Thread by @rjnestor

I've been building and refining my personal productivity/#GTD system in @RoamResearch for 19 months now, and teaching others how to do it for 14.

I've become convinced that Tools for Thought (TfT) and GTD are a match made in heaven, and I'm here to spread the good news!

Preface: I am 100% all in with @RoamResearch. No other tool I've ever used—and I've used many—has tapped into and expanded the way my brain works.

Roam has.

But other brains align with other TfTs, and I can help THEM be more productive, too

https://twitter.com/rjnestor/status/1414764354428362761?s=20

What are the advantages of setting up your productivity system in a Tool for Thought?

(By TfTs, I mean tools like @RoamResearch, @amplenote, @logseq, @obsdmd, @rem_note, etc.—knowledge management on the surface, but their connection-making power makes LOTS possible)

1. Dedicated task apps encourage us to approach projects "top-down"

But you can't map territory until you've explored it, and you can't create subprojects, tasks, subtasks, etc., until you've dug around in a project

TfTs encourage "Content dictates form"—the bottom-up approach

2. Tasks are more powerful when they live BOTH in the context that created them AND in the order of a task system

If that's all within 1 app, it's easier. My [[double brackets]] don't work in @todoist

TfT connections let you organize tasks while retaining their original context

3. When you encounter friction in a task app workflow, you have to change the way you work

You have to bend yourself to the tool, which can inhibit your process

TfTs allow you to change the WORKFLOW, not the way you work. You can build it the way you need it

4. "Strange loops" of references make your understanding of projects and tasks much deeper

Tasks can live in multiple projects, HAVE dependencies in one flow and BE dependencies in another—whatever the processes require

TfTs can build webs of tasks in ways that no task app can

I could go on, but that's already 4 solid reasons for housing productivity in TfTs.

I'm not here to pitch a product (yet). I'm just studying other TfTs so I can emulate what @RoamResearch has helped me discover

I'll share my journey: Follow me if you're interested

Fellow #Roamans, fear not: I'm a @RoamResearch man. When you see me discussing productivity in different TfTs, it's only because of Roam that I've even aware of these possibilities!

I just want to help more people accomplish their most important work, wherever they may be