The 30-minute Notion reset I do every season
Not a full rebuild — a gentle cleanup that keeps your system feeling like yours instead of a graveyard of abandoned pages.
Every three months I block half an hour, make tea, and open Notion with one rule: nothing gets added. This is a subtraction session. I archive any page I haven't touched since the last reset and delete any database I built because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
The first time I did this, I archived 40 percent of my workspace and felt lighter immediately. Most of it was aspirational clutter — a habit tracker I'd used for nine days, a reading log with two entries. Keeping them around wasn't neutral. Every time I saw them, I got a small dose of 'you're behind.'
Then I check the pages I actually use. Is the home dashboard still showing what matters this season? In summer, my meal planner needs a grill-and-salad section. In winter, it needs soup and batch cooking. Swap out one or two sections, not the whole page.
Finally, I look at the top of my sidebar. If the first three items aren't the things I open daily, I reorder them. Sounds trivial. It changes how often I open Notion at all.
The reset isn't about having a perfect system. It's about making sure the system still fits the life you're actually living this season — not the one you had last spring.