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There are a lot of AI apps for creating content.
But I'm interested in these new apps for thinking (#toolsforthought)
But I'm interested in these new apps for thinking (#toolsforthought)
Fermat (@fermat_ws) lets you use Generate AI to ideate on a collaborative canvas.
Outlining a blog post? Enter a concept, click a button to generate an outline. Click another button to generate counter arguments.
Heck. Build your own actions.
Outlining a blog post? Enter a concept, click a button to generate an outline. Click another button to generate counter arguments.
Heck. Build your own actions.
Want AI help to mindmap inside @MiroHQ ? mindmaps.world is an app built in @AdaloHQ that lets you query GPT for the next set of ideas.
Finished “Building a Second Brain”
by @fortelabs today
Definitely one of the better productivity books I’ve read
Focuses on how to create a personal knowledge management system geared not only for collecting, but for creatively expressing your work
11 Key takeaways 👇🧵
by @fortelabs today
Definitely one of the better productivity books I’ve read
Focuses on how to create a personal knowledge management system geared not only for collecting, but for creatively expressing your work
11 Key takeaways 👇🧵
There are four essential capabilities you want to rely on your Second Brain to perform for you:
1. Make your ideas concrete
2. Reveal new associations between ideas
3. Incubate ideas over time
4. Sharpen your unique perspective
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1. Make your ideas concrete
2. Reveal new associations between ideas
3. Incubate ideas over time
4. Sharpen your unique perspective
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The purpose of building a second brain is to revolutionize your relationship with information
At the heart of the system is CODE:
- Capture - keep what resonates
- Organize - save for actionability
- Distill - find the essence
- Express - show your work
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At the heart of the system is CODE:
- Capture - keep what resonates
- Organize - save for actionability
- Distill - find the essence
- Express - show your work
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Tana it is taking the #ToolsForThought community by storm!
It takes the best form Roam, Notion, Workflowy
and goes above and beyond.
Here are 3 things why @tana_inc is the next big thing🧵
It takes the best form Roam, Notion, Workflowy
and goes above and beyond.
Here are 3 things why @tana_inc is the next big thing🧵
01. STRUCTURE
In the previous generation systems like Roam & Obsidian, it is hard to maintain data-structures.
Tana allows you to create and maintain(!) structures by design.
You can implement your
database schema
taxonomy
ontology
right at the core of the system
In the previous generation systems like Roam & Obsidian, it is hard to maintain data-structures.
Tana allows you to create and maintain(!) structures by design.
You can implement your
database schema
taxonomy
ontology
right at the core of the system
EXAMPLE
Say you have a BOOK structure in your database
BOOK has an AUTHOR
BOOK connected to the WORKFLOW
BOOK connected to PROJECT
Now you want to add a field to every BOOK.
In Roam that would be a lot of manual or semi-manual work.
Say you have a BOOK structure in your database
BOOK has an AUTHOR
BOOK connected to the WORKFLOW
BOOK connected to PROJECT
Now you want to add a field to every BOOK.
In Roam that would be a lot of manual or semi-manual work.
In college, I was HOPELESS at dating.
I’d get infatuated with a girl, and by the time I asked her out, I was a nervous wreck. Never went well.
Finally I had a talk with myself. “R.J., just DATE. Don’t fall in love first. Just DATE.”
You may ask: …is this about productivity?
I’d get infatuated with a girl, and by the time I asked her out, I was a nervous wreck. Never went well.
Finally I had a talk with myself. “R.J., just DATE. Don’t fall in love first. Just DATE.”
You may ask: …is this about productivity?
Why yes, it IS about productivity!
Lots of folks think you have to trust a system before you can use it. So they find a big, elaborate productivity system and they fall in love with it.
Then they dive in, but everything that seems like it SHOULD work… DOESN’T. Not for them.
Lots of folks think you have to trust a system before you can use it. So they find a big, elaborate productivity system and they fall in love with it.
Then they dive in, but everything that seems like it SHOULD work… DOESN’T. Not for them.
But WHY doesn’t it work?
Because you can’t trust a system UNTIL you use it. And when you start with a new system… it is not going to work well at first.
It is THROUGH using a system that you can fix the flaws and shore up the gaps.
So what’s the best system to start with?
Because you can’t trust a system UNTIL you use it. And when you start with a new system… it is not going to work well at first.
It is THROUGH using a system that you can fix the flaws and shore up the gaps.
So what’s the best system to start with?
Do you want to get more work done in less time?
And do you want to focus on more IMPORTANT work?
Here are three methods *I* use for that ⬇️
(You can apply them anywhere—but #ToolsforThought like @RoamResearch, @obsdmd, @amplenote, @logseq, etc., are where I like to work.)
And do you want to focus on more IMPORTANT work?
Here are three methods *I* use for that ⬇️
(You can apply them anywhere—but #ToolsforThought like @RoamResearch, @obsdmd, @amplenote, @logseq, etc., are where I like to work.)
Method 1: Clusters and Rhythm reduce Transitions
Transitions are where #Productivity goes to die. We get distracted, we follow tangents.
(1) Cluster related tasks
- Tasks that are related by location, project, co-worker, etc., are easier to tick off one right after the other
Transitions are where #Productivity goes to die. We get distracted, we follow tangents.
(1) Cluster related tasks
- Tasks that are related by location, project, co-worker, etc., are easier to tick off one right after the other
(2) Standardize work startups & shutdowns
- When every piece of work has a predictable starting and ending routine, your work finds its Rhythm. The routines shouldn’t be long or complicated, just consistent and reliable.
Once you’ve got your Rhythm going, transitions fade away
- When every piece of work has a predictable starting and ending routine, your work finds its Rhythm. The routines shouldn’t be long or complicated, just consistent and reliable.
Once you’ve got your Rhythm going, transitions fade away
AP Productivity: Cohort
vs.
AP Productivity: Essentials
Both courses help you build a reliable, tailormade productivity system using #ToolsforThought
So… why are there two?
vs.
AP Productivity: Essentials
Both courses help you build a reliable, tailormade productivity system using #ToolsforThought
So… why are there two?
AP Productivity: Cohort is currently on Cohort Five.
✅ The most current iterations of the videos, files, etc.
✅ A community of @RoamResearch, @obsdmd, and @amplenote users to work with and learn from
✅ 3 live sessions per week for work, exploration, and demos (all recorded)
✅ The most current iterations of the videos, files, etc.
✅ A community of @RoamResearch, @obsdmd, and @amplenote users to work with and learn from
✅ 3 live sessions per week for work, exploration, and demos (all recorded)
AP Productivity: Essentials is self-paced
✅ “One iteration back” of my latest content: videos, files, etc. So the current videos are the same as Cohort FOUR, not Five
✅ Circle-hosted community
✅ 2 Office Hours per month for Q&A
✅ “One iteration back” of my latest content: videos, files, etc. So the current videos are the same as Cohort FOUR, not Five
✅ Circle-hosted community
✅ 2 Office Hours per month for Q&A
What @BeauHaan 's approach to #Zettelkasten has in common with the TV series Severance - a thread for the #Roamcult, and anyone else exploring #PKM and #TfT
A common theme among proponents of the new #ToolsForThought is that linked notes are more useful (accessable, re-mixable) than foldered notes. However, Beau emphasizes neither links nor folders, but conversation among selves separated in time
Some say we have three selves in time: past, now, future. Jerry Seinfeld has a famous joke about it - He never sleeps enough because at night he's "night guy". If he wakes up tired, that's "morning guy's" problem. Who cares about that guy?
Some thoughts on search as "table stakes" in #ToolsForThought
Started as a "short thread", turned into a longer thing. Hope you find it helpful!
Started as a "short thread", turned into a longer thing. Hope you find it helpful!
There's been some good discussion on effective search as a core primitive for tools for thought, and the limitations of existing tools, such as @RoamResearch wrt search.
Example:
Example:
@RoamResearch And here:
The recent conversations about #ToolsForThought tend to revolve around note taking. Indeed, a note can be a representation of thought...
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But, a tweet can also be a representation of thought.
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Who’s the Bob Ross of #toolsforthought ?
And by Bob Ross I mean, extremely calm and soothing to listen from, thinks well, when you take in anything they do you enter a state of bliss that protects you from the world (unless I’m missing something from Bob Ross that I don’t know here)
For preservation, how I came to this thought: I woke up thinking “the infinite canvas is a potential barrier for mass thinkers because they lean towards order on the chaos vs order spectrum” and canvases led me to painters -> Bob Ross -> who’s a Bob Ross Thinker
Collective sense-making happens in the discussion around creating a communal artifact. If we want to have or build #toolsforthought that make collective sense-making easier, faster, better, we need to tie these together.
Collective sense-making happens in the comments of GoogleDocs or over coffee. Having access to atomic thoughts of others is *super* valuable, but it's in the *collective synthesis* that we actually crystalize common understanding.
Of course, you can also understand collective sense-making as an emergent process resulting from better information for the individual and better ways to integrate that information individually.
In the end, it's prob a spectrum and we'll see where the tools position themselves.
In the end, it's prob a spectrum and we'll see where the tools position themselves.
Fun question for Roamans! #roam
I’m outfitting an apartment on my own slowly over time. It has the bare necessities, and I’m bringing in office stuff, books, tech, etc.
Question: what furniture/device/item of #toolsforthought would be ideal for this place?
I’m outfitting an apartment on my own slowly over time. It has the bare necessities, and I’m bringing in office stuff, books, tech, etc.
Question: what furniture/device/item of #toolsforthought would be ideal for this place?
I’m thinking post-its, markers, whiteboard paper so I can write on the walls
I have some collected art I’m hanging around the place, limiting screens outside of the office (minus a dumb Linux terminal for @RoamResearch only)
What else would help me think better?
I have some collected art I’m hanging around the place, limiting screens outside of the office (minus a dumb Linux terminal for @RoamResearch only)
What else would help me think better?
A teaser for one of the rooms, I’ll post the office space another time
Random #toolsforthought ideas:
A markup tool with the Adobe Photoshop interface
Editable layers with export function, freeform drawing, MD and block level support, all on one canvas
Editable layers with export function, freeform drawing, MD and block level support, all on one canvas
The search bar/function for my knowledge graph but as a standalone app on my laptop
So I can search for blocks immediately from the desktop
So I can search for blocks immediately from the desktop
1/ EMOTIONS & NOTES? One thing that fascinates me about Tools for Thought (@RoamResearch, @obsdmd, @rem_note & @logseq) are the deep emotional connections people make with these tools. But it isn't about the tool, it's about the "thoughts" captured in these tools!
2/ When I started using these tools, I thought people used them because of their features & that really one tool was likely better than another. The truth is they each have advantages. Let me list what I see:
+ Roam: Great graph DB outliner with strong linking
..cont'd
+ Roam: Great graph DB outliner with strong linking
..cont'd
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+ Obsidian: Great Markdown editor designed for thought, leveraging speed of local hardware
+ Remnote: integrating spaced learning into its DNA with roots in education
+ Logseq: opensource tool based on graph DB & markdown. Totally unique hybrid that has a solid future.
+ Obsidian: Great Markdown editor designed for thought, leveraging speed of local hardware
+ Remnote: integrating spaced learning into its DNA with roots in education
+ Logseq: opensource tool based on graph DB & markdown. Totally unique hybrid that has a solid future.
