Guide to Bookfill

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<aside> 🟢 Bookfill Status - Operational

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<aside> ➖ How to get Bookfill

https://youtu.be/Tu0mCCyxZ-4

Duplicate the template

You will find the template link on the Gumroad product page.
Click on “Duplicate” at the top right corner of the page.
The template will get duplicated to your Notion workspace.
Find the guide to using the “My Bookshelf” template here.

Give access to Autofill Bookshelf

Once you make the purchase on Gumroad, you will be redirected to a page requesting access to your Notion workspace.
Select the duplicated “My Bookshelf” page and “Allow Access”.
You will be redirected to a page where you will be prompted to enter you License Key.
Enter the license key received in your mail from Gumroad and click Submit. This might take a few seconds.
You will see the message “Your License Key has been validated. You can now start using your Bookshelf Database” with a link to your Bookshelf Database.
Your auto-filling Bookshelf is now ready to use!

Note

If you choose to delete the template/database after duplicating it for any reason and want to reduplicate it, please give access to “Autofill Bookshelf” again so we can update the credentials on our end. You can do this by clicking on the access link.

We will do our best to ensure this process is seamless. However, you may encounter some errors.

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<aside> ➖ How to use Bookfil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVM1tuV9eg&t=6s

Bookfill fetches details of books you add to “Bookshelf” and adds these details to the respective fields in the database.
You can fetch book details using the name of the book or its ISBN.
To add a new book using book name, add the book name to the “Title” property and end it with a semicolon (example: The Handmaid’s Tale;)
In a few seconds, the properties for the book in the Bookshelf database will update automatically and an image of the book cover will be added to the page as a cover.
If the book that is bookfilled is not what you are looking for, you can add its ISBN10 or ISBN13 to the respective fields in the database and end it with a semicolon and the details will be replaced with the ones you want (example: 0349419175;)
Adding a semicolon to the title/ISBN of an existing book will update the properties of the book again.

Properties that will be auto filled - Title, ISBN_10, ISBN_13, Authors, Category, Summary, Pages, Published, and Publisher.

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<aside> ➖ Use Bookfill with your own reading list

Bookfill works with the “Bookshelf” database you will find in the “My Bookshelf” template. If you already have a book tracking page on Notion and only want to use Bookfill, this can be done in the following ways:

You can move the “Bookshelf” database (from My Bookshelf) to your Notion page. This should be done before allowing access to your Notion workspace. If you have moved the “Bookshelf” database to your reading list after giving access, please allow access again using the access link so we can update the credentials on our end.
Change the name of your pre-existing database of books to “Bookshelf” and add/change the following properties (ideally done before allowing access):
- Title (of type title)
- ISBN_10 (of type text)
- ISBN_13 (of type text)
- Authors (of type multi-select)
- Category (of type multi-select)
- Published (of type text)
- Publisher (of type text)
- Summary (of type text)
- Summary_extd (of type text)
- Pages (of type number)

Note: You need to have the above properties with the same names and types in your Bookshelf database for Bookfill to work.

Note: Ensure that you have only one Bookshelf database in your workspace when you allow access.

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<aside> ➖ How to use “My Bookshelf” template

▪️ Contents

Table of contents. Useful when using Bookshelf on the Notion mobile app.

▪️Databases

Has links to the databases Track, Authors and Quotes.

▪️Quick Actions

Track Adds a page to the Track database, allows easy tracking of daily reading.

Start Next** Changes the Status property for the books in Bookshelf from Up Next to Reading and adds the current date to the Start Date property.

Mark Done** Changes the Status property for the books in Bookshelf from Reading to Done and adds the current date to the End Date property.

Mark Unfinished** Changes the Status property of books in Bookshelf with the status Reading to Unfinished and adds the current date to the End Date property.

**Note that if there is more than one book with the status Up Next or Reading, all will be affected by the Buttons.

▪️Favourites

The favourites section is a collection of your favourite books, authors and quotes. Books, authors and quotes appear in this section if the Favourite checkbox is checked.

▪️Stats

Stats has the Years database with a page for each year.
The number of books read out of your yearly goal is displayed as a progress bar. To add your book goal, edit the property and change “Divide By” to your yearly goal. It is currently set to 50.
Calculated using rollups and displayed using formulas are the following stats:
- Number of days of reading tracked in the year (pulled from the Track database)
- Books read, pages read, longest and shortest read (pulled from the Bookshelf database)
When the new year starts, a new page can be added to the Years database. Remember to change the relation property in the default templates of the Track and Bookshelf databases to the new year.

▪️ My Reading

My Reading has two linked database views of the Bookshelf database.
Current
- Board view grouped by Status.
- Filtered to show:
  - Unarchived books
  - To Read books added in the month before the current date
  - Reading or Up Next books
  - Read books with an End Date in the month before the current date
- The formula generated progress bar appears when you add the number of pages you have read to the Pages Read property.
- Start changes the Status of a book to Reading and adds the current date to the Start Date property
- Done changes the Status of a book to Done and adds the current date to the End Date property.
Month
- Calendar view of the Bookshelf database. It is filtered to show books with the Reading or Done status. Books are displayed by Start Date.

▪️ My Books

Contains the Bookshelf database with all your books. All properties are hidden in the My Books gallery view to maintain aesthetic.

Wishlist is a list view of Bookshelf and shows all books you wish to purchase/own. Books with a checked Wishlist property appear here.

▪️Book

Default template for the Bookshelf database
Related to the page 2024 in the Years database. The relation needs to be changed when the new year starts to maintain Stats.
The body of the page has a linked view of the Quotes database. Any quotes added here will automatically be linked to the book (due to a self-referential filter). </aside>

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