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This reminds me of my personal Wiki that I use to keep track of information at work (I also use Obsidian for this). I start a daily note in the morning and writ

This reminds me of my personal Wiki that I use to keep track of information at work (I also use Obsidian for this). I start a daily note in the morning and write everything in there until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages. It took a bit for this system to pay off, but when I was writing employee reviews and co-worker feedback, it was almost effortless. I have started to accumulate a critical mass of information that is giving me little hints of insights I hope to be able to leverage this year. I am still working on actually implementing a personal ZK system in Obsidian or on paper (I am looking forward to Scott Scheper's book about Antinets). I manage people and write software for a living, but I don't really write articles or papers (which ZK seems a good fit for). I just finished "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens, and it has inspired me to take another pass at starting a ZK for the benefits of greater understanding and insight about the variety of topics I read about.

nja 5y ago
> until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages Your way of working sounds wonderful, but I find that I would probably struggle with this part. How are you able to define the end of your day and ensure you have such time marked off? I have tried this but always end up getting sucked into endless other issues/problems/etc and basically passing out at some point, only to wake up the next day to dive right in -- no time to be able to do that sort of retrospective note-munging... (this is not exclusive to trying to find retrospective time; it applies to things like finding time for food/dinner, blocking out vacation time, or other things, too. work never ends!!)
- pseudoramble 5y ago
  Not OP, but I feel compelled to answer. I have lots of my own thoughts and feelings on the topic. I'll leave it at two framing thoughts: If you literally can't find time to eat, how will you even be able to function to execute work, let alone anything higher level than that? I know you probably didn't mean literally no time to eat, but my broad point is how can you work hard indefinitely without caring about your physical self reliably? If your workload will never end, what exactly are you racing against by working as hard as you can every day? Even if you 100% everything for one day, you're guaranteed to have just as much or more the next day, right? What are you gaining by battling every day until you give out?
- tra3 5y ago
  You gotta schedule it. I do it first thing in the morning, I have a template checklist that goes through everything so I don't have to think: - [ ] write for 5 minutes - [ ] check inbox - [ ] process yesterday - [ ] schedule today
- edu 5y ago
  Sorry about being snarky, but you had time to post this comment.

nja 5y ago

> until the end of the day, where I have some time set aside to chopping up the information into the appropriate pages Your way of working sounds wonderful, but I find that I would probably struggle with this part. How are you able to define the end of your day and ensure you have such time marked off? I have tried this but always end up getting sucked into endless other issues/problems/etc and basically passing out at some point, only to wake up the next day to dive right in -- no time to be able to do that sort of retrospective note-munging... (this is not exclusive to trying to find retrospective time; it applies to things like finding time for food/dinner, blocking out vacation time, or other things, too. work never ends!!)

pseudoramble 5y ago
Not OP, but I feel compelled to answer. I have lots of my own thoughts and feelings on the topic. I'll leave it at two framing thoughts: If you literally can't find time to eat, how will you even be able to function to execute work, let alone anything higher level than that? I know you probably didn't mean literally no time to eat, but my broad point is how can you work hard indefinitely without caring about your physical self reliably? If your workload will never end, what exactly are you racing against by working as hard as you can every day? Even if you 100% everything for one day, you're guaranteed to have just as much or more the next day, right? What are you gaining by battling every day until you give out?
tra3 5y ago
You gotta schedule it. I do it first thing in the morning, I have a template checklist that goes through everything so I don't have to think: - [ ] write for 5 minutes - [ ] check inbox - [ ] process yesterday - [ ] schedule today
edu 5y ago
Sorry about being snarky, but you had time to post this comment.