I found your video looking for guidance on how I can better use notion with my conservatory students. I think what was mostly helpful for me was seeing that you can always evolve and iterate -- also want to say that your students are clearly fortunate to have a teacher who loves teaching the way you do -- best wishes for the upcoming term
Hi bro I want more videos from you. So inspirational and practical for us who runs business and also have tons of notes from learning and information that need to be organized.💖☺🙏🏻
I’m thinking about using Notion but not sure if it’s right for me. I’d really like a week to view page with a to do list for each day, where I can see the topic for whichever group I’m teaching for each lesson, at the same time as the daily to do lists so I can plan ahead. Do you know if this is possible in Notion? Apologies I know this is an older video
Thank you for a great video! I’ve been watching lots of travel planning Notion videos trying to get ideas on how to build my own. Yours was simple to create and easy to modify on a trip by trip basis. Your explanations about how you use it and how you created it were clear. The majority of videos I saw were aimed at selling their templates and were too complex for my needs. Also my experience with purchasing templates is that they are built to hinder you modifying them for your needs. I’ve looked at your other videos and they are just as thoughtfully made and informative. I’ve subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to seeing more from you. Thank you once again! Happy travelling!!!
Great information on here. Thank you so much for sharing your system! You have a really beautiful way of explaining things that make it both simple yet informative.
Love the video - really well-spoken and eloquent with some helpful ideas. Often I'll skip the intro and head straight to the tips in videos like these, but I found the opening section really compelling and pleasant to listen to. You can feel that you truly care about what you're talking about and it's a breath of fresh air. The ideas about reevaluating our relationship to our phone really resonated with me, I'M definitely going to look into the books you've mentioned. I'm only just getting on board with focus modes and finding my own personal system using Notion/readwise/instapaper I'm a big fan of the focus modes - I've got 4 focuses each with a different home screen and: 'Default/minimalist', 'News/Social media', 'learning', and 'Creating'. I find they can be a huge help and push you in the direction of using the phone 'intentionally'.
Great video, interesting food for thought. It's always useful to see other people's workflow. The important thing is to remember that each of us is different and that everyone must find their own workflow. For example, in my case, I would remove a couple of steps. Too many different apps and systems, I would never be able to maintain it all. Anyway, thanks for sharing your experience.
Love this! I also came up with a similar digital indexing system! I bought a set of 6 notebooks and I've numbered each page, but for the second book, I numbered it from where I stopped in the first book. So Book one is page 1-150 and book 2 starts from page 151 and so on and so forth. I'm keeping my index on google sheets but I think I might try notion. Another idea that I got in order to merge analog and digital is to add QR codes in my notebooks. The QR codes can link to articles, videos, etc.
I've had a hard time when it came to balancing my social media use. I am Autistic so for me it can physically hurt to change such a big part of my life (like watching tiktoks 3 hours a day). However, I realized I did have to just cut some apps cold turkey. About a year ago I deleted tiktok off my phone, and only recently redownloaded it because there were recipes I could only remember finding there. After the year of not looking I just don't open the app like I used to; only checking it when I am looking for something specific. I do worry that this is because I switch my attention to other apps and even PC usage, but I think it's a one step at a time for someone like me. Thank you for making such a lovely video and for talking about your own experience with cutting down. I made sure to subscribe and am gonna watch your back log. :)
This is a great, balanced approach: grounded in the analog and leveraging the flexibility of the digital. When it comes to apps, I only use the default Notes app for quick capture things (and a few shared notes), but I love organizing and drafting ideas in Notion; I love being able to move things around with the folder structure, and the outline and table features are so powerful (as you masterfully showed). Even still I’m primarily an analog guy: marginalia, a pad of blank slips (for scribbable bookmarks and taking notes in books I don’t writing in), a notebook for jotting, writing, or drawing, a big notebook for daily journaling, and an everbook for drafting and shuffling things around (kinda what I do on notion). Finally, I’ve been trying to recite poetry, quotes, striking passages, and plots or arguments regularly from memory, which is neither analog nor digital, but spiritual. Reviewing and remembering is the hardest part and it’s often skipped, but that’s where the growth and insight really lives I find. Also, I’m Orthodox so I appeciate your icons. ☦️
I have two different size iPads. In your opinion, is the Kindle app on an iPad comparable to using an actual Kindle? Would you have both? Thank you Adam for sharing your reading wisdom with your audience!
I can help you with this one. Kindle has an E Ink display which makes it so your eyes doesn't strain, you can have the sun blaring on it and it won't effect the screen and the battery life on it is way better than an IPAD. IPADS have and LED screen and the battery life on it is not as good. Plus with it being LED. You can't really sit outside in the sun without the sun affecting the screen.
This was an amazing video. It has sparked new ideas on how I can use the best of both worlds. I absolutely love writing but the use of technology takes my reading and notetaking up a notch. I love reading virtually but there is nothing like filling up a notebook. Youve shown me a way that I can have both and organize it. Something it gets overwhelming and your method is very detailed and streamlined. Thank you for sharing.
This was a great walkthrough of your process. I get very hung up on "Whats perfect" and "Whats good enough". You provided a lot of clarity here. Thank you.
I study architecture and is probably above average in interest for all its details, variations and styles but that is what I normally look at. And often how trees interact with buildings, how trees frame views, or create shelter and spaces underneath. Studyin architecture is specialist in technical details but also very generalist in that it’s really about how everything and everyone come together through time-which is why I love it so, and why I really appreciate this video ❤
Awesome video, exactly what I’ve been looking for!! Keep up the good content!! Also you have a typo in your video thumbnail, something I thought you should know :))
Yeah, I really enjoyed this video. I believe the implementation step is a real game changer in allowing us to understand how to apply the knowledge we have just read into practice. Thanks for that tip, I will be 'implementing' that from now on.
Not sure if you are familiar with Jon Acuff - he writes a lot about goal setting. He has a saying, "Some is better than none." Some days I am tired and not up to my daily reading goal. So I will tell my self, just a couple pages. It is amazing how just a couple pages read consistently will add up
Many thanks to you Adam! You have helped me to jump into notion. Your examples in this video are going to be my role models. Thanks so much over from Germany (teaching about the same topics as you do, apart from maths.) I am so amazed by the "Oscar Romero-lesson - becoming a Saint". Going to steal the title if I may;-)
Clear and helpful summary Adam, I like your shared approach to balancing physical and digital approaches - there is much to explore here and I very much look forward to seeing how you continue to adapt and explore your methods / usage. As a retired teacher with too many hobbies and interests and too little time 😂😅😂 I very much appreciate your insights. I too use Notion, although I’m just beginning my journey, also GoodNotes and Instapaper combined with sketchbooks / collage to navigate my endlessly meandering thoughts, passions and diversions - good to find a fellow traveller on the digital / physical path less path!😊
Loved this video! I recently started to decide on what system I want to use for my note-taking. Great insight as I wanted to do a balance of using Notion but continuing with handwritten notes. Might get a Kindle, too, as I find myself reading more virtually than actual books. Just started my masters program so this video definitely helped!
I'm not sure it's more of a learning curve, I just think it's a different kind of learning curve. I use both Notion and Obsidian but for different purposes - Notion for all things related to organization, tracking, task and project management - Obsidian for connected note-taking. You can use Notion for notes and Obsidian for databases, but I find that they are not very well suited for those things (for my specific use-case of course) Anyway - love both apps and the most important thing it's finding the right tool (analog or digital) for you 😄
Hi Adam! I've just found your channel and I really like it ☺ I think for you current use-case you would benefit from obsidian regarding your notebook index and your topic notes. Obsidian it's not that great for cataloging multiple properties - you can use meta-data and dataview but it's not as intuitive as notion because the cataloging it's more code based. However Obsidian it's great for tagging and connecting notes, concepts, ideas and topics. Obsidian was absolutely crucial for my research project throughout my bachelor's degree - I was able to connect key concepts with my literature (books and articles) and also with my 'brainstorm' and permanent notes. All that with graph views that can be filtered and customized so as a visual learner that was pretty awesome haha😄
regarding your first point about focus modes adding a moment of mindfulness, I've recently started using the One Sec app, which really helps by forcing you to pause and decide if you really want to open the app
This video was really helpful, because I'm using Evernote for a lot of stuff, but even with the new updates, I feel it's lagging too much behind. Completely random question: You don't happen to be the Adam Smith who introduced me to Camtasia in Hannover a long, long time ago?
@@_adamsmith You've helped me a lot anyway! I've added a tag, so I can filter which lessons I still need to work on and which are finished. Your video kickstarted my Notion. Thanks again and again :D. Next time when you're in Hannover, I'll treat you to a coffee
Loved this video! I've been using notion and readwise for several months now but I really want to organize my book quotes further. I love that they are organized by book but I'd like to tag certain quotes to further organize the database. Any thoughts on how to do this?
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