Second Brain - Notion Template

Second Brain is the all-in-one solution for organizing your life and work and staying focused on what matters.

Built on the PARA method developed by Tiago Forte, Second Brain lets you capture anything in an instant and organize your whole life into projects, areas, resources and archives.

It's that simple.

No need to spend hours trying to create your own system in Notion, Second Brain comes with everything you need and is designed to be easy to use by anyone.

As a bonus, Second Brain includes a goal management system based on the 12 Week Year framework, so you can achieve your goals faster than ever before.

What’s inside?

PARA Method

Your entire life and work organized in 4 simple buckets.

Everything in your Second Brain is organized in 4 simple buckets:

• Projects: Short-term efforts or goals in your work or life that you're working on now.
• Areas: Long-term responsibilities you want to manage over time.
• Resources: Topics or interests that may be useful in the future.
• Archives: Inactive items from the other three buckets.

Each bucket can be life or work related so you can separate your personal life from your work life.

They also come with a ready-to-use template so you can access all the tasks and notes related to a project, area or resource.

Second Brain

Get an overview of everything important from one single space.

Access your current projects, areas and resources and add anything to it in just a click.

At a glance, see what’s planned for the day and the coming week.

Keep a quick access to recently added tasks and notes and the ones you pinned.

Switch to Focus Mode to stay focus on what needs to be done today and avoid distractions.

And when you're on the go, keep everything close at hand with the Mobile Brain page, fast and optimized for mobile.

Life & Work Dashboards

Choose to focus on life or work. Or both.

In one click, you can switch from the all-in-one Second Brain to Life or Work mode and keep the personal and professional parts of your life separated.

Tasks Manager

Organize and tackle your tasks with powerful features.

Visualize all your tasks from one dashboard and organize your time efficiently with powerful features such as priority, due date, do date, duration and time-blocking.

Retrieve specific tasks in seconds thanks to ready-to-use filtered pages.

Keep a quick access to the tasks you pinned at the top.

Never miss a due date anymore with the Due section.

View your tasks by project, area and resource and drag them into the calendar for quick scheduling.

Notes Manager

Classify and retrieve notes, documents, bookmarks and more.

Access all your notes from documents and journal entries to bookmarks and articles to read.

Retrieve specific notes in seconds thanks to ready-to-use filtered pages.

Keep a quick access to the notes you pinned at the top.

Add reminders to your notes and keep track of upcoming ones with the Reminders section.

View all your notes along with a short preview of their content.

Save quotes from your notes and media and mark your favorite ones.

12 Week Year Planner

Master your time and achieve your goals faster.

Use the 12 Week Year framework to establish a vision for your life, organize your goals and projects into 12-week cycles and get more done in 12 weeks than others do in 12 months.

All seamlessly integrated with your Second Brain.

Habits Tracker

Build new habits and track your progress easily.

Media Tracker

Add anything that you want to read, watch or listen and take notes of what you consume.

Contact Book

Store all your contacts info and never forget a birthday.

Address Book

Save the address you want to try and the ones you liked.

FAQ

• What is Notion? Notion is an all-in-one platform that allows you to bring together all your tasks, projects and notes in one place.
• What's a Notion template? A Notion template is a ready-to-use page or set of pages. Simply duplicate the template in your Notion workspace and start using it. A premium template requires tens or even hundreds of hours of work. This type of template allows you to exploit all of Notion's capabilities without having to spend time building it.
• How do I download and duplicate the template into my Notion workspace? You will receive an email which will allow you to access the template in one click. Once on the template, all you need to do is duplicate the template on your Notion workspace. This is done in one click.
• Can I use it with Notion free plan? Yes, this template works with Notion Personal Free plan. There is absolutely no need to subscribe to a paid Notion plan to fully use this template.
• Is it customizable? You can customize the template as you see fit.
• Will I be able to use it if I'm a Notion beginner? All of our templates are designed so that they are powerful while still being accessible to beginner Notion users. Set up instructions are included in the template and you will find help sections throughout the template if necessary.
• Do you offer student discounts? Yes, I do provide a 30% educational discount for students! Send me an email to contact@blockspad.com with your edu-issued email to receive the discount. Please note that the discount cannot be combined with other discounts.
• What if I still have questions? If you have any questions about the template, feel free to reach out to contact@blockspad.com