Notetaking

A while ago I wrote about how I combine digital notes together with the BulletJournal method. What I didn’t write about the quality of the callback and how processing the notes changes from digital vs analog. I went on a long journey to figure out both. For years, I switched back and forth between the two and here is what I found stood out. What is actually the difference Visibility and linear progression. Even though, in Obsidian, I use the daily notes plugin, the PARA method, and a very simplistic folder structure when it comes to tracking tasks for projects, I would still not be able to, as easily, go through notes from a previous day, as I do with my notebook. ...

Notetaking with ADHD After several years, I finally have my official diagnosis. ADHD. I had it as a kid as well, in hindsight, it was pretty fucking obvious. I could reminisce about those days for a long time. How things now fit together, how everything suddenly fell into place. Why the things happened to me as they did and how I was always always in the middle of every shit-storm. ...

Hello This is just a test post to see if I did my hugo build correctly.

How I track tasks with Obsidian Hello. This will be a run-down on how I track tasks and projects and long-term things, like reading a book, tracking a project or traveling using the PARA method. Let’s get to it! Task tracking queue The way I track tasks is through a queuing system. To not get overloaded by tasks, I just simply put the next task into the queue and take out the top recent if I’m done. Unless something really urgent comes along I don’t disrupt this flow. Meaning, once I have a task out and #active that’s the task I’m going to be working on! ...

Digital and analog notes together This fight is as old as time itself. Okay, maybe not that old. But as soon as viable digital note-taking tools appeared it was on. Since then, many solutions that live together have appeared. PKM tools like Second Brain running hand-in-hand with Zettelkasten or BuJo have opened my eyes to combining them in a way that makes the outcome more powerful than each alone would be. I’m going to write down a day of mine using these methods together and show you my journey. ...

You can see, I wasn’t able to decide on a title. That’s because I wanted to express more than a “How to get started with Journaling” kind of vibe. There are a lot of posts about that already. Rather, this post depicts my struggle to get into this habit. TL;DR It turned out that it took way too long to get into writing a simple entry with too many steps. Taking out a notebook and starting to write is a lot faster and cheaper. ...