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Mar 16 5 tweets 3 min read
Earlier this week we finished Cohort Three of my AP Productivity course.

👉 Here are 3 things I’ve learned in cohorts 1 - 3 that will make Cohort Four even stronger:
1️⃣

🏗 Content is scaffolding

🪄 Community is MAGIC

As my friend @CKLinOrg teased me: “Oh, you’ve got PLENTY of content! I’m still working through week 2.” (This was week 8—the final week)

I provide the framework and feedback—but also the SPACE—for collaborative learning.
2️⃣

🧠 Tools for Thought supercharge productivity

Task apps are fine, but limited.

TfTs—@RoamResearch, @amplenote, @obsdmd, @logseq, @craftdocsapp, etc.—allow WAY MORE.

You can brainstorm, gather, plan, organize, work, revise—AND track tasks. All in the same environment. 🤯
3️⃣

👉 YOUR system should be tailored to YOUR needs

It’s valuable to model your system on other people’s workflows.

BUT

The REAL value comes when you iterate and adapt workflows to the way YOU think and work.
Cohort Four of AP Productivity launches on April 19!

Early Bird registration begins next week on March 22. You can save 15% by signing up early!

If you’d like to get an email when registration opens, sign up here:
rjn.st/ap-productivit…

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Mar 8
In @RoamResearch, what are [[pages]] and how do you get the most mileage out of them?

1. All information in Roam lives on pages. (It lives in the form of "blocks," the unit of info in Roam—but blocks deserve a thread of their own)
2. You create pages inline by wrapping a word or phrase in [[double brackets]]. You can also use a hashtag.

The [[brackets]] or hashtag then serve as a reference to that page. You can click them to go to the page.

You can also create pages manually in the search bar.
3. Page references ALSO deserve a thread of their own. In short:

- Pages serve as hubs for all references to the page

- You can filter the linked references (i.e., backlinks) to find specific references

- Daily Notes = spine | Page = hub is a good working metaphor for Roam
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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 7
🚨 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)
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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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