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Mar 17 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
If #GTD doesn't work for you, here's why:

🚫 Organizing lists is not executing tasks 🚫

GTD relies on achieving a "Mind like water" to bridge from lists into action. Because of that, you add more tasks to your lists than you check off.

Your mind is drowning in that water.... Image
But there's no need to drown. We can sail those seas instead, with Action-Powered Productivity (APP)!

APP is a set of tools, strategies, and mindsets to help you work effectively and live a fulfilling life.

The three main APP components are:
1. A process for deciding what work to do Right Now and tools for executing that work

So you can handle unexpected distractions or interruptions without permanently derailing your day

And so you don't freeze in the face of too many possibilities
2. An interface between your Second Brain and Real Brain which...

✅Makes capture and storage simple

✅Surfaces the right work and ideas at the right time

✅Shields you from other information and tasks when you don't need them
3. A design philosophy for regions of your Second Brain

Including the mechanics and best practices to activate those regions
Action-Powered Productivity is a community, hundreds strong—

👉 Join for FREE
🔗 rjn.st/join-free-app-…

FREE resources include:
✅ Full access to the APP Forum
✅ Intro to APP, a mini-course (coming soon!)
✅ Live Popup Q&As
✅ Daily Activator space

For even more value...
👉 Join APP Pro
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✅ Full access to latest completed Fundamentals of APP cohort (updated regularly)
✅ Full access to Tana for Tasks
✅ Live Office Hours & Workshops, scheduled regularly
✅ Priority registration and discounts on future cohorts & courses
Many prominent players in the "productivity & Tools for Thought" corner of Twitter are part of the Action-Powered Productivity community!

Come on in and collaborate with us!

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Jan 2
If you don't have some way to track goals, priority areas, and core values, your productivity system will be garbage in, garbage out. You might WORK a lot, but it won't be the RIGHT work.

Here's how I built my Vision subsystem in @tana_inc, from diagram to deployment...
1. This is the Practical Diagram of my Vision subsystem—what I need it to DO.

✅ Define Intentions both long-term and short-term

✅ Convert Intentions into Action

✅ Allow Identity to affect both big-picture and moment-to-moment decisions

(diagrams made using @obsdmd Canvas)
2. This is the Functional Diagram of my Vision subsystem—the components and how they relate.

It shows all the levels of Intention and how those plug into my Task Management Hub, and draws a clear path of entities and relationships from Identity to Action.
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Dec 22, 2022
Using @tana_inc feels miraculous

But there can be friction when you're building supertags and fields

Not "mechanical friction," for the most part. Tana makes it easy to build things (and it keeps getting easier)

"Mindbending friction"—accurately modeling complex concepts....
Tana's power makes it both amazing AND mindbending

Because live queries allow data to be directly entered into them, there's an overlap of input & output that is exceptionally useful but also tricky to set up

That's why I use @obsdmd's new Canvas feature to map ideas first!
Here's the process, roughly:

1. Recognize there is work I want to track and execute more efficiently

2. Map what that "subsystem" looks like using Obsidian Canvas. What are the entities? What information do those entities need to contain? How do they relate to each other?
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Nov 3, 2022
Tana for Tasks launches tomorrow (11/4)! 🚀

Comprehensive task management in Tana, in a simple, easy-to-understand course.

Modules 1 - 3 at launch, more coming throughout November (and beyond!)

And a bit of exciting news if you're NOT in @tana_inc yet...
If you buy Tana for Tasks, you will get an invite to Tana! 🎉🎉🎉

🚨 IMPORTANT: Invites won't be available for a few days, so feel free to wait if you want (the $97 intro price won't go away yet). I should have invites by Monday, 11/7.
Tana for Tasks also includes a community (via Circle) for sharing insights and asking questions, as well as live office hours from time to time.

Keep your eyes on my tweets 👀

I'll share the link to Tana for Tasks tomorrow!
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Oct 29, 2022
I'm all in with @tana_inc

It's been my "daily driver" for over a month now, and even in Early Access, Tana has enabled task workflows that exceed anything I've found anywhere else.

If you're waiting for an invite...

It's worth it!

(and no I don't currently have any 😊)
To elaborate:

Tana provides a bridge between "bottom-up" and "top-down" that no other app has achieved.

Imagine the ease of Roam at the bottom and the structure of Notion at the top—that's what Tana can do.

Fields and searches make it possible (and they're easy to use!)
I'm so delighted to have friends like @houshuang and @RobertHaisfield working on Tana, because I know Tana's future will be 🤯!
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Oct 25, 2022
If you've landed a @tana_inc invite, or if you want to wrap your mind around Tana while you wait...

A general note about workflows in Tana:

👉 Every input (via field) should have a complementary output (via search)

Let me break that down:
This input/output pairing may be self-evident to many Tana users, but it's an issue I'm encountering a lot as I help folks acclimate to Tana—

Especially Roamans coming into Tana who have had a great INPUT tool, but not necessarily a great model for OUTPUT—until now!

Examples:
1. If I have a todo tag with a Due Date field—

I should have a Live Query that uses that field to catch todos due today (or whatever day!)
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Oct 3, 2022
Big announcement below concerning AP Productivity Cohort Six and @tana_inc...

But first, ground rules:

AP Productivity Cohort Six is for you if you want to invest eight weeks and $500 to dramatically improve your productivity using Tools for Thought.
AP Productivity Cohort Six is NOT for you if you want to watch videos but never APPLY any of the tools or DEVELOP any of the skills.

The first few weeks are an investment of time and attention—and that investment pays off!—but be aware of the investment.

Now. The announcement:
If you join AP Productivity Cohort Six, and you want to build your system in @tana_inc...

The Tana team will graciously allow cohort members to 👉SKIP THE WAITLIST👈 and get early access.

🔗rjn.st/ap-productivit…

🛑 BUT DO NOT JOIN ONLY FOR TANA EARLY ACCESS!!🛑
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