Hi everyone,
Firstly, Happy New Year! We made it through 2023.
Thank you for visiting my little corner of the world. It seems it was just yesterday that I was writing about my productivity set-up for 2023.
In 2023, the phenomenal rise of productivity and note-taking apps being released into the market continued. This makes it hard to focus on one app / tool without being mesmerised by the next shiny thing. You see it and think, great, that sounds exactly like what I need. You export your notes or copy-paste them into the new app, and you are off to the races. Now, yes, I will become a new person and complete every single possible thing I ever set out to achieve.
Lo and behold, a few weeks in, a new kid is on the block with another fancy new feature, or worse yet, the app you were originally in has a new killer feature. So we copy and paste all the notes into yet another system. Before you know it, you have more notes spread about than you can handle, you feel scattered and eventually revert to just writing on a post-it as it has the same effect.
Sound familiar? You are certainly not alone.
To make a positive change in my life, and after becoming addicted to Cal Newport’s podcasts (Cal is like what John Grisham is to books), I found that I was not progressing at all. I was, in essence, doing “shallow work”, or even less, if that is possible, and not dedicating myself. In 2023, I tried to change this, and…
