❌ Say No to Notch. For a long time I got pissed that I could not find half of the applications in the menu bar of my Mac. Recently, I learned, that there is a free app to remove Notch. Yes, it makes your screen a bit smaller. But I did not feel it. From the other hand it brings back the convenience and transparency of using the menu bar — all icons are there.
🧹 Unclutter. Another app I want to recommend. Quite often, I need to attach an image or file to the mail. So far I was struggling the next way — put that file to the right bottom corner of my desktop, than drag it to the mail editor. But now it seems I found a better solution. Unclutter does four things for you:
* it is quickly accessible
* it stores history of your clipboard
* it has an area to store files
* it has an area to store texts
This reduces my cognitive load a bit, and each bit is important.
📚 I read Building a Second Brain and started to use it. This book describes a simple framework to organise your digital notes. And by having them it is expected, that you will unload your biological brain and give it more resources for doing what it can the best — creative work. There are two abbreviations which you need to know:
CODE (Capture, Organise, Distill, Express) — this is the way you capture the notes and PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) — this is how you store them. The framework is quite simple and quite abstract, it is enough to start with and at the same time each of us can adjust it to their own needs.❓12 questions exercise. In
Building a Second Brain book there was a passage about Richard Feynman and the way he processed information. He said, that according to his own observation each of us has just a handful of topics which we are curious about throughout the life. He had 12. And each time he learned any new information he quickly tested it against each of these 12 topics. Will it be useful there, can I apply it to this topic, does it improve how I understand the topic? If so — this was useful information.To me it's an interesting perspective. Indeed the things I'm curious about are almost the same through out the life and even if they change — they do it slowly. I didn't yet collected my own 12 questions, but it shall be an interesting exercise to do. What are yours 12 questions?
⬛️ That was it for today.