Reading Time: 3 minAs I’ve experimented with tools like the Full Focus Planner and the reMarkable tablet, I’ve seen a number of reasons for why “handwriting is better then digital”. The reasons are fairly solid, but I’ve found ways to bring most of the benefits of handwriting to digital. From what I’ve seen, it’s not the act of […]
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Getting started with Roam Research
Reading Time: 9 minYou may have heard about Roam Research as the hot new note-taking app, which it certainly is right now. I’m using it and I love it — but why? Let’s dive in. Structured organization vs fluid information At its core, Roam is yet another note taking app. You type stuff in and it saves it. […]
Some tweaks to my daily learning
Reading Time: 3 minThis is an interesting time we’re in right now. While I certainly miss much of the weekly chaos of dance practice and soccer games, a bit of a break is kind of nice too. While I’ve been using the time to do a lot of reading (in the past month I’ve read Marketing Made Simple, […]
Highlights from “The Checklist Manifesto” by Atul Gawande
Reading Time: 4 minThe Checklist Manifesto is a book that I’ve been meaning to read for quite a long time. Many have suggested it, and I’ve finally read it. It wasn’t really what I expected, but it was excellent. The focus of the book was on surgery and airplanes, and how checklists are critical to both. In building […]
Highlights from “How to Take Smart Notes” by Sonke Ahrens
Reading Time: 4 minI just finished reading How to Take Smart Notes by Sonke Ahrens. It interested me because over the past month or so I’ve really begun to focus better on my note-taking. This applies to books I’ve read, sermons at church, meetings with clients, videos I watch — any situation where I want to gain knowledge, […]
Weekly previews are intentionally inefficient
Reading Time: 4 minWhen I started using the Full Focus Planner back in May, by far the best thing I liked about it was the “Weekly Preview”. While I sort of tried to do one each week, with varying levels of success, this forced to take about 30-60 minutes each week to look back on what happened in […]
A different look at 86,400
Reading Time: 3 minThere are 86,400 seconds each day, and we’ve all heard the motivational phrases like “If you had $86,400 and someone took $10 from you, would you throw away the rest of it?“. It’s a good way to see things, but I recently heard a slightly different take on this that got me thinking. It was […]
Week one with the Full Focus Planner
Reading Time: 2 minI never thought I’d do it, but as I mentioned in my last post I’ve started using a paper planner this week. I’m not leaving any of my digital tools behind, but adding this paper planner could be a great addition to my workflow. online pharmacy buy stendra online cheap pharmacy It started by listening […]
Busyness vs Clutter
Reading Time: 2 minA few days ago, a friend of Facebook posted a screenshot of their computer desktop and it was total chaos, with hundreds of folders and files filling the screen. She was proud of how busy she was, and I don’t doubt it, but it got me thinking about the intersection of busyness and clutter. I […]
Three lessons from Before Breakfast
Reading Time: 3 minA few weeks ago, a new podcast came out called Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam. It’s a short (5 min), daily podcast to give you “productivity advice that will take your day from great to awesome.“ It’s been really interesting for me. Most days I think “that episode was a nice reminder of x”, but […]