---
title: "Logseq dashboard for life planning"
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/logseq-dashboard-life-planning
published: 2023-07-18
summary: "How I built a life planning dashboard in Logseq: a table of visions and plans, page properties for status and tags, and pages for period reports."
---

# Logseq dashboard for life planning

I've long been developing my planning and review system in different note-taking apps. Recently, I moved to Logseq, a powerful tool that lets you build a personalized dashboard. It works almost identically to [Roam Research](https://roamresearch.com/), but is based on local text files instead of an external database. Here's an overview example of what you can build for yourself.

## Building your Logseq dashboard page

![](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/logseq-dashboard-life-planning-image-1.webp)

*Here's what my life planning dashboard looks like now*

Each entry in the table on your Logseq dashboard represents a unique page within the system. These pages collect links to related documents for different time periods. The beauty of this is that it's all built on simple queries readily available within Logseq, making dashboard customization a breeze.

```
{{query (and (page-tags [[🧭 life planning]]) (page-tags [[worksheet]]))}}
```

I use the page metadata feature to add page tags and statuses:

![](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/logseq-dashboard-life-planning-image-2.webp)

To add metadata to a page, you simply write it in the first lines of the page:

```
alias::
tags:: [[🧭 Life Planning]], [[worksheet]]
status:: #status-in-use
last-review:: [[2023-07-18]]
related::
```

## Vision-specific pages

These are specialized pages within your Logseq dashboard that gather planning notes from various perspectives:

- 🎯 Attention zones and desired outcomes
- 🌟️ Focus zones
- 👨🏻 My long-term health plans and goals
- 🪣 My Bucket List

"🏃 Long-Term Plans" is a page that links to the plans for each year and to multi-year documents.

![](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/logseq-dashboard-life-planning-image-3.webp)

## Period reports

Here are the pages that collect the period reports I write:

- Yearly report
- Quarterly report
- Monthly report
- Weekly report

For example, here's what the quarterly report page looks like:

![](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/logseq-dashboard-life-planning-image-4.webp)

Here I link individual report pages manually.

## Why build such a cumbersome system

If you want plans to come true, you need a cascading planning system. Meaning a way to turn long-term vision into daily actions. I use vision-specific pages and periodical reports to compare my actual performance with my vision for the future. Also, I don't have a proven one-size-fits-all approach; these are my attempts.

My previous post on long-term planning: [A formula that helps describe your desired life for this year](https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/formula).