15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes
Resurfacing Tiago’s in-depth P.A.R.A series
I recently interviewed Weihaur Lau of Created Living, a health and wellness-based coaching program for leaders. Weihaur’s coaching business
Note: On October 9, 2019 at 1pm Pacific time I will be hosting a private conversation with Billy Bross for Praxis members only. Scroll to th
Once you’ve accepted an offer for the publishing rights to your book, it’s time to draw up and sign a binding contract. Many of these contra
Let’s look at how a single source can proceed through the layers of progressive summarization. These are Layer 1 notes I took on an article
This article is a guide for getting started with PARA, an organizational system for your digital life. Here’s the 5-step process I recommend
Welcome to the Project List Mindsweep, a step-by-step exercise to help you properly identify every project in your work and life. Your Proje
As part of my year-end review, I always review my favorite reading of the year. These usually tend to be “long-form” online essays diving de
In Part 19, I argued that continuously finding new sources of motivation was the most important challenge for knowledge workers, and that th
I spend 17 minutes per day on email, or 7.43% of my total work time over the past 12 months.The average information worker, in contrast, spe
In Part 6, I recommended treating any deliverable (whether it’s a simple email all the way to a full-fledged product) as a series of evoluti
After all this work and finally signing a deal…it’s time to do the thing you’ve been asking for, and write the book. Leave plenty of time to
In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen calls the Weekly Review the “Master Key to GTD.” He claims it is the single most critical habit
By Kathryn Tongg 1. Establish the preferred method of communication right away. Everyone has a way they prefer to communicate. Whether this
In Part 1 of the Going Nomad series, I explained why my partner Lauren and I are moving to Mexico at the end of the year. In Part 2, I’ll te
In The Future of Ebooks, I laid out a vision for what books could become in a world free of technological constraints. But the modern realit
I recently compiled all my notes, findings, and ideas about the “ideal customer” for Building a Second Brain, and put them into a single doc
In Part 13, we looked at the benefits of Component Thinking, which involves thinking of any product we are working on as made up of subcompo
In Part 4, I introduced the idea of “intermediate packets.” Instead of delivering value in a big project that spans huge amounts of time, we
Technology has transformed every aspect of business, from the tools we use to communicate and collaborate, to how products and services are
A Nine-Part Series, from Concept to Launch
Modern digital tools make it easy to “capture” information from a wide variety of sources. We know how to snap a picture, type out some not
