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All the articles I've posted.
WNW Resources - And Some Personal History
The story of what lead me to develop a second brain, and eventually my Where Not What System. The Resources section is the heart of my personal knowledge management. Here's why.
WNW Writing with Resources
Once my Kindle highlights flowed into my notes, I had a library of ideas to fuel my writing — until I hit a wall citing sources. How Zotero and Readwise became my writing resources.
WNW Resources and Research
How do I use Resources to enhance my personal resource? In this article, I share some tools and techniques I use to enhance my learning when I conduct my own research.
WNW Resources Unlock Learning
The power of linking ideas comes to light in the Resources section of a personal knowledge management system.
WNW Using Resources
How do I use Resources in my Where Not What System? In this post I give you a quick overview and compare Resources to Projects and Areas.
WNW Area Recap
Recap the Five Article Series that explores how I implement Areas in my Where Not What System.
WNW Areas and Projects Compared
Lets take a second and compare Projects and Areas now that we have spent a couple of weeks looking at both.
WNW Areas and Files
Where do the files go? Areas aren't just notes — a role comes with PDFs and Word docs that Obsidian and Notion won't store. Why Where Not What is a methodology, not a single tool.
WNW - The Power of Association
Linked Note applications have become popular because they mimic the way we store memories, in this blog post I share what Stephen Grossberg has learned about the way we really store memories.
WNW Using the Area Note
How do I actually use my Area Note? This blog post shares some of the techniques I use to get the most out of focusing using my second brain to help manage the many roles I play in my life
WNW The Area Template Explained
I explain the structure of my Area template, and share some of the thinking behind why I organize the areas of my life notes the way I do.
WNW An Area Example
How do areas differ from projects? This article kicks off a series to look at how I work with Areas in side my Where Not What system.