Gamification - notion automations

Kacper Hernacki

Aug 23, 2023 — 4 min read

“Gamification can be the tool that drives repetition and makes desired behaviors into habits, effectively removing the need for gamification since the activity has become intrinsically motivated.” ~ definition

Last week I listened to an entire podcast with a polish successful entrepreneur about how he is planning his routines, habits, and work (recorded in Polish).
This interview inspired me to create a notion template that will follow the gamification concept.

If you are interested, visit the link:

He follows simple rules:
📌 Assign points to your habits,
📌 Give more points to habits that are important and harder to do,
📌 Give less points to easy habits,
📌 Track your days with points,
📌 Regulate points, if hard habits are easy, decrease points, if some habits are not done for a few days, give more points

New Notion template

Some updates at the beginning, every subscriber of the newsletter will have a special shared link to purchase for symbolic 1$ a notion template for tracking habits, according to the gamification rules. It is estimated to be released in two weeks, so keep waiting for this premiere. The market price will be set to 10$.

Save to notion

One of the best automations I have implemented is saving tweets to notion. What is more, it can be configured in a few minutes.

Let’s see how it works:

you are researching Twitter, you see interesting tweets,
Comment tweet with a sentence:

@SaveToNotion then use the #thread of #tweet to determine what kind of content it is and add another hashtag with a tag, for example, #buisness. It should look like:

then automatically, you get the tweet in you resource database in notion

Isn’t it cool?

How to configure it?

visit account SaveToNotion

https://twitter.com/savetonotion?s=11&t=8Uyah5XP2ygOiwVYpVxdvg

duplicate notion database:

https://abdulhadeahmad.notion.site/87bfd5b5862e425d82de6ce47c88a2d4

Connect notion database:

https://savetonotion.com/auth/notion_from_twitter

save tweets 🚀

📕 Book of the week

Tools of Titans - Tim Ferris

One of the best books I have read in my life is Tools of Titans written by Tim Ferris. The author is a host of a podcast the Tim Ferris Show and interviews different kinds of people: celebrities, sportsmen, scientists, etc.

This book is a complex standardized base of knowledge from many guests of the podcasts. It includes their practices, and tips, which led to the success.

You can find sports hacks from sportsmen, business tips from businessmen, and many more interesting things.

💊 Dopamine

This week I started to care about dopamine levels and how to use it for doing difficult things. Moreover, one of the most important topics about health is avoiding dopamine peaks, so that you can rest more efficiently.

Proper rest should not be about watching social media, Netflix, or eating unhealthy, but rather doing not interesting hard things, like cleaning, sitting, reading for a long time, etc. Looking at the dopamine topic from a coder's perspective, it is crucial to schedule deep work sessions with no music, no podcasts in the background, only you and the code. Remember to also mute your phone and notifications. If you work in this state for about 20 minutes, you will benefit higher dopamine level without a crash after it.

What is a dopamine crash?

After doing the thing that excites you, eating unhealthy, or scrolling social media, you can stop and crash on yourself immediately or continue this process and have a deeper dumb. Dopamine peaks one after another can lead to procrastination, low level of efficiency, and depression in the longer perspective. Try to avoid peaks and even if you scroll social media, use time limits. When you do training, focus only on exercise, no music and scrolling, if you eat, eat healthy, no junk food.