Tag: Analogue productivity
Friction, Focus, and the Fight to Feel Human
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Today’s issue of 3 Threads ended up being all about the value of friction. Far from being something to avoid, it acts as a filtering function to help us decide what is valuable to us. Booking Time Should Require Friction I’ve long thought that friction is a filtering force in all aspects of your life.
Forgetting Tasks is a Vote on Their Importance
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I regularly see people using a notebook for tasks saying that they forget to do things, important things. I’d ask if the task was important though if you forgot to do it. One of the forcing functions of Bullet Journal, or any paper based system, is that when a task feels way to hard to
Now I Want Notecards
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Reading this piece by Ryan Holiday makes me want to start keeping notecards instead of putting everything in DEVONthink. I wish I had some satisfying explanation about why notecards are so powerful, but I don’t. I don’t know why they are so integral (and yet used in such diverse ways) to so many fascinating people.