I have started reorganizing my digital world. My digital world was taking on a life of its own with captures for Evernote, Noteability, PDF articles for work, children's school notices, automatic uploads to Dropbox of screen shots for the blog all piling up in different applications over different platforms. All this was starting to get too confusing. Furthermore, in my professional life, between lectures, meetings, brainstorming sessions and keeping up with my academic reading, I had papers, articles, textbooks and notes everywhere.
I first found a video by Ali Abdaal that motivated me to buy and IPad pro and apple pen. As a stationary addict and tactile person, I liked the fact that I could maintain some regular handwriting and note creating without the keyboard. I took Ali’s advice and set up a system. With Noteability, PDF expert, Evernote, Dropbox, Scannable and my Mac task finder. It worked but each element was poorly organized. I remember reading David Allen’s book on Getting things Done and found that the principles of projects, actionable items and archive folders very useful. It was also worth investing in the paid version of these apps, as it allows access, back-ups and syncing on different platforms. Things got even better when I read another article by Ali on the second brain and on organizing the digital world using P.A.R.A by Tiago Forte. To share your Finder files and Dropbox consider a little bit of programming, this seems to work well. Combing these different things appears to be working for me. More on this another day. Happy reading !
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