Notion Learning Templates

These four cover different kinds of thinking: Second Brain (PKM) is for everything you're working on and referencing across projects and areas, Reading List & Book Notes is specifically for books, Course & Learning Tracker is specifically for formal courses and their assignments, and Daily Journal is for how each day actually felt, not what you learned from it.

Second Brain is the widest of the four: Areas, Resources and Projects hold anything you're tracking, with Tasks and Notes filed against them. A Project's Progress, Next due and Health compute themselves from its own Tasks, and that Progress rolls up a further hop into its Area, nothing typed in by hand at either step. Reading List and Course Tracker are narrower and more specific: Reading List tracks Author, Genre and Highlights per book with a live reading pace, while Course Tracker tracks Modules and Assignments weighted into a live grade per course. Daily Journal doesn't track progress toward anything; it's Prompts and Entries, with a streak that builds once two days land back-to-back.

Start with Second Brain if you want one system for notes and projects generally; it's the biggest build of the four and works best once you're ready to use Areas, Resources and Projects as real categories, not a junk drawer. Reading List & Book Notes and Course Tracker are narrower and faster to set up if books or classes specifically are what you're trying to organize. Daily Journal is the simplest starting point of the four if you just want a daily habit of writing something down.