Thread by @rjnestor

If you use @RoamResearch and you would love to manage your tasks and projects there, let me just say:

It is SO worth it. 🔥💖

If the only thing stopping you is not knowing if it would work, or if you’re afraid you would set it up wrong...

Keep reading.

I started using Roam in March of 2020. Within three weeks I was hooked on the notetaking, and I knew I had to get my tasks and projects set up in Roam, too.

I started building my system—using my Todoist flow as a model—and by late April I had a workflow I liked using.

Between then—April 2020—and now (January 2022), I have developed and iterated on my productivity system until it is a finely-oiled machine.

Here's the thing, though: it's MY machine, tailored to the way *I* think and work.

⭐️ You need YOUR machine, and I can help you build it.

Keep reading for tips, but I wanted to make sure you see this. If you sign up for my live cohort course AP Productivity today, you'll get the 15% ($75) Early Bird discount.

✍️ Sign up today: rjn.st/ap-productivit…

It's still well worth it even if you're late for the discount!

The course gives you a fundamental workflow—the Daily Cycle—and helps you build and iterate on it until it's exactly what you need.

The Daily Cycle has five components, each with a workflow or two associated with it.

1. Agenda
2. Log
3. Inbox
4. Projects
5. Recurring Actions

Your Agenda answers the question "What do I want to do?" on a daily basis.

👉 I call this process “Choose your work”

If your Projects & Recurring Actions are set up well, they will surface the work you can choose from. (And setting them up well is something I can help with!)

Your Log answers the question "What am I doing?" on a task by task basis.

👉 I call this “Track your work as you do it”

Two advantages:
1. Comparing your Log and Agenda during a review helps you spot friction.
2. Committing to “what I am doing now” helps you focus.

Your Inbox is involved in 2 workflows:

👉 “Capture your ideas, tasks, projects, etc.” Per @gtdguy: have as many Inboxes as you need, and as few as you can get by with

👉 “Connect what you captured to your work.” Process your Inbox(es) with Do/Defer/Delegate/Delete

Defer into…

Projects & Recurring Actions

Tasks in Projects surface with tags—e.g., “next”, “office”, etc.

Recurring tasks live in a SmartBlock that surfaces them based on the day of the week/month/year.

And it’s a “Daily CYCLE” because that brings us back around to “Choose your work”!

Does all this sound too complicated?

If you take my course, you’ll have functional (though streamlined) versions of all components from Day One.

And I’ll be there with you for 8 weeks as you add features, iterate, and make the workflows your own.

You’ll learn as you use it!

If you know, in your heart of hearts, that you would thrive if your tasks, projects, & productivity workflows lived in @RoamResearch—but you’ve struggled to build that on your own—

Sign up for AP Productivity today: rjn.st/ap-productivit…