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When your Notion workspace is the thing that needs organising
You rebuild Notion around three connected databases (notes, projects and tasks) and one daily page that shows only what needs attention. Your old pages move to an archive in one step instead of being sorted by hand. A short weekly reset keeps the workspace from sprawling again, and Notion AI gets clean pages to work from.
The course: A Notion second brain you actually keep using
$19 $39 early-bird price
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If this sounds like your week
- Pages from six months ago have names that meant something at the time.
- Your dashboard pulls from databases you stopped updating months ago.
- You have installed templates, customised half of each one, and abandoned them.
- You spend more time designing the workspace than doing the work it was built to track.
What you do now, and where it stops working
Today the real list lives somewhere else (a paper notebook, a phone note, your inbox) and you open Notion only to add another page. Each new template promises a fresh start, but it brings someone else’s structure, so the pile grows instead of shrinking.
What changes after the course
- You open one daily page each morning and see today’s tasks and active projects, nothing else.
- Every new note, task or project has one obvious database to go into.
- The old workspace sits in an archive you can search, not a maze you have to tidy.
- Notion AI can answer questions from your own notes, because they sit in a structure it can read.
How it works: The Three-Database Reset
- 1Archive first: move the whole old workspace into one archive page, untouched and still searchable.
- 2Build three databases (notes, projects, tasks) with relations between them and only a few properties each.
- 3Make one daily page filtered to today and this week.
- 4Set up Notion AI prompts for summarising, searching and drafting from those three databases.
- 5Run the weekly reset: clear the inbox, close finished projects, and delete any property you did not use.
What you get
- Duplicable Notion template
- Database design guide
- Notion AI prompt set
- Weekly reset checklist
- Video walkthrough of the workspace and daily use
This is for you if
- You like Notion and want to keep using it.
- Your workspace has grown past the point where you can find things.
- You want a structure you understand, not another template you copy.
Skip it if
- You want a large all-in-one template with every feature built in. Those already exist.
- You want your notes as local files that AI agents read directly. The Obsidian course fits better.
- You are designing a company wiki. This course covers one person’s workspace.
Before you join
- I have downloaded five templates already. Why is this different?
- A template hands you someone else’s decisions. This course builds three databases with you and explains each property, so when something stops fitting you change it instead of replacing the whole system.
- Databases and relations confuse me. Can I still do this?
- Yes. The course uses three databases and one kind of relation, built one step at a time. Formulas are optional, and the archive step means you never have to restructure old pages.
- Should I just move to Obsidian instead?
- Moving apps rarely fixes a structure problem; the mess moves with you. Stay in Notion if you share pages with others or like databases. Choose Obsidian if you want local files you own and AI agents working on them directly.
- Is Notion AI worth paying for?
- Only if the workspace under it is clean. Notion AI answers from your pages, so a maze in means a maze out. The course works without it, and shows where it helps if your plan includes it.
- Who is teaching this?
- Jay West. He writes How to Think (howtothink.ai), a curriculum on how one person thinks, built as a linked knowledge graph of single-idea lessons, and Physics of Connection, a knowledge graph on improv and communication. He leads DevOps for the marketing organisation of a multi-location specialty retailer.
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