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Mar 7 15 tweets 5 min read
🚨 Big changes are coming to my @RoamResearch ☮️ and #productivity courses! 🚨

I’ve wanted a live component to my asynchronous courses for a long time now. I’m excited I get to offer that as part of these changes and updates!

So what’s changing?
👉 AP Productivity: Essentials will REPLACE Powerful Task Management in @RoamResearch on April 18

AP Productivity: Essentials is GTD-style productivity supercharged for Tools for Thought (TfTs)

It is a new asynchronous version of my cohort course AP Productivity
AP Productivity: Essentials will include

✅ All pre-recorded video from the cohort course
✅ 2+ live Office Hours per month
✅ Productivity templates in @RoamResearch (other TfTs on the roadmap)
There will be 3 access tiers for AP Productivity: Essentials:

😊 2-month for $90
😃 6-month for $190
🥳 Lifetime (at least 2 years) for $290

🤯 Buy Powerful Task Management prior to April 18 and receive FREE LIFETIME access to AP Productivity: Essentials!

💰 Save over $200!
👉 Your Road to Roam V2 launches on March 18

V2 includes updated videos and new workflows—some of which feature the @RoamResearch extension SmartBlocks!

(Thanks to @dvargas92495 for updating and maintaining SmartBlocks—and @TfTHacker for creating them!)
Once V2 launches, there will be 2 access tiers for Your Road to Roam:

😃 6-month for $90
🥳 Lifetime (at least 2 years) for $190

🤯 Buy Your Road to Roam V1 prior to March 18 and receive FREE LIFETIME access to V2!

💰 Save over $100!
👉 The two-course Roam Research Bundle will CEASE TO EXIST on March 18

🤯 Buy the bundle prior to March 18 and receive FREE LIFETIME access to BOTH AP Productivity: Essentials and Your Road to Roam V2!

💰 Save over $300!
Use coupon code FUTUREPROOF at checkout for ANY of the courses below for a 15% discount. Discount valid through March 18 ONLY

Direct links:
Everyone enrolled in Powerful Task Management before April 18 will automatically receive a LIFETIME membership in AP Productivity: Essentials

💰 Save over $200—Enroll today: rjn.st/ptm-coupon-FUT…
Everyone enrolled in Your Road to Roam V1 before March 18 will automatically receive a LIFETIME membership in V2

💰 Save over $100—Enroll today: rjn.st/yrtr-coupon-FU…
Purchase my Roam Research Bundle BEFORE March 18 for LIFETIME membership in BOTH AP Productivity: Essentials and Your Road to Roam

💰 Save over $300—Enroll today: rjn.st/bundle-coupon-…
Oh! And Live Capstone Masterclasses 2+ times per month.

That's the new live component!

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Mar 7
New @RoamResearch users:

Many #Roamans see incredible potential for their Roam workflows, but don’t know how to make it happen.

I can help—in a couple of different ways!

1. My free YouTube playlist, The Roaman Way, guides you through Roam’s fundamental features:
2. My paid course Your Road to Roam provides sample workflows as models you can adapt to your own needs—

Including workflows that use @dvargas92495’s (and @TfTHacker’s) SmartBlocks extension!

The course is being updated to V2 right now. Get it at a discount—link in quote tweet!
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Mar 2
A few thoughts on creating content in Tools for Thought—in this case, specifically in @RoamResearch & @obsdmd.

I'm currently making my first pass at my 4th Weekend Upgrade newsletter, and I feel like I'm hitting a rhythm with my process.

I allow myself 10 days from first...
...pass to final draft. That way, I'll have a presentable draft about a week in, and I can sit with it a day and tighten it with fresh eyes before I publish it.

On Weekend Upgrade 3, I worked a total of 4 hours and 15 minutes over the 10 days.

Roughly half that was...
...planning/organizing in @RoamResearch and the other half drafting/polishing in @obsdmd—which reflects my sense that Roam is better for linking things and Obsidian is smoother to write in.

Worth noting: that 4:15 was 5 separate work sessions.

I reject the idea that I need...
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Feb 22
Productivity is communication

Organizations that don't communicate effectively won't be productive. That's not a hot take.

Here's a hotter take: PERSONAL productivity is communication, too. 🔥

Between Today You and Future You.

Same rules apply:
1. Be clear. Write for Future You as though writing for a different person.

2. Be specific. If Future You doesn't know exactly what to do, it probably won't get done.

3. Be reasonable. Your instructions aren't a blood oath. Future You may find a better way! No biggie!

...
If you don't have anything clear or specific for Future You, at least decide what's NEXT.

What's next can even be a clear, specific instruction to figure OUT what the bigger, longer-term picture is.

...
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Feb 19
If you're following my journey writing a novel in @obsdmd, I just posted Chapter Four via Obsidian Publish.

In the long run, I'm going to document my process more fully. But I thought I'd share a few things I've encountered so far. 👇
First, here's the link to Chapter Four if you want to read it: publish.obsidian.md/timeworn/Time+…. You can navigate to the Preface if you'd prefer to start from the beginning.

☮️ I'm a @RoamResearch user. That isn't changing.

I'm writing the novel in @obsdmd to learn the tool...
...and because Obsidian Publish is a great feature!

First impressions:

1. @obsdmd is great for drafting. It's in paragraph form by default, and writing is smooth and intuitive.

2. Obsidian Sync is excellent. I've written quite a bit on my phone & iPad, and it syncs seamlessly.
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Feb 13
There’s a strong resonance here between @RoamResearch and #GTD.

One of the challenges people report with both is this:

👉 It’s easy to get stuff IN, but not as easy to get stuff OUT.

The missing piece is a more intentional process—so you know where to look and when.
If you find yourself saying “I don’t seem to review my notes enough,” that’s a point of friction in your system.

But friction is opportunity!

Explore WHY you’re not reviewing them. Is it the tool? Is it @RoamResearch’s fault?

Or do you need a workflow to prompt your reviews?
It is always possible that your answer is “it’s the tool.” And if that’s the case, definitely change tools.

But that’s not MY experience with @RoamResearch (or #GTD, for that matter).

I built a #Productivity “front end”—my Daily Cycle—and it ushers me through my day.
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Feb 12
I’m writing a novel in @obsdmd! (If you want to read chapters as I publish them, the link is further down the thread)

I use @RoamResearch, but as a productivity coach I have clients who use MANY tools. It’s important for me to understand those tools too!

I’m the kind of person who needs a REASON to use a tool. Tools facilitate things—they aren’t an end in themselves.

I took inspiration from @markmcelroy when he began writing his novel in public, and I became interested in @obsdmd ’s Publish feature.
I’ve had this novel on my mind for several years, so when these two interests aligned—learning Obsidian and writing in public—I knew it was time to dive in.

Down the road I expect to offer an @obsdmd version of my AP Productivity course, but for now I’ll be learning as I write.
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