Bending the Curves of Productivity
My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
Casey Newton • Three apps that made me more productive this year
(A star at the end of a word will generate results for anything that includes the term or comes after the term in a block of text.)
S.J. Scott • Master Evernote: The Unofficial Guide to Organizing Your Life with Evernote (Plus 75 Ideas for Getting Started)
Tiago Forte has pioneered the concept of a Second Brain.
As the author of two books, he's learned that quantity and quality aren't opposing forces.
Here's what else he's taught me about writing:
1. The brain is for having ideas, not storing them. Write stuff down.
2. If you… Show more
In other words, instead of “one app to rule them all,” which was never realistic and is getting even less so, we’ll have dedicated “capture apps”( like Evernote) that specialize only in capturing and organizing content, alongside other kinds of apps (like Obsidian, Tana, and Mem) that specialize in distilling and expressing new ideas.