How I'm using Notion charts for mental health

Progress attracts progress. That's a thing I've learned from coming out of difficult moments where you feel you can't advance anymore. Making small tiny steps, makes making the next small tiny step easier. And then a lovely loop of positive progress starts to happen.

It's now a long time that I do a sort of micro-journaling practice, where through out the day I jot down what I did during the day. So at the end of the day I have a sort of timeline of all the stuff I did and makes me feel proud about all that progress that I already forgot about just a few hours later.

As a geek I always play with how I'm capturing these tiny notes, and lately I've been bringing them back to my notion database of tiny achievements.

As now in Notion you can now transform a database into a bunch of charts it allows me to do fun things like these:

Daily overview

In such an overview I can see for the whole day:

• the list of each achievement (here kept private)

• the number of achievements for the day

• which projects I've made the most progress on

Weekly overview

In such an overview I can see for a whole week:

• which projects I've made the most progress on

• what type of progress happened

• and how many of such tiny progress elements I've written down

When you look at a week or day like this it feels pretty impressing and motivating.

Not just charts

The charts are just another addition to my gratitude and tiny achievements journals that are more "qualitiative" with pictures and words instead of just numbers. Having now also a few numbers and charts is a nice addition.