Brain Dump
One inbox for everything. Drop a link, a title or a passing thought without stopping to sort it.
Free Notion template
Give every idea you collect a place to live.
The Index Room is a free Notion library for the books, films, articles and thoughts you gather along the way. Capture them in seconds, file them with a simple system borrowed from libraries, and look back over them once a week, so nothing slips through your fingers.
Sound familiar?
Bookmarks, screenshots, notebooks… and “I’ll remember that”
A film recommendation in a message. A quote on a sticky note. Twenty open tabs you promised to read. Each one felt worth keeping, yet none of them lives in the same place, and most of them quietly disappear.
The problem is not your memory. It is the lack of one home, and of one small habit to look after it.
What’s inside
One simple library, ready to use.
No tangle of linked databases: everything you need to start this week, and nothing you will have to untangle later.
Library
Your collection, organised into ten classes inspired by the Dewey Decimal System. Simple enough to use from day one, solid enough to grow with you.
Weekly Review
A short ritual to empty your inbox, file what matters and choose one resource to use. An optional prompt lets any AI assistant suggest classes and keywords.
How it works
A guide page inside the template, so you never wonder what goes where.
Plus four short emails over five days to help you set it up and turn it into a habit.
How it works
Capture, classify, review.
- 1
Capture
Drop anything into the Brain Dump the moment it catches your eye: a link, a book title, an idea, a quote.
- 2
Classify
Once a week, give each item one of the ten classes and write a single line on why you saved it.
- 3
Review
Choose one resource to actually use this week, and let the rest wait calmly on the shelf.
Habits give you the freedom to enjoy things. Twenty minutes a week, and what you read and watch finally stays with you.
Why ten classes?
From library shelves to your screen.
Angélique Olivia MoreauLinguist and translator, based in Bergen
I’m a linguist and literary translator with more than 80 books translated. Long before Notion, I volunteered in libraries, cataloguing and shelving books, and I have spent countless Sundays in museums, fascinated by how collections are kept and displayed.
Libraries have used the Dewey Decimal Classification since 1876 so that every book can find its shelf. The Index Room borrows that logic for your own collection: a small, clear structure that can become your personal museum of everything you have read, watched and learnt.
More about me →The Index Room · the ten classes
- 000Toolbox & Methodsorganisation, productivity, tools
- 100Mind & Wellbeingpsychology, philosophy, personal growth
- 200Myths & Symbolsmythologies, spiritualities, symbolism
- 300Work & Societybusiness, money, society, current affairs
- 400Language & Communicationlanguages, practical writing, communication
- 500Science & Naturesciences, environment, gardening
- 600Craft & Techniquesskills, tutorials, technology
- 700Arts & Culturevisual arts, music, cinema, design, architecture
- 800Literature & Writingreading, fiction, creative writing
- 900History & Placeshistory, geography, travel
Rename them as you like. Ten shelves are enough to find anything.
Is it for you?
Made for curious minds.
The Index Room is for you if
- ✓you collect books, films, articles and ideas faster than you can sort them;
- ✓you have tried complex systems and gave up after a week;
- ✓you want a simple habit that fits into the coming days, not a weekend project.
It is not for you if
- ×you are looking for an all-in-one “second brain” with dozens of linked databases;
- ×you would rather keep everything on paper.
Questions
Before you sign up.
Do I need to know Notion?
No. The template includes a guide page, and the emails walk you through the set-up step by step.
Do I need a paid Notion plan?
No, The Index Room works with a free Notion account.
Do I need Notion AI?
No. The template works perfectly without AI. The optional prompt in the Weekly Review can be pasted into whichever AI assistant you prefer.
How much time does it take?
Saving an item takes seconds. The Weekly Review takes about twenty minutes.
I always forget to save things. Will this help?
That is exactly what the Brain Dump is for: one place, no decision to make. The Weekly Review does the sorting later.
What happens after I sign up?
You receive an email with your template link straight away, then three short emails over the following days.
Can I unsubscribe?
Of course, in one click, at any time.
Your ideas deserve better than a forgotten tab.
Get The Index Room for free, and start your own collection this week.