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PTPL 016 : Finding the Fun In a Practical Productivity System

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PTPL 016 : Finding the Fun In a Practical Productivity System

My top 10 Obsidian articles, deep vs. shallow work, and the joy of creating your own physical or digital planner

Ellane
Sep 5, 2022
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PTPL 016 : Finding the Fun In a Practical Productivity System

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Welcome to the 16th in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey.

Each post is a 5-minute or less summary of what I’ve read, learned, and implemented since the last edition.

Today I’ll be talking about —

  • Fun productivity system elements that have no practical purpose

  • Dividing to-do lists into deep and shallow work

  • Creating your own planner, physical or digital

  • The RegEx I needed as a noob

  • My top 10 Obsidian articles (as of August 2022)

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Productivity Inspiration

Clive Thompson writes about the pleasure he gains from making computers — designed for high-powered, number crunching tasks — do flippant, whimsical things of no practical use.

“What exactly is the allure?” Thompson asks. “What’s so much fun about making utterly non-utilitarian software — code that exists not to solve a real-world pro…

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