How I Track 7 Income Streams in One Notion Dashboard
When you're juggling multiple income sources—YouTube ad revenue, book sales, Etsy orders, stock trades, blog work, affiliate commissions, and API subscriptions—it's easy to lose track of what's working. I needed one place to see everything at a glance, so I built a simple Notion dashboard that logs all seven streams and calculates monthly totals automatically. Here's exactly how I set it up, step by step, so you can do the same. Why Separate Spreadsheets Don't Work I used to keep a Google Sheet for each income source. YouTube had its own tab, KDP had another, and my trading journal lived in a different file entirely. Every month I'd open five or six documents, copy numbers into a master sheet, and try to remember which cell formulas I'd broken last time. The problem wasn't the spreadsheets themselves—it was the friction. When it takes ten minutes to log a $40 affiliate sale, you stop logging. When you can't see your progress toward a monthly ...