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I don't know what it is about your tutorials/guides, but they've been the most helpful and easy to follow, even compared to the bigger Notion KZreadrs. I was organizing my projects as pages and putting them under toggled headings for the status, but this completely changes how I manage projects. One additional thing I added was a status property for Ideas, Planning, In-Progress, On Hold, and Completed. (Obviously Completed projects will automatically move to the Archived tab, but it felt wrong not having it in there lol) I then sort the table by status and have it sorted to show the In Progress projects at the top, since I have quite a few in the list. Anywho, thank you!

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate it! I do try to make them as easy to follow as I can. That's a great idea, I'll add that to mine as well :)

@sabsab532

6 ай бұрын

sorry for the dumb question but did you add this to the main projects or to the task list?

@jazmeen04

Ай бұрын

I find the bigger Notion KZreadrs aren't begginer friendly. They Assume you know what you don't know and just end up confusing me. I like that she started from a fresh page.

Wow! You are the best. I have been searching for this explanation to apply in my dashboard and tried many videos and wasted lots of hours, but only yours worked for me. Thank you!

@creative_cove

4 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

Amazing template, thank you so much for releasing this video! And its great that all the filtering/sorting is handled automatically, I just set it once and forget about reranging items as tasks are complete!

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you like it!

This is amazing thank you. I have a lot of projects. The progress bar is so easy. You explain clearly and simply.

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome! I’m glad it was helpful to you 😊

Simply awesome!! Thanks for your sharing this impressive utilization.

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

Thanks, you're very welcome! :)

Your videos are concise, clear and overall very helpful. You’re doing a great job. Thanks so much much. 😊

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

You are so welcome!

your explanation is so easy to understand! thank you!

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! :)

Super helpful! Thank you!

I watched like 5 tuts on this subject and all five of them I finished the video more confused than when I started and FINALLY you explained it to me perfectly. Thank you so much!!!

@creative_cove

3 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Thanks for watching :)

Thank you! You have such a talent to explain. I have now a beautiful template for my to do list, which is motivating. I also added the video link at the bottom in case I forgot what to do. I am your fun now 💌

@creative_cove

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind comment! I'm so glad I could help :)

Thank you sooooo freaking much for creating this video. I was searching so much for an efficient database system to keep track of all my records of projects and activities and wasn't able to find one. I also checked other videos but they have complex formulas which is hard for a notion beginner like to me to understand. This was a great help, and I loved the part that it was so simply broken down so that I could understand it. Thanks again for the video!

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

You're very welcome! Glad I could help :)

Great tutorial, you explain things in a way that makes it easy to not only replicate but understand what is actually been shown. Thanks :)

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful! :)

Finally a database that catch my eyes and seem simple and fun rather than overwhelming Thanks a lot for the clear and neat video

@creative_cove

29 күн бұрын

You are welcome!

This video was Super useful for me. Your explanation is incredible. Thank you so much.

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful :)

I was trying to create a database for projects and task list. After lot of search I end up with this one and it did the job just like I wanted. Thanks for this.

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful! :)

Great video. Keep up the good work.

@creative_cove

28 күн бұрын

Thanks!

amazing video and pretty practical. thank you

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! 😊

That was amazing! You were the only one that I really could follow and actually worked, I was almost giving up hahahaha Thanks for the great tutorial!

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

You're welcome!!

Combined this with another tuto leadin' to magnificent results!

@creative_cove

7 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I'm glad you found it helpful :)

You are the best. Huge respect for you🎉

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

This was sooooo helpful thank you so much

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

your work is not going un noticed thank you for this!!!

@creative_cove

Ай бұрын

That’s very kind, thank you! 😊

Had never used the rollup before. Thanks for showing a great way to use it! Also, amazing and simple task system :)

@creative_cove

23 күн бұрын

You're very welcome!

Thank you very much, this is very helpful 👍👍

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

You are welcome!

Thank you for the tutorial, now my projects are more organized and I don't feel overwhelmed by them 🙏😊

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

You’re welcome 😊

Thank god I found this video, this was just what I needed. It's hard to find tutorials that show you how to make a progress bar from a basic checkbox property applied to documents rather than multiple checkbox properties that measure progress (usually habit trackers). I needed a task checkbox tracker by document(task) and this is the answer I've been looking for. Thanks!

@creative_cove

3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

This is amazing. Thank you!

Thank you so much for amazing tutorial! Keep it up!

@creative_cove

9 ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad it's helpful :)

Awesome and very helpful video! As a total Notion nooby I learned a lot of things in this one!

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I LOVE YOU!🤗

Thank you soo much, this was really helpful. Keep uploading mahn.

@creative_cove

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful :)

this is exactly what i needed. thank you

@creative_cove

7 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Glad you liked it :)

hello thanks for this pretty practical video

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you a lot !

@creative_cove

Ай бұрын

You are welcome!

Best tutorial on this I've seen so far, and I saw too many.

@tanalee229

2 ай бұрын

LOL. Right?

This was so helpful thanks!!

@creative_cove

9 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found it helpful :)

TYSMM

@creative_cove

7 ай бұрын

No problem! :)

Nice video, It looks like a mini PARA system.

This video was amazing, thank you! Do you have any other video about featuring a calendar into this so that it shows what days you completed each task?

@creative_cove

6 ай бұрын

I have a video on setting up a calendar on Notion but it's not specific to this video. It wouldn't be too difficult to connect up a calendar to this database though :)

@raffle.

6 ай бұрын

@@creative_cove I managed to sort of do it. By duplicating the task list and changing the view to calendar. And when a task is completed, I also manually set its date for today, so it appears on the calendar. It would be nice if you could do a tutorial on how do the same thing but have the task automatically appear on the calendar when you check it as completed, without having to manually set the date like I am doing now. Thankies :D

I have watched many videos about Notion, but you explain the things and concepts in simple way and it is very effective and this is a very good video, thank you. Also, how did you make the project automatically go to archive when it reaches 100%?

@creative_cove

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I added an advanced filter for where 'Progress does not equal 1' OR 'Progress is empty' and that filters them out. :)

amazing

@creative_cove Thank you very much for your sharing. Could you help to improve the progress bar. In your video it just counts the amount of tasks not hours. Any chance to make it coorect? Could you please share how to connect the task with the calendar as well?

Hey! So, I've got a question and I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere but would it be possible to have a spreadsheet, have the progress bars be part of that spreadsheet and have the progress bars be linked to a check box system WITHIN the row? So like when you open up the row to add more info it'd be in there?

I really appreciate what you have done with the project and the individual tasks. I also watched your video about creating a Daily Planner, which shows the days of the week when tasks are completed. I was wondering if it's possible to merge the daily planner database with the project tasks database for better clarity on when the project tasks will be completed. I hope I'm not confusing you, but I believe it could be a great way to combine the best of both worlds. What do you think?

@creative_cove

9 ай бұрын

That's a great idea. You could probably do this by adding an extra property to the sub-tasks database for the days of the week. You could then set up a separate view of the database with a tab for each day of the week (like I did in the daily planner video). I'm glad you're enjoying the videos! :)

I live you … I was trying to that automatic progress bar and frustrated for a week

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

You're welcome!!

@abhijeetvdsh

8 ай бұрын

Lol i wrote live I meant Love 😍

This was really valuable! I was wondering, when you want to repeat a project like “make a KZread video” do you usually write out all the tasks again, or do you have a method you can suggest for streamlining repeat projects and task lists like this?

@creative_cove

18 күн бұрын

Buttons are great for this! You can create a button, call it something like 'Add New KZread Video' and set the button to add all the tasks to the database. This would allow you to add all the tasks with just one click.

@Rebecca-bz6ph

18 күн бұрын

@@creative_cove thank you so much! I’m sorry to bother you more, but I can’t figure out if I’ve optimized it to the best it can be. If I want to keep the progress bar system shown in this video, am I right in thinking you have to press the button to create the new task list in the task manager and then manually create a new project for it and link them using the relations function again each time? This is the only way I can see it will work. I tried just adding the list to make it repopulate when pressing the button, and I linked it to a page in the project database called “create KZread video” but it kept a running total of all of the previous tasks and the percentages were wrong.

i love your voice

great list thank you!!!! i love doing my to do lists as a weekly planner, how can i recreate this same list everyweek?

@creative_cove

3 ай бұрын

No problem! For the weekly planner, you could use a button. Inside the button you can set it to add pages to the database every time you click it.

@lorelaifromjungle387

3 ай бұрын

@@creative_cove i could not do it:( can you tell me the steps more specific

Easy to follow, thank you. I appreciate if you can advise me on one issue, I can't get the progress bar when I have sub-projects in my project list, is there any way to combat this issue?

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

I just tried this out on mine and it looks like you can make the progress bar work on the sub-projects but you still need to add the individual tasks to the task database and when you select project, you can pick the sub-project.

Great video. Quick question - I seem to be having trouble with the ARCHIVE section. I followed all of the steps but can't seem to get any completed (100%) projects to display under ARCHIVE. Any suggestions?

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

You'll need to set the filter for the Archive to 'if Progress equals 1' rather than 100%, this is just down to how Notion reads the numbers. Hope this fixes it!

Is there a way I can do this on Microsoft Excel?

Is there a way to take the sum of the hours of the tasks per project and have the total hours in the project? Great video!

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

Sure, you could do this using a rollup in the project database.

This is almost TOO in-depth for me lol. The maintenance and upkeep I'm hoping will take care of itself.

Eres increíble ¡Muchas gracias! No he podido avanzar en mi plantilla de finance notion :( tengo dos base de datos, una que es para gastos y otra para gastos por categoría. En la plantilla de gastos tengo un to do (donde lo ideal es marcarlo cuando ya he pagado o gastado el dinero de x producto. En mi otra base de datos donde estan los porductos x por categorias, lo presupuestado y lo gastado en relacion a mi base de datos anterior (de gastos).... No se como relacionar mi to to de gastos con mi barrita de presupuesto en mi base de datos de gastos por categoriaaa..... :( ayudaa

@creative_cove

5 ай бұрын

Tengo otro video sobre crear una plantilla de finance - solo busca en mi canal. Para tu base de datos, puedes usar un rollup. Necesitas una relación antes pero entonces puede añadir un rollup que calcular cuánto dinero he gastado en total. Esto se puede mostrar como una barra de progreso. ¡Espero que esto ayude!

Wow, that 7:10 tip was pretty happening.

I do not get the progress bar for some reason.. other everyting works fine. this is the best one out there yet

@Guitar4Noobs

4 ай бұрын

Oh wow I was so tired when i did that yesterday. all you need is to scroll on the property lol thank you again

Can this be combined with the Eisenhower matrix format?

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

Yes, definitely!

Is it possible to make the progress percentage be adjusted by a combination of number of tasks comepleted weughted for the hours involved. For example, if just 1 task takes 3 hours out fo the total time of 6 hrs, and we have 6 more tasks that take 30 mins each, then completing that task should make the progress be shown as 50% and not 15% (whoch is what the current template will output)

@Amy50290

5 ай бұрын

👍

@CodeFlowBeats

4 ай бұрын

This would be great feature!

I accidentally deleted a task instead of hide, now my new project templates won't appear properly in the tasks, can you help? :(

is it possible to move the task to archive without adding anything in the Tasks by project? There are some projects where I don't need to separate by tasks

@creative_cove

4 ай бұрын

You could add a checkbox to the projects database to check off completed projects. Just add a filter to only show projects where the checkbox is unchecked so they're removed from the view once they're complete :)

@jillian3654

4 ай бұрын

@@creative_cove Thank you for your help! it works now

I’d like my ‘type’ selections to also duplicate in the tasks how can I do this please?

@creative_cove

6 ай бұрын

You can add a rollup property to the tasks database. For 'relation', select the Projects database and for 'property', select the Type property and ensure 'calculate' is set to 'show original'. This will pull through the type into the task database.

Thank you, that was most helpful. Now I have a question, when you have things that are repetitive such as Write a Blog Post or Make a KZread video can you make a template for it so that you don't have to recreate each task every single time you make a new one? I know i can always duplicate the project but isn't there a way to make it a template?

@creative_cove

7 ай бұрын

Yes, if you hover over the database you should see a blue 'New' button appear at the top right-hand corner. Click on the arrow next to it and it will allow you to add a new template. You can then also set these tasks to recurring (by clicking on the three dots next to the template and select recurring) so that they auto add themselves at regular intervals. Hope this helps! :)

@OliviaRigal

7 ай бұрын

@@creative_cove i had to step away from the computer but will check soon.Thanks

What makes it be considered advanced?

1. Could "we" inquire of your background that has enabled you to design such beautiful yet complex templates? Business and graphics arts major? : ) 2. If we can't afford (or in real life don't need) said beautiful but complex templates, is there a way to donate to you for your awesomeness? 3. Where else besides your Etsy shop can you be seen or heard or read? 4. I have a friend in the UK. Do you know.....? : )

@tanalee229

2 ай бұрын

She wrote at 1:25am Hawaii time. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

I just taught myself Notion over the last few years. I actually got my degree in science but now I run my own media company (so nothing to do with science haha). I just love creating useful Notion templates! I believe you can donate via the 'Thanks' button that should appear somewhere underneath the video but honestly there's no need. Just watching and liking the videos is more than enough and really helps me grow the channel. Right now the main place to find me is here and on Etsy. I've been meaning to setup a website but haven't got round to it get. Maybe when I have a bit more time I'll finally get round to it. 😊

Can I buy this template ?

@creative_cove

8 ай бұрын

Not this exact template but I do have some others in my store 😊

Seems like you should just change the task property rather than always deleting it. That's two steps.

That is basic.

[7 months later...April 19 2024] I'm so mad at you! I need to go out to do errands, but here I sit doing this tutorial step-by-step, even copying your data! Now it's almost 2pm! LOL. This is an incredible tutorial. By far one of the tops (although @redgregory and @theProductiveDude are also quite good). The ONLY issue I have with most tutorial videos by anybody, is the fast speech. To remedy that, I set Settings > Playback Speed to 0.75 (sometimes even slower for some KZreadrs). Your tutorials are superb. Thank you so much for these gifts that keep on giving. I wish you health, prosperity, and the very best in all you do for years and years to come. --- Tana-Lee

@tanalee229

2 ай бұрын

LOL. I HAD to stop before this finished, because I HAVE to go do some errands. But I'll be ba-a-a-a-a-ack! : )

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

Haha I'm glad you're enjoying the video and getting some use out of it! Apologies about the errands haha 😊

@tanalee229

2 ай бұрын

@@creative_cove Augh! I replied but got zapped. No links allowed in YT comments??? (I linked to one of your vids.) Anyway, great stuff. Back to 6 Essential Tips, and on to the navigation bar. Best of everything to you!

I love how your tuturoials are super easy and I hate that I found your channel just 2 months prior to my exams 😭… btw lots of love and appreciation for your work 🫶🏻🫶🏻✨

@creative_cove

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! 😊