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The Ultimate Notion Content Planning System

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Summary of the Video (Notion Content Planning System)

The speaker presents an end-to-end Notion workflow for content planning: starting with brainstorming content ideas, moving through scheduling and content batching, and finishing with publishing tracking via social media audits and metrics. The system is designed to reduce procrastination—specifically the “scrolling for inspiration” trap—by making content creation and planning feel structured and easy.

Core Product/Features of the Notion System

Content Hub (Main Dashboard)

  • Navigation bar to jump to other areas of the workspace.
  • Content calendar featuring an ideal posting schedule and a scheduling workflow.
  • Quick actions to:
    • Add new posts
    • Start a social media audit

Social Media Strategy Page (Kept Deliberately Simple)

This page is built to stay lightweight while still guiding content decisions.

  • Link to ideal customers for reference
  • Posting schedule table (posting cadence by platform)
  • Content pillars: choose 4–5 topics, such as:
    • personal systems
    • business systems
    • Notion
    • personal growth
    • productivity
  • Sales funnel phases integrated into content planning (The speaker is not a marketer, but adopts the framework to give content purpose.)

Example provided:

  • Nurture phase emphasizes:
    • connection
    • authority-building
    • how-to content
  • Each sales phase includes prompts to define:
    • what’s unique about the industry solution
    • what the speaker does differently

Content Brainstorm Page

A prompt-based area for generating ideas and preparing them for later scheduling.

  • Prompt-based idea generation, including:
    • audience interests
    • trends
    • unique perspective
    • “invite your audience in”

  • Content database view for repurposing content (Example: a newsletter episode/workspace win like “cropping images in Notion” can be reused in other formats.)

  • Phase blocking: ties brainstorming to Growth/Nurture/Sales timing, using an annual marketing calendar for context

  • “Hot key”/button actions to quickly create new brainstorming entries for specific post types (e.g., new TikTok / YouTube item)

Properties used for each content idea:

  • Topic + content pillar
  • Post type (e.g., TikTok vs YouTube Shorts)
  • Links to the original content (e.g., the email/newsletter)
  • Optional links to:
    • promoted content
    • freebies
    • brand partnerships
  • Notes field

Repurpose checkbox workflow:

  • When an item is repurposed, it moves out of the repurpose area
  • It is then routed into the schedule / breadcrumbs for the next publishing cycle

Schedule Ideas → Content Calendar

Scheduling is handled directly in the calendar.

  • Drag-and-drop from platform tabs (Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, email, etc.) onto specific calendar dates.
  • Calendar supports:
    • content phase references while scheduling (so nurture vs sales content lands at the right time)
    • awareness of an annual planning calendar (e.g., vacations—avoid overloading scheduling)

Practical workflow tabs for the content lifecycle:

  • Ideas to write
  • Media to create
  • Editing tasks
  • Recently published/scheduled items (Older items “age off.”)

Content Batching Area

  • Organizes tasks by stage:
    • writing
    • media production
    • editing
  • Supports two working styles:
    • work down the pipeline
    • jump to urgent tasks

Per-Content Page Templates (Example: Instagram Carousel)

Stores key information and task details for each post type.

Template includes fields such as:

  • URL for reference (more used for emails/YouTube)
  • Status flags such as Pinterest pinning
  • Relations/links to products/services (e.g., workspace builds or templates)
  • Freebies and brand partnerships
  • Caption plan and to-dos

To-do handling differs by content size:

  • Small posts: checkboxes
  • Larger posts (e.g., YouTube videos): a separate task database with due dates

Apple-specific convenience:

  • If accounts/Notion integration are connected, the system can help copy caption text on laptop and paste it to the phone.

Social Media Metrics + Audits

The Content Hub includes per-platform dashboards/cards (Instagram, email, YouTube, TikTok). Pinterest is tracked less or not at all by the speaker.

Social media audit workflow stores monthly results for:

  • what didn’t work vs what performed well
  • saves/engagement drivers
  • “what are people talking about?”
  • what sparked conversations (stories)
  • what to work on next month (used to prevent discouragement)

Metrics views include:

  • monthly comparisons (e.g., 2 months ago vs last month)
  • color-coded performance indicators:
    • red = underperformance
    • green = success

“Metric brain dump” area:

  • gathers ideas derived from audit results
  • stays unsorted until the next brainstorming cycle

Review / Promotion-Related Info (From the Speaker)

  • The speaker promotes a template shop offer during Black Friday sale:
    • All Notion templates: 25% off (until Cyber Monday / Dec 2)
    • “Entrepreneur Planner” (all templates bundled): $60 off

What the Notion Dashboard Organizes

  • Caption hooks resource
  • Links to social audits (past 3 months)
  • Lists of:
    • posts in process
    • published posts

Main Speaker / Source

  • Main speaker: the video’s creator (single presenter) demonstrating their own Notion setup and workflow.

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