The 10 Best Notion Templates [January 2020]

Notion is an amazing all-in-one app that lets you organize your time better and never miss a deadline again.

The main idea is to turn Notion into your planner, workspace, and to-do list – everything you need to finish your daily tasks successfully. By using so called blocks, you can create any kind of content in Notion – from text to images and videos.

What’s so great about Notion is that you can choose different templates to make it more interesting and personalized. Here are some ideas.

Five Work-Related Templates to Make You More Productive

When you create an account, you’ll find a couple of templates added by the Notion team, based on your preferences. To access more templates, look for them in the menu on the left side of your screen.

Here are five great professional templates to help you become more productive at work.

Content Calendar

Content Calendar template allows you to plan and track different projects, whatever your profession is. It’s great for planning articles, e-books, podcasts, designs, etc.

You can enter the name of the project and a brief description and track your progress by putting your ideas into one of the categories: In Progress, In Review, Published, etc. This comes in handy if you have many projects to take care of. It’s even more useful if you have a team and need to keep track of everyone’s tasks.

Weekly Agenda

This template represents a simple, compact to-do list with your daily tasks.

Planning your week ahead can be helpful if you have many ongoing projects or tasks to complete this easy-to-follow agenda will make sure you don’t miss anything important. You can add new items to each day or drag them if you want to move them from one day to another.

If you’re into color coding, you can mark each item or each day with a different color or even add emojis to make your list more interesting.

Applicant Tracker

If you work in HR and your position includes keeping track of prospective candidates for your company, this template may make your job easier.

You can schedule interviews, add information about candidates, add quick notes for you and the rest of your team, etc. You can also switch from Table View to By Stage order, depending on what details you need to see about the applicant.

You can also filter them by the position they’re applying, which can save time and help you move through the recruiting process faster.

Meeting Notes

Why take notes on a piece of paper that you could later lose? Meeting Notes template helps you keep everything in one place – you don’t have to open a million tabs and windows to keep track of your projects.

Multiple categories among templates have Meeting Notes, but the structure is usually similar: you can add notes to the Goals, Discussion and Action Items sections, or add a new one.

Job search

If you’re currently looking for a new job, Notion can help you organize your resumes, portfolios, cover letters, motivational letters, sample articles, etc.

When you apply for multiple positions in multiple companies, you may lose track of scheduled interviews or tests. This template helps you organize everything in a way that you’ll be able to see due dates and application status – all in an easy and convenient way.

Five Personal Templates to Make You More Organized

You don’t necessarily need to use Notion planner for business. There are some great templates to help you keep track of your lifestyle activities and habits.

Goals

Find Goals template under Personal and create a vision board where you’ll be able to add new goals whenever you set one.

You can specify the category the goal belongs to, such as Health, Books, etc. and divide them into To Do, Doing and Done sections to track your progress. Using different colors will make your board look more creative, and setting a due date will stop any procrastination.

Journal

Use the online bullet journal to write down all your daily reflections.

Why risk forgetting about something that may have motivated you, scared you, or made you happy? You can filter the entries so you don’t mix “trivial” daily entries with some more personal ones.

Document your life because it can be a great source of inspiration for your business as well.

Reading List

This list doesn’t only cover books you want to read or buy. It’s also about useful articles, podcasts, resources you need for a project, TV shows, movies, and more.

This list makes it easy to keep all these things within reach to help use your commuting time wisely, for example. You can use the filter to view only the category you’re then interested in, or install Notion Web Clipper to save all the links directly to this template.

Travel Planner

If you like to travel regularly, you may find it tiring to keep track of all the important details of your trips in different apps or notebooks. Notion makes sure you never miss a connection flight or get lost on your way to the hotel.

The Travel Planner template keeps track of your time off, reserved tickets, scheduled lunches or tours, accommodations, etc. You can enter your full schedule into the template and then choose a day by day view.

Course Schedule

In the Education section, this template helps you keep track of the daily, weekly and monthly tasks related to a course you may be taking.

You can enter all due dates, task names and topics, and sort them by type. That way, you know exactly when’s the next paper due, when you’re taking the exam, or what topic you need to read about for the following week.

Whether you’re a teacher or a student, this template helps keep everything organized.

Less Stress for the Brain

Having Notion is like having an external brain. Why stress about remembering everything when you can create these great templates and stay on top of things at all times? And you don’t even have to carry a heavy notebook around – your phone or your tablet are enough.

Do you use Notion? What are your favorite templates? Let us know in the comments section below!