I hate these people. It’s the wrong way to live. Life is not about getting a high score in productivity or financially. I pity the people in their lives who are being optimized like some kind of machine/chore. It sounds so loveless
People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
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#112This just seems like so much work. The obsessive tracking of ever little thing. Does anyone really use this data in any meaningful way other that just admire its detail? What happens if you miss period, does this cause anxiety?
Yeah, I have so little energy and motivation to do stuff. I need to spend the little I have actually doing stuff rather than planning to do stuff
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#113The 23 minute video linked on the "ultimate notion setup for 2023" sounds like a great trap to fall into to not actually get anything done. I get the impression some people spend more time configuring these productivity tools instead of actually being productive. Although I admit I've been guilty the same thing, perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generat…
I use Trello for car restoration projects, and I’ll admit I lost basically an entire day just trying to get this automated workflow to happen. But after having figured it out, it made things like cataloguing new parts that I need a 0 second automated process vs a 1 minute manual process. Like basically infinite time gotten back.
The biggest win imo is it took a rote and tedious task (inventory management) associated with my fun task (working on a car) and removed it from my fun task which allows me to enjoy my fun task more and gives me greater odds of completing it.
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#114Absolutely love Notion for the aspects mentioned in the article; I love how I can cluster everything together (work, life, etc.) From short term planning (templates for my week which I copy every Sunday to start a fresh week - these templates are a 7 day todo list (in columns) with a link to my main calendar, project 'kanban' boards, and a linked "general todo" list for things that don't fit in the week and keep drag…
I'm actually starting to do this but with Obsidian. I love notion but one of my issues with it (and this is purely on principle) is that you don't "own" your data. This got me thinking, what would happen to my data in 5-10-15 or 20 years down the road? My solution to this is to have a bunch of markdown files in a git repository and use obsidian to manage it. I assume that in the next 5 years something better than Obsidian will come out though the idea is that is really doesn't matter in the end because the data stays the same.
/end soapbox.
Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
#115I built minimal.app as the antithesis of over-planning, over-documenting, over-organizing, and over-thinking. The feature that keeps the mind open is the Note Lifetime, whereby notes die when you don’t engage with them [1]. This is in contrast to notion, evernote, et al where writers collect stuff and live in these information silos, trapped by the confines of their tools. Of course many (most?) thoughtful people can…
Self cleansing notes. That is a great idea.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
One thing I'm wishing for in Trello is the ability to add an icon to my Android home screen pointing directly to a specific checklist.
Hmm -- can you link directly to Trello lists/cards? Wondering if you could leverage a Chrome link on the home screen if that would then throw you over to Trello automatically? Not sure.
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#117Even more than I love Notion, I love how effective the PR I just read was
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#118I started doing this for a while but quickly switched to Obsidian. Obviously it doesn't have the same features but it serves the same purpose for me at least. The data format is much simpler and portable too, I just store the vault in iCloud and sync it to my phone.
I just wish obsidian was better at lists, especially on the mobile client. It's really painful moving things around tab levels, reordering items, etc. I can't even manage a grocery list without it devolving into complete chaos and broken markdown. There are extensions that help but extensions on mobile are really bad (just an enormous toolbar to scroll through, no real UI... the whole mobile app feels designed to be…
In my experience lists are great but for reordering which can be awkward. Even there, there ought to be a plugin that makes reordering easier.
Have you checked out the mobile toolbar? It makes indent/unindenting list items easy.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over the last 20 years or so I've tried: index cards, wunderlist, todo.txt, remember the milk, Asana, Any.do, Evernote, Google Notebook, Simplenote, Trello, Workflowy, Google Keep, Bear Notes, org-mode, and probably a dozen others. Three years ago I started using Apple Notes and told my wife "if you see me trying anything else at all, yell at me". I've been pretty happy with it and am much more productive just using…
I started with text files in Notepad, then learnt from a friend how to use Freemind to organise notes as hierarchical mindmaps instead. It worked great, but search was broken (DFS but only able to find results in one treepath?!). Years passed, and I needed something to take notes with on mobile, and Google Keep was the simplest fit. But Freemind and Keep were both still too inconvenient on desktop, so at some point I…
I can also recommend using Syncthing with obsidian. I use it to synchronize my vault to all my devices. I also added it to my existing Raspberry Pi server that's always online, so I always have a distributor instance running and don't need to worry about sync issues.
Re: People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
#120Absolutely love Notion for the aspects mentioned in the article; I love how I can cluster everything together (work, life, etc.) From short term planning (templates for my week which I copy every Sunday to start a fresh week - these templates are a 7 day todo list (in columns) with a link to my main calendar, project 'kanban' boards, and a linked "general todo" list for things that don't fit in the week and keep drag…
I'm actually starting to do this but with Obsidian. I love notion but one of my issues with it (and this is purely on principle) is that you don't "own" your data. This got me thinking, what would happen to my data in 5-10-15 or 20 years down the road? My solution to this is to have a bunch of markdown files in a git repository and use obsidian to manage it. I assume that in the next 5 years something better than Obs…
I've extensively used both. The problem I have concerns this part:
> I assume that in the next 5 years something better than Obsidian will come out though the idea is that is really doesn't matter in the end because the data stays the same.
Something better already is out, and the data has already changed. A ton of the power of Notion is in the structured formatting of note metadata; Notion calls them Databases. This is the core of a lot of the produtivity-hacking snake-oil that these YouTube videos sell, but there is something to it. Markdown doesn't have a correlate. Nothing even close. You physically cannot represent in markdown what is possible in some of these Notion documents.