<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to the NYC Birding Checklist. This read-me doc is to help acclimate you to the checklist in as few steps as possible.
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If this is your first time using Notion, you’re in for a treat. Notion is a powerful piece of software that allows users to build custom tooling for anything from project management across large teams, to habit tracking for personal users. The possibilities with Notion are endless.
Everything in this specific tracker runs out of three main databases. One database for Birds, another database for Locations, and a thirds database for Photos.
These databases have some “related” properties, meaning they share information across the three databases. For instance, you can relate a bird to the Location you spotted it, and to the photo you took of it (if applicable).
But the main database where a majority of information lives is the database.
This is where all of the information for birds live, and where you can edit existing birds or add new ones.
If you want to use this template, click the “Duplicate” icon in the top right of this page. This is the icon that looks like two overlapping squares. Clicking this button will ask you to log in or create a Notion account, and then select a workspace to copy the template to.
Once this is completed, you are good to go! If there is data in the template that you don’t want, such as Spotted, Wishlist & Favorite birds that might already checked off, you can start fresh by visiting the Database management page and resetting these properties.
Note: There may be existing Favorited/Spotted/Wishlist birds if this database was duplicated while I was still building it. These are my existing birds, but my original database is not editable, so feel free to erase all this info once duplicated 🙂
See a bird in NYC? Simply check the “Spotted” checkbox property and it will be added to your Spotted list in the sidebar. For more common birds, feel free to check the “Hide” checkbox within that specific bird’s page to avoid clutter.
“Wishlist” and “Favorites” act in the same way, and will be added to your sidebar as they are checked.
Click into a specific bird’s page to view, edit, or add information.