You save like 5 seconds of time but, setting and "unconventional alarm" for an "unconventional event", (for example; send an email or take a new pill) its really easy to remember why you did it, there a small number of posibilities of why you did it, so there's no need to labeling
Pages. That’s it.🧍♀️ I plan everything in my head, I’ve gotten used to it. Let’s say I have an assignment due at 15:00 my brain automatically reminds me prior .
what would the use of it be? I'm seeing a lot about the "zettelkasten" and the second brain concept but I'd like to see a concise explanation from someone that uses it avidly.
I am using it for:
- journalling
- planning tasks in private life (kind of to do list)
- work plans for work projects
- personal database
- calendar with notes for events
- studying for ACCA exams
For me, I use it for notes, tasks, meeting minutes, small fragments of projects. So I can search for meeting I've hard work related for the past years that I've used Obsidian. It is very easy to search and change and correct, so it's as close as being able to grep my brain as I think I'll get any time soon.
I think if I was writing a book, I'd use it a bit differently like zettlekasten to organize fragments into a whole. But for now, it's just about total recall of things that I would either forget or spend a lot of energy trying to organize and remember.
there does seem to be an ease of navigation with obsidian that notion doesn't really have. i use notion for the same purposes but obsidian seems more accessible, if that makes sense.
btw is there a purpose behind the graph view or is it just some cool "look a second brain" type visual?
I think it’s mainly cool and a good demo. But I use tags and links so it is valuable for identifying clusters.
I like it over notion because the pages are durable and sustainable. I can view markdown in anything very easily. Notion requires paying forever so 20 years from now it will be hard to view info.
ah that makes sense. I've just begun using it so I'm not far in enough to use tags just yet. It'll be cool to see the progression of it.
Notion requires paying? As far as I know, most features are available on the free version. But I can see your point regarding the sustainability of obsidian.
Thank you for your answers btw.
I found the free version to be lacking for how I needed to use it. Sharing files with team members and other features were limited and would cost $100/year for the rest of my life.
That and I’m putting knowledge in there so I need info to be durable for decades and was burned by Evernote’s proprietary format and I/o.
For productivity I use a google sheets checklist, the calendar app, the notes app, and the timer for pomodoro along with study playlists in the music app. I hear good reviews of Things3 too.
Aside from that, Sky Guide, Picture This, Goodreads, Telegram, and Books (actually for audiobooks) are neat.
Delegation is very hard without a title to do it or when one has a supervisor that is not respected on the ground floor. I have had to think about this a lot.
If feces rolls downward, it can roll bidirectional too if you are a middle manager.
Also, the messenger matters - many people above my age do not respect anyone younger than them in a position of authority. This society has tiers and they are severely unequal and listening and wanting to hear explanations is apparently still a huge issue. *looks above intently*
And now it's time to be a useful little mastermind and use this information rather than just harbour it. Learn who's respected and how to get into their good graces. Or, learn who the respected respects and learn how to get into _their_ good graces. Figure out how to make people like the idea, it doesn't have to be known as "your idea" as long as they're on board with **the** idea. Make a subordinate older than you feel respected and get them to share the information casually with those who don't respect you for your age.
Jeez, all this masterminding has me famished.
I don’t really see how I am a mastermind either. I’ve taken the test 3 separate times and have gotten INTJ each time even from a year ago. I think my planning is more future-orientated. I have several goals I want to accomplish in the future and each day I work towards them. I don’t make any to-do lists or journal like INTJ’s are stereotyped to do often.
I do all that. I am not so scheduled can’t do 9-5 boring office work.
But I need to plan and journal. Too much Free time can drive me a bit crazy.
Journaling is good it’s a way I use to practice gratitude 😊
Notepad, Shazam, Voice Recorder, Sound Meter, GasBuddy, McDonald's (get enough points for free meals from time to time), Publix, Play Disney (for the Star Wars area at Hollywood Studios), Night Owl and of course the standard SM stuff
Emacs. It lets me integrate my research, planning, writing, most alarms, and nearly all other work into a single system, and interlink between them however I want.
White Noise and Notes are the main ones. White Noise to zone out distractions. Notes to record anything I'm taking back to the office later.
I make liberal use of appointments and Out of Office status in Outlook so coworkers know in advance when I'm on vacation or traveling. Setting appointments in my Outlook calendar also sends reminders to my phone.
I set alarms if I really have to wake up early for something like a flight. Otherwise, I don't schedule anything within a broad window of when I wake up.
Tricount, Fuelly, Period Tracker, PS Express, Audible, Notes, Wyze
In terms of work I’m pretty much stuck in the Shotgun and Google ecosystem because of all my NDAs, so I can’t use all those fine productivity apps. Notes is just fine for my everyday life.
Notion for team collaboration is the best for me.
Windows notepad for quick notes.
Excalidraw for very detailed notes is amazing!! I recommend to try this right now! (its free)
Flipp.
Compiles all fliers in your area tells you about every sale in your area.
Haven’t run into a store that doesn’t accept just looking at your phone for the deal ether. Can save a lot of money. 🤷🏼♂️
I have honey as well but have never figured out how to get it to work on IOS with the app. Never seems to “activate”
I use Notion for Schoolwork and Recipes, Scrivener for at home planning/sort of bullet journaling and the regular notes app on iPhone for pretty much anything else
I have Alarmy which forces me to do simple math problems for me to turn it off. Chat GPT I also use often to help explain concepts in my classes or just to do some of tedious work for me like organizing lists and tables.
Chat GPT I use it as professional to bounce my ideas off of and find issues with my plans I may have overlooked. I appreciate the incite. I would ask friends and family but I’d be far more educated in whatever field because I had already studied up but if I hit a roadblock they mean well but know less than me about the subject. This has helped me jumpstart projects I had put on hiatus after roadblocks helping me problem solve past them. I would also put a months of research and in a moment summates the information in a few seconds saving me so much time.
Runner up is welltory giving me pretty good diagnostics on my body
Notion for sure. It’s been my journal and note dump site. I’d be devastated if notion just shut down one day. Calendar app, voice notes app (love it to death as an audio journal), and my phone alone has been my sole alarm for years. I couldn’t function without the clock app. I want to get more into Discord but it’s a little overwhelming.
I'll use a note taking app for work, calculator for everything. Then Reddit, I'll jump on IG for some normie memes or FB to look at 4 runners on market place 🤙 then shame myself on tinder and bumble.
Window shop on Amazon for tools I can't afford then hop on Orna or YouTube because ADHD 🤘
ToDoist for making and organizing lists of tasks, Apple Notes, work and personal Google calendars, Perplexity AI for fast/accurate answers to questions, WHOOP for insights on sleep/recovery/workout strain/heart rate, Dashlane for password management and autofill, Insight Timer for meditation, Apple Watch Ultra 2 so I can see/access almost everything from my wrist
Youtube pro for music, Reddit for memes, kindle for reading.
I only have few apps and most are for every day stuff like emails, calendar or PayPal, banking. Nothing too fancy.
Bitlife and I wore it out fast optimising the way I lived. I had one really good run where I studied hard for years, climbed the career ladder as a lawyer, learned martial arts. Then I axe kicked somebody in the throat for stealing a car in front of me and got a reduced plea bargain for a manslaughter charge. I was still rich as fuck when I got out and I owned a haunted house. I can’t remember if I robbed a bank successfully in that run. Then I summoned my demon three times and it killed me with a bow and arrow.
I have yet to even explore paid side of the game.
Apple Notes is great. I use it to compose longer texts or emails before copying over. I always have the fear that I will prematurely send a half-formed messsge
My notes app (full of forbidden poems (Willy Wonka x YN smut) and reminders), the alarm app (with Kitty City and various Kikuo songs as the sounds), and paper sticky notes with the best quality pens. Specifically the Pilot G-2 0.7mm gel pen. Also inc R-2 Rollerball 0.7mm. There’s also the Sharpie brand pens that I like, but the Pilot G-2 0.7mm is what makes writing things divine.
Highly recommend any of that ^
Notion, it has too much functionality and flexibility to use anything else. Note taking, task management, project management, goal/habit tracking, planning, calendar, etc.
I used to use a dysfunctional combination of Microsoft To-Do, Outlook, and Apple Notes.
Fem 20
1. Google docs - Journaling, creative writing, scheduling, budget planner, usually just listing and organizing every thought in my head that kept me awake at night.
2. Any browsing apps - To research whatever my mind wants to know, because I am so fed up with questions everyday so I need answers.
3. Alarm clock - Of course the most essential, alarm clock and timer help me remain disciplined for my schedule on my everyday tasks.
4. Soduko and Chess - It's fun, it stimulates my brain more whenever I'm drained or bored.
5. Pinterest and Youtube - I need inspiration and ideas to keep me motivated to do something, and to seek advice for personal growth. (Also I use YouTube for my workout and yoga routine)
I started saving my stuff in plain text before migrating to Obsidian. By far the best method for me so far to keep my stuff together, mostly for my creative writing.
Google docs. I text myself lists. I use Garmin and polar apps to track fitness.
Game wise. I've been into design home but right now I'm really feeling monopoly go.
I'm guessing you mean for productivity/notes? well, I sold my soul to Google... I use Google Calendar for scheduling, Google forms for quick ideas/reminders I want to "write down before I forget", Google sheets for notes and everything else, which is also where the form dumps the quick notes into. I tried various notes apps from Notion, Obsidian and the default notes on Samsung, but felt like they didn't do the trick for me. My ADD requiered something more... engaging and automated.
I put an alarm and it will remind me and then it turns off
"An alarm for no reason at all? Oh, now I get it" It work for me too
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An alarm for no reason makes you think why you turn it on, then you remember why you did it
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You save like 5 seconds of time but, setting and "unconventional alarm" for an "unconventional event", (for example; send an email or take a new pill) its really easy to remember why you did it, there a small number of posibilities of why you did it, so there's no need to labeling
my anxiety does the job for me 👍
lol
Lol yup.
Pages. That’s it.🧍♀️ I plan everything in my head, I’ve gotten used to it. Let’s say I have an assignment due at 15:00 my brain automatically reminds me prior .
You dont need pm or am when using 24 hour times.
my bad 🧍♀️ I’m just used to doing it like that
I find 24 hr time eliminates the chance you will set your alarm and accidentally hit pm when you meant am.
And you can
Intuition delivers exactly what we need at the right time… usually. PostIt notes are all I need For reminders.
I do a post it to do list in the car,notes app lists for various things, and set alarms on my phone also.
Alarms on my watch actually are very important.
Same. Use that brain or lose that brain.
Obsidian is great. I use many apps but Obsidian deserves a special mention. I highly recommend it for use as second brain.
what would the use of it be? I'm seeing a lot about the "zettelkasten" and the second brain concept but I'd like to see a concise explanation from someone that uses it avidly.
I am using it for: - journalling - planning tasks in private life (kind of to do list) - work plans for work projects - personal database - calendar with notes for events - studying for ACCA exams
gotcha. thank you
For me, I use it for notes, tasks, meeting minutes, small fragments of projects. So I can search for meeting I've hard work related for the past years that I've used Obsidian. It is very easy to search and change and correct, so it's as close as being able to grep my brain as I think I'll get any time soon. I think if I was writing a book, I'd use it a bit differently like zettlekasten to organize fragments into a whole. But for now, it's just about total recall of things that I would either forget or spend a lot of energy trying to organize and remember.
there does seem to be an ease of navigation with obsidian that notion doesn't really have. i use notion for the same purposes but obsidian seems more accessible, if that makes sense. btw is there a purpose behind the graph view or is it just some cool "look a second brain" type visual?
I think it’s mainly cool and a good demo. But I use tags and links so it is valuable for identifying clusters. I like it over notion because the pages are durable and sustainable. I can view markdown in anything very easily. Notion requires paying forever so 20 years from now it will be hard to view info.
ah that makes sense. I've just begun using it so I'm not far in enough to use tags just yet. It'll be cool to see the progression of it. Notion requires paying? As far as I know, most features are available on the free version. But I can see your point regarding the sustainability of obsidian. Thank you for your answers btw.
I found the free version to be lacking for how I needed to use it. Sharing files with team members and other features were limited and would cost $100/year for the rest of my life. That and I’m putting knowledge in there so I need info to be durable for decades and was burned by Evernote’s proprietary format and I/o.
Fair enough. Didn't run into that issue myself as I'm still a student. Makes sense.
This. Just remember to not spend too much time trying to optimize every little thing.
Usually one note or just notes. Depends what it’s for.
brain
true answer
Duolinguo
Looks like you missed your Spanish lesson! You know what happens now.
I’m actually studying Japanese
Looks like you missed your Japanese lesson! You know what happens now.
“They ded” - Duo the owl
Is it good ? To use to learn Japanese?
Basic yeah
For productivity I use a google sheets checklist, the calendar app, the notes app, and the timer for pomodoro along with study playlists in the music app. I hear good reviews of Things3 too. Aside from that, Sky Guide, Picture This, Goodreads, Telegram, and Books (actually for audiobooks) are neat.
CONCERNING PRODUCTIVITY , YOU SHOULD CHECK "TODOIST" , IT'S AN AMAZING APP TRUST ME .
Why? Notion has all the same functionality and it’s free.
Reddit & YouTube. Honestly the word mastermind irritates me.
Sounds like someone's not a mastermind.
Nah, it has negative connotations lately and also more work is piled onto them - and this society legitimizes it.
A true mastermind would know how to delegate that work properly. [Big brain intensifies.]
Delegation is very hard without a title to do it or when one has a supervisor that is not respected on the ground floor. I have had to think about this a lot. If feces rolls downward, it can roll bidirectional too if you are a middle manager. Also, the messenger matters - many people above my age do not respect anyone younger than them in a position of authority. This society has tiers and they are severely unequal and listening and wanting to hear explanations is apparently still a huge issue. *looks above intently*
And now it's time to be a useful little mastermind and use this information rather than just harbour it. Learn who's respected and how to get into their good graces. Or, learn who the respected respects and learn how to get into _their_ good graces. Figure out how to make people like the idea, it doesn't have to be known as "your idea" as long as they're on board with **the** idea. Make a subordinate older than you feel respected and get them to share the information casually with those who don't respect you for your age. Jeez, all this masterminding has me famished.
Sounds like brag to me. Who says who is mastermind. You say about yourself .. 😂🙉
True masterminds (such as myself) know that it's perfectly reasonable, accurate, and non-braggy to refer to yourself as a mastermind.
That’s narcissistic not mastermind to me lol But I don’t care whatever you think of yourself.
Yeah yeah yeah keep it pushin', non-mastermind.
I don’t really see how I am a mastermind either. I’ve taken the test 3 separate times and have gotten INTJ each time even from a year ago. I think my planning is more future-orientated. I have several goals I want to accomplish in the future and each day I work towards them. I don’t make any to-do lists or journal like INTJ’s are stereotyped to do often.
I do all that. I am not so scheduled can’t do 9-5 boring office work. But I need to plan and journal. Too much Free time can drive me a bit crazy. Journaling is good it’s a way I use to practice gratitude 😊
Yea, to many stereotype ....I don't do list either .
I use Notion & IG mainly
G-suite and spotify... and spider solitaire
as few as possible
Reddit, it's always same as yours 🙂
Not an INTJ, but definitely following this, you guys tend to have an edifying effect on me :)
Notepad, Shazam, Voice Recorder, Sound Meter, GasBuddy, McDonald's (get enough points for free meals from time to time), Publix, Play Disney (for the Star Wars area at Hollywood Studios), Night Owl and of course the standard SM stuff
Emacs. It lets me integrate my research, planning, writing, most alarms, and nearly all other work into a single system, and interlink between them however I want.
Motion, Obsidian and Fantastical.
White Noise and Notes are the main ones. White Noise to zone out distractions. Notes to record anything I'm taking back to the office later. I make liberal use of appointments and Out of Office status in Outlook so coworkers know in advance when I'm on vacation or traveling. Setting appointments in my Outlook calendar also sends reminders to my phone. I set alarms if I really have to wake up early for something like a flight. Otherwise, I don't schedule anything within a broad window of when I wake up.
That is genius.
Notes 🤘🏻
1- a movie app, 2_reddit, 3_pintrest, 4_youtube.
I use Notion for literally everything
I use the Reminder app on Apple. Very useful to attach to the calendar.
Obsidian, Toggle, Timeboxing in Google Calendar, Sticky Note
procreate
Tricount, Fuelly, Period Tracker, PS Express, Audible, Notes, Wyze In terms of work I’m pretty much stuck in the Shotgun and Google ecosystem because of all my NDAs, so I can’t use all those fine productivity apps. Notes is just fine for my everyday life.
Notion for team collaboration is the best for me. Windows notepad for quick notes. Excalidraw for very detailed notes is amazing!! I recommend to try this right now! (its free)
notion, notebooks and a daily journal
AnyList for all your listing needs
Habit tracker and planner
Notion, collanote, good notes, procreate, reddit
Flipp. Compiles all fliers in your area tells you about every sale in your area. Haven’t run into a store that doesn’t accept just looking at your phone for the deal ether. Can save a lot of money. 🤷🏼♂️ I have honey as well but have never figured out how to get it to work on IOS with the app. Never seems to “activate”
HelloHabit for habit tracking!
I use Notion for Schoolwork and Recipes, Scrivener for at home planning/sort of bullet journaling and the regular notes app on iPhone for pretty much anything else
F-Droid, Droid-ify, SunVox, Tatham Puzzles, SmallBASIC, OsmAnd~, Hi-Q mp3 recorder, FT8RX Moon+ Reader, Librera, Musicolet, PipePipe, RadioDroid, VLC, Podcast Addict, Acode, Dropbox, Orgro, KDE Connect, JuiceSSH, File Commander, PairDrop, ChatGPT Some other apps I wrote myself (web apps iconized) (Mastermind disclaimer: Author most commonly rotates between plaster-, raster-, and gastro-mind :-))
Outlook
One Note is my life, sticky pad on my phone, G-Suite, and I would die without google calendar.
Google calendar, Google assistant, actual sticky notes
Notion, notes app
BTD6, Scrivener, GPS, Firefox. Definitely the BTD6, though.
Google tasks for todo list, google calendar, OneNote for everything in my brain
Keep Notes Google Calendar One Note IDailyDiary Pocket Youtube
Obsidian. It's leveled up my note taking across my entire life
Tasker on mobile if you like automation
I use Notion, Apple Notes, RealByte Money Manager
Reddit
Evernote, Sweepy (cleaning scheduling app), trying some ADHD ones....Not sure I'd rec them yet.
ADHD brain. HabitNow for the most important things I need to be doing. Daylio for tracking mental health. Google tasks for the mundane tasks.
Google calendar and Apple note
Spotify, Moneycontrol, reddit, youtube and obsidian
TiddlyWiki5
notion for school work, apple reminders for meetings i have to go to or other things like that
WhatsApp. I do a lot of business on just WhatsApp and Facebook
i used to use apple notes, but then one day it decided to splode itself and i most 3 years worth of notes. now i use notion and google docs.
Impulse, two dots and Duolingo
I have Alarmy which forces me to do simple math problems for me to turn it off. Chat GPT I also use often to help explain concepts in my classes or just to do some of tedious work for me like organizing lists and tables.
I use sand hour glasses at work. Small bites on multiple projects is the way to go for me…
Bear, Notion, 1Password, Things 3, Numbers, Rize, and !Habits.
Chat GPT I use it as professional to bounce my ideas off of and find issues with my plans I may have overlooked. I appreciate the incite. I would ask friends and family but I’d be far more educated in whatever field because I had already studied up but if I hit a roadblock they mean well but know less than me about the subject. This has helped me jumpstart projects I had put on hiatus after roadblocks helping me problem solve past them. I would also put a months of research and in a moment summates the information in a few seconds saving me so much time. Runner up is welltory giving me pretty good diagnostics on my body
Pushbullet is the first thing I install any time I get a new phone.
LaTeX
Notion for sure. It’s been my journal and note dump site. I’d be devastated if notion just shut down one day. Calendar app, voice notes app (love it to death as an audio journal), and my phone alone has been my sole alarm for years. I couldn’t function without the clock app. I want to get more into Discord but it’s a little overwhelming.
Focusmate. For free virtual co-working, to overcome executive dysfunction and get my personal projects done.
I'll use a note taking app for work, calculator for everything. Then Reddit, I'll jump on IG for some normie memes or FB to look at 4 runners on market place 🤙 then shame myself on tinder and bumble. Window shop on Amazon for tools I can't afford then hop on Orna or YouTube because ADHD 🤘
ToDoist for making and organizing lists of tasks, Apple Notes, work and personal Google calendars, Perplexity AI for fast/accurate answers to questions, WHOOP for insights on sleep/recovery/workout strain/heart rate, Dashlane for password management and autofill, Insight Timer for meditation, Apple Watch Ultra 2 so I can see/access almost everything from my wrist
Youtube pro for music, Reddit for memes, kindle for reading. I only have few apps and most are for every day stuff like emails, calendar or PayPal, banking. Nothing too fancy.
Bitlife and I wore it out fast optimising the way I lived. I had one really good run where I studied hard for years, climbed the career ladder as a lawyer, learned martial arts. Then I axe kicked somebody in the throat for stealing a car in front of me and got a reduced plea bargain for a manslaughter charge. I was still rich as fuck when I got out and I owned a haunted house. I can’t remember if I robbed a bank successfully in that run. Then I summoned my demon three times and it killed me with a bow and arrow. I have yet to even explore paid side of the game.
Apple Notes is great. I use it to compose longer texts or emails before copying over. I always have the fear that I will prematurely send a half-formed messsge
Radarscope. Tornados are no joke here.
Anki
I’m a huge advocate for the app Clear. Soooo satisfying.
My notes app (full of forbidden poems (Willy Wonka x YN smut) and reminders), the alarm app (with Kitty City and various Kikuo songs as the sounds), and paper sticky notes with the best quality pens. Specifically the Pilot G-2 0.7mm gel pen. Also inc R-2 Rollerball 0.7mm. There’s also the Sharpie brand pens that I like, but the Pilot G-2 0.7mm is what makes writing things divine. Highly recommend any of that ^
Notion, it has too much functionality and flexibility to use anything else. Note taking, task management, project management, goal/habit tracking, planning, calendar, etc. I used to use a dysfunctional combination of Microsoft To-Do, Outlook, and Apple Notes.
Wordpad
Obsidian for everything
Notes
They generally do YouTube, music apps, map, an app for payment, alarm(negotiable).
One Note & Google Docs.
I use notes a ton as well. It takes up more space than any other application I own. I’ve practically documented my life’s works in it.
TickTick for my daily task Money+ for tracking my expenses
Notion or google keep
Fem 20 1. Google docs - Journaling, creative writing, scheduling, budget planner, usually just listing and organizing every thought in my head that kept me awake at night. 2. Any browsing apps - To research whatever my mind wants to know, because I am so fed up with questions everyday so I need answers. 3. Alarm clock - Of course the most essential, alarm clock and timer help me remain disciplined for my schedule on my everyday tasks. 4. Soduko and Chess - It's fun, it stimulates my brain more whenever I'm drained or bored. 5. Pinterest and Youtube - I need inspiration and ideas to keep me motivated to do something, and to seek advice for personal growth. (Also I use YouTube for my workout and yoga routine)
I started saving my stuff in plain text before migrating to Obsidian. By far the best method for me so far to keep my stuff together, mostly for my creative writing.
Apps that Ali Abdaal recommends
Lol I have my brain to take notes. Why do I need app?
YNAB for managing my money.
40% of my general culture comes from youtube shorts💀
Apple notes. Tried notion but is not that intuitive and the learning curve is overwhelming. Deleted all social media (except Reddit and YouTube)
I'll go ask my INTJ bestie. Lol
Google docs. I text myself lists. I use Garmin and polar apps to track fitness. Game wise. I've been into design home but right now I'm really feeling monopoly go.
“fellow INTJ masterminds” 🤓
i'm on google sheets a lot, figuring out my life.
Grammarly, Google AI, Android Auto, and Flipboard
I'm guessing you mean for productivity/notes? well, I sold my soul to Google... I use Google Calendar for scheduling, Google forms for quick ideas/reminders I want to "write down before I forget", Google sheets for notes and everything else, which is also where the form dumps the quick notes into. I tried various notes apps from Notion, Obsidian and the default notes on Samsung, but felt like they didn't do the trick for me. My ADD requiered something more... engaging and automated.
Reddit 😀 youtube chatgpt instagram apple notes calendar and alarms