I sit here at my desk with post it notes scattered everywhere, organizing my thoughts and things to do for the day. Something about being able to physically move them around and cross things off just makes it easier for my brain to work.
The problem with this workflow is getting it into the apps that I use to organize my life. These change from time to time, but Sunsama is the clear winner for me at the moment.
PostIt has a great app to use your camera to organize your notes.
I've also found that Apple's FreeForm has a fantastic feature for scanning. Over the weekend I scanned hundreds of old post-it notes of mine that I was trying to declutter, yet some of them had important thoughts that I wanted to stash for later. I used Freeform to scan all my notes.
Next up I'll try feeding this to a model and see if it can organize my notes and create action items from them.
Come to think of it, I could have done none of this and just organized the notes by hand while scanning them :)
Maybe I should try turning my computer off next time and just thinking before I do something.
I have tried various ways to deal with organizing thoughts and tasks, and always end up spending too much time trying to optimize and make the system better when I do it in a digital way. For me, it seems like it is better to just disconnect from the electronics and do it by hand.
I sit here at my desk with post it notes scattered everywhere, organizing my thoughts and things to do for the day. Something about being able to physically move them around and cross things off just makes it easier for my brain to work.
The problem with this workflow is getting it into the apps that I use to organize my life. These change from time to time, but Sunsama is the clear winner for me at the moment.
PostIt has a great app to use your camera to organize your notes.
I've also found that Apple's FreeForm has a fantastic feature for scanning. Over the weekend I scanned hundreds of old post-it notes of mine that I was trying to declutter, yet some of them had important thoughts that I wanted to stash for later. I used Freeform to scan all my notes.
Next up I'll try feeding this to a model and see if it can organize my notes and create action items from them.
Come to think of it, I could have done none of this and just organized the notes by hand while scanning them :)
Maybe I should try turning my computer off next time and just thinking before I do something.