I have always been a planner. I enjoy planning, and I enjoy seeing plans come to fruition.
However, I am a realist.
20% - 30% of my plans often don't succeed how I envisioned them.
But when there is no plan, this often means worse results.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I have seen that some people give up on planning because plans often fail and require a lot of work.
However, what they fail to take into account is how GOOD things went because they had a plan.
Planning helps us to think through things that matter to us:
+ What is our objective?
+ What are the risks?
+ What are the rewards?
+ Who needs to be involved? What do they need to know or do?
+ What are the things I need to succeed?
So while nothing can be planned perfectly, we can eliminate much waste and frustration.
Planning leads to communication with others, expanding our network of good ideas & input that contribute to successful outcomes.
Planning leads to increased confidence in ourselves & others.
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2/ Obsidian and Tana are not easy to compare. They are in the same competitive space: Tools for Thought, but they solve different problems. So there is overlap, but they are fairly different.
Obsidian is the best choice for Markdown, TNO, and long-form writing. Single-user work.
3/ Tana will be best for outliner database-like functionality: (everything is a database record). So stronger for more structured content and querying against that. Multi-user collaboration.
Tana solves many problems within the product that other TfT tools need plugins for.
A lot of buzz about @tana_inc & people patiently (impatiently) waiting for their invite for early access.
Many compare Tana to Notion and Roam, but Tana is its own thing and in its own class. #TfT
2/ Recently @SantiYounger did this great 9-minute video on what Tana is. Well worth watching. He also calls it a tool that brings in all the features he wants from tools like @todoist, @NotionHQ, @RoamResearch & @logseq.
3/ Also, @jcfischer, the other day, compared Tana to Lotus notes, which is also a great comparison.
Tana is the first tool I have seen that uses an outliner metaphor for collecting data with little structure to as much structure as you want, all built on a real database.
/1 A rant, sponsored by the good folks at the #TfT Hacking foundation
I sadly notice increasing criticism toward content creators, with sarcastic expressions like "Shiney new objects" or of creators generating content about news tools.
Like they have selfish or evil intentions.
/2 I don't consider myself a content creator, but let me apologize on behalf of all those content creators who FORCE you to read their content on Twitter, medium, etc, or FORCE you to watch their videos on YouTube.
Please take note of the sarcasm in this last statement.
/3 People, we are the masters of our own domain (browser, inbox, etc). If you feel overwhelmed, use the "unfollow" button & don't open videos on YouTube.
Please, don't make these people feel bad for the self-sacrificing effort they put into providing us with educational content.
1/13 Today I share the most important advice you'll ever receive in your Tools for Thought journey. Some will think it's not important, but I hope you won't dismiss it too easily.
For this discussion, I encourage you to look at @tana_inc document. #TfT
2/13 Personal Knowledge management (PKM) and Tools for Thought (TfT) are basically about managing information, whether it's yours or someone else's.
So many factors: privacy, ownership, data integrity, backups, and more.
Information is our gold; put it in a safe place.
3/13 If you use such a tool, you must see your personal responsibility to educate yourself about data. Looking at Tana's document is a good example of key things you want to see from a company.
You want to see a clear explanation of what they WONT do, but WHAT they can do.