

Years ago, I worked on a piece of medical software that was designed to ensure surgeons operated on the correct side and limb of the patient's body. And you have to trust your system (paper, digital, whatever) enough so that all those open loops in your head fall away and you can just let go and go about your life confidently. You have to train yourself to be diligent enough that putting everything into your system becomes habit. And that's exactly what I mean when I say "letting go" above. And now, looking back, I can see that it was probably 2010 - six years in! - before I became truly comfortable with letting go before that whole mind like water state of flow finally became second nature.įor me, and I guess most people doing the GTD thing, getting to that point meant fully trusting your system. And here we are in 2020, which means I've been practicing this methodology (with varying levels of success) for over fifteen years. I jumped on the Gettings Things Done bandwagon around 2004 I think - the first of my two senior years in college. it feels old school to have to classify and organize content by hand.I'm a firm believer in the whole mind like water spiel that David Allen preaches through GTD. The one thing that TB is bad at doing is structuring knowledge: it is all manual, if your views and knowledge change, the old structures do not meet their purpose. TheBrain: Research, personal knowledge/concept network.Įvernote: archiving, storing (and searching) handwritten notes, photos, event/conversation recordings, device independent filing (then put links to the docs in TB)Įvernote and TB also serve as each others back up, since EN company makes crazy unexpected moves, and TB nobody knows where it is going, so it can be one day off air without seeing it coming.įurthermore I try to keep third party software use to an absolute minimum to protect integrity and speed of my devices and to control costs and to combat scattering of knowledge and files across apps.

DayOne Journal - It is on-line but implemented with an encryption key so that without that static key no one can read the material.SImpleMind (even though a competitor) - Because I can not work online (See above) so that I can do some quick mind maps on the road and later on import in to TheBrain.Nebo - So that I can write word documents in an easy way using a stylus.Transmit - For moving stuff around (FTP / SFTP / Drive creation and management).SmallCube Mail Suite - to tag Email's, notes and so much more.MyScriptStylus (No Longer available) - Due to my carpal tunnel syndrome, writing on the Wacom or the iPad is the only way I can still be working.Better Touch Tool - For the touch bar (Mac).Ability to mark up PDF's and include graphics etc.Automatic export of PDF's as I write to Google (or other services) with fully searchable text in the PDF's (and Google is protected via a hardware key).Handwriting - and translation of handwriting in to searchable text.They are later imported in to TheBrain for long term storage. GoodNotes (IOS / Mac) - This is turning out to be more and more the tool of choice for research and creation of PDF's with my thoughts.Especially writing in Markdown, HTML, text, etc. The ability to sync with the iPad allows me to take notes no matter where I am. Notebooks - This is my quick gathering of notes, for including in to the brain.Working for a very large security company and also being a security and infrastructure person for a Linux distribution I can not take a chance of an announced product, or an unknown security vulnerability getting out there. I export HTML out to my iPad to keep with me as I can not put work stuff on-line. Personal Brain 8 - Wish I could go to 9 or 10 but without the export to HTML it is something I can not do.
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I am on a Mac and here is the list of tools and Why:
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PersonalBrain 4.3 Experimental Release Archive
