Meet the individuals who use Notion to plan their entire lives

Tommy Meyer, an online developer from Phoenix, Arizona, began utilizing Notion round 2018 after realizing he was carrying round three completely different notebooks always in a bid to remain organized. “I haven’t written a paper grocery record in years,” he says. He additionally makes use of it to assist him plan fantasy novels he needs to write down.

While Notion lends itself to note-taking and journaling, Adam Warren, a voice actor and voiceover artist from the UK, additionally makes use of it for managing his YouTube channel initiatives. 

“I earn one thing equal to the wage of a great full-time job from Youtube and Patreon now, and all administration for that enterprise is completed in Notion,” he explains. “I’ve all my video initiatives in a database, and use the kanban view to trace their standing. I additionally write the scripts for my movies proper in these database pages.”

For individuals who get pleasure from feeling organized, these sorts of platforms make plenty of sense. Apps like Notion might help us construction and simplify our lives so that they really feel much less overwhelming and chaotic, says guide psychologist Elena Touroni. 

However, spending an excessive amount of time optimizing and organizing our lives could be counterproductive after we prioritize creating to-do lists over finishing the precise duties on them, a phenomenon referred to as the planning fallacy, says Gabriele Oettingen, a psychology professor at New York University.

Using Notion to trace whether or not you’re ingesting sufficient water or going jogging, or utilizing it to plan assignments, doesn’t essentially imply you’re really getting these issues accomplished. “In a method, Notion would possibly assist me to get construction, nevertheless it won’t work to get me going,” she says.

For folks like Bergen who use the identical app to map each their private and work lives, there could be downsides, Touroni provides.