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24 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read
I’m nearing a point in my digital life that I’ve always yearned for:

knowing where to send every piece of content I want to save.

Images → mymind
Book highlights → RW
Podcast clips → Airr
Tweets → RW
Online highlights → Memex
Conversations → Otter
Notes → Roam
What’s missing?
Extracting highlights and full text from *email* is still strangely elusive...
My goal is to have a way to pull *resonance content* from every infinite feed I engage with...
- Twitter
- Email
- Insta
- Conversation
- Articles / Books

Constantly taking bits from the river to the shore.

Eternalizing the good stuff. For resurfacing and building.
One of my least favourite feelings is the grinding sensation when something doesn’t have a place, path, or process.

I try to optimize for flow.

Good systems drive flow.
Save first, figure out “what for” later.

Purpose-first thinking requires me to have my ideas mapped before I have them.
Intuition-led capturing →

Observation-led connection →

= Fertile ground for [[creative inspiration]]
CAPTURE FREELY
CONNECT FREELY
CREATE FREELY

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24 Oct
On track with this, I’ve been listening to philosophy podcasts on Airr this week.

Wow — I love this. A while world just opened up.

The history of seeking knowledge maps so well with the present act of seeking knowledge.
My approach:

Start with the quick 30 min episodes from “Philosophize This!”

From the beginning-ish, with some meandering paths. I’m loving the sense of time and evolution of thought this provides.

If I’m intrigued by a collection of ideas, I search broadly for more sources.
This week I sought to understand “Machiavellian” ideas from the Prince and Discourses on Livy.

I’ve always liked wrestling with concepts of morality — this was fun.
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23 Oct
I love visual content. And I think visually.

I’d like to create visual content.

I’d even like to create bad visual content at first.
I often look at things and think:

“How’d you make that”
What I’d like is to know *enough* to quickly whip up sloppy graphics of things.

And to slowly stack more polish over time.
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23 Oct
Keep an eye on Memex @worldbrain 👀

I’m about to dive all-in on the service as my curation engine.

- Easy to use
- Easy to annotate & comment on annotations
- Inbox & collections drive clear workflows
- Readwise/Roam integration
- ???

Browsing just got much more powerful 💪
And an exciting roadmap to boot!

Can’t wait to watch this thing evolve 🚀

My stack:
@RoamResearch - synthesis/ personal database
@readwiseio - integration wizard
@worldbrain - collection and curation
My goal is to conceptualize and create a seamless flow that connects browsing/consumption to expanding and creating.

A personal SOP and workflow to add a later of ease and intentionality to how I interact with the wild world of information.

Wrangling the complexity of life.
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22 Oct
From the flowing Twitter rivers, to the lasting fields of Roam.

How I save ideas for later. Image
I’m not sure how this strange graphic came to mind as I was threading this idea. But I like it!

Twitter feed is the river. Ideas are always moving, and flowing past. An endless current.

As ideas pass through me, some resonate.

Those ones I save. Making them last.
Sometimes I save them to a specific place. Under a given tag, or keyword. These are the “buckets” on shore.

But most times I just toss them from the river into the field, saving them from the river, but with no dedicated bucket.
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22 Oct
I save a LOTTTT of tweets to Readwise.
In line with the GTD framework of:
CAPTURE
CLARIFY
ORGANIZE
REVIEW
ENGAGE

I feel like I can tick the first three off in one swoop.
The skill I’m working on now is tagging these saves intentionally. The tags serve as in-baskets. I can place a tweet in the INBOX of a topic/idea/subject.

Then it’s in a place that I trust.
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10 Oct
Working on a stable model for continuous learning and knowledge application.

Here’s a part of it:
1) DEFINE THE STRUCTURE

Identify & objectively define the structure of the information.

How should this type of information be organized? What components are there?

Build the templative layout for that class of information.
2) POPULATE CONTENT WITHIN STRUCTURE

Systematically populate that structure with content (fill it in)

Collect, curate and create to fill in the parts of your model. Conduct research, digest courses, and apply it within your structure.
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