Reading through the previous three parts a question probably popped into your mind does this apply only to text
It s an important one because we are becoming a less text based society Ubiquitous cameras real time video chats and visual displays of information have become the norm Which means expressions of creativity
In Part I I explained Progressive Summarization a method for easily creating highly discoverable notes In Part II I gave you many examples and metaphors of the method in action
In Part III I will give you further guidelines on how to make Progressive Summarization PS a part of your daily work They
These are Layer 1 notes I took on an article on postrationalism a topic I m interested in This is 373 words which would take about 2 minutes to read at an average reading speed 2 minutes doesn t seem like much but when you consider that these notes could have no relevance to the
Modern digital tools make it easy to capture information from a wide variety of sources We know how to snap a picture type out some notes record a video or scan a document Getting this content from the outside world into the digital world is trivial
It s even easier to get content
Note from Tiago: This is the first in a series of guest posts I hope to eventually publish, showing how knowledge management principles and techniques, from my course Building a Second Brain and elsewhere, can be implemented in a wide variety of software programs. Check out the Part 2 here. Getting Things Done (GTD) is…
In Part I I described a new kind of worker called the Full Stack Freelancer
I argued that more affordable and user friendly software as a service SaaS among other things has enabled individuals to manage portfolios of complementary income streams instead of focusing on only one specialized skill
But you
I spend 17 minutes per day on email, or 7.43% of my total work time over the past 12 months. The average knowledge worker, in contrast, spends 28% of their time reading, writing, and responding to email — nearly 4 times as much. The key to Inbox Zero, everyone knows, is to “touch each email only once.”…
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