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Not all weeks are created equal—especially when your schedule doesn’t follow the standard Monday-to-Friday routine. In my case, each day of the week isn’t tied to its name. Instead, I work with a day order system, where classes and routines are labeled as Day 1, Day 2, and so on. If there’s a...
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Making decisions can be overwhelming. Too many factors. Too many choices. But what if you focused on just one decisive reason? Instead of juggling multiple considerations, identify the single most important factor that aligns with your goal. This simplifies the process and removes...
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You don’t have to consider and weigh multiple reasons. One good reason is enough to make a decision. The SDR decision-making framework ( Single Decisive Reason: A Simple and Fast Decision-making Method ) says that. Single Reason, that’s all you want to make a decision. The question is...
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You make that decision. Whether it is small or big, trivial or critical, even whether you like to or not, you have to make it. Your decision makes you. ‘You’ are the consequence of the entire decision you’ve made your whole life. What makes the decision-making process efficient?...
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A Better deleting and archiving workflow. I am following the PARA method for maintaining files everywhere. (Regardless of any method you follow, this “workflow” will help you to a great extent). When files are no longer needed— I move them to the “Archive” folder. Between ‘delete’...
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Why do we type to take notes? Why we are not writing like before? It takes more time to write than type something. It’s the faster way, yet more flexible and more productive way. You can easily markdown, highlight, and do everything digitally and carry that content anywhere. Regardless of how...
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Intro to Ulysses app I presume you wouldn’t be reading this if you’re unfamiliar with Ulysses. Ulysses is a ‘markdown’ based editor app to write anything from a single essay to a multi-chapter book. It is a premium Apple Eco-only app (i.e. for iOS, iPad, and Mac). Also available with...
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Inside: 3 Conditions and 2 Tricks to keep you go steady. The brain after a long sleep is cleansed of all stress hormones and residues. It only needs an hour or two to boot up and reach its full potential. You’ll have significant mental energy and cognitive power at your disposal...
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If you don’t know about this most insanely, stupidly simple Ivy Lee method, then click here and read about it first. Read? Now here are the 20 reasons why the Ivy Lee method is so powerful and efficient. This gives you the confidence to start trusting it and follow it for yourself....
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The Ivy Lee method is a stupidly simple productivity planning method, yet the idea got him $25,000 in 1918. $2,500 in 1918 is worth $49,807.95 today. Charles M. Schwab, one of the richest men in the world in 1918 paid Ivy Lee for teaching this idea to his executives. It was from then, called...
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Playing the Meta Game and not the actual game is another form of procrastination Procrastination comes in many shapes and sizes. Most of them are apparently bad, yet some of them don’t look like procrastination. Sophisticated Procrastination is hiding the procrastination by doing the...
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Make sure you have enough tools to manage the following categories of your personal productivity setup. 5 Categories of tools for your Personal Productivity System. Task Management (including Projects and Goals Management) Time Management (events to attend, meetings, time allocated for...
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Maslow’s Hammer is a psychological state where you rely more on a familiar tool for solving (almost) every problem. aka law of the instrument, the law of the hammer, golden hammer. If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.Abraham Maslow Every tool...
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I mentioned “trigger words” (or trigger points) in the previous post of this series. I want to debrief what it is and what it is meant to be despite many thinking that it is an alternative name for “keywords” or “tags”. Like the trigger words provoke psychological emotions, the trigger words...
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How much effort did you intend to put into the particular task? (or How much effort the task requires from you?) If you were able to answer the above question, then it’s almost easy to find that “enough time” to spend on the task. The relation between “Time & Effort” is more or less...
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There are always unexpected outcomes. Luck always plays a role, the question is how frequently it will. Fortune (also bad luck), by nature, occurs only very few times. So it can be blamed a few times, not more than that. There’s no best solution for every problem. Sometimes you have to...
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In my personal productivity system, I use multiple apps for different purposes. Thus my data spread over different areas. There are 5 scopes/areas of management in personal productivity. Each requires at least 1 exclusive app for managing the data. For a project, the data relevant to it...
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A simple hack to batch tasks inside Things 3 without using Tags I was a long-time Todoist user. After switching to Things 3 (approximately 4 months ago) I looked back to Todoist twice. But, stick to Things 3. Filtered Views (or) Filters feature of Todoist is a crucial feature for me...
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When I say ‘note-taking’, it is in connection with Knowledge management. While taking notes, you write for the future (stupid) self (and for others). You read, you understand and then you write (or draw) it for better understanding (and teaching yourself and others). You preserve your...
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You don’t have to be productive all the time. Aware of your productivity cycle of Ups and Downs. Keeping your productivity metrics always up is also another form of being monotonous in disguise. It is an easy way to get stressed. Eventually, you’re going to wear fully out of your willpower....
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Advice and recommendations shared on the internet (blogs, Tweets, and by other means) are general or generalized ideas and often not for a specific person but for a group of people. After all, people who share productivity advice (on the internet) need readers/views/followers or for fame and...
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Plan for the moment, possibly not more than a couple of hours. sporadically plan your day. Don’t get me wrong. List your tasks/set of tasks/projects for the day to work. But don’t put them in a box. Don’t plan strictly. You can never predict when the inspiration hits or when an interrupt arises. I...
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Doing is the only way to clear your To Do list. In other words, being productive. Organising should ease you in the process of “doing”. Planning too. It may increase your effictivity, not productivity. Productivity comes before being effective. Planning, Organising, Using the best tool,...
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If you’re using RoamResearch, this is relevant to you so you don’t need a intro for this. Linking & Tagging Differentiate the purpose of tags and page links – I personally use #tags (as keywords) for filtering and [[Links]] to make connections. In Roam, both tag and links work as same,...
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To clarify, tagging is also known as ‘labeling’, ‘bookmarking’, ‘categorizing’ in the process of organizing in notes management. Why tagging (is important)? To specify the attributes of the content or note. Like, what type of content it is, what it is about.To add contextual information,...
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Taking notes while you read will disturb your flow in reading and while reading you must focus on understanding, not on organizing your notes when you encounter something important. But you can’t afford to lose your thoughts and linking connections between what you read and what’s already you...
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Learning is not knowing, it’s about understanding, not just superficial understanding which is little more than passive mental work. It’s an about deeper understanding, deeper to the core, and reflecting on it. Deeper understanding is a process of deduction and reconstruction. Deeper...
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What is digital knowledge building? Is it not an intangible thing in our minds? If so, how can you manage them digitally or by taking notes, and what’s the need for it? I took numerous notes in the past, but I revisited a few to none and nothing of my knowledge is preserved or can be used in the...
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The fact is 9 out of 10 people is not typing in the proper way. There are people who can type without moving their eyes out of the screen, not searching for keys when pressing each character keys, and faster than others. Yet most of them are doing it wrong. In typewriting, you have to use all...
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Procrastination, the one thing doesn’t need any introduction because everyone personally knows it. Yet, no one likes procrastination, but everyone do it (ironically they know they’re going to regret it when about to procrastinate) and then regret it. There’s thousands of different advices,...
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Alfred for Mac is a tool (app) that will help you to interact with your computer through the keyboard to complete a task with fewer key presses and less than a few seconds. Usually, those tasks require more time to do with a trackpad/mouse. In short, it is an advanced version of Mac’s ‘spotlight’...
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I use a very minimal number of apps and services for my productivity workflows as I also embrace minimalism and better modern digital well-being philosophies. To be honest, I am continually putting my effort to improve my productivity workflow and minimizing the apps required for that. Before...