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The Loot Box Notion Template is a powerful component that lets you earn a randomized reward for anything you do in your Notion workspace.
Fundamentals
Includes
Loot Box Database
How do we keep track of the items we want to reward ourselves randomly with?
The Loot Box Database database is where list and track all the different items that we would like to be rewarded with, and specify their rarity.
How It Works
Typelets you categorize what kind of reward you want.
Rarityhelps you plan out how likely you’d like to earn this reward
Sample Loot Trackeris an example relation that connects to the Sample Loot Tracker Database to show you how to earn the item from any Notion database.
Setup
Views
- All: Shows you all of your items in your loot box.
- A gallery view that displays your items as “cards”
- A list view that is easier to see on mobile.
Sample Loot Tracker Database
How do we trigger the loot box from any Notion database?
We built and connected a simple database to the activity log to show you the minimum requirements you need to get the loot box to reward you in any database in your Notion workspace.
How It Works
- Each entry in this database could represent anything - a task, a habit, etc.
Positive Actionis just a placeholder for anything that you want to trigger a reward being earned. In this case, when we check it off, we trigger a random rarity to be earned.
Reward Earnedshows you the reward that you earned and if the reward you picked matches.
Dateis just the date of the entry, its not mandatory, but it helps track when you earned the reward.
Reward Pickedis the relation to the Loot Box Database that lets you pick the item. We typically limit it to 1 reward, per entry.
Setup
Customization
- You can tweak this formula to change whatever positive action is by simply changing this line:
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