How to Build a Professional Book Tracker in Notion, Explained for Rookies (Full 50-Min Tutorial)

Build the only book tracking system you'll ever need! This 50-minute deep dive shows you exactly how to create a fully personalized, professional reading list in Notion from scratch. This 2026 beginner-friendly tutorial covers everything from basic databases to advanced library views, with endless personalization options, and it works both for complete beginners and expert users. Stop over-complicating your reading goals! In this 50-minute masterclass, we build a system that tracks your TBR, current reads, and book notes in one beautiful dashboard. 📖 To purchase my latest book, Fathers Before Sons, find your favorite store at https://transatlanticbookmarks.substa... 🎗️ To support this channel, hit subscribe, like individual videos and share them with others. 🩵 Thanks for being here. Video Chapters: 00:00 Intro 03:12 Virtual tour of the reading log we're creating 07:55 How to create a new Notion page 08:26 How to add an Icon and Cover in Notion 09:37 How to add a new database in Notion 10:51 How to add a Book Title 11:32 How to add properties in Notion 12:00 Author 13:04 Country 14:05 How to add and personalize multi-select options in Notion 15:48 Year of Publication 16:35 Numbers of Pages 17:14 Genre 19:30 Type: Fiction or Non-Fiction 20:15 Format: Book, Ebook or Audiobook 21:00 Adding emojis to options 22:03 Reading Status 23:16 Rating Your Books 24:43 Scrolling through a large table database in Notion 25:00 Rearranging table database columns 25:19 Sorting the Author List alphabetically 25:49 Creating a Book Entry Template 30:10 Changing the window setting 31:02 Filling out a Book Entry 31:37 Using bookshop.org to populate your data 40:58 Adding and personalizing a Gallery View in Notion: Unread 44:40 Setting up property visibility 45:42 Setting up filters 46:38 Duplicating and tweaking a View in Notion: Finished Books 48:45 Duplicating and tweaking for DNF View 49:29 Duplicating and tweaking the Non-Fiction View 51:06 Rearranging and deleting items 51:45 Goodbye #booktube #reading #booktracker #notiontutorial