each note should be associated to domains (areas or resources) or projects.
• Mistake:
  • A special kind of note (Type = Mistake) if you want to track your own mistake journal.
  • Mistakes can be visualized in Notes in the Mistake journal view.
• Kaizen:
  • A curated list to help you grow.
  • My recommendation is to use the Save to Notion extension as a read-later app to quickly mark interesting resources. Here’s how I configured it.
  • Kaizen resources are created as notes with State set to Not started.
  • Once the resource has been processed, you should set State to In progress, which will move the note in your Inbox.
  • ⚠️ Kaizen resources are created as notes, not tasks. Otherwise, summarizing an interesting resource (e.g., a blog post) would mean creating a Kaizen task + creating a related note. To avoid creating two pages, Kaizen resources are just notes and notes have a lifecycle.
• Projects: A list of projects (optional deadline and clear outcome; e.g., publishing a blog post).
• Domains:
  • Either an Area or a Resource.
  • Areas:
    • Ongoing responsibilities, what you’re committed to and require constant attention.
    • 💡 Areas can be organized hierarchically.
    • 💡 I recommend you setting a cover page to areas. Indeed, creating a new area uses the New area template which displays the sub-areas based on their cover page (example).
  • Resources:
    • A catchall for anything that doesn’t belong to a project or an area.
    • 💡 Resources can be organized hierarchically.
• Thought journal: Used to track your raw ideas, which is ≠ from curated notes.
• Feed: Latest reviewed notes.
• Archives: Outdates resources.