PTPL 013: Task Management Inside Your PKM, and the Notenik App

Document everything, learn by doing

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Welcome to the 13th in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey.

Today I’ll be talking about —

• The importance of documenting your processes, no matter what they are

• How learning by doing is usually the best path to mastery

• Notenik — a free, open source way of working with text files

• Task management in your PKM — pros and cons

• Life summary, and why you need one

Productivity Tips and Inspiration

Document it!

No matter what you do, document your processes — Sébastien Dubois. [link]

I’ve come to see the wisdom of this over the past few years. There have been times I’ve spent hours pondering and experimenting before arriving at a solution, only to forget how I got there as time goes by.

Had I taken a few minutes to write down the steps I took while it was still fresh, that information would be there …