I am going to put more together on this, but if you look at my last post from a while back on using Notion for research, it gives you an idea of my process. It has been refined since that post, and I am starting to lean on Tana more. […]
Productivity
Quick Update on my digital brain
Why am I writing yet another post? I am mainly doing this for myself. Nobody really reads my blog, but I do enjoy going back to read what I was doing and why I was doing things. This is my recent fall back in to Evernote Evernote is where I […]
How to make decisions with large groups
One of the things I have learned in my career as a product manager is that you are in positions to make decisions every day. Quite often, these decision are hard, and impact a lot of people. In a simplified world, there are two ways to go about doing this. […]
Bear Notes App and Nested Tags
The 1.1.1 update to Bear Writer finally fixed the syncing issue I was having on Sierra. I am not sure where fault lies with this one, but it seems a bug in Sierra and or the way Bear was using iCloud was causing issues. This was the one thing from […]
Why I am sticking with Evernote for now
I don’t use Evernote for everything like I had in the past. It really used to be my “everything bucket”. That has gone away over time, but there are some things the way I manage my daily workflow that really help me out. Let me explain. I try to keep […]
Trying out the new note taking app called Bear
I’ve been in a bit of a funk lately trying to figure out my long-term plan with Evernote, or something else. A couple of things that really bug me about Evernote are: Lack of markdown support The editor is just goofy as hell for layout/formatting tagging seems tedious..but perception I […]
Use Emoji to help make searching in Workflowy easier
I just had this thought tonight.. I’ve been using #task or #meeting in my notes in Workflowy to track meetings or tasks. Why not make them an emoji, it will look better, and you can still search on it? I tend to keep my weekly/daily journal of all meeting notes, […]
Shifting gears again on note taking..
Not sure why I am forever trying to optimize my workflow. My evenings and weekend “fun” is messing with things, including my own setup. So.. I am moving my day to day note taking back to Workflowy. Why you ask? I decide a couple things. First, I am […]
Apple Notes Slowness on Startup – FIXED!
I was trying to explore switching from Evernote to Apple Notes for a period of time. At some point during this experiment, Apple Notes started acting like a punk.. basically every time I tried to open Notes, the sync to iCloud would freeze up the app for anywhere from 15-60 […]
IDEA: Auto-create tasks from Apple Notes
I am playing around with the Apple Notes app still to see if I could replace Evernote. One of the items I love about Evernote is my ability to see recent notes with checkboxes created in them. There is no way to do this with Apple Notes. It got me […]