I would love to see a video on Goodreads alternatives! I’m using Storygraph in conjunction with Goodreads. I like Storygraph, but I find the search function a little clunky. I do love how you can tell them what tropes you love so that they can tailor your recommendations page better!!!
@@americanbookdragon Nor for non-english speakers/readers, at least not one with a language that isn't well known like french or spanish are, they might be alright. But, as a norwegian, Booksloth doesn't work at all, they had very few of my books on the site.
Never got into the habits of taking notes while reading but now that I saw this maybe I should start doing it. Sometimes I find it hard to recall a certain detail that I like from a book while talking to someone about it since I never noted anything down.
I also LOVE seeing how people organize! It's an interesting way to see how people process information aannnnnnddd if you did a bullet journal video I would 100% watch it!
I loved your reading journal!! It’s such a great idea and yours looks so pretty ✨ Also Ik you’re a booktuber but if you could I would love to watch a video where you show all your notion pages and how you set it up.
I started using Notion and a reading journal very recently. I wanted to start writing notes about the books I read, so I could write reviews, remember the books I read, understand what I like and why, and note the technical and plot stuff. I'm a writer, so I want to be more aware of how others write their books. I'm doing hybrid notes, too, because the notes I take are long (reader and writer), and I don't want to fill up a notebook with just my notes for one book. I imagine I would prefer writing overviews for my physical reading journal like you do while writing more extensively in the Notion app. It also helps to have a phone instead of a journal while I'm taking notes since I just have to use one hand and I don't have many places to put down my notebook comfortably. I like the way your notion reading than mine. I think I'm going to rearrange things a bit. Also, I'm new to Notion, so I don't know everything I could do on there yet. I also plan on snagging that spread you use in your reading journal for my own. I'm a chaotic note-taker, and would like to have many different ways of putting stuff down, lol. great video :3c
I love knowing stuff like this too! I have three ways as well. 1. I use Goodreads (currently swapping to Storygraph) just to mark books as read and have a public list of everything I've finished. 2. I have a yearly books read spreadsheet, and a wishlist spreadsheet. 3. I have two notebooks, one for fiction one for non-fiction. I make notes on the books, jot down quotes and capture my feelings. Don't use that for every single book, just ones that I had things to say about. That's why I still use a digital tracker for all read books. Notion looks awesome. Now I'm going to download it and spend ages setting it up instead of actually reading 😂
I use storygraph to track my reading now, the page is still in its beta phase, but it's so great and very inclusive, and gives recommendations based on moods as well as genres 🙌🏾 I'd love to see a video where you try it out!
Please do a tutorial on the graphs you used for the counter and the layout you used for the how far it is in the month in notion. Sorry if you don’t understand. I’m trying my best to explain
I’ve always really wanted to have a reading journal instead of my jumbled notebook mess and your reading journal is definitely giving me some ideas for how I can go about doing that. I might actually be able to start one next year! Thanks for the ideas and the great video overall💖
Notion is such a strong fit for my personality - I’ve basically put my whole life in there at this point 😂 but I never really thought to organize my reading on it beyond just a general tbr so I’m coming away from this with a ton of ideas
I was just using the notion template for the reading list but i dont love it, i would love for you to set up a template for us with the widgets etc. Do you think we could organize by emoji like a ghost emoji next to the ghosts story etc
I'm trying to move away from goodreads so I've definitely been using a combination of notion and storygraph to organise my reading (it's so nice seeing storygraph love in the comments), i'd also be super keen in seeing a notion tour/set up vid if you were ever to consider filming something like that! it's so interesting to see how other's set theirs up in terms of aesthetic and functionality !!
I only use Goodreads to keep track of my books (I've tried the new platforms that have been launched recently, but I'm so used to Goodreads, it was hard to change and create habits there), and I also have a recently-created Excel document with all the books I own, but I'm so sure I'll forget about it in a few weeks hahaha For personal use, I have a couple of journals, but I prefer Notion! I've been using it for around two years, and it's been great - I just love how everyone is starting to use it more too, and I can take inspo to decorate my pages :P
Very useful video, thank you for that 👍 Realy liked the last way with the Notion app 👌 The Jewish new year just started yesterday, so I guess it's time to start orgnize my reading. (and my life in general 🤣)
She used the widgets from a website called indify.co. Enter an email as the account name and you can start customisising the widgets. After you're done just copy the link for the widget and paste it in your Notion. Super easy and quick, too!
I love that you've found a system that works for you, even if it's in 3 different places. I use Notion for all reading notes and adore how simple it is to add in data, rearange information and make lists based on different criteria. Kind regards from a fellow RU-vidr! 🎉
I don't know about a tutorial or video but I found the answer in another comment. She used a website called indify.co. It's super easy to use and they are adding new content regularly. It's basically a widget, and it gives you a link you can copy directly to Notion.
Hi, what is the model of your laptop? May I ask about your experience with it? I am planning on buying one though things should be considered. Thank you.
there's a Brazilian site for books way better than goodreads called Skoob (add .com.br at the end) and there's lots of English books being registered (you can do it yourself too) so I'd recommend giving it a try
I like to listen to classic books via audiobooks. You can listen to the narration and read along physically, if that feels easier for you, since some classics are written in difficult and old diction. I download LibriVox and listen to classics for free, since most of them are in public domain anyways, the only downside is that some narrators can ruin the book for you, but hey, beggars can't be choosers🤷♀️.
i've downloaded notion to my phone after i saw unjaded jade's video too. was hesitant, but your video has convinced me to use it :D Also, why don't you track books you're currently reading on goodreads? (i like that it converts how many pages you read to how much you've read I percentage)
Ik hoorde dat je naam Leonie is en dacht " Je moet wel Nederland zijn" :D Meestal herken ik de Nederlandse RU-vidrs aan hun accent, maar dat kan ik bij jou niet echt horen. Mijn naam is trouwens Leontien, vandaar dat het me gelijk opviel ;)
I use excel, but I've been really loving thestorygraph recently! They have mood, tone, genre, pacing, and trigger filters which is just incredibly handy. Plus it just looks and functions so much nicer than Goodreads
Being a long time Notion user and digital nerd I would move all the paper journal into Notion and combine the databases using relations and have a gallery view for the page covers. I would also probably clip the books into Notion so I get all the info in there but that is me 😁
Thank you for talking about Notion i think the site/app will change things for me i was writing down things in separate notes on a notpad on my phone and it got confusing now with notion I will be able to type it once and have it on my PC and my phone.....which will be useful with my disability....
I find it easier to do everything digitally, because I'll get lazy about updating regularly in a notebook, but at the same time i want to have a bullet journal. I also get frustrated when I can't make a bullet journal as pretty as the rest of you guys. I have no talent for drawing. haha
I use goodreads and an excel spreadsheet to track my reading! I like having my own digital tracker so I can customise it and add as many piecharts as I like :D
I'm late to this but I use Goodreads for short reviews and to remember what I've read. I'm getting old so memory is not what it was. But I've got something that I call the 'Ridiculous Reading List', which is an Excel Spreadsheet, built over a couple of years. It started off from the 1000 Novels List in a Guardian article, but I added poetry, drama and Non-Fiction so it now has 3335 books on it, of which I've read - so far - 343 (although I've not counted every book I've read off of the list because I read a chunk of them before I was 18.) It's an utterly insane list - especially as I added publication dates and page counts (approx) for them all but I like it as a goal. It's probably impossible to read them all. And, in some cases difficult to get hold of copies. For example I added a small 'Great Dutch Books' list to it as I was supposed to be coming to the Netherlands in June 2020 but obviously couldn't and I can't find an English translation of Thomas Rosenboom's Publicke Werken. It's like tilting at literary windmills. Apologies for the long comment.
I love organization videos! I'm such a nerd hahahah I keep track of my reading in a lot of diferent ways. Notion seems a little bit too complicated for my taste, so I use Keep, the notes app from Google, which is very simple. There I have my currently reading, my Library TBR (books that I want to read and I know I can take from my local library), montly TBR's, a DNFs list, a list of all the books that I have read in the year, and a montly page tracker. My overall TBR is way too long, so I have it in a separate spreadsheet. I also have a very detailed spreadsheet for the books I've read in the year and lots of graphs. In my bullet journal, I have a page tracker, just because it looks beautiful, a list of the books I've read that month with some stats, and also separate pages for some reading projects and readathons. I use Goodreads just to upload my reviews. I write them on Keep when I finish the book, and a couple of weeks later I write the GR review. Yeah, that's a lot, I know.
I also use Notion to organise my TBR but mine is way more unnecessarily complicated than yours xD I organise my TBR by month and sort the books within the month by availability (do I own it, or is it ready to borrow or on hold at the library, etc), status (currently reading, to read immediately next, etc), how much I want to read it, genre and length. Then I also have different views to show books from different sources (owned physically or as ebooks, from library, Scribd, Netgalley, to purchase, etc), the ones I'm currently reading, audiobooks available right now, and a few others. My favourite view is the calendar that shows the covers of the books I've read on the days I finished them.
Would you consider doing a guide on how you created your Notion pages because I am stuck and it doesn't look the way I want to?? How did you make the different trackers lie so neatly by each other instead of all being different pages???
I Like your book earrings. And, I appreciate these organize ideas. I will try Notion, my notes section on my phone is overloaded. Can you download things to notion?
Nice video! Your Journal is lovely with drawings, my handwriting is so bad I have trouble reading my journal sometime lol. I love your handwriting and stickers in journal
Both you and Daniel Greene have mentioned the downsides of goodreads (incidentally I found out about you from the time you went on his channel, and I’ve been following you since). Right now I’m keeping a list of all the books I own in a note on my phone, and another list of all the books I’ve actually read in another note, but this video has piqued my interest, so I would like a video on goodreads alternatives.
I use an excel file, which was originally created by another booktuber, later on I revised it to fit my needs and the things I want to keep track of when it comes to reading. :) But I'm going to try out the Notion also, sounds interesting!
Roam Research beats everything. You don't need to 'organise' too much or have things in different places. Just whack it in Roam and it organises itself, and the value of your notes compound over time.
I loved this video. I need to return back to bullet journaling. I fell off and I’m not sure if I should continue with my old journal or let my ocd kick and and buy new journal to start over. If anything that decision is going to make me procrastinate even more lol!
Leoni, you could use that tbr part by sticking sticky note to that place (each month new one). I do that in my notebooks, it also make that page "extraordinary:-)" with colours.
I use Goodreads, StoryGraph (still in beta but looks very promising), and WhatsApp. I have a WhatsApp group with my best friend and every time one of us finishes a book they will write a short review. So it's keeping track of what I've read, my opinions and I also get recommendations. Edit: and I also have a massive excel sheet for all the books I own, including editions, original title and even ISBNs... I'm a sucker for excel 😂
