Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management :: Sacha Chua
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Excerpts from a conversation with John Wiegley (johnw) and Adam Porter (alphapapa) about personal information management :: Sacha Chua
Externalizing Thought
I’ve been all over the map where it comes to PKM. I have information, as I write this, living in 5 or 6 different apps. “Temporarily” storing “this” there, trying to create systems in the more complicated ones and trying to organize information with a variety of methodology in outliners. I’ve even gone to Bullet Journaling look
... See moreIt takes a certain lens to see each of these documents and files not as disposable, but as tangible by-products of quality thinking. Much of our work gets repeated over time with slight variations. If you can start your thinking where you left off last time, you’ll be far ahead compared to starting from zero every time.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.