I’ve seen Notion dashboards with eleven databases, twenty views, and a weather widget. They look impressive in screenshots, but in practice they become graveyards. You spend more time maintaining the system than doing the actual work.
The best systems are almost boring. A single database with the right properties, one or two views, and a simple template button. That’s it. Your brain doesn’t have to parse a hundred options every time you open the page.
Try this: delete everything in your current dashboard except one database and one view. Use it for a week. You’ll likely find that the extra ‘features’ were just noise. Real productivity comes from reducing decisions, not adding them.