Obsidian Discovering HEART Roles What balances SMART goals? HEART goals. In this blog post I outline the five questions you want to answer to start defining your roles.
Obsidian Automating Daily Notes in Obsidian with Templater In this article I dig into the templates I use with Templater for creating useful daily notes in Obsidian.
Personal Knowledge Management Real Life Example: Building a New Game Let me give you a real life example of how having a digital second brain helped me develop a new product, author a book, and create a groundbreaking team workshop.
Personal Knowledge Management The Origin of Where Not What How did I actually get into building a second brain? It didn't start with a desire to be more productive, it started with an idea to make better use of what I was learning.
Personal Knowledge Management Where Not What Resource Summary for EO Atlanta (and everyone else too) A list of resources for my Where Not What Talk.
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.
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.
PKM WNW Obsidian Project Template Explained in Detail The technical bits - how my Project Management Template works with Obsidian in Detail.
