While Ultimate Brain might feel like an full-blown app, at its core it’s simply a set of databases and pages.
The databases within Ultimate Brain provideo the actual functionality of the template – they contain the tasks, notes, projects, etc.
Meanwhile, Ultimate Brain’s pages contain all of the useful views that let you interact with these databases. These include the main Ultimate Brain home page, all of the sub-pages you see when you toggle open Ultimate Brain in your workspace’s sidebar, and any pages within those sub-pages.
This section of the docs contains a reference for each page in Ultimate Brain. Each main page in the template has its own page here, and sub-pages within them will be included as sections within their respective main page.
Note: Every database view in Ultimate Brain has a view description; just hover over the view’s tab to see it. In general, pages should be mostly self-explanatory, and these view descriptions should add any needed extra detail. The page docs below won’t go into too much detail for this reason, but I’ll use them to address frequently-asked-questions in a way that’s easy to link to.
Ultimate Brain Pages
Page | Description |
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Home Page | The primary page in Ultimate Brain. You can do 95% of your work from this page! Contains sections for Tasks, Notes, Projects, and Tags by default. |
Quick Capture | Hyper-focused on quickly creating new tasks and notes. Provides Inbox views for both, along with special inbox views that only show pages created today. |
Tasks | Your task management system. You’ll find nearly every task management view you need here, along with special sub-pages with even more views. |
Notes | Your note-taking system. You’ll find nearly every note-taking view you need here, along with special sub-pages – including a Review Queue, Meetings Notes page, and Journal. |
Projects | Displays all of your projects, and provides views and special sub-pages for organzing projects by Tag or by People (i.e. CRM entries). |
Tags | Displays all of your Tags, and provides special sub-pages that show only Area, Resource, or Entity-type Tags. |
Goals | Your goal-tracking HQ. Allows you to use the special Goals database to plan and track higher-level goals, which can contain projects. |
Archive | Where old stuff goes to die. Ok… not really. The Archive shows notes, projects, tags, and goals that have the Archive checkbox checked. These archived assets don’t display anywhere else; they’re safely tucked in the Archive, and out of your hair everywhere else. |
People | A full personal CRM for Notion. The People dashboard lets you create contact records, keep track of birthdays, take meeting notes, relate people to projects, and more. |
Books | A complete library and reading tracker. One of my personal favorite parts of Ultimate Brain. |
Recipes | A full-fledged recipe tracker for Notion. Also lets you create meal plans consisting of multiple recipes, which can be added to your calendar to aid in weekly meal planning. |
My Day | My favorite (and most-used) page in Ultimate Brain. Allows you to add tasks to a day plan, letting you start each day with a deliberate planning session. More than anything else, this page will make you more productive. |
My Week | This is the “cleanup” page in Ultimate Brain. It will help you to review each week and prep for the next; at the same time, it helps you prevent your system from piling up with overdue tasks and irrelevant information. |
My Year | Lets you schedule projects and goals, planning out both the current quarter and the current year. If you’re a long-term planner, this page is your jam. |
Process (GTD) | Are you a GTD nerd? This page adds the full GTD workflow to Ultimate Brain’s task manager. Define next actions, add tasks to the Calendar, defer, delegate, and all that jazz. |
Databases & Components | This is the boiler room of the template. All the knobs, old tools, and slightly leaky pipes are down here. It’s a bit noisy, and a old guy named Kamajī runs everything. Real talk: All of Ultimate Brain’s source databases are located here. |