PTPL 041: How a New Obsidian Vault Structure Is Helping Me Shape My Notes

PLUS the benefits of laziness, a plain text accounting update, and a Medium to Substack warning

PTPL Productivity Digest 41 text graphic by Author

This week —

• The benefits of laziness

• Making productivity beautiful (henry-codes)

• Why you shouldn’t use Substack’s Medium importer

• How my new Obsidian vault structure is helping me shape my notes

• Plain text accounting update

Productivity Inspiration

The benefits of laziness

Anne-Laure Le Cunff believes that while laziness isn’t a label most of us would want to wear, it can offer some distinct benefits.

— The benefits of laziness: why being a lazy person can be good for you

• Many innovations have come from lazy people looking for an easier way to do something

• Active procrastinators work better under pressure, and show good overall performance

• Focusing on high-leverage tasks increases the input to output ratio

• Being intentionally unproductive can reduce stress

• Lazy people tend to avoid burnout

• A wandering mind can lead one to less obvious solutions

• Leaving a problem alone for a time can cause it to resolve on its own

• Noticing our tendency to be lazy can he…