Build a beautiful habit tracker on Notion
Learn how to create calendar heat maps to track your habits that look like this 👇
Daily deep focus sessions
Pretty, isn't it? You can interact with it too. Try hovering over the calendar! By the end of this article, you'll recreate a Notion habit tracker that looks like this.
Creating a habit tracker on Notion with their table-based structure can be... well, awkward. We fixed that with a free habit tracker tool that we made called Life of Discipline. With it, you can create many calendar heat maps like the one above to track any habit and embed them onto Notion. It only takes 3 super simple steps!
Step 1: Sign up to Life of Discipline and create your first habit
Head over to the sign up page to create an account (it is free!). Then, create a new habit that you would like to track. It could be anything, from tracking the number of pages you read to your daily water intake!
Step 2: Generate an embed link
Now that you have created your habit, click on the more button located on the top right, then click on for the habit you just created.
On the Embed Habit popup, click on . If you would like to log your habits directly on Notion, check the Create entries directly on embed option.
Step 3: Embed the link on your Notion page
Head over to the page on Notion that you want to embed your heat map on. Then, create an embed block by typing '/embed' and hit return (Enter if you are on Windows) to select the first Embed option. Then, paste the embed link that you copied in step 2 and... Voilà ! Now drag the embeded habit on Notion to resize it however you'd like.
How to log your habits on Notion
You can currently log your habits directly on Notion as long as you selected the Create entries directly on embed option mentioned in Step 2. Do note that anyone who has access to that link can log your habits for you, so make sure your Notion page is private if you select this option.
If you would like your page to be public, then simply leave that option unchecked. This would require you to log your habits through our website instead. To make it easier, you can simply leave a link to your profile on your Notion page.
And... That's it!
Have fun with it! We wish you all the best in your journey of self improvement. 👋