Scott Novis

Day 4 - On the road

Today begins one of the longest driving segments of the trip.  I will go from Denver, CO to Des Moines IA.  This is about 680 Miles as the crow flies. The key to make a drive like this on a Harley is to break the trip into smaller pieces about

HOG

Day 3 - Denver

I spent my third day off the Harley, visiting teammates and friends in and around Denver. Such a beautiful city.

Day 2 - Flagstaff & New Mexico

Wow, yesterday was a crazy 660 miles. That is a haul, but I was was super lucky. The weather was amazing. I pulled out of my driveway at 4:30 AM, and made great time to Flagstaff, pulling up to Julie's door at 6:59 AM. It was

HOG

The Big Loop

An Overview of my Trip Back East.

Travel

Day -1 : No Camping Gear

T Minus 24 hours to go. (Actually less) I've decided to leave the camping gear behind.

HOG

Preparation Day

I am T-Minus two days before my departure on a weeks long trip back to Michigan on the Harley. I'm starting my journal now.

PKM

WNW - Using The Feynman Technique to Enhance Your Resources

Using the Feynman Technique with your Resources section of your Second Brain can help you retain and use more of what you learn.

Obsidian

Three Tips to Learn Faster

How can you get a better return on your attention? Try these three techniques to retain more of what you learn.

Personal Knowledge Management

WNW - From Entertainment to Education

One reason I started a PKM, was to transform listening to business books as a form of entertainment into a form of useful, engaging education.

WNW

WNW Resources - And Some Personal History

The story of what lead me to develop a second brain, and eventually my Where Not What System. The Resources section is the heart of my personal knowledge management. Here's why.

Obsidian

WNW Writing with Resources

How I use Resources to Support my writing. Using tools like Readwise, and Zotero, I can quickly and easily find, and cite, the sources for the information supporting my beliefs, viewpoints, and opinions.

WNW

WNW Resources and Research

How do I use Resources to enhance my personal resource? In this article, I share some tools and techniques I use to enhance my learning when I conduct my own research.

Personal Knowledge Management

WNW Resources Unlock Learning

The power of linking ideas comes to light in the Resources section of a personal knowledge management system.

PKM

WNW Using Resources

How do I use Resources in my Where Not What System? In this post I give you a quick overview and compare Resources to Projects and Areas.

WNW

WNW Area Recap

Recap the Five Article Series that explores how I implement Areas in my Where Not What System.

WNW

WNW Areas and Projects Compared

Lets take a second and compare Projects and Areas now that we have spent a couple of weeks looking at both.

PKM

WNW Areas and Files

While we explore Areas, what do you do with your files? Things you don't want to stick into your note application? Well, PARA is a methodology, not a specific tool. It's how you think about organization.

PKM

WNW - The Power of Association

Linked Note applications have become popular because they mimic the way we store memories, in this blog post I share what Stephen Grossberg has learned about the way we really store memories.

PKM

WNW Using the Area Note

How do I actually use my Area Note? This blog post shares some of the techniques I use to get the most out of focusing using my second brain to help manage the many roles I play in my life

PKM

WNW The Area Template Explained

I explain the structure of my Area template, and share some of the thinking behind why I organize the areas of my life notes the way I do.

PKM

WNW An Area Example

How do areas differ from projects? This article kicks off a series to look at how I work with Areas in side my Where Not What system.

WNW

WNW A Project Example in Five Steps

I wanted to show you how I use a project in as part of my Obsidian "second brain". A project is something I want to get done soon and it will take multiple steps. To demonstrate that I shared five steps. First, I outlined how I start by

PKM

WNW What is this Markdown Stuff?

Obsidian, like many new note taking systems uses markdown to structure your notes. But what is markdown and where did it come from? I'm glad you asked, this post gives some answers.

PKM

WNW - A Project In Use

Here's how I actually use the system.

ADD

My Life as an ADD Adult

Living with ADD was challenging BEFORE I knew I had it, now I'm working on strategies to strengthen my weaknesses while bolstering my strengths. Creating structure and systems like WNW is a core method.