When was the last time you took an hour just to be with your thoughts?
When capturing information, give context by specifying why this note is important
Storing information is super important for knowledge management, but you also need to understand why you’re keeping it. By clearly writing down why your notes are important, you immediately give them context and meaning. This not only helps you remember the information better but also makes it much easier to recall why you found it important later on. Adding a simple “motive” field to your notes can really help. This ensures you pause to consider why you’re keeping something, leading to more conscious knowledge management.
Documenting your motive also helps you handle information with less stress and more focus. You become more aware of what you store and why, which improves your overall knowledge management. By using this approach, you can not only organize your notes better but also extract much more value from all the information you gather.
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Currently reading: The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris 📚
Finished reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
In current times, this is a very necessary book (with could have been a lot shorter).
My main takeaway: I am already quite a digital minimalist, but could focus on having more conversations.
After listening to the Micro Monday interview with @sod, I added the Conversation on Micro.blog plugin to my site.
Now, if you have a Micro.blog account (you have one, don’t you?) and you want to comment on a post you found on my site, you have an easy link to take you to the conversation.
I made it! Mythic level in MTGA.
This resonated with me:
The difference between things and events is that things persist in time; events have a limited duration. A stone is a prototypical “thing”: we can ask ourselves where it will be tomorrow. Conversely, a kiss is an “event.” It makes no sense to ask where the kiss will be tomorrow. The world is made up of networks of kisses, not of stones.
Most ‘things’ in life — this blog, our house, yes, even my life itself, are actually events. Like kisses.
I wish MTGA had an option to quickly copy my opponent’s deck after a game.
Currently reading: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport 📚
Finished reading: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker PhD 📚
This book made it clear to me how my (bad) sleeping habbits are affecting my quality of life. I really should sleep more hours!