Free Notion Template

What a Notion Template Is and Why It Saves Time

A Notion template is a ready-made page or database structure in Notion that you can duplicate with one click and then customize. Instead of building a habit tracker, project board, or journal from scratch by creating each database property one at a time, a template gives you the complete structure instantly.

Notion's native template gallery at notion.so/templates contains hundreds of community-submitted templates. You can duplicate any public Notion page into your workspace by clicking Duplicate in the top right corner of the page. The original stays untouched. Your copy lives in your workspace and is fully editable.

The templates on this page describe the structure and setup in plain text so you can either build the database yourself or use the description to find a matching template in Notion's gallery. This approach works whether you are new to Notion or have been using it for years.

• Notion habit tracker: track daily habits, streaks, and completion rates
• Notion trading journal: log trades, review patterns, track P&L
• Notion project management board: Kanban-style task tracking for teams or solo projects
• Notion personal dashboard: a home page linking all your databases and quick-access notes
• Notion reading list: track books to read, currently reading, and completed with notes
• Notion goal tracker: annual goals broken into quarterly milestones with status updates
• Notion content calendar: plan and track blog posts, social content, or video scripts

Notion Habit Tracker Template: Structure and Setup

The most searched Notion template is the habit tracker. Notion's database and relations features make it possible to build a habit system that shows streaks, completion rates, and patterns in one place.

A well-built Notion habit tracker has two linked databases: one for the habit list and one for daily check-ins. The habit database stores habit names, categories, and frequency. The daily check-in database records a row for each habit completed each day, with a checkbox and a date. Linking the two with a Notion relation property lets you filter check-ins by habit and calculate streaks using formula properties.

• Habit database: one row per habit, with name, frequency, category, and start date
• Daily log database: one row per habit per day, with date, checkbox, and relation to habit database
• Streak formula: calculates consecutive days using a rollup of the check-in database
• Gallery view: shows each habit as a card with a progress bar for visual tracking
• Filtered views: one for daily habits, one for weekly habits, one for habits in each category
• Completion rate formula: total completions divided by days since start date

How to Set Up a Notion Template in Your Workspace

Setting up a Notion template takes five to fifteen minutes depending on whether you duplicate an existing public template or build from scratch using a structure like the one above.

1. Open Notion and create a new page. Click the plus icon in the left sidebar or press Ctrl+N on Windows or Cmd+N on Mac.
2. To use a public template: visit notion.so/templates, find the template that matches your use case, open it, and click Duplicate in the upper right corner. You will be prompted to choose which workspace to add it to.
3. To build from scratch: on your new page, type /database and select Full page database or Inline database. Notion creates a new table with a default Title property.
4. Add the properties you need. Click the plus icon at the right end of the property header row. Choose the property type: Select for categories, Date for dates, Checkbox for completions, Number for numeric values, and Relation for linking to another database.
5. Name each property clearly. Property names appear as column headers in table view and as field labels in all other views.
6. Create different views for the same database. Click Add a view at the top left of the database. Choose Board view for project management, Gallery for visual tracking, or Calendar for date-based entries.
7. Populate with initial data. Add your first five rows so the database feels real and you can test the views and filters.
8. Share or publish the template if others need it. Open the page, click Share in the top right, enable Allow duplicate as template, and copy the link.

Notion Trading Journal Template

The Notion trading journal template is one of the highest-searched Notion templates among traders and investors. A trading journal in Notion tracks every trade, lets you add notes and screenshots, and helps you spot patterns in your wins and losses over time.

A basic Notion trading journal database includes the trade date, the ticker or asset traded, whether it was a long or short position, entry price, exit price, position size, profit and loss in dollars and percent, and a notes field for the trade thesis and what you learned.

• Date (Date property): when the trade was opened
• Ticker (Title property): the stock, crypto, or asset symbol
• Direction (Select): Long or Short
• Entry price (Number): price at open
• Exit price (Number): price at close
• Position size (Number): number of shares or units
• P&L dollars (Formula): exit minus entry, multiplied by position size
• P&L percent (Formula): exit minus entry, divided by entry, multiplied by 100
• Setup (Select): the trade pattern or strategy used
• Notes (Text): thesis, what went right, what went wrong

How to Share a Notion Template Link

Sharing a Notion template is different from sharing a regular page. A template share link lets other people duplicate your page into their own workspace without editing your original. This is how most community Notion templates are distributed.

1. Open the Notion page you want to share as a template.
2. Click Share in the upper right corner of the page.
3. Toggle on Share to web to make the page publicly accessible.
4. Enable Allow duplicate as template. This option appears after you enable web sharing.
5. Copy the link. When someone opens this link, they see your page with a Duplicate button at the top right. Clicking it copies the entire page into their workspace.
6. To share within a workspace instead of publicly: click Share, then Invite, and add team members by email. They get access to the page but cannot duplicate it as a template unless you set it as a workspace template.
7. To create a workspace template: go to Settings and Members, then Templates, and add the page there. All members can then access it from the template menu when creating new pages.

Tips for Building Effective Notion Templates

The most useful Notion templates are simple enough to maintain without extra effort. Complexity is the main reason people abandon Notion setups after a few weeks.

• Start with the minimum viable properties for your use case. Add more after you have been using the database for two weeks and know what data you actually need.
• Use filtered views rather than separate databases when the data is related. A single task database with views filtered by project is better than ten separate project databases.
• Name properties and views descriptively. 'Status' is vague. 'Task status' with options Not started, In progress, Done, and Blocked is specific.
• Avoid formula overload. Complex Notion formulas break easily and are hard to debug. Start simple and add complexity only when simpler solutions do not work.
• Use templates within databases. Each database can have its own item template with pre-filled default values so new rows start with the right structure.
• Review and prune your Notion setup monthly. Remove properties you never update and databases you have not opened in 30 days.