Content HQ Notion Template [Updated 2025]

😌 All your content, fully connected and in perfect harmony

All the core databases listed below are connected, keeping all your project materials within easy reach.

What’s inside:

• 🗓️ Content calendar — Create, plan, and manage all your content (including articles, emails, social posts, podcast episodes, videos, and press) from one powerful database. Includes 20+ database templates and buttons so you can add new posts in 1 click for the most popular platforms, including Bluesky and Medium as well as all the usual social media suspects!
• 🏦 Content bank — View all your published content in one place, and quickly add new published content to Notion with the pre-built buttons!
• ⚙️ Content scheduler — Drag and drop your posts onto the calendar to quickly set publish dates and visualize your publishing schedule.
• 🎛️ Platform dashboards — Includes 20+ dedicated dashboards for all your content and platforms, from blog posts to Facebook Group posts to YouTube Shorts. Easy to edit and duplicate!
• 🤝 Partnerships — Manage your leads, affiliates, sponsors, podcast/video guests, and other partners in one place. Dedicated dashboards and document templates also included to make it easier for you to onboard new partners, accept inquiries from prospects, and more!
• 🏆 Campaigns — Create, develop, and track all your campaigns at every stage, from brand awareness content to sales and brand relaunches.
• 🪄 Brand — Centralize all your brand materials, including your style guidelines, brand colors and assets, and more.
• 🔑 Keywords — Connect your content to SEO keywords for seamless optimizing and clustering.
• 🤲 Testimonials — Store all your client and customer testimonials in one place to refer back to on those difficult days, or for quick sharing with your audience!
• 🎯 Goals — Map out your goals with this blank canvas page, which also includes some ideas to inspire your setup!

📑 Manage all your content, campaigns, and more — with 1 click

Powerful features like automated buttons and linked database views let you add new posts, campaigns, and other items to Notion without breaking your flow or focus. You’ll find all the buttons you need already set up for you, plus instructions for editing them, or creating your own!

📈 See your content stats — no formula knowledge needed

The souped-up Stats database is a free alternative to Notion’s charts that lets you track all sorts of metrics across your content.

Stats cards already added to your project dashboards will update automatically. Easy setup and maintenance instructions included — no formula or coding knowledge needed!

🧠 Stay focused with accessible, neurodivergent-friendly design

Built by a neurodivergent creator, this template is designed to prevent distractions and reduce visual clutter while keeping all your materials within easy reach.

🗂️ Expandable directories: Your project materials are the main focus of every page. The extra bits, like page links and buttons, are neatly hidden in toggle blocks. You can show or hide these by simply toggling them, helping you focus on what matters most: your work. If you’d prefer to keep everything permanently visible? Simply remove the toggles with a stroke of your keyboard! Instructions included in the template.

🔗 Synced navigation bar: The synced navigation bar at the top of every page in the template makes it easy to move around. It’s also super easy to customize — whatever changes you make to 1 synced block will appear in all of them, saving you tons of time!

📱 Mobile-friendly for updates on the go

Quickly capture new content ideas, published posts, partners, campaigns, and more in one click — right from your phone!

The Mobile Dashboard includes one-click buttons and quick links to all your Writing HQ pages. Add a shortcut to your device’s home screen for easy access.

⚡️ Interactive, guided, lightning-fast setup

The Setup Guide lets you set up your dashboards and databases from one convenient page. This step-by-step walkthrough is comprehensive yet easy to follow. Once you’re done setting up, you can delete the page and start using your template right away!

*Please note the setup is designed to be completed from a desktop. Once setup is complete, your template will work across all your devices!

Something missing from the setup guide? Want to report an error? Contact me at hello@melleesmith.com.

🎨 Full template wiki & customization guide

Customization ideas, tips, and tricks to make your template work better for you. The Customization & Maintenance Guide includes helpful information about your core databases, plus advice for editing and maintaining your databases and pages in the future.

Also includes general Notion tips, plus my personal favorite blocks and keyboard shortcuts!

👁️ (Coming soon!) Analytics report plugin

Custom Google Looker Studio reports for Google Analytics 4, Google Search Console, and YouTube will soon be available to duplicate and embed into Notion! See all your analytical data from one beautiful, convenient dashboard.

❤️ Built with love by a content creator, for content creators

Content HQ is designed by Mel Lee-Smith, experienced marketing manager and Notion consultant who’s worked with dozens of clients over an 8+ year career.

Mel’s consulted on content strategy, as well as built and refined Notion workflows for individual content creators, entrepreneurs, start-ups, and public companies, so she’s super in tune with what creators actually need!

🛠️ Want a customized Content HQ for teams or enterprise?

Reach out to Mel at hello@melleesmith.com to learn more about her consulting rates and availability!