15 of the Best Free Notion Templates

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Notion is a free management tool that allows you to organize personal and professional projects efficiently. With distinct pages for individuals, business owners, freelancers, and others, you can get a jumpstart on almost any type of task with customizable and free Notion templates.

Note: learn how to add templates to Notion from the Notion.site.

1. Aesthetic Home Dashboard

The Aesthetic Home Dashboard is a template that compiles various pages for organizing calendar events, to-do lists, daily routines, tarot card databases, and horoscopes, among others.

Aesthetic Home Dashboard uploaded to Notion

It features a documentation block with pages for Weekend Plans, Shows and Movies, and Daily Routines, allowing users to stay updated on their queue of movies and keep track of watched movies.

Other notable features include a music playlist that streams directly from Spotify so that you can link your favorite playlist to your dashboard. It also has a to-do list that differentiates completed tasks from unfinished tasks, a wishlist, and a calendar to view upcoming events.

2. Notion Library

The Notion Library allows you to save and organize your favorite books, adding descriptions and summaries.

Using the free Notion template Notion Library to organize books

Users can sort their books by status, genre, or language and rate completed books. The Notion Library template features a dictionary for vocabulary development, especially for users with books in other languages.

3. Work Week – To Do Lists for Work

The Work Week – To Do Lists for Work is one of the best free Notion templates to improve your productivity by enabling you to sort your various activities into separate sections.

One of the best free Notion templates to tasks - Work Week.

This easy-to-navigate template groups daily and weekly tasks by category, priority, deadline, effort, and status. It provides a section for tasks that are delayed or deprioritized.

4. Simple Budget

Keeping track of your bills and other expenses is easy with the Simple Budget template from Notion. Add your monthly budget total, list your expenses with their amounts, and use categories to see how much money goes where.

Tracking expenses with Simple Budget template.

You can view all expenses, group them by month or category, or filter them by type, like Food and Entertainment. These various views give you a clear way to see if you’re overspending in a particular area.

5. Student Hub Notion Template

Whether you’re a virtual student or enrolled in a college or university, the Student Hub Notion Template will keep you organized. This template allows you to take note of important deadlines, meetings, assignments, and projects.

Tracking education activities with Student Hub Notion template.

The Student Hub Notion template also groups your work into cycles, subjects, and tasks, allowing you to set reminders for task deadlines on a calendar. It also has features that enable you to add sticky notes and motivational messages to cheer you on in your learning journey.

6. Daily Planner

If you have a busy schedule with work, school, clubs, workouts, and other activities, you can keep track of it all with the Daily Planner template. Add your items by the hour, and see your entire day at a glance.

Hourly planning with Notion's Daily Planner template.

You can also add highlights, tasks, habits, and goals in handy spots along the right side, then mark off these items as you complete them. For a convenient way to plan each day, while still keeping an eye on extras you want to accomplish, this Notion template is ideal.

7. Media Tracker

Media Tracker allows you to track film series, books, podcasts, and all other media types you can think of.

Tracking all your media consumption with Media Tracker.

With the use of tags like “finished,” “next,” “listening,” and a Notes feature for jotting down important details, the Media Tracker template proves an excellent tool for managing and documenting the media you consume.

8. Content Engine

The Content Engine allows you to plan, organize, and manage your collated content ideas. Individuals and teams can use this template to write down their notes, and work them up to the point of execution in an organized process.

Organizing content with Content Engine, one of the best free Notion templates.

The template allows you to differentiate content for various platforms and tag ideas that are approved, in progress, reviewed, or completed. You can also organize your items by deadline, assignee, or status.

9. My Calendar

Maybe you need to go further than planning one day at a time. With the My Calendar template, you can see all activities for the current month, then plan additional events in advance.

Using the free My Calendar template for Notion.

Use the Need to Schedule view to add all appointments, meetings, activities, and other commitments. Once you give them dates, they’ll appear in the Monthly Calendar view. You also have a place for All Activities, to track everything on your list.

10. The Ultimate To-Do List

When you have tasks for work, home, school, and more, The Ultimate To-Do List template helps you log it all. You have sections for Daily, School, Personal, and Large tasks, but you can customize these any way you would like to fit your needs.

Tracking all types of personal and work tasks with Ultimate To-Do List.

If you like the Kanban method of task management, the template provides you with board views in addition to tables for quickly seeing and moving tasks to completion. You can also include a priority, effort, and status for each to-do, as well as add parent tasks and sub-tasks. Keep all of your tasks on track with this easy-to-use Notion template.

11. Gift Wishlist

Do you like to record and monitor what you want to buy? This Gift Wishlist template lets you add the store, price, photos, and priority purchases. When you need a little motivation to buy something on your list or want to share your wishlist with others around the holidays, this template makes it easy.

Keep track of gifts given and received with Gift Wishlist, one of the best free Notion templates.

With over a dozen categories, you can include nearly any item you plan to purchase. Then, view your wishlist by category, name, brand, or price. You can even sort your items from lowest to highest price to see more affordable items first.

12. Workout Tracker

When it comes to fitness tracking, Notion can be a huge help with this Workout Tracker template. Not only can you record your workouts on the calendar, but go even further with exercises for specific muscle groups.

Tracking a workout with the Workout Tracker Notion template.

Use the presets, and include notes or add your own exercises, then view the history table showing the exercise, muscle group, number of sets and reps, and weight. If you’re serious about tracking your workouts and routines, you can’t go wrong with this free template.

13. Vocabulary

Learning a new language or trying to expand the vocabulary in your current dialect? With the Vocabulary template, you can add words with their definitions, synonyms, and sample sentences for a complete study dictionary.

Learning new vocabulary words with Vocabulary template.

The template gives you views to see your words by parts of speech, which is handy for a specific concentration. You can also use the checkboxes to mark reviews of the word and stay up to date with the calendar. Language learning or vocabulary enhancement is more effective when you keep track, and this template has you covered.

14. Habit Tracker

Want to start new habits? Just try Habit Tracker. It’s one of the best free Notion templates for tracking daily, weekly, and even monthly habits. The layout is clean and simple, breaking down the habits you’re currently working on and those you want to start soon.

Tracking daily habits with Habit Tracker template

Each day on the template features a checklist of the habits you should strive for that day. Simply see which items aren’t checked to see which habits may need a little more work. You may want to combine this and a to-do list template to see whether daily tasks are getting in the way of your new habits. Also consider these other free Notion habit-tracking templates.

15. Notion Travel Manager

Whether it’s keeping track of all your travels or planning a new adventure, Notion Travel Manager is the perfect free template. It’s divided into destinations and places. Start with destinations that you’ve visited, are currently planning, or wish to travel to.

Tracking travels with Travel Manager template.

Then, add a list of places for each destination. Upload images of every place to better personalize your travel manager. Add notes about favorite memories or things you might need to take with you. Suddenly, Notion becomes the perfect way to remember your travels.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need to download the Notion templates?

It depends on the site you’re using, but typically, you won’t. Some will only require you to duplicate the template to add it to your Notion workspace. On Prototion, you simply need to press the Download button to load the free templates in Notion. No actual downloads are involved.

Can you sell your own Notion templates?

Yes. To start creating a new template, go to a new page, press / on your keyboard, and scroll down the drop-down menu to select the Template button. Name and customize the page as you see fit, then select Close in the top-right corner. Submit your template to sites like Prototion, and start monetizing it from there. You will earn money every time someone uses it, unless you choose to offer it for free.

How can I find Notion templates?

Notion users can find templates in Notion’s official template gallery or on sites like Prototion and Notion Everything, and from certified Notion consultants, like aNotioneer and TheNotionBar.

Are Notion templates available on mobile phones?

Yes. The Notion app is available on Android and iOS, and templates can be duplicated to your Notion page and edited on your mobile phone. If you’re migrating from Evernote, use these tips.

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Crystal Crowder
Crystal Crowder - Staff Writer

Crystal Crowder has spent over 15 years working in the tech industry, first as an IT technician and then as a writer. She works to help teach others how to get the most from their devices, systems, and apps. She stays on top of the latest trends and is always finding solutions to common tech problems.