Shortform #64 Building Deliberate and Helpful Systems for Increasing Goal-Aligned Actions
The Guild of the ROSE’s beta phase courses begin this week, and I’m happy to be participating! I like the organizational model of the guild, the mission and vision, the guild’s fundraising model, the community, etc. I’m excited to see where this all goes and am enjoying my participation + cohort membership thus far, I’ve already gained good things from it.
Making and using deliberately designed systems for creating, organizing, managing, etc. knowledge work, creative work, projects, etc. is vital, so I’m building such systems for myself now. The goal is to increase my deliberateness and produce / create a lot more goal-aligned work, so the systems will be tailored thusly.
What I’m building so far / what I know I need to build:
trusted “inbox” for tasks, things I’m doing, etc. that is cloud syncable and accessible from the desktop of all my computers
to accomplish this I’ve created an Inbox.txt file in my cloud storage drive and aliased it to my computer’s desktop; i will create a similar alias / shortcut / sym link (Depending on OS, same idea though, different name or implementation) on my other computers.
much inspiration for this came from Cal Newport’s work generally and some of his podcast episodes I listened to recently
I am dating entries and each entry is assigned defined symbols corresponding to urgency, priority, status, etc.
Way to keep track of what I’m doing with my time and track what I get done
I created a DoingList.txt file in my cloud storage drive and aliased it to my computer’s desktop. Each entry is time stamped including the start and end time so I know how long it took and when I performed relevant actions for + completed said entry. Generally there will be a corresponding Inbox.txt entry which once actually completed I will append the appropriate symbol to, but notes or other things that I jot down during the process of completing the task will stay in the DoingList.txt file. This preserves a distinction between “here’s whats on my plate” and “here’s how I accomplished specific things on my plate and when”, which feels important to preserve.
Website design and implementation that supports the repositories of information and other things I want to place on it.
How to track what I know and how I know it
Quick to use, well-organized referable sources of information that act as external memory prosthetics for my life generally but especially for specific projects I’m working on and/or knowledgebases I’m building.
I’ll likely find more to add to the above systems, but for now that’s good enough and represents quite a bit of work.
Shortform #64 Building Deliberate and Helpful Systems for Increasing Goal-Aligned Actions
The Guild of the ROSE’s beta phase courses begin this week, and I’m happy to be participating! I like the organizational model of the guild, the mission and vision, the guild’s fundraising model, the community, etc. I’m excited to see where this all goes and am enjoying my participation + cohort membership thus far, I’ve already gained good things from it.
Making and using deliberately designed systems for creating, organizing, managing, etc. knowledge work, creative work, projects, etc. is vital, so I’m building such systems for myself now. The goal is to increase my deliberateness and produce / create a lot more goal-aligned work, so the systems will be tailored thusly.
What I’m building so far / what I know I need to build:
trusted “inbox” for tasks, things I’m doing, etc. that is cloud syncable and accessible from the desktop of all my computers
to accomplish this I’ve created an Inbox.txt file in my cloud storage drive and aliased it to my computer’s desktop; i will create a similar alias / shortcut / sym link (Depending on OS, same idea though, different name or implementation) on my other computers.
much inspiration for this came from Cal Newport’s work generally and some of his podcast episodes I listened to recently
I am dating entries and each entry is assigned defined symbols corresponding to urgency, priority, status, etc.
Way to keep track of what I’m doing with my time and track what I get done
I created a DoingList.txt file in my cloud storage drive and aliased it to my computer’s desktop. Each entry is time stamped including the start and end time so I know how long it took and when I performed relevant actions for + completed said entry. Generally there will be a corresponding Inbox.txt entry which once actually completed I will append the appropriate symbol to, but notes or other things that I jot down during the process of completing the task will stay in the DoingList.txt file. This preserves a distinction between “here’s whats on my plate” and “here’s how I accomplished specific things on my plate and when”, which feels important to preserve.
Website design and implementation that supports the repositories of information and other things I want to place on it.
How to track what I know and how I know it
Quick to use, well-organized referable sources of information that act as external memory prosthetics for my life generally but especially for specific projects I’m working on and/or knowledgebases I’m building.
I’ll likely find more to add to the above systems, but for now that’s good enough and represents quite a bit of work.
Cheers,
Willa