Creating a Notion Family Planner
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New to Notion and wondering how to use Notion for parents? If you’re hoping to create a Notion family planner, you’re in the right place! A Notion family dashboard or Notion family calendar can be a game changer for your household! Family management Notion style is easy to use, modify, and customize to your individual family!
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Having a family and managing activities can be overwhelming. There are activities, doctor’s appointments, parent-teacher conferences, and so much more to keep track of. Not to mention holiday and birthday wish lists, favorite activities, and babysitter information. Luckily, using Notion can change the way your chaotic family life runs for the better! Keep reading to learn more!
If you’re ready to dive right in and fully customize your Notion Dashboard, check out the 31 Day Dashboard Roadmap! It has everything you need to create an aesthetic, functional Notion Dashboard in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide!
Why I Recommend Notion for Parents
If you’ve never used Notion before, prepare to be amazed! Notion is, at its core, a productivity app but it can do so much more than just house your to-do list! You can create a robust family calendar with views for each member of your family, organize household tasks, keep track of the neverending pile of papers sent home from school, store Christmas and birthday gift ideas until you need them, and track all of those kid tasks all in one place.
There’s so much you can do with Notion and best of all, it is completely customizable to your family and can be easily adjusted year to year or month to month to accommodate changing schedules, busy seasons, and more!
Once you set up your Notion Family Planner and start using it as your second brain, you’ll have more space in your life for all that family fun you plan but don’t always get to! And, when you wake up in the middle of the night with an idea for an event happening 6 months from now, you can quickly add it to your family Dashboard and have it safely stored away until you need it! No more random sticky notes with important ideas!
How to Set Up Your Notion Family Planner
Getting started with Notion can be…overwhelming at times. But it doesn’t have to be! Before you begin creating your Notion Family Planner, make a list, either on paper or in Notion, of everything you’d like to include in your planner. Think about previous planners you’ve used and what you’ve loved about them. Add all of your ideas to your list. And then just get started!
If there was a secret formula for creating a Notion Dashboard, I would share it with you! Unfortunately, the best way is to work on it a little bit each day until it’s done.
I do recommend starting with 2 Columns and putting a Calendar Database in one column. Then, slowly bring your list to life! You can also follow my 31 Day Dashboard Roadmap plan if you want more structure and tutorials for your Dashboard creation!
One more tip! Try to use the same Database for the majority of your Dashboard. It can be tempting to create a new Database for each family member or activity type to keep everything organized but it isn’t possible to put them on the same Calendar, which leads to issues and less organization later!
What to Include on Your Notion Family Dashboard
Stuck for ideas on what to include on your Notion Family Dashboard? Here are a few must-haves!
Calendar Database- Essential to every family planner!
Cleaning Schedule including kid’s chores
Pages for each child
School Quick Look with phone numbers, teachers names, etc.
Christmas Lists
Meal Planner
Shopping Lists
Babysitter info
Family Budget
Doctor and Dentist info with question lists for next appointments
Family Bucket List
Travel Planner
Holiday Trackers
Garden Planner
Managing Your Notion Family Calendar
Managing your Notion Family Calendar doesn’t have to be challenging! Here are some tips to help you get started!
Use One Database for Everything
As I mentioned above, creating a different database for each member of your family can be tempting but it will make it impossible to integrate your family calendar in the long run. By using one database, you can easily filter to see only the information you need.
Use Select Properties
Creating a Select Property for each family member will change the way your Calendar database flows! You can easily filter events by family member and create various views to help you see exactly who needs to do what and when!
Use Your Pages Wisely
Anything you add to your Calendar is automatically a new Page in Notion. This means you can store all the information you need about an event or task where it lives on your Calendar. No more switching between windows or searching for pages to find the information you need! Just add it to your Notion Calendar event one time and refer back to it as needed!
Family Management Made Easy with Notion
Families are busy. Between school, work, extracurriculars, and just fun times at home there’s a lot to keep track of! With Notion, you can store everything in one place and easily move, expand, and reschedule tasks and events to fit your family’s needs.
Notion can be your family’s second brain. Track school information, doctor’s office questions, driving permit hours, and friend’s parent’s phone numbers in a central family Dashboard that can be accessed whenever and wherever you need it!
The possibilities for supporting your family with Notion are endless. If it needs to be organized or written down, it can be done in Notion in an aesthetically pleasing, easy to access way!
For more support in creating an aesthetic, functional Notion Dashboard, check out the 31 Day Dashboard Roadmap! It’s full of tutorials, tips, and resources!
Ready to get started using Notion to help your family stay organized?! Use these tips and tricks to get started. Your family life will be running smoother and you’ll have more time to get out and actually spend time together in no time!!
For more support in creating an aesthetic, functional Notion Dashboard, check out the 31 Day Dashboard Roadmap! It’s full of tutorials, tips, and resources!
