An Annual Review Tech-Stack makes the process a lot easier.

The tools support the habits you want to cultivate in the long-term and provides tracking to help you manage and experiment with systems that can make your life better.

Here's a list of tools I've used 🧵
I'm experimenting more with writing with my voice when I go through writer's block.

Using Audio Transcription
Ottter.ai is my tool of choice when it comes to voice transcriptions.

The transcriptions are accurate, searchable, highlightable, a summary of keywords is created and you can share the transcripts with others.
Passive Time Tracking is important to monitor how your time with internet devices are used so you can be more mindful and manage your time well.
Review summaries of how your time was spent.

Knowledge Management tools enable you to capture, organize, and create knowledge & share information.
Notion knowledge hub and dashboard.

Roam thinking and connecting tool.

Evernote note & information inbox and data warehouse.
Simple Note is a performant quick capture tool for notes.
I use this as my primary fleeting note inbox.

simplenote.com
Some writing tools are more specialized for journal oriented writing.

These tools do some work on your behalf to tell you about what you're writing about or provide multiple ways of storing information.
Dayone supports a lot of integrations to consolidate from various data sources and is simply designed and secure for private entries.

750 Words

Based on Morning Pages, 750 shows a gamified way to make writing a daily practice. They provide reports to show about what you write about.
Daylio Mood Journaling

Capture the activities around the emotions you feel.

Personal Finance Tracking is an important way to ensure you're spending less than you make, and know where your money is going.
You Need A Budget as a passionate community supporting it and offers a more intentional approach to budgeting.
I've personally used mint for the last 10 years and do my weekly, monthly and annual budgeting with it.

They support automated suggested spending categories and have support for a wide number of banks and cards.
Fitness Tracking helps you plan, track and stay consistent with your fitness routines as well as manage your weight and health.
Jefit is the primary way I track my workouts.
They provide rep, set, super set, and rest tracking with detailed workout reports.

Cataloging the media you consume, movies or books can help you be more intentional about what you select and make it easier to give recommendations and find high-quality alternatives.
Letterboxd lets you track movies & series.
Goodreads lets you track books.

It's your digital library and more.
Good quality Sleep is one of the most important aspects of health.
I've used Sleep As Android as my sleep tracker and it's been incredibly insightful.

I usually review my sleep data every 2 weeks.
Location tracking can be more intentional, with check-ins to your favorite places or lists of potential destinations.
Habit Trackers help you maintain the consistency of your habits with structure and reminders.
Streaks is a popular tracker for iOS
I use TickTick as it combines Task Management & Habit Tracking
Using tools to automate and glue together all these services is a must.
I like to use IFTTT for personal automations.
Zapier is great for Business automations, although I'm considering Integromat for more high volume tasks.
I have spent MANY years slowly integrating these tools.

You usually can introduce multiple passive tracking tools.

Keep it simple for manual tracking tools and find what primary gap in your life a tool can cover.
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29 Dec
I decided to stop lurking & take Twitter seriously around 6 months ago.

Grateful for a place to share ideas & to have grown from 900s to 7.1k since then.

Learned a lot about Twitter's algorithms over this period.

Sharing 1 tip to grow your Twitter per every 2 likes 📈 🐦 Image
All your reach on social media is dependent on Network effects.

If you're below < 2k followers most of your tweets should be helpful replies to other larger accounts.

Don't be a "reply guy" tho. The audience of a large account can tell & the large account holder my block u. Image
When you borrow reach from a large account & someone clicks on your profile you should ->

Specify why people should follow you in your bio.
Give people a reason to follow you.

Titles & Social proof do help, unfortunately.

Good Format:
I Tweet About / Explore X
I Do Y
I Am Z
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24 Dec
Prepared for next years reading before I finished this year's target, which I just crossed 🏁

The turbulence of this year had crushed my focus & my procrastination levels are at an all-time high.

Still, we default to our level of training & planning.

I've already purchased 2021's books and organized the sequencing that would be ideal to read based on length, category and seasonality.
I also like to know which genres are overweighted so that I can balance out my reading.

I added in more fiction, and might decrease business and increase design.
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23 Dec
Journaling is the practice that cultivates the skill of introspection, awareness, and intuition.

It's also the cheapest form of therapy closest to working out.

✍️ Here are different types of journals you can utilize.
1/ Empathy Journal: Writing the story of other people, imagining their experience and viewpoint.

Integrating this kind of journal helped me move away from "I" and "Me" and closer to "You" and "We" or a specific person.

Training me to mirror the emotions of others as a skill.
2/ Day Journal: Writing about your experiences of the day.

The most common type of journal and a great way to minimize false memories from long gaps of time.

Also helps to process events on the day they occurred rather than months later.
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21 Dec
An exercise to read more & better quality books is to select books you want to read the year prior.

I go through recommendations, problems, passions, & general interests to select impactful & moving books.

Here are 30 books 📚 I've researched & hope to read in 2021.
Psycho-Cybernetics

An exploration of mindset, success & identity.

I want to read this to work on altering negative thought patterns I've compounded over time and want to make happiness more of a habit.

goodreads.com/book/show/2881… Image
The Red Book

A psychological and subconscious self-experimentation by one of the greatest minds in psychology.

Soul Exploration.

goodreads.com/book/show/6454… Image
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4 Dec
Working on a generalized learning/skill tracking, planning & development framework that's maintainable within PKM tools.

Maps across the following:
Skills
Knowledge
Information
Habit
Mindset

What are some examples of how you think about organizing your learning/skills?
I'm exploring the Taxonomy around these areas. It is very graph-oriented but will probably start at the table design level.

i.e for Programmers

Computer Science > SWE > Front-End > Javascript > React > UI Component Design

Computer Science > SWE > Back-End > Javascript > Node
I tend to group by:

Skills I need to Learn (motivation/obstacle)
Skills I want to Learn (motivation/curiosity)
Skills that should be prioritized
Skill-dependent Skills
Time-dependent Skills
People-dependent skills
Resource-dependent skills
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25 Nov
Questions that I ask myself when & after reading 🤔📚

What did I like?
What did I dislike?
What do I disagree with?
What was surprising?
What ideas or statements changed my belief?

1/ Question for you: What question would you add❓
2/ What problems are discussed?
What questions does the book try to answer?
What questions does the book answer well?
What can I teach from answers?
What did I learn from the answers?
What questions does the book fail to answer?
3/ What categories does this book fit into?
What keywords or topics come up a lot?
What where the key takeaways?
What is the book telling me to do (directive)?
What books inspired this book?
What other book would be this book's antagonist?
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