“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.” – Carl Jung Have you ever noticed how your mind contains multitudes? How different aspects of your personality debate, argue, and collaborate when […]
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Today I want to talk about a little trick to add some extra functionality to Notion. Many of you might have already played with interesting web-hosted embeds – by typing “/embed”, you can embed web-pages into a Notion page, and this has lead to some pretty creative tools already. Things like embedding weather widgets into
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A year or two ago, I switched from Obsidian back into Notion. It wasn’t an easy decision – Obsidian is a phenomenal tool – Notion just worked better for me as a task manager and multi-purpose second brain. Since moving out, though, I’ve always felt a bit of a phantom limb sensation. Notion’s backlinks system
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Spaced repetition and self-quizzing is a tried and true method to learn. Tools like Anki have been around for ages, and they do a great job of creating a digital cue-card system where you can easily test yourself to make sure you understand something. In the past I’ve played with using Notion for spaced repetition
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In Notion, there are certainly many ways to skin a cat. Over the years I’ve played with all sorts of journal and habit tracking systems – back then I disdained the rather simple habit tracker of checkbox fields, but over time Notion’s features have expanded, and now that Notion allows for scheduling templates, I’ve actually
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There’s a common refrain I often hear in the productivity community – “The brain is for having ideas, not for storing them.” This quote can be attributed to productivity guru David Allen, writer of “Getting Things Done”. I can definitely relate to the statement – as a devoted note-taker and second-brain enthusiast, I can full-well
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One of my first and most popular articles I posted on Medium was “How to build a second brain in Notion”. In it I described my quest to refine and perfect my digital knowledge system – basically how I organize my to-do list, projects, notes and everything else, in a way that I could quickly
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When life gets you down, it’s worth remembering that anybody with internet access can freely download and read the entire Harvard Classics – thousands of hours of cultivated quality reading that would have been the envy of virtually anyone in history. In a spontaneous (and perhaps over-ambitious) desire to read the whole thing, I began
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I’ve been playing a lot with OpenAI’s tools lately. OpenAI’s ChatGPT is amazingly powerful – frankly it’s scary. The day I installed its API I put out an article talking about some simple python scripts you can run with it, and this one is quite exciting. Last year, I was obsessed with “Obsidian”, an excellent
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Lately I’ve been hearing a lot about ChatGPT, an AI that takes and answers prompts from a user. Perhaps the best way to describe ChatGPT is to just ask it, and here’s the answer given to me by the AI: “ChatGPT is a great tool for developers who want to create powerful AI-powered chatbots. It
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