To be clear: "productivity" doesn't mean getting LOTS of stuff done. It doesn't mean being busy all the time. It doesn't mean anxiety or frustration, or being overwhelmed.
⭐ Productivity is getting IMPORTANT work done.
And what's "important"? Well, that's up to YOU...
So. What's important to ME?
Before I read @gtdguy's "Getting Things Done" in 2014, I was a disorganized mess. I accomplished things, but only with enormous effort.
Now, 8 years into #GTD and 2 years into @RoamResearch, I have a reliable productivity workflow.
And it's AMAZING—
I don't clutter my mind with scattered tasks and projects—or with the anxiety they bring.
⭐ I capture them in my reliable workflow
I don't head into a year, or a month, or a week, 🤞 that I'm productive.
⭐ I plan—and I adapt easily to new opportunities when plans change
Because of that, the things that are important to me—
💖 Family
⚒️ Coaching
📈 Personal/professional development
🎶 Music work
—all receive the attention and bandwidth they require.
Structure creates freedom.
Workflows generate productivity—the important kind, not "busy work."
If you want 2022 to be the year you take control of your time, master your attention, and focus on the work that's most important to you—
👉 Build a reliable productivity workflow.
If you love @RoamResearch and you would LOVE a Roam workflow to master your time & attention...
✅ Confident building, adapting, running, and maintaining your productivity processes in Roam
✅ In control of your time & attention
✅ Clear on your priorities
✅ Equipped with valuable routines and templates (& SmartBlocks!) to implement them
✅ Able to handle urgent work without being overwhelmed
✅ More fulfilled by your work—and driven to pursue more fulfilling work
AP Productivity includes:
👨👩👦👦 Once weekly live group coaching sessions via Zoom
❓ Twice weekly live Zoom office hours for Q&A
⏺ All live Zooms are recorded and available to watch later
📢 A course community for discussion and learning from each other
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.
If you want to build effective workflows using Tools for Thought (@RoamResearch, @amplenote, @obsdmd, etc.), you have to get comfortable with Systematic Iteration.
“Ah, right, R.J.,” you might say.
…and then add: “But what on earth does THAT mean?”
Iteration is a fundamental meta-process—meaning, it’s a process that underlies other processes.
Life itself relies on iteration, copying and changing our DNA to create the next generation.
Reliable workflows do the same: they revisit and refine material.
Pass 1: Copy what you read, along with its metadata
P2: Re-word what you copied
P3: Connect what you re-worded to other knowledge
P4+: “Converse” with your knowledge to develop further knowledge