Thomas Frank
The Ultimate Second Brain Template by Thomas Frank is a comprehensive productivity system built in Notion that helps you organize every aspect of your life in one centralized place. With its clean interface and thoughtful structure, it provides an excellent foundation for capturing tasks, notes, projects, and more.
Key Features of the Template
- Powerful task management with various views (Today, Inbox, Week, Month)
- Project management with Kanban board visualization
- Notes organization system
- PARA organization method (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archives)
- Specialized databases for books, recipes, and more
- Quick capture functionality
- Beautiful database views inside projects
How to Connect Thomas Frank's Template to Notis
To connect Thomas Frank's Ultimate Second Brain Template with Notis, follow these steps:
- Purchase and duplicate Thomas Frank's Ultimate Second Brain Template into your Notion workspace
- Set up your template with your desired structure and initial content
- Request the link to your Notis portal by sending a message to Notis asking for "the link to my portal" or using the "/portal" command in Telegram
- Click the + button at the top of the portal
- Select "Select pages to share with Notis" option (instead of installing the template provided by the developer)
- Connect to your Notion account and select the correct workspace
- Select the page containing Thomas Frank's Ultimate Second Brain Template
- Click "Allow access" to confirm your selection
- Wait for Notis to sync with your template (about 5 minutes)
For detailed instructions on connecting any template to Notis, check out this guide.
Using Notis with Thomas Frank's Template
Once connected, you can start using Notis to interact with your Ultimate Second Brain Template:
- Create tasks: "Create a new task to review project progress by Friday"
- Create notes: "Add a note about the marketing strategy discussion from today's meeting"
- Create projects: "Create a new project for the website redesign due next month"
- Link tasks to projects: "Create a task to finalize the logo design and link it to the website redesign project"
- Update status: "Change the status of the website redesign project to 'Doing'"
- Search: "Find all my notes about marketing strategies"
Note: While Notis works seamlessly with Thomas Frank's template's database structure, it cannot create entries using the template's specialized page templates due to limitations in the Notion API. However, it can still create and manage all content in the databases.
Conclusion
Combining Thomas Frank's Ultimate Second Brain Template with Notis creates a powerful productivity system that lets you capture and organize information effortlessly. The template provides the structure, while Notis gives you the flexibility to interact with your second brain from anywhere using just your voice or text messages.