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The Notion Collection

Creative work moves through different kinds of containers. An idea needs somewhere to rest until it's ready, a project needs a finish line, a few weeks of work at a time, and the next small task, and a novel needs a place for everything around the manuscript: the people, the places, the promises it has made, and the problems you meant to fix later. The Notion Collection gives each stage its own Notion workspace, built on the same principles and the same working habits, so moving from one to the next feels familiar.

See the demos in Notion: The Idea Archive · The Project Organizer · The Novel Writing Organizer
View-only copies of all three templates with their sample content in place, so you can click through every page before you buy.

The Idea Archive is where ideas live before they become anything. Everything goes into the inbox first, and from there each idea moves from Spark to Incubating, Developing, and Ready, fed by notes and tested against other ideas in pairings. When an idea is Ready, you can say what it will be, roughly how big it is, and what the first session of work would be, and that is the moment it moves to The Project Organizer, where it gets a finish line someone else could check, rounds of about five weeks with a decision date and an end, and tasks sorted into Now, Next, and Later. When the project is a novel, The Novel Writing Organizer takes over: one workspace per book, built around scenes, with characters, beats, research, a Story Bible, and a ledger of every promise the book makes, all linked to the scenes where they matter.

All three are built for seasons. None of them has streaks, word counts, daily targets, or reminders, and none of them counts the days you were away. Each one leaves you a way back in: a door note or session note saying where you stopped, a handoff at the end of every round, a monthly review of the ideas that have waited longest, and a When you're stuck page that names the kind of stall you're in and gives you a first move.

$55.00
Notion templates
  • Three separate templates, each duplicated into your own workspace from the link in its user guide; your copies are private to you
  • Each runs on Notion's free plan, with no paid features, automations, or charts
  • Use any one without the others, or all three together
  • Designed for a computer, in a browser or the Notion desktop app, and work in the Notion apps for iOS and Android. Requires a free Notion account.
User guides

Three digital PDFs, 7 × 10 in, 95 pages in all, with screenshots of each template, a linked index, and bookmarks. Each includes the link to duplicate its template, so you can make a fresh copy whenever you need one.

License

For personal use. Please don't share, resell, or redistribute the templates.

The Idea Archive
  • An inbox, plus Ideas, Notes, and Pairings databases, with ideas moving from Spark to Made or Shelved
  • Notes as a commonplace book, each with a source specific enough to find again, linked to the ideas they feed
  • An Idea card, Pairing prompts, a fifteen-minute monthly Archive review, and a short essay on the thinking behind the archive
  • Sample ideas, notes, and a pairing, and a 32-page user guide
The Project Organizer
  • Projects, Rounds, Tasks, Inbox, and Session Notes databases, with each project's page showing its own tasks, rounds, and notes
  • Projects that can be Considering, Active, Resting, Finished, or Let go, with an archive for the finished ones
  • A Project brief, an End-of-round review, and When you're stuck, with eight kinds of stall and three short guides
  • A sample zine project with one round under way, and a 32-page user guide
The Novel Writing Organizer
  • 13 linked databases: Inbox, Idea Bank, Characters, Planted and Paid, Places and Rules, Research, Notes, Story Bible, Beats, Rounds, Scenes, Revision Debt, and Door Notes
  • Novel at a Glance, an Outline with a Snowflake-style skeleton, a Scene card, an End-of-round review, and When you're stuck, with ten kinds of stall and four short guides
  • A sample novel about a daughter who inherits her mother's bakery and the loan against it, and a 31-page user guide
Shared across all three

A capture inbox with a form you can save to your phone's home screen, the same plain working terms (finish lines, rounds, decision dates, handoffs, and seasons), a home page in each that maps the whole workspace, and a Terms used here page in each.

Each template is also sold on its own

The Idea Archive, The Project Organizer, and The Novel Writing Organizer are $25 each. If you already own one of them, buy the other two singly.

Also in The Complete Saint Violet Collection

All three templates are part of The Complete Saint Violet Collection, every instant download in the shop in one library.

On paper

The Creative Planner and Writing Notes carry the same working habits into print.

Instant download

Right after purchase, you'll get an access PDF on the order confirmation page and in your confirmation email. It links to a folder for each template with its user guide, and each guide holds the link that duplicates its template into your own Notion workspace.

Instant downloads can't be returned or refunded. If a file won't open or a link stops working, email hello@saintvioletcreative.com and we'll send a working copy.

Saint Violet is an independent creative studio for artists and writers building a more durable creative practice through tools, publications, workshops, and systems for attention, experimentation, and actual follow-through.

The Notion Collection

$55.00

The Complete Saint Violet Collection

If you find yourself coming back for more than one or two of these, the whole shop is available as a single instant download, built around the five books that take a novel from first idea to finished manuscript and growing with each new release, so anything made later arrives in the same library at no extra cost.

$250.00, one link to the whole library

Five books for novelists
  • The Novel Writing Workbook
  • The Plot Workbook
  • The Character Workbook
  • The World Building Workbook
  • The Revision Manual
Planners and ebook
  • The Creative Planner
  • Writing Notes
  • The Defiant Creative Process (ebook)
Zines and mini planners

Five zines and five mini planners.

Planner inserts

All 181 planner inserts, plus the 19 collections and folios built from them.

Notion templates

All three Notion templates, including The Idea Archive and The Novel Writing Organizer.

Bonuses

Bonus files, plus each new product as it's released.

Formats
Workbooks11 items
Books & Zines8 items
Planners & Notebooks11 items
Calendars4 items
Planner Inserts200 items
Planner Insert Sets19 items
Notion Templates5 items
Objects & Apparel13 items
The Novel Writing Toolkit13 items
Gifts36 items
New Arrivals22 items
By purpose
Writing66 items
Planning103 items
Visual Art & Design35 items
Business & Freelance28 items