Sakthitharan Subramanian
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...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
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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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...
Sakthitharan Subramanian
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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Among the networked-thoughts app like Obsidian, Logseq, and many more, RoamResearch has the least appealing graph view. Hope everyone agrees. Obsidian graphs (also Logseq’s) are pleasant to the eyes, bubbling around when interacting, highlighting connections of the hovering nodes, ability to...
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In the Personal Knowledge Flow, Understanding is followed by reflective thinking. Why think? What to think? then, How to? Learning is a cognitive process. Cognition is the process of “judging” through perceiving. Perceiving and judging as the same process, as an interlaced mental event. It is...
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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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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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Evernote is notes management tool, yet it many underlying features that makes it even more powerful with its ability to handle multiple types of meaningful information. People underestimate it’s use in the real life and paperless productivity. Let me give you 30+ things and purpose to use Evernote...
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First, let me clarify the right meaning of the topic. It is not about knowledge management. It is personal knowledge ‘flow‘. How your mind converts the information to knowledge and the process of using the knowledge. Look the chart below, most of the concept is self explanatory. Personal...