Task Tamer by Notionery

Seamlessly manage both daily tasks and large projects in Notion

With a bit of work, Notion can be a capable task management app – and this template does the heavy lifting for you.

Quickly add tasks to the Inbox, manage your day or week with the My Day and Upcoming views, add sub-tasks and recurring tasks, and even run huge projects with Trello-style board views.

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Check out our all-in-one productivity template, Brain Buddy. You can still get Task Tamer at the bottom of this page, but if you want a complete productivity system (Tasks, Notes, Projects, Resources, Areas, and Goals), we highly recommend checking out Brain Buddy.

Want to Switch to Notion from Todoist, Asana, or Any Other Task App?

For years, I feel like I’ve been juggling task management apps. I used Trello at work, while keeping my personal tasks in Google Tasks… it was all a bit scattered, and I really wanted a centralized place where I could manage everything.

As a Notion user, I also wanted my tasks and projects to be able to seamlessly connect to my notes, my company wiki and its SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures), and more.

Clearly, I needed to move my task management into Notion. And after months of experimentation and battle-testing, I’ve finally accomplished that with my Task Tamer template for Notion.

All Your Tasks and Projects in One Place
Task Tamer Overview
The Task Tamer template dashboard gives you access to all the views you’d expect in a task management app:

• Inbox
• My Day
• Upcoming

Each of these views is easily accessible from the Notion sidebar. Personally, I also add my most frequently-used ones to my Favorites bar for even quicker access.

You’ll also find a table for large projects. This table contains a powerful template; create a new project with it, and you’ll find a task board inside it that displays any task associated with that project.

Finally, you’ll find a board on most views called Daily Tasks. With this board, you can easily create daily “scratchpad lists” of tasks. Use this to jot down small tasks that will be done quickly, or plan out your whole day if you like.

Use the My Day View to Plan Your Day

My Day View
The My Day view shows you all tasks across your system that are due today (or overdue). This is a great place to plan your day, or to add new tasks that need to be done today.

We take advantage of one of Notion’s most powerful database features here:

When you have a database view with filters, new tasks (technically, new pages) created in that view automatically take on whatever properties are needed to meet those filter rules.

Since the My Day View filters tasks to only show those due on or before today, any new tasks created here will auto-magically have today set as their due date.

This makes the My Day View a great place to quickly add tasks that are due today without any fuss!

Manage Large Projects in Notion Easily

Project Board View
When you’re working on a large project, you need a central place to see every task related to it. That’s where the Project board comes in. This board contains a powerful project template; create a new row using it, and you’ll get a page for that project with its own task board.

Trello-style kanban boards are perfect for large projects, and this template includes two of them:

• State view – the classic “To-Do, Doing, Done” board setup, which allows you to drag cards around as you work on them
• Tag view – create custom topic-based groups to organize larger, more complex projects

Recurring Tasks, Subtasks, and More

Subtasks in Notion
I’ve been using top-tier task management apps for years, so I couldn’t just move my entire life into Notion without some of the quality-of-life features I’ve come to expect.

Fittingly, the Task Tamer template includes the ability to create:

• Recurring Tasks
• Subtasks
• Task priorities

Have ideas for additional features? Let us know on Twitter.