Chore Chart in Notion: Setup and a Better Option

If your household already runs on Notion, a chore chart there is a reasonable idea. You get tables, boards and a calendar for free, and you can shape them any way you like. This page gives you the exact setup, a sample week, and an honest look at where Notion starts to fight you when the users are 6 and 9 years old.

How to set up a chore chart in Notion

Build one database and look at it in different ways. Do not make a separate page for each child, because you will end up editing three pages every time a chore changes.

1. Create a new full-page database and name it Chores.
2. Rename the title column Chore. Add a Select property called Child, with one option per kid.
3. Add a Select property called How often, with the options Daily, Weekdays, Weekly.
4. Add a Number property called Points and a Checkbox property called Done.
5. Add the rows. One row per chore per child, so Make the bed for two kids is two rows.

That is the whole structure. Five properties is the ceiling for a chart a child will use. Every extra column is one more thing for a 7-year-old to scroll past.

The three views that make it usable

A database is only a chart once you set up the views. These three cover most families.

Name each view for its job, and put Today first so it is what opens. If a child has their own phone, bookmark that view. Children rarely explore a workspace; they tick what they are shown.

A sample week for an 8 and a 5-year-old

Rows to start with, using the typical jobs and point values from our usual ranges.

That is 2 to 3 daily tasks for the preschooler and 3 for the school-age child, plus one bigger weekly job from age 8. For more ideas by age, our list of chores for 6-year-olds and tips on bathroom chores for kids give you rows to copy.

Where Notion gets in the way

Notion is built for people who write and plan. A chore chart asks for something different, which is a fast tap at 7:40 in the morning. A few frictions come up again and again.

Repeating is manual. Unless you set up repeating templates, you clear the Done boxes every night or every Sunday. Miss it once and yesterday's ticks make today look finished.

Kids need access. That means an account or a shared page, and a child lands in a tool full of things that are not theirs.

Nobody is told anything. Notion will not ping a child that a chore is waiting, or ping you that it is done, in a way that fits a family day.

Points stop at the number. You can sum them, but a child cannot spend them anywhere, so the system turns into scorekeeping.

If you would rather have paper, our page on a chore chart template for Word covers an editable printable. The printable below is a paper copy of this same database for the 8-year-old in the sample week, handy when you want a fridge backup.

A better option when the setup becomes the chore

Famiyo is a free family app for iPhone and Android that combines a shared family calendar, chores with points and a rewards shop; kids join with a code, no email needed. To be plain about it, Famiyo has no Notion integration, so it does not read or replace your database; you simply enter the chores again, once. In exchange, repeating chores are built in (daily, weekly or every few days), each child sees their own tasks on their own phone, you get a push notification when something is done, and points can be spent in a rewards shop.

The free plan covers up to 3 family members and 1 repeating task. Our list of the best chore chart apps compares your options.

Try the Notion setup for two weeks. If you are still resetting boxes by hand in week three, that is your answer.