[tymerry]

I have never used it for business cases, but I am in notion for at least an hour a day for personal uses. I use it for a daily planner, personal wiki, and ticker(getting things done) I am naturally unorganized, so I overcompensate. I don't think much of what I do is outside of Notion's primary use case, but maybe it is???

Daily planner

- Every morning I do gratitude, "single most important task", and quick retro on the previous day.

- Schedule out my day giving every 15-minute block of time a goal. While being burnt out I would beat myself up for "not knowing what I am doing with my life". Having a schedule allows me to say "I should be doing x, I don't have to, but that is what I planned to do with this time" it calms some of that negative self-talk.

- Space for me to document random thoughts so they don't use active memory/thought process

Personal Wiki

- I have struggled with too many tabs open, or too many bookmarks in the past. To keep that at bay I have been trying this personal wiki approach for about a year.

- I have a few top-level pages for major categories of my life like bikes, household maintenance, fitness, computers, and programming. then I populate it with different types of content like pages, notes, and databases. These are things like car maintenance schedules, checklists for cleaning, and links/formulas I need to pay quarterly taxes.

Ticker file

- Single database with a few attributes. One attribute is the "review date" that I filter by.

- I chuck random things into this so I can pull them out of my active memory and come back to them later.

[cupofpython]

does it actually help to confine all of this into a single app?

outloud personal reflection:

I much prefer using simpler tools dedicated to specific tasks (todo, calendar, notes, pictures, websites, etc)

> I chuck random things into this so I can pull them out of my active memory and come back to them later.

I feel like maybe this is the heart of it, having a personal cache to make a temporary mess in until you have time to clean it up later. I could see that being useful - though id want to move everything out of that place and not organize things within it

[tymerry]

What is the pain you are looking to alleviate? YMMV with notion. I think your personal reflections are probably the most important part of this because personal productivity and organization are so personal.

Single app has worked better for me. I am at 4 months of journaling and planning every day (I have used notion for a few years). When I was using desecrate apps I would go 1-3 weeks before system would fall apart.

For me the main pros are: Ability to move and copy elements from tickler to daily plan so easily. Ability to link todo's to documentation. Ability to take notes in a way that works with how I think, and ability to take handle incoming thoughts as fast as they need to be documented.

Main cons are: only "date time" construct in databases, I would prefer a "time" construct. Offline. Data portability.

> I feel like maybe this is the heart of it, having a personal cache to make a temporary mess in until you have time to clean it up later. I could see that being useful - though id want to move everything out of that place and not organize things within it

Cal Newport has a `working_memory.txt` file on every one of his desktops that he chucks random information into and then processes it at the end of the day. Maybe a system like that could be more your jam.

I might one day work up the courage to use [https://bangle.io/](https://bangle.io/) + github. Feels like owning my data + a bit more flexibility could be nice, but that seems like a lot of work.

[cupofpython]

Ill have to check out Cal's implementation because thats relatively close to what Im doing now.

I have a WORKSPACE folder I dump multiple .txt files into and then go through them later to organize. Ill post a path in the .txt if its related to a specific file or just a shortcut to the file instead of a .txt

It's kind of like a to-do, but I also have a todo list for more traditional checklist items that I am pretty good about checking.

>Data portability.

anything without this is a non-starter for me personally. I need to be able to import and export with the tools I use. the only exception I make for that is my todo list, because well I dont really care about the history. everything i put in it is meant to be deleted after i do the thing