Choose the Notion journal you actually need
Start with the simple free journal, or skip the setup work with the complete paid Notion system. They are separate products.
Free Notion trading journal
Get the basic journal by email, duplicate it into your workspace and adapt the fields you need.
Get free template →TSB for Notion
Use the ready-built journal, analytics, reviews, backtesting, playbook, importer and chart layer.
See complete system →The difference: free is a simple starting journal; paid is the connected Notion workflow with imports and analytics already built.
A Notion trading journal can combine structured trade rows with qualitative review pages. The useful part is not the decoration: it is a consistent database schema, a small set of views, and a weekly decision process.
If you request the TSB template, inspect the delivered version before relying on any property or formula. If it is simpler than you need, the setup below shows how to extend a copy without pretending those extensions were included in the free offer.
What the Free Template Includes
The free offer is a simple Notion trading journal. Enter your email, open the delivery message and duplicate the journal into your own Notion workspace.
Because the duplicated copy can evolve, run this quick inspection before adding real trading data:
- Is the trade log a Notion database or a plain page?
- Which properties exist, and which are formulas?
- Are there table, calendar, board, or gallery views?
- Does any view contain example trades that should be deleted?
- Are pages private, and who can access shared links?
- Do any calculations match a hand-worked test row?
Notion describes database items as pages with properties and supports multiple views over the same database. That platform capability makes a journal possible; the checklist below confirms how the delivered copy is configured today.
How to Get the Free Template
- Open the TSB free trading journal page.
- Read the current offer and privacy links before submitting the form.
- Enter the requested first name and email if you accept the delivery method.
- Use the link sent to your inbox.
- If the source is a duplicable public Notion page, sign in to the intended workspace and choose Duplicate.
- Confirm the new copy is in your workspace before editing or entering data.
Notion explains that duplication creates a copy of a permitted public page in your selected workspace. TSB says the template link is sent immediately; if it does not appear, check Spam or Promotions before requesting it again.
Read Notion's public-page duplication instructions.
How to Set It Up (4 Steps)
Perform these steps on your duplicated copy. Property names in the delivered template may differ.
1. Establish a Minimum Trade Schema
If the copy contains a database, keep or create properties for:
| Property | Suggested Notion type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Trade | Title | Stable row label, such as date + symbol |
| Closed at | Date | One chosen timezone |
| Symbol | Select or text | One consistent instrument code |
| Direction | Select | Long or Short |
| Net P&L | Number | Realized result under a documented fee convention |
| Initial risk | Number | Positive currency risk at the planned stop |
| Setup | Select | One controlled strategy label |
| Rule followed | Checkbox or status | Process result independent of profit |
| Notes | Page content or text | Short observation tied to a review |
2. Test Any R-Multiple Formula
A safe definition is net P&L divided by a positive initial-risk amount, with an empty result when risk is missing or zero. Notion formula syntax can evolve, so create three fictional rows—a win, a loss, and zero risk—and verify results manually before using the formula on real trades.
Do not calculate currency risk from entry, stop, and size unless the formula also handles the instrument's multiplier, point or pip value, and fees.
3. Create Views for Real Review Questions
- All trades: table sorted by newest close time.
- This week: filtered by close date.
- Rule breaks: filtered where Rule followed is unchecked.
- By setup: grouped by the controlled Setup property.
- Needs review: status-based queue for missing notes or screenshots.
A calendar view is helpful only if date context changes your analysis; a gallery view is helpful only if chart images are central to review. More views are not automatically better.
4. Create a Reusable Entry Template
Notion database templates can prefill page structure and properties. Create a “New closed trade” template with prompts for thesis, invalidation, execution deviation, screenshot, and lesson. Leave numeric outcomes blank so a copied example cannot be mistaken for a real trade.
Read Notion's database-template documentation and database overview.
Free Journal vs Complete Notion System
The free journal is a simple starting point. The paid TSB Notion system is a separate, ready-built workflow with a journal, analytics, reviews, backtesting, a playbook, unlimited CSV/TSV/JSON/HTML imports and ten chart embeds. The TSB web app is a third product with its own plans and browser-based workflow.
If you stay with the free journal, add analytics in one of three ways:
- Use native database calculations that you have tested.
- Export the rows and calculate metrics in a spreadsheet, keeping metric definitions documented.
- Use a separate journal application and link to it, after verifying its supported import sources and current plan.
Use the live TSB Notion product page to check the current paid offer, price and included features. Compare the TSB web app separately when you want a browser-based journal rather than a Notion workspace.
Free Template vs Building from Scratch
| Decision factor | Duplicate the free journal | Build from scratch |
|---|---|---|
| Starting speed | Faster if the delivered schema fits | Slower initial setup |
| Known contents | Inspect after delivery | You define every property |
| Customization | Edit your duplicated copy | Complete control from the start |
| Formula confidence | Still requires test rows | Requires design and test rows |
| Best fit | Simple habit and fast trial | Existing, precisely documented workflow |
Choose duplication when you want to start logging and are willing to adapt what arrives. Build from scratch when you already know the review decisions, field definitions, and relationships you need. Neither option removes the requirement to validate formulas and permissions.
Privacy and Backup Checks
- Do not store broker passwords, API keys, identity documents, or payout credentials in the journal.
- Review Notion sharing permissions after duplication and before adding screenshots.
- Use fictional trade rows while testing formulas and templates.
- Export a backup before changing property types or deleting a database.
- Record timezone, fee treatment, and breakeven handling in a definitions page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the TSB Notion journal free?
The live offer describes it as free and asks for a first name and email. Verify the page at the time you request it; the guide does not infer paid-product access from that offer.
Does it contain a prop-firm tracker or broker import?
No. The public free offer is deliberately a simple starting journal. Broker importing belongs to the paid Notion system, while prop-rule replay belongs to the separate TSB web app.
Can I customize the duplicated copy?
Notion supports editing properties and views in a database you control, subject to workspace permissions. Duplicate first, preserve an untouched backup, and test structural changes with fictional data.
