When I need to prepare a presentation to explain a solution, what takes most of my time is usually not the content itself but finding the icon sets, stock photos, diagrams and so on to visualize that content. Before starting a presentation, I usually sketch a rough outline in a blank text file, something like cover introduction what is it? examples references.
I haven't felt like writing in a long time, and once again there's friction at the very start. I want to write something, but I also want the content to be complete, the writing to be correct, the images to look good, everything to be tidy, the page to load fast, and so on... and by then I have neither the time nor the energy left to actually write.
As a professional who believes in lifelong learning, I think the techniques of drawing conclusions and taking notes while researching contribute a great deal to effective learning. In this post I want to tell you about Obsidian, an app I've recently started using for effective notetaking and data collection. Put very simply, Obsidian is a notetaking app.
In the Turkish version of this post's title I used "İşleri Yoluna Koyma" — "putting things on track" — a Turkish name for GTD that I made up myself. These days everything is so fast and so urgent. Something arriving as urgent no longer makes it a priority; even working out how much of a priority it is compared to the "urgent tasks" that came before it has become a job of its own.
"I'll save it to the desktop and sort it out later" That line from the title is something I often tell myself while working on a project, presentation or proposal. Between images downloaded from the internet, Excel tables for the presentation, charts and quotes, my desktop ends up looking something like this: Discipline and Order Are a Must Today's operating systems come with very powerful search…
Until something happens to us, we tend to act as if it never will, and we look the other way. Take a moment right now to look at your computer's desktop and imagine every file on it is gone. That should be a nightmare!
The internet takes up more of our lives every day, and as a result we spend far more time in front of a computer or with a smartphone or tablet in hand. Information is so easy to reach and we stay "connected" around the clock, which brings higher expectations for responsibility and productivity. To keep up with them, we find ourselves thinking about concepts that have only recently entered our l…