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  1. Comment on How do you organize yourself? in ~life

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    This is very wise advice. I agree with other comments made here too about letting a todo list of some form be the kitchen sink that holds all the ideas and things to be done. Better to have that...

    This is very wise advice.

    I agree with other comments made here too about letting a todo list of some form be the kitchen sink that holds all the ideas and things to be done. Better to have that in the list than cycling in our minds.

    But the focus that comes from simplicity -- of choosing one to three things that we're going to do really is key. Otherwise we often may just end up just doing cycles and loops of juggling all of the items in our mind and re-evaluating them over and over (vs. starting work on something).

    While over two decades old now, I still like David Allen's ideas in Getting Things Done and the concept of figuring out what's the next action we can take. Rather than thinking of the whole project (e.g., baking a cake) think about the next action/step (e.g., cracking the egg).

    p.s. THANK YOU for mentioning goblin.tools, that's a new one to me. Their "magic" feature is amazingly brilliant at breaking things down to smaller steps.

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  2. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    I highly recommend Literature and Latte’s Scrivener. I agree with the thread on many of the other tools mentioned. Though Scrivener has a few advantages. It’s highly customizable, available for...

    I highly recommend Literature and Latte’s Scrivener.

    I agree with the thread on many of the other tools mentioned. Though Scrivener has a few advantages. It’s highly customizable, available for Windows and MacOS. It saves locally but has the option to sync via Dropbox. You can create multiple separate projects / databases for different purposes.

    The first few times I tried it, the approach didn’t click. But the barrier was getting my mind wrapped around the potential and options it had.

    It’s kind of like all the good things from OneNote, but with much more powerful and flexible tagging and organization options. And thanks to it being born as a writing tool for authors and script writers, it can export to an insane number of formats.

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Agreed, Visual Studio Code is surprisingly good for note taking with Markdown and folder organization. I really love the little outline tool that lets you collapse headings. The extensions are a...

    Agreed, Visual Studio Code is surprisingly good for note taking with Markdown and folder organization. I really love the little outline tool that lets you collapse headings. The extensions are a huge plus too! So customizable.

    For basic text I had been using Panic’s Nova app, but I hated that they switched to a subscription model.

  4. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    There’s definitely an audience. Lots of people dig music theory. YouTube isn’t a bad place to start. Talk about what you love and find interesting. The audience will follow!

    There’s definitely an audience. Lots of people dig music theory. YouTube isn’t a bad place to start. Talk about what you love and find interesting. The audience will follow!

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