Recently I’ve been preparing some inventory of leatherworking products that I might be able to sell at a market. At the outset I was faced with the classic problem of anyone hoping to sell their products – how much do I charge? As a hobbyist, I’d generally been fairly laissez faire with costing what I […]
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If you’re a Notion user, odds are you’ve played with it as a task manager or to-do list app. Today I’m going to talk about how to integrate your task list with a reward system, to help motivate yourself to check off tasks. This method was inspired by an app called Habitica, which ‘gamifies’ your
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I used to consider the ability to read a lot of books a good in and of itself. I kept a list of every book I finished, and set myself reading goals of finishing 3 or 4 a month – child’s play for some of our more prodigious readers out there. Today I want to
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Let’s take a minute to revisit a classic study method developed in the 1940s, and bring it up to speed with modern technology to really enhance its versatility. Using this method you’ll be able to seamlessly connect your thinking to the important concepts, create digital flashcards of key terms for yourself, and pull information from
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Notion is both praised and criticized for its immense versatility and configurability. These things are both gifts and curses – the ability to tinker endlessly with systems often comes at the cost of countless hours spent NOT doing the tasks you’re trying to manage, and it’s easy to over-complicate the system or make the managing
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I’m a really big fan of Notion’s various database features – to the extent that I often go overboard with trying to connect all my information using Notion’s Relationships property. In this tutorial I’m going to go over the advantages of databases and relating them to one another, but I’m also going to talk about
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“I could do that.” It’s a short phrase that has been spoken by many a naive novice, looking at something that seems terribly simple, not yet wise enough to understand the menacing, underlying complexity. A fetching but simple looking oil painting seems so easy to emulate. It’s a misty blue ocean at sunset, blue and
Picking up a new hobby is always an interesting experience. It’s not usually very fun being bad at something, and most worthwhile pursuits have an investment of time and effort required to get the hang of them. Around a year ago I made the spontaneous decision to buy a few hundred bucks worth of leather-working
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I recently moved my ‘Second Brain’ out of Obsidian and into Notion. It was a hard decision, because Obsidian has a multitude of strengths and some really cool features. What I’m going to be talking about today is functional in either – I started using the system in Obsidian, and then when I moved to
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It’s easy to take for granted that we have a time machine in our brain. We humans, as a species, are uniquely capable of looking forward into the future and predicting potential outcomes, as well as reflecting on the past and extrapolating it. The world is chaotic, of course, and our powers of prediction are
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