Your Habit Should Be to Work – Friday Notes 112
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> …when your habit is to work steadily, a day when you fall behind isn’t fatal – [Rest](https://amzn.to/2DBJqUO) I get told all the time that people have no idea how I write for a bunch of other sites and then publish books and coach and do client development work. There is no secret. I get…
Atomic Tasks Help You Get More Done
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One big issue that most people have with their tasks lists is that many of the items are not actionable on the list. If you have to return something to Amazon you write down “Return covers to Amazon”, which is a project not a task. That single thing you wrote down has 9 things to…
Build A Content Calendar with TickTick
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A while ago I showed off my [content calendar in Notion](https://curtismchale.ca/2020/04/20/build-a-content-calendar-in-notion). Even in that video you could see some of the cracks showing in what I was getting out of Notion. The iPad application doesn’t support a trackpad properly, and it’s slow…oh so slow. Today I’m going to show you my replacement content calendar built…
The Dent: Why Not Just Get a Mac
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From [The Dent](https://andynicolaides.micro.blog/2019/06/15/063700.html): > What a lot of non-iPad users seem to not understand / appreciate is that those hoops they think we jump through to shoehorn an iPad into our workflow are not hoops at all. Just as switching from DOS to a GUI interface back in the day would have required you to…
Why You Should Share What You Learn
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Lots of people watch my videos on how to take notes on articles or books. Way more watch these videos than could be students. Way more people watch these videos than publish their work. That means lots of people are stuck watching how to take notes and never do anything with those notes. Today I’m…
Comparing to the Ideal – Friday Notes 111
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My desk has been bugging me a bit lately. It’s still a productive desk, but I find myself sitting down and fighting my current desk setup. The monitor needs adjustment or the iPad isn’t quite where I want it. Of course this means I started looking at YouTube videos of desk setups and…almost every one…
Joplin Notes Quick Look
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Today we’re going to take a quick look at [Joplin Notes](https://joplinapp.org) for iPadOS. In short, Joplin is a cross-platform note taking application that you can use on any device that you have. It syncs with Dropbox, NextCloud, OneDrive, and WebDav. Yup you read that right, no iCloud sync on the table. On the iPad, adding…
Getting Started with Zettelkasten
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Today we’ll look at what the main building blocks of a Zettelkasten system is. If you’ve been looking for a quick overview, this is what you’re looking for. ## Terms to Understand Before we dig into the system, we need to define a few terms. **Fleeting Notes**: These are any notes or ideas you collect…
NotePlan 2 End to End
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[NotePlan 2](https://noteplan.co) is a task management and note-taking application that is available on iOS, iPadOS and macOS. If you’ve been looking for an application that reminds you of a notebook, and specifically the Bullet Journal system, then this may be the application you’re looking for. Before we dive into everything NotePlan 2 can do for…
Your Task Manager Needs to be Default – Friday Notes 110
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Matt Birchler brought my attention to this excellent post about offloading your anxiety to your task manager. Like most people, I’ve been in and out of task management systems for many years. My most recent multi-year stint was with The Bullet Journal Method and while I continue to see value in an analogue system, I’m…
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