💭 Give it some thought
Does it ever occur to you that you concentrate on shopping for bread or apples, when you find yourself on the way in which to the grocery store, however neglect about it by the point you get there?
What for those who might keep in mind all of the sensible ideas and concepts you’ve ever had?
What for those who might expertise conversations you had two years in the past, once more?
What would you are feeling? A way of pleasure? Pleasure?
💾 My Easy Saving System
In the present day we are going to make step one towards these targets.
Step one is:
Seize concepts, moments, and todos that resonate with you.
I’ll information you thru my easy seize system at this time. You can too watch my video for additional particulars if you would like.
For the easy seize system, you solely want 3 apps accessible within the App Retailer or Google Play Retailer. (These are solely my preferences, you need to use any apps you want, ideally supporting widgets.)
✅ ToDoIst (Activity Supervisor)
✅ Evernote (for Notes)
✅ Otter (speech-to-text)
[Instapaper (read later app for articles/blog posts)]
I usually have concepts that I neglect after just a few seconds (growing older?). So I lastly took the time to make a setup that may be very handy in order that one can rapidly and with out a lot effort save principally all of the output of the thoughts/mind digitally.
🟥 Activity Supervisor – ToDoIst
If I keep in mind a todo that may’t be carried out in lower than 2 minutes -> recommendation from the e book Getting Issues Performed, then I put it aside in ToDoIst.
“If an motion will take lower than two minutes, it ought to be carried out in the intervening time it’s outlined.” -David Allen
Primary capabilities of ToDoIst:
- ToDos will be entered (duh)
- A precedence (vary 1-4 will be set)
- a date till when the duty must be carried out
- label #work #faculty #personal
🐘 Observe System – Evernote
If I’ve an necessary thought or I wish to make different written notes, I seize them in Evernote. With 2 easy clicks, the observe is saved and leads to my inbox in Evernote. From there, when I’ve time afterward, I can transfer it to the suitable undertaking, space, reference, or archive folder. Learn extra about PARA.
With Evernote, you’ll be able to scan a number of pages after which save them in a single doc. When you seek for a phrase, Evernote additionally searches in photos, images and PDFs. It even acknowledges handwritten notes.
🦦 Speech-to-text Otter.ai
Have you learnt the sensation when you find yourself simply too drained to write down down your ideas? Or simply not within the temper to phrase a sentence? I undoubtedly do.
That’s why I used to be actually excited once I found Otter.ai. This system interprets speech into textual content with 97-98% accuracy (sadly solely accessible in English). With the free model, you’ll be able to flip as much as a complete of 3h voice memos into textual content, edit them and transfer it to your observe system.
📄 Learn-Later-App Instapaper
I made an in depth video about Instapaper.
Conclusion
The details are:
- Retailer solely what resonates with you, what you are feeling is necessary, or what you understand you’ll neglect sooner or later
- Discover your individual “seize system”
- Set up widgets in your job supervisor and notes app to simply and rapidly seize info
- Make it a behavior. For instance, attempt capturing 1-2 notes a day for the primary week.
