So I'm leaving his comment here for you to see as it is your most recent video and you are likely to actually see it. You were a random guy on RUclips who helped me achieve a goal I had set out for myself this year in figuring out how to quantify myself a bit more with software. You then somehow became one of my favorite podcasters ( I listen to a lot of podcasts). I actually read your newsletter (I barely read these things these days). Your content is amazing. Thank you for all that you do.
Agreed. When I started out (new to your system and new to Notion) it was creating it in Notion identical to yours. Since I have started using it, in addition to a greater understanding of Notion, I have started to personalise. Apart from the primary purpose - system, this has been a great crash course on Notion. Sincerely, thank you August.
Thanks Warren! Means a lot to me to hear this. Very happy that it's been valuable to you and has helped in some way to make things happen for you. There is a ton of power in measuring and studying what's working and what's not, just be careful not to go overboard but it can be quite revealing and hep us find a better path. I also love that the podcast and the newsletter have been helpful, increasingly all of these various platforms will be more complementary of each other. New podcast season coming soon. I'm glad you thought to post in the new one here, I'm falling behind on comments on older videos (have been trying to answer very single one, but it is getting harder and harder as the viewership grows quickly :)
Fantastic to hear this Andrew, thanks. For sure always look for ways to customize, but starting with a core system I think helps facilitate faster growth and in most cases a better structural design. Lots more to come.
@@agreen1604 I 100% agree! Before I found this channel, I had only just discovered Notion, and I could see it's full potential from the get go. But seeing all these different videos trying to explain the relations and rollups just had me completely stumped on how I would use them in my own Notion system. Now I'm beginning to create my own systems in other areas of my life as well using these same principles and it all makes total sense. I feel like I already have a small foundation of knowledge on Systems Thinking, and I can't wait to explore it further. Thank you August.
Hi August, I've never commented on a youtube video before in my life but I really felt compelled to leave one on this occasion. Currently I am an honours student looking to go onto a PhD relating to organisational development. I Also work as a personal trainer and am trying to build a small consulting business on the side which I'd like to grow into my full time gig. I've always had big visions, big ambitions and a clear sense of direction, but i've always struggled with the daily actions and implementations to make those visions a reality, with juggling different plates and interests. This system has really changed to game for me and now those dreams don't seem so far off. Everything is just so much clearer from both a higher level and a ground level perspective. I'm blown away this level of value is offered for free. Thank you so much 🙏
You might find it funny to see this comment this far in the future after this video was created, but what you presented here is timeless! Thank you so much for all the value you're offering. You've opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. This is both exciting and encouraging. I'm obsessed with organizational processes, statistics and keeping things consolidated. You have no idea how rewarding it feels having such a system in place for pretty much everything I do in my day-to-day life! Thank you!
Love how you’re recording at 10.30 pm, and in the background it just says under habits „bed by 10 pm, aim for 9.30 pm“. You out there grinding. Great video once again!
Ha! Good eye Stuart. Sometimes you have to grind out out to get things done, recently did a twitter thread on this: twitter.com/augustbradley/status/1286729323492159488
Great video! I'll share my notes in here! 1:30 discussion on second brains and better alternatives, we don’t need a replica of our brain, we need something like an extension of our brain, to do the things that brains lack on, retention of information. 3:00 Emergance, things come out of the system dynamicly (revisit) 4:00 Knowledge base vs knowledge lab (team vs individual) 5:00 knowledge lab by categories 8:00 how it works 8:00 linking to itself 10:00 Alphabetical sort 11:00 Examply of workspace entry 12:00 Takeaways from media database 14:20 Resurfacing ideas 15:20 Ideas link to relevant knowledge categories 17:00 Draging entries straight into the category entry 18:00 duplicate it into the entry 20:00 Self referencing filter for having a database of other entries linking to this one 23:00 Capture ideas as you have them, they fade away quickly 24:30 The more you expand your knowledge lab, ther more valueable it becomes
I was looking for Knowledge Base Templates for Notion on Google. This is the first video I watch of you and from the beginning, I knew it is what I need. I've been wanting to create a system for content creation for marketing purposes, with a par of knowledge finding, capturing, synthesizing and distilling. I've been fiddling with notion for about a year or so, but immediately knew it has something. You have unlocked the full potential of this beauty. Thank you, Sir. For sharing the knowledge. Will certainly be looking to start implementing your methodology asap for my project. It also gave me a second perspective ( a more broad one) on systems and mind management. Wow!
Thank you, August. I started following you for the projects/tasks systems you created, and they are fantastic-I use them daily. I then moved on to the review cycles, which helps ensure that I’m keeping my time and energy focused on what matters to me. Both of these approaches have allowed me to be much more *present* and even relaxed on a day to day basis because I have a system that ensures nothing is forgotten or lost, and information and tasks are presented just when I need them, in a way that is not overwhelming. Content production was icing on the cake and gave me a way to manage my creative works. Now with the vaults videos, you have taken everything to a whole new level in that I have a way to keep my notes, inspirations, and ideas connected note only to my projects and creative works, but to developing a body of knowledge in ONE PLACE about topics I care about. I was doing that, sort of, “just in time” in Evernote, but I like your system so much better as I can curate and build on areas that are personally important to me, crafting a knowledge resource or personal library of information that I can use to support my many projects and roles. Watching these videos and implementing them has given me me a fun and oh so helpful project to work on during this pandemic. And it’s already bearing fruit! Count me as one of your biggest fans.
Outstanding Michele, super happy to hear you're seeing the benefits of all the various components, and I suspect you would agree that having them all in one place interconnected makes each better and more capable. More to come!
This is hands-on the richest and more inspiring Notion video I ever watched, a video that pushes the bar for the Notion Community by showing a whole new level of functionalities and potential. The system shared is clearly geared toward knowledge consolidation, abstraction, and internalization. To better understand the system and how we can incorporate it within our workflows, I think it would be extremely useful to see how the actual knowledge transfer process works. Ideally, both from the operational perspective (do you use any status category to identify material which is worth transfer, how do you set-up time for the transfer, is this included in you weekly review etc.) and, from a conceptual perspective (how progressive summarization helps you consolidating knowledge etc.) hope it makes sense 😉 A fixed/scrolling /toc would enhance this set-up beautifully, really hope Notion can release this feature soon. In the meanwhile, thanks again for making such high-quality material available for free for the rest of us 🙏🏽
Great thoughts Paolo -- I'm noting several of those ideas for future videos. First, the next several videos will build on and add to this system, making it even better so hold on for those. Then second, I tend to build out Knowledge Vault topics as needed, when necessary to create content for prepare for meetings or for growing business needs. Build it out as needed, but do it here in the knowledge vault. Or if you are exploring something out of personal curiosity apply the learning all in the Knowledge vault. But I usually don't take hours just for that when there is not an immediate need, not enough time to do that.
Ich muss das mal auf deutsch schreiben, weil mir für das, was ich grade empfinde, seit ich dieses Video verstand, einfach die richtigen Vokabeln fehlen: Ich hab keine Ahnung, wie du diese ganzen Sachen im Kopf behalten kannst und mein inneres Vermögen reichte noch nicht aus, um für allein dahin zu kommen. BUT: es ist einfach ein Traum!!! Ich hab immer so viele Ideen an denen ich gleichzeitig arbeite und immer hab ich überall irgendwelche Zettel dafür herum liegen und NIE, NIEMALS sind diese Zettel zur gleichen Zeit am gleichen Ort. Und du zeigst mir eine Möglichkeit, egal wo ich meine Ideen hin schreibe, sie kommen immer da an, wo sie hin gehören, wenn ich mich dem entsprechenden Projekt widmen will!!! Wie geil is das denn bitte... tschuldigung. Aber wirklich wahr! Ich hab mir immer behelfsmäßige Systeme einfallen lassen, die zwar praktikabel, aber partiell ziemlich langweilig waren, was dann zur Folge hatte, dass das Projekt letztlich vergessen war und ich mir lieber neues einfallen lies. Dieses System hat so viel von dem natürlichen Verlauf der Dinge: Man tut einen Samen in die Erde, also eine Idee ins Lab und gießt es und düngt es und lässt es sich entwickeln, bis es durch die Oberfläche bricht und zur Welt kommt. Sagenhaft!!! You make my day!!! Thank you so so much!!!
Must agree with everyone here, we can't thank you enough for sharing all this. World needs more shared knowledge and especially as professional as yours is. Keep up your good work and thank you again.
Magic. Thank you. I also like so much that you refer to David Allen, who has contributed so much in this area. Currently on vacation in the German Alps and the days more or less play out as follows; - Morning; coffee and August Notion video - Day: hiking - Evening: Notion implementation.
David Allen is of course a big influence on me and pretty much all modern performance systems. Much respect to him, even though I deviate from his approach in many ways (and use his approach in other ways). I love your routine! Thanks so much Martin. I wish I were in the German Alps 🏔🙂
I love Dave Allen and was first made aware of him over 10 years ago when I was told he had a cult following amongst hi-tech workers. However, what I find so curious about GTD is that even though it's ideas have been influential, I have never met anyone who uses GTD exactly as it's laid out. Everyone I know uses elements of it, but has deviated from it in some way.
OMG. I just discovered Notion and just discovered you. I struggle with information overwhelm constantly struggling to make the information useful and grow knowledge. What I am seeing in your video is amazing. I am implementing your knowledge. Thank you!!!👌🏾
I absolutely love your system! Thanks a lot for sharing it! It is pretty advanced and yet intuitive, and brings my Notion on a new level of organization!
Hello Sir, I want to deeply thank you for putting together this amazing set of videos. I feel incredibly lucky to have found this at 20; you have helped me digitalise and streamline my system that was in note form before with many redundancies. Thanks!
It just hit me that a knowledge vault is comparable to a Wikipedia article. A Wikipedia article is an aggregation of the best knowledge and research (as well as writing skills and upkeep) pulling in from many sources across the Internet, listed as references and footnotes. And the best articles are built up over time, little by little, thanks to contributions from many individuals. Knowledge vaults are really one-person Wikipedias, doing the same except pulling in from your own saved sources (which resurface in context here in PPV). This has helped me organize my PPV system. Thanks!
I am so GRATEFUL for you Bradley! Wow, you have no idea how you changed my life and business by showing me how to take what I created with to.doist and turn my system to a command center! Man on man! Wish I found you earlier on my journey but hey onward is the focus! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, thank you!
August, I can't thank you enough. You've provided me the exact tools I needed to find clarity and intention for all aspects of my life. This is the system I was looking for, but wouldn't have been able to design myself. I watched and took notes on all of the videos in the series up to this point and now I'm going back through them as needed as I develop my own structure. This is a game changer. Already reaping the benefits.
I never cease to be amazed at the effortless way that you consistently leverage Notion to the next level, yet all the time in such an easy way to implement. Yet another excellent video!
Well, THIS is the killing feature of this system. Interconnecting and connecting together different types of data captured from real life. These context knots helps me VERY much not to forget any little thing or though.
This was so good. For the past year I’ve tried to build a similar system in ROAM. I always had a difficult time organizing and easily finding notes. Personally, I work better in a more structured environment like Notion. I’m looking forward to building out my knowledge vault. Thank you August.
The word I keep coming back to after watching each new video you post is "GOLD" 😄 Thank you very much for sharing this with us, I am in the middle of gaining new skills in my field of work so this comes in very handy. The connection with the notes is very eye-opening as well because they "live" throughout the system. Someone else already asked about books and media vault and how to connect them, which was a question of mine as well.
Thanks ! Means a lot to me to hear this Jasin. Very happy that it's been valuable to you. Lots more to come! In a few videos I will elaborate on how to connect the media and books more fully, it's coming soon.
18:05 - An important distinction to note for anyone else who was curious: this is making a COPY of the note. I.e. if you make changes in the copy (even if you delete the words copy of), those will not be reflected in the original (and vice versa). For fellow programming nerds, this is known as a "deep copy." In other words, you will not be embedding the Note 1 page into your notes. As of today (2020-01-08), AFAIK, there isn't a feature that allows you to embed pages. However, it's possible they may implement that feature as shown here: www.notion.so/Introducing-Inline-Page-for-Notion-a-new-way-to-embed-pages-inside-pages-concept-7b93151e7204432da4d7ced3285e7411
I'm definitely someone who loves to plan and I've been struggling on how to get all of my notes, planners, spreadsheets, and lists into a system that is easy to navigate. I can say with certainty that this system is amazing! I'm still tinkering around with it and trying to find ways to streamline and design some of my own projects and goals (such as speaking 6 languages fluently) but so far it's done wonders for me. I actually find myself having more time and being more focused now that before! It's kind of amazing because I feel like I'm doing the same amount of work, and yet I actually have free-time now and my day flows a lot better. Thanks for all of your hard work and keep up the great content.
This is great video, I have been struggling for a long time to arrange or even maintain the knowledge I get from books, training, or other media and your system and especially THE KNOWLEDGE LAB is just the right system to do that, Thank you.
Coming from a philosophy and cognitive science background, I have to say: I find your videos to be an amazing application of the theories of emergence/connectionism/coherentism/holism into practical usage. The contrast between Systems Thinking and functionally reductive approaches to life and knowledge management (where the latter seems to be the commonly endorsed one) stands a perfect analogy to the contrast you have in the literature of the philosophy of mind. An example would be the emergentist, phenomenological vs. the analytic, computational approaches to consciousness. I watched through your series in amazement as I saw how you masterfully applied these philosophical insights to daily usage. Kudos to PPV; I can't even begin to tell how much this helped me. Two questions, if I may: (1) I want to integrate the planning and task management of my indie (video) game development projects to PPV as you define in these videos. Would you recommend them implemented as a separate module (such as your content creation machine) or just as projects? A game dev. project would be a long term project (1 year+) with lots of stages, modules, notes and wikis. I can't decide if it would be better to have separate modules of this (such as terrain generation, combat system, etc.) entered as separate projects - or having the whole game as a project and managing the modules within its own kanban board, creating action items from inside this project. (2) How would you recommend handling mundane notes in this system? Such as taking note of some temporary address, some interesting song, a summary of a video conference with a friend; in short something that is not a note or idea in the sense that it helps build towards a knowledge lab item or a pillar? Thank you again for this priceless channel.
Awesome summary and feedback, thanks! (1) If it’s your core business I’d be inclined to do the development as full Projects/Goals but perhaps borrow some of the dashboard elements from the Content Machine to merge the process flow views. Maybe set up a full content machine dashboard / pipeline inside the development goal/project workspace (that would be super cool). (2) Do mundane notes the Notes DB but set up a tag for “temporary” to delete sooner. Or just use a separate app such as Drafts or the one built into your is for temporary mundane notes.
Thank you so much! I've just binged your entire notion series to get my system setup and you've been my guiding star! This type of systemized approach is exactly what I've been looking for in my organisation software and you've given me great insight into how to get it up and running. Will you be making videos on your fitness, biz overview and sales & marketing databases? I'd love to see how you've set those up. Thanks again for all these valuable videos and your templates! Have a great day!
Thank you very much for this series, August. I downloaded Notion few days ago. I just want to learn how to use it, but you taught me more than what I need. This will definitely help me get my shit together. Again, thank you very much!
Can I hang a poster of August in my home office? You are my hero! Thank you for liberating these ideas into the world. PD. this is also my first comment on youtube 🙂
I'm curious about how you've become so genius! Hahah Your system idea about recycling every peace of information is amazing! I've read 90 books in the last 18 months, and I wanna to use all the information for growth faster. Thank you for your guideness!
Yes, get the most out of the reading and effort you put into learning, capture the knowledge! I learned all this the hard way, through trial and error. Thanks a ton for your support Guri!
Great video! Thanks for taking the time to do this. Two questions: 1) Would your equivalent to “evergreen notes” be the notes in the Knowledge Lab DB or the notes in the Ideas and Notes DB? Or would both be considered “evergreen notes”? 2) Why do use linked db for the Ideas and Notes within a Knowledge Lab entry, if they are already listed in the “relational db” property? Thanks so much! I really enjoy your content - it’s helping me reflect about my own KM system and make it more robust!
Hello August, I'm going through your videos again in a little more detail now that I've set mostly set up and begun using parts of your system (building up to the whole system), and in this video I noticed that there were no relational links connecting the Media Vault and Academy to the Knowledge Lab. If the knowledge lab is an aggregate of collected knowledge that you want to develop, refine and use, why is the media and course training not connected to the knowledge lab? I'm so grateful to have crossed paths with you online. Your systems have changed my life.
Thanks August, this is great. I am curious if you capture conversations with people the same way? Been thinking about having several "meeting notes" templates that I assign participants and attach to a knowledge lab.
So useful thanks for these ideas! great to have so much to get started with for free. You're helping a lot of people! I was wondering with the knowledge lab you have the self-referential database linking the notes for a specific topic. But you don't link the books or media related to this topic? Is it because you've already transferred the most useful parts into the topic entry, so it would be redundant?
Self-referencing filtered views for Media Vault, the Tools-Skill-Services Vault (and for some people the Courses Vault) were quickly added to the Knowledge Vault template shortly after this video, it now includes all of this. You'll see that added in videos that follow in the series. Good observation, Paul!
Hi August, you're great. Thak you for your work and for giving all this for free. I'm building my Life operative sistem on Notion and I really needed it. Thank you so much! I've a question about this video. I'm actually using Roam, you think tath it can be easier to build my Knoledge Vault on Roam? Thank for your great help.
Where do you get your shirts? I know that’s such a silly question in the midst of all this intellectual systems thinking, but I like your shirts. Oh, and I love what you’re doing with Notion. I’m building most of the system now, and following the videos as I build and connect the databases.
Hello, how could you create a database in Notion to add bibliographic citations to scientific articles, books with an endnote, zotelo or mendely application? Thank you very good contribution
Hey August, I just want to thank you for sharing your system. It has given me a new tailwind to get out of my rut and get organised and focus. One question: Why do you only link the Notes/Ideas database to the knowledge lab, and not the Book Vault and Media Vault as well? Do you extract all the important bits into separate Notes/Ideas after reading the book/media? Currently I am linking each Book and Media to the different knowledge lab topics as well. So in the Knowledge Lab Topic I see all the relevant Notes as well as Books and Media. What are your thoughts on this?
Great to hear that Werner, congrats on your progress! I did/do also link the media vault to the knowledge lab, the property might be turned off in the table view you saw, but it is linked through a relation. I don't have the book vault linked because I tend to do bigger sit-down sessions to coordinate those two, and rely less on a quick connection. But nothing wrong with connecting it too. My next video will resolve that issue regardless, with a new twist to the system.
Great explanation. I was looking for a method to store ideas, taking notes from websites, tutorials, books, and this video was very helpful. I was wondering whether you will add Knowlege Hub in your existing template at present there are 5 database in the template.
Hi August, I noticed that in your knowledge lab under the "Systems Thinking / Systems Design" topic you linked to an external webpage that had some sort of drawing. Just curious, what webpage is that? It looks pretty useful. Thanks!
Hey August, another great video. This series is truly invaluable for everyone who can make use of it, thank you so much for your time and effort. I am building my Notion system right now, with some personal preference adaptions to your system. I love this fully customisable "all in one place" solution, it's what I've always been looking for. It also seems like the company and thus the software will stick around for a while, which is great. It would be awesome if you could give a quick hint on the structure in which you're managing your finances and if you have any thoughts about integrating part of it into Notion. I haven't really found a fully satisfying solution for it yet. I am looking forward to your future content a lot, expect me to stick around. Greetings from Italy
Thanks Jannik! Notion will definitely be around 🙂. For business finances, I do everything in Xero which Notion can't come close to, need a specialized tool for that. Notion could be good for personal budgeting, will think about that one -- haven't one that in Notion myself yet. Lots more to come.
Hey August! I remember you mentioned something about a method to easier save podcast notes or snippets from podcasts to Notion via a software. Has there been any update about this software? Sounded very promising!
Hey August, I saw all your videos so far, they have been so valuable to me. For a period of time I tried to analyze what I consume and figure ways to quantify it, I consumed a lot of media but not all benefited me so that was the reason I had to implement such a system. I am a big fan of giving time specific value, and I also think that time can be measured by peace of mind. So for example if I worked really hard all day and got past the 8 hour screen Time limit across all devices, I would prioritize peace of mind over the money that would be brought by the time spent achieving it. I also wonder where you would manage Documentaries in the Life OS in Notion? would you manage them in the media vault or in a separate section. Seeing that some documentaries may offer value in between books but also more than normal media vaults. and lastly much thanks for the clean and organized videos that you present. It has been so helpful in figuring out my life.
Great questions Abd, and I love to see you thoughtfully you're approaching all this. Documentaries can get close to video courses, but are generally more like books or other movies/videos. Usually I would put them in the Media Vault but take more extensive notes than usual on them. Alternately, if it's super instructional it could go in the courses vault. Cant go wrong, just capture the knowledge from it and make it accessible for future revisits and maximum learning!
Thank you August for yet another great video as are all your videos! Quick thought... I'd expected to see not only a relation with Notes & Ideas but also with the other databases in the Mind Expansion page to have all your sources for a specific topic in one place. Or is there another way you pull from those databases to fill a topic in the Knowledge Lab? Anyway, thank you for all that you've shared so far. Your series about your Life OS in Notion is one of the most valuable series I've ever watched in my life!
Good thoughts Hashim! Yes, it's coming. Your instinct is correct, I'm stepping though it one element at a time (or smaller doses). In a few videos from now we will expand and improve both the Mind Expansion dashboard and the Knowledge Lab Vault template to include Media. It's coming, stay tuned!
Amazing stuff! I was wondering if you still reference the origin of the notes or ideas in knowledge lab cards, or are most things paraphrased or and over again that they have become your own writing? And then maybe only reference when you really want an exact quote from somewhere?
I do it both ways, depending on context or situation (or what's fastest). Apply it however makes the most sense to your needs. The approach is flexible. Thanks Sam!
Hello August, incredible video once again; this system has literally transformed my life already. Quick question though - How do you find the time to complete all of this notation & aggregating of notes into the Knowledge Lab articles? Do you schedule this time in or have it as action items in the Action Zone? Or is it just done when you have spare time?
As a related question, would it be useful to have the media vault right in the knowledge topic (like the notes database) filtered for that topic? This way you could perhaps more readily bring the highlighted parts of those clipped articles in the knowledge lab?
Thanks James, super happy to hear it has all been helpful. Great question, I should have elaborated on that. I'll aggregate and refine the info going into the Knowledge Vault when I have a need for it. No set pre-schedule routine, just as I approach a need for new insights on a topic, I will collect and pull the relevant info into it and organize my understanding on the topic in the knowledge lab entry. This could be for e an upcoming meeting, a newsletter or video in production, a need to change something in my business, whatever sparks the need for the information. I will then use the knowledge lab entry as the place I process and organize my thinking on it. So apply it here as the need comes up, otherwise would take too much time. This is typically part of completing another task in the Action Zone, not just working on the knowledge lab for its own sake Hope that helps!
@@augustbradley at some point, when you have videos for most of the system built out, you should consider doing a "my morning in LifeOS video where you go through a topic and how it touches your various DBs and dashboards". It'd have to be a non-personal topic, of course, but it would be nice for most of us to see the system in action.
As I personalize my Knowledge hub as I call it, I find myself wanting to add toggles for Media & Books vaults as well in the page content under the Notes & Ideas one. Does anyone else also use them ? I don't really see how we can't bring together all this data for one topic other than adding vaults into the topic page. Any advices ? Thank you :)
Hey August, big fan of your content so far! I have a question: what do you do with “archived” projects and goals that have been completed (and also older weeks from week reviews). My system is growing quite large and I find myself having to sift through a lot of drop downs when creating new relational databases. Do you move them into a completed projects database? Do you ever “clean up” the weeks? Kudos on your growth and thanks again to anyone who could shed light on this!
Thanks! So far I have not done anything other than marking complete, as it has not slowed down the databases. At some point size might slow down databases, at which time I would either delete the very old ones or move them to an archived database (set up the same as the active one). For the issue you mention, sifting through long lists when selecting DB relations, I just go straight to the search field and type the first few letters to find the one I'm looking for. Hope that helps!
Thank you Bradley for yet another valuable and insightful video. One question: Why do you only link notes and ideas to the lab? Do books, media and courses remain "separate" from the lab? Why not also link to all resources in the various formats in the lab?
Notes and ideas DB is also linked to the book and media vaults (as “sources”), it’s described in the video on the Notes & Ideas DB. I also have it linked to Clients and Projects.
@@augustbradley yes, I saw this connection as a source in the notes. But the question was about the link between the lab and the media and course databases. From what I saw in the video there is a "manual" step between the courses and media databases towards the lab, without a direct link. I was wondering why this configuration (in my lab I put the link, and I find it useful).
I've been wondering about that also. Obviously we are free to add whatever extra properties we like, including relation to Source (e.g. Books/Media) DB. But does their noted absence imply that it is inadvisable - that we should instead stick to a recommended workflow where we first deliberately make "interim" notes on bunches of media/books based on some "theme of the moment" (transient perspective, in the long term) then base the (continuously evolving) "evergreen" knowledge lab items on bunches of these notes? Deliberately keeping the knowledge dependency pyramid-shaped (no lumps or props half-way up!). Of course, apart from properties, any such links (e.g. to particularly illustrative sources) can also be included in the content portion, either free-form or via filtered views of linked tables, as demonstrated in this presentation. Properties being more about knowledge flow/dependency/rediscovery support and management, in this (PPV) scheme via data-based dashboards. Have I got it right?
I can’t believe how extensive and well thought out you system is! Now, I don’t have much experience with Notion (yet), so I have a question: How would one start to implement your Life Operating System? I mean, there are a lot of interlinked databases, so which would be the best place to start?
Fantastic to hear this! I'm working hard to get the course ready that will take you from scratch (blank page) to the system implementation. If you want to start sooner, start with my Action Zone template for Tasks and Projects, then add my Daily Tracking template (both in my template pack), then built up the Alignment Zone through Goals and Pillars. I'll be rolling out more resources soon to help with implementation. Thanks for your interest and support!
@@augustbradley Thanks August! The more I watch your videos on this, the more I realise this is exactly what I need in my life. I had thought about a "master system" to which I could feed data and tasks in to, and it would crunch it up for me. I heard about Notion few months ago, but I really decided to check up on it few days ago, and your videos were basically the first ones on the subject I ran in to. Lucky me :)! Have you thought about turning your system and related information in to an e-book? I would be really interested in one.
August - Your videos, your training style, your approach to handling various situations is....amazing! Thank you for everything you do. The concept of this Knowledge Vault, itself...is BRILLIANT! Is this included in your template pack? ...because I haven't found it. Is there anywhere that I could get a copy of this as a template? I do love it and would like to implement it. Thanks.
Thanks so much for the feedback David! The full Knowledge Management System (with Knowledge Vault) is not hard to build on your own if you wish, or it is part of the pre-built Master PPV Template that comes with the course. Details here: www.yearzero.io/notion-course
@@augustbradley Damn i was searching for it a while now, when i found this comment :( The template would have really helped to build the knowledge, sadly i dont have time to consume your couse so I guess i will try to build it myself.
What if knowledge vault topics overlap, like for example Goal Setting, Productivity, Discipline, Time Management... Do you copy relevant broader/overlapping bits to every topic to have a broader, fuller perspective on it, or just focus on aggregating specific information to the specific topic?
Tags from Media Vault, TSS Vault, Notes Vault, etc… can of course be tagged to multiple KV topics. In the body of the knowledge Vault topics, use “synced blocks” to have segments with related info up to date and synced across all of them. Works great!
Another great video August - Thanks. I like the way this pulls information together. Your enthusiasm has the desired effect of motivating me to make the connections etc.. Thanks. Have you considered using a Master Tag Database as well?- or do you consider that the Topics in the Knowledge Lab is where the pooling for ideas happens and therefore no need for one? Would like to know your thoughts as I am trialing one at the moment, but feel sure you have considered this and have some views on the subject. I know Marie Poulin is or was trialing one too.
Thanks Gary! Will post the reply from our twitter discussion here too in case others are think they’re valuable in specific instances. When on the fence I go ahead and build it and see if I like it, which I recommend you do.
I'm from Tamilnadu , This is the best series that I have watched regarding Notion , but if you can share some tips to implement your idea for students , it would be very helpful ❤️
Hi Jeya, greetings to Tamilnadu! Great to hear you are finding it valuable. I really think everything in the series so far is directly applicable to students, but will look for some specific applications for students to potentially discuss in future videos.
As I get more and more of your system implemented, I realize that my biggest limitation right now is my inexperience with manipulating Notion. I just wanted to check and make sure that I haven't missed something. Have you posted any templates OTHER than the ones that come with subscribing to your newsletter? I'm slowly learning the Notion tools, but just want to make sure that I haven't "left something on the table" by accident.... Thank You!
Thanks Taylor! No other templates, but I'm working hard to get the course ready that will take you from scratch (blank page) to the system implementation. That will provide a lot more than templates can.
Hey August I got recomended to watch your videos by a friend of mine, and i have almost powered through your notion playlist during my summer brake! I was just wondering why there is no relational link between the knowledge lab, and the book- and mediavault? It seems like a greate place to put a link to already have the knowledge you consume connected to a knowledge field. Is there any reasoning behind this choice? Im looking forward to completting the playlist and really feel the systems power when i get back to studying
HI August, this is fantastic. I'm really excited to implement this mind expansion template. At the risk of embarrassing myself on a public thread, I cant seem to find this template on your notion page where I downloaded the action zone and others. Is there somewhere else where I should go to download it?
the knowledge Lab is the last piece in the network of the vaults and it indeed provides emergence as you explain, very well designed and super useful. I am questioning the need for Roam Research as you have links within the knowledge lab to make connections. Of course there is no graphical view of the links (yet!) but the reference between content pieces is managed quite nicely I think. I watched your presentation on Notion + Roam. Are you still using both or did you move to a "notion only" knwoledge management? Thanks, Jean-Francois
Agreed, I'm also questioning the need for Roam, and drifting away from it. Notion just does so much more, and the little extra Roam provides is not adding that much value. Thanks for your feedback and support Jean-Francois!
Have question regarding databases. I have a school system setup and wondered what is best way to have info stored, like notes from books and class lectures. Should they be in one big database then link it to each class page then filter contents or have a separate database for each class and put notes in there?
I’m always inclined to put them in one database, start with that assumption. Then if you hit a problem with that you can then consider alternatives and specific reasons why to consider separating.
Hey, first of all, thanks for your awesome videos. I’m mindblown by how meticulously you’ve designed your system and I never expected to find anything like this on RUclips. After watching this video (and considering my own implementation), I was wondering, do you have a specific reason for not having a direct relation between “Notes & Ideas” and projects? I often find that I have ideas or notes related to projects I’m working on that I want to capture quickly. They’re not necessarily linked to a knowledge subject as they can be very project specific, so I figured I’d just add a link to projects as well. So do you have a specific reason not to or is it just that you haven’t needed it (yet)? Or do you perhaps have another way to capture project related ideas?
For notes that have multiple links to knowledge lab cards, you could also just remove the link to card 1 once it has been integrated in card 1, but leave the link to other cards. This was you can empty the notes and ideas box so to speak, what do you think?
Hi August, great work on this series, its first class! One of you Knowledge Lab titles is discipline, if you were to recommend the most influential book you have read in this space, what would it be please? Thanks again.
More than any book, I would start with RUclips videos and podcasts with Jacko Willink and David Goggins. Also look at my recent newsletter issues #11 and #12 on the subject. ( news.mindandmachine.io ). Thanks Chris!
...In addition, I should point out that discipline ultimate comes down to habits and routines (and systems) so would recommend James Clear’s book Atomic Habits to start with on the subject. We don’t rise to them level of our dreams, we fall to the level of our systems.
I finally got this concept 3rd time looking at the video:) Its this the right way of thinking ? -Information from thoughts meeting and such decomposed into Knowledge to be used in Projects/inatives (that off course contains the acionts) that's within a Pilar. I don't understan the reason you don't also have media vault I t tagged to the specific knowledge and embedded. Maybe you have some really nice video or book notes that you read that's in a page in the media vault / book vault. They should also be referenced into the right knowledge vault topic?
Please make a detailed video on how your Notion Knowledge management system connects with ROAM. I have seen your video on Keep Productive. But I think More details will be really really helpful as ROAM takes the links we create between Knowledge Labs on another level.
I saw your Notion-Roam video on Keeping Productive. I've watched it three times. Where in this system you describe in this current video would you send refined stuff from Notion to Roam?
Hi Bill, good question. With Roam now being expensive for most (at the time I recorded that video Roam was free), and this being a Notion series I didn't want to being that into this series and felt it was covered on Keep Productive fully. But the other reason is frankly I'm loosing interest in Roam, it's not living up to the initial hope I had for it. Not delivering enough insight and unexpected connections. Notion just does so much more so much easier, even in the note-taking realm (let alone all the other areas). I'm fading away from Roam. If (hoping) we get inline bi-directional linking of Roam in Notion, then game over.
Yeah. I don’t know if Roam’s back linking actually generates new ideas. I’ve never seen anyone give any real examples of how they discover new ideas by means of that. I think I dear generation has to occur in our OWN brains. I haven’t found much discussion about this on the net. Maybe some productivity you tuber will do a video on this.
Are you deliberately calling the notes 'note 1, note 2' etc, or are they just dummy names for your demo database? I feel like having a more descriptive title of the ideas and notes would help differentiate the note and idea context. Great video and thank you for your content.
So I'm leaving his comment here for you to see as it is your most recent video and you are likely to actually see it. You were a random guy on RUclips who helped me achieve a goal I had set out for myself this year in figuring out how to quantify myself a bit more with software. You then somehow became one of my favorite podcasters ( I listen to a lot of podcasts). I actually read your newsletter (I barely read these things these days). Your content is amazing. Thank you for all that you do.
Agreed. When I started out (new to your system and new to Notion) it was creating it in Notion identical to yours. Since I have started using it, in addition to a greater understanding of Notion, I have started to personalise. Apart from the primary purpose - system, this has been a great crash course on Notion. Sincerely, thank you August.
Thanks Warren! Means a lot to me to hear this. Very happy that it's been valuable to you and has helped in some way to make things happen for you. There is a ton of power in measuring and studying what's working and what's not, just be careful not to go overboard but it can be quite revealing and hep us find a better path.
I also love that the podcast and the newsletter have been helpful, increasingly all of these various platforms will be more complementary of each other. New podcast season coming soon.
I'm glad you thought to post in the new one here, I'm falling behind on comments on older videos (have been trying to answer very single one, but it is getting harder and harder as the viewership grows quickly :)
Fantastic to hear this Andrew, thanks. For sure always look for ways to customize, but starting with a core system I think helps facilitate faster growth and in most cases a better structural design. Lots more to come.
@@agreen1604 I 100% agree! Before I found this channel, I had only just discovered Notion, and I could see it's full potential from the get go. But seeing all these different videos trying to explain the relations and rollups just had me completely stumped on how I would use them in my own Notion system. Now I'm beginning to create my own systems in other areas of my life as well using these same principles and it all makes total sense. I feel like I already have a small foundation of knowledge on Systems Thinking, and I can't wait to explore it further. Thank you August.
The same here Warren!
I can't believe i missed this gold mine Channel for all of these years. This is the first time i am thanking the RUclips algorithm lol
I'm so glad you found us too! Dive in, there's lots here. And new videos coming soon. Keep up the great work. Onward 🚀
Hi August,
I've never commented on a youtube video before in my life but I really felt compelled to leave one on this occasion.
Currently I am an honours student looking to go onto a PhD relating to organisational development. I Also work as a personal trainer and am trying to build a small consulting business on the side which I'd like to grow into my full time gig. I've always had big visions, big ambitions and a clear sense of direction, but i've always struggled with the daily actions and implementations to make those visions a reality, with juggling different plates and interests. This system has really changed to game for me and now those dreams don't seem so far off. Everything is just so much clearer from both a higher level and a ground level perspective. I'm blown away this level of value is offered for free.
Thank you so much 🙏
Amazing Luke, super happy to hear this! Congrats on your progress and success. Keep charging, make it happen! Thank you so much for the feedback.
You might find it funny to see this comment this far in the future after this video was created, but what you presented here is timeless! Thank you so much for all the value you're offering. You've opened my eyes to a world of possibilities. This is both exciting and encouraging. I'm obsessed with organizational processes, statistics and keeping things consolidated. You have no idea how rewarding it feels having such a system in place for pretty much everything I do in my day-to-day life! Thank you!
August - you are a national treasure - scratch that - International treasure. Thank you for sharing this. You have inspired many.
Wow, thank you Iam! 🙏
Love how you’re recording at 10.30 pm, and in the background it just says under habits „bed by 10 pm, aim for 9.30 pm“. You out there grinding. Great video once again!
Ha! Good eye Stuart. Sometimes you have to grind out out to get things done, recently did a twitter thread on this: twitter.com/augustbradley/status/1286729323492159488
Great video! I'll share my notes in here!
1:30 discussion on second brains and better alternatives, we don’t need a replica of our brain, we need something like an extension of our brain, to do the things that brains lack on, retention of information.
3:00 Emergance, things come out of the system dynamicly (revisit)
4:00 Knowledge base vs knowledge lab (team vs individual)
5:00 knowledge lab by categories
8:00 how it works
8:00 linking to itself
10:00 Alphabetical sort
11:00 Examply of workspace entry
12:00 Takeaways from media database
14:20 Resurfacing ideas
15:20 Ideas link to relevant knowledge categories
17:00 Draging entries straight into the category entry
18:00 duplicate it into the entry
20:00 Self referencing filter for having a database of other entries linking to this one
23:00 Capture ideas as you have them, they fade away quickly
24:30 The more you expand your knowledge lab, ther more valueable it becomes
I was looking for Knowledge Base Templates for Notion on Google. This is the first video I watch of you and from the beginning, I knew it is what I need. I've been wanting to create a system for content creation for marketing purposes, with a par of knowledge finding, capturing, synthesizing and distilling. I've been fiddling with notion for about a year or so, but immediately knew it has something. You have unlocked the full potential of this beauty. Thank you, Sir. For sharing the knowledge. Will certainly be looking to start implementing your methodology asap for my project. It also gave me a second perspective ( a more broad one) on systems and mind management. Wow!
Thank you, August. I started following you for the projects/tasks systems you created, and they are fantastic-I use them daily. I then moved on to the review cycles, which helps ensure that I’m keeping my time and energy focused on what matters to me. Both of these approaches have allowed me to be much more *present* and even relaxed on a day to day basis because I have a system that ensures nothing is forgotten or lost, and information and tasks are presented just when I need them, in a way that is not overwhelming. Content production was icing on the cake and gave me a way to manage my creative works.
Now with the vaults videos, you have taken everything to a whole new level in that I have a way to keep my notes, inspirations, and ideas connected note only to my projects and creative works, but to developing a body of knowledge in ONE PLACE about topics I care about. I was doing that, sort of, “just in time” in Evernote, but I like your system so much better as I can curate and build on areas that are personally important to me, crafting a knowledge resource or personal library of information that I can use to support my many projects and roles. Watching these videos and implementing them has given me me a fun and oh so helpful project to work on during this pandemic. And it’s already bearing fruit! Count me as one of your biggest fans.
Outstanding Michele, super happy to hear you're seeing the benefits of all the various components, and I suspect you would
agree that having them all in one place interconnected makes each better and more capable. More to come!
This is hands-on the richest and more inspiring Notion video I ever watched, a video that pushes the bar for the Notion Community by showing a whole new level of functionalities and potential.
The system shared is clearly geared toward knowledge consolidation, abstraction, and internalization.
To better understand the system and how we can incorporate it within our workflows, I think it would be extremely useful to see how the actual knowledge transfer process works. Ideally, both from the operational perspective (do you use any status category to identify material which is worth transfer, how do you set-up time for the transfer, is this included in you weekly review etc.) and, from a conceptual perspective (how progressive summarization helps you consolidating knowledge etc.) hope it makes sense 😉
A fixed/scrolling /toc would enhance this set-up beautifully, really hope Notion can release this feature soon.
In the meanwhile, thanks again for making such high-quality material available for free for the rest of us 🙏🏽
Great thoughts Paolo -- I'm noting several of those ideas for future videos. First, the next several videos will build on and add to this system, making it even better so hold on for those. Then second, I tend to build out Knowledge Vault topics as needed, when necessary to create content for prepare for meetings or for growing business needs. Build it out as needed, but do it here in the knowledge vault. Or if you are exploring something out of personal curiosity apply the learning all in the Knowledge vault. But I usually don't take hours just for that when there is not an immediate need, not enough time to do that.
Ich muss das mal auf deutsch schreiben, weil mir für das, was ich grade empfinde, seit ich dieses Video verstand, einfach die richtigen Vokabeln fehlen: Ich hab keine Ahnung, wie du diese ganzen Sachen im Kopf behalten kannst und mein inneres Vermögen reichte noch nicht aus, um für allein dahin zu kommen. BUT: es ist einfach ein Traum!!! Ich hab immer so viele Ideen an denen ich gleichzeitig arbeite und immer hab ich überall irgendwelche Zettel dafür herum liegen und NIE, NIEMALS sind diese Zettel zur gleichen Zeit am gleichen Ort. Und du zeigst mir eine Möglichkeit, egal wo ich meine Ideen hin schreibe, sie kommen immer da an, wo sie hin gehören, wenn ich mich dem entsprechenden Projekt widmen will!!! Wie geil is das denn bitte... tschuldigung. Aber wirklich wahr! Ich hab mir immer behelfsmäßige Systeme einfallen lassen, die zwar praktikabel, aber partiell ziemlich langweilig waren, was dann zur Folge hatte, dass das Projekt letztlich vergessen war und ich mir lieber neues einfallen lies. Dieses System hat so viel von dem natürlichen Verlauf der Dinge: Man tut einen Samen in die Erde, also eine Idee ins Lab und gießt es und düngt es und lässt es sich entwickeln, bis es durch die Oberfläche bricht und zur Welt kommt. Sagenhaft!!! You make my day!!! Thank you so so much!!!
Ive devoured all of your content throughout this series... im just speechless how coherent this system is and how well everything fits together...
I'm so overwhelmed by your system. It helps me so much (even after 3 weeks already). I hope that notion exists a life long 😀
I really like how this pulls everything together into a usable filing system!
Exactly! Gets even better with some new tricks in the next few videos, can't wait to share them.
This is amazing. Creating a knowledge lab to encourage synthesis is what I've been missing. Thanks for your wisdom!
I really wish this was one of your templates.... great video!
Must agree with everyone here, we can't thank you enough for sharing all this. World needs more shared knowledge and especially as professional as yours is. Keep up your good work and thank you again.
This is definitely the one I’ve been really waiting for. Thank you so much for making these!
Awesome Bella, I really love what this database enables. I agree with you on particular interest in it.
Magic. Thank you.
I also like so much that you refer to David Allen, who has contributed so much in this area.
Currently on vacation in the German Alps and the days more or less play out as follows;
- Morning; coffee and August Notion video
- Day: hiking
- Evening: Notion implementation.
David Allen is of course a big influence on me and pretty much all modern performance systems. Much respect to him, even though I deviate from his approach in many ways (and use his approach in other ways).
I love your routine! Thanks so much Martin. I wish I were in the German Alps 🏔🙂
I love Dave Allen and was first made aware of him over 10 years ago when I was told he had a cult following amongst hi-tech workers. However, what I find so curious about GTD is that even though it's ideas have been influential, I have never met anyone who uses GTD exactly as it's laid out. Everyone I know uses elements of it, but has deviated from it in some way.
OMG. I just discovered Notion and just discovered you. I struggle with information overwhelm constantly struggling to make the information useful and grow knowledge. What I am seeing in your video is amazing. I am implementing your knowledge. Thank you!!!👌🏾
I absolutely love your system! Thanks a lot for sharing it! It is pretty advanced and yet intuitive, and brings my Notion on a new level of organization!
Mind = Blown!!! Just changed my Databaselayout in parallel while watching the video. WoW
Hello Sir,
I want to deeply thank you for putting together this amazing set of videos. I feel incredibly lucky to have found this at 20; you have helped me digitalise and streamline my system that was in note form before with many redundancies.
Thanks!
It just hit me that a knowledge vault is comparable to a Wikipedia article. A Wikipedia article is an aggregation of the best knowledge and research (as well as writing skills and upkeep) pulling in from many sources across the Internet, listed as references and footnotes. And the best articles are built up over time, little by little, thanks to contributions from many individuals.
Knowledge vaults are really one-person Wikipedias, doing the same except pulling in from your own saved sources (which resurface in context here in PPV).
This has helped me organize my PPV system. Thanks!
I am so GRATEFUL for you Bradley! Wow, you have no idea how you changed my life and business by showing me how to take what I created with to.doist and turn my system to a command center! Man on man! Wish I found you earlier on my journey but hey onward is the focus! THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart, thank you!
It's awesome to hear this Zane, thanks for the feedback!
Ah! I've been waiting for this one. Just sitting down to watch it.
August, I can't thank you enough. You've provided me the exact tools I needed to find clarity and intention for all aspects of my life. This is the system I was looking for, but wouldn't have been able to design myself. I watched and took notes on all of the videos in the series up to this point and now I'm going back through them as needed as I develop my own structure. This is a game changer. Already reaping the benefits.
Thanks Nick! Means a lot to me to hear this. Very happy that it's been valuable to you. Lots more to come!
I never cease to be amazed at the effortless way that you consistently leverage Notion to the next level, yet all the time in such an easy way to implement. Yet another excellent video!
Super happy you like it Stephen. I have some very cool tricks coming up in the next few videos. More to come!
Well, THIS is the killing feature of this system. Interconnecting and connecting together different types of data captured from real life.
These context knots helps me VERY much not to forget any little thing or though.
This was so good. For the past year I’ve tried to build a similar system in ROAM. I always had a difficult time organizing and easily finding notes. Personally, I work better in a more structured environment like Notion. I’m looking forward to building out my knowledge vault. Thank you August.
Love this channel!
The word I keep coming back to after watching each new video you post is "GOLD" 😄
Thank you very much for sharing this with us, I am in the middle of gaining new skills in my field of work so this comes in very handy. The connection with the notes is very eye-opening as well because they "live" throughout the system. Someone else already asked about books and media vault and how to connect them, which was a question of mine as well.
Thanks ! Means a lot to me to hear this Jasin. Very happy that it's been valuable to you. Lots more to come! In a few videos I will elaborate on how to connect the media and books more fully, it's coming soon.
18:05 - An important distinction to note for anyone else who was curious: this is making a COPY of the note. I.e. if you make changes in the copy (even if you delete the words copy of), those will not be reflected in the original (and vice versa). For fellow programming nerds, this is known as a "deep copy."
In other words, you will not be embedding the Note 1 page into your notes.
As of today (2020-01-08), AFAIK, there isn't a feature that allows you to embed pages. However, it's possible they may implement that feature as shown here:
www.notion.so/Introducing-Inline-Page-for-Notion-a-new-way-to-embed-pages-inside-pages-concept-7b93151e7204432da4d7ced3285e7411
I'm definitely someone who loves to plan and I've been struggling on how to get all of my notes, planners, spreadsheets, and lists into a system that is easy to navigate. I can say with certainty that this system is amazing! I'm still tinkering around with it and trying to find ways to streamline and design some of my own projects and goals (such as speaking 6 languages fluently) but so far it's done wonders for me. I actually find myself having more time and being more focused now that before! It's kind of amazing because I feel like I'm doing the same amount of work, and yet I actually have free-time now and my day flows a lot better. Thanks for all of your hard work and keep up the great content.
Outstanding Tyrha! I love it. Congrats on your progress. Thanks for sharing the feedback.
Another spectacular display of your implementation of Notion and your in depth understanding of Systems Thinking.
Well. Done.
Awesome to hear this Dov, really glad you liked it!
This is great video, I have been struggling for a long time to arrange or even maintain the knowledge I get from books, training, or other media and your system and especially THE KNOWLEDGE LAB is just the right system to do that, Thank you.
Excellent Emad! Some more enhancements to the knowledge management system coming soon.
Coming from a philosophy and cognitive science background, I have to say: I find your videos to be an amazing application of the theories of emergence/connectionism/coherentism/holism into practical usage. The contrast between Systems Thinking and functionally reductive approaches to life and knowledge management (where the latter seems to be the commonly endorsed one) stands a perfect analogy to the contrast you have in the literature of the philosophy of mind. An example would be the emergentist, phenomenological vs. the analytic, computational approaches to consciousness. I watched through your series in amazement as I saw how you masterfully applied these philosophical insights to daily usage. Kudos to PPV; I can't even begin to tell how much this helped me.
Two questions, if I may: (1) I want to integrate the planning and task management of my indie (video) game development projects to PPV as you define in these videos. Would you recommend them implemented as a separate module (such as your content creation machine) or just as projects? A game dev. project would be a long term project (1 year+) with lots of stages, modules, notes and wikis. I can't decide if it would be better to have separate modules of this (such as terrain generation, combat system, etc.) entered as separate projects - or having the whole game as a project and managing the modules within its own kanban board, creating action items from inside this project.
(2) How would you recommend handling mundane notes in this system? Such as taking note of some temporary address, some interesting song, a summary of a video conference with a friend; in short something that is not a note or idea in the sense that it helps build towards a knowledge lab item or a pillar?
Thank you again for this priceless channel.
Awesome summary and feedback, thanks! (1) If it’s your core business I’d be inclined to do the development as full Projects/Goals but perhaps borrow some of the dashboard elements from the Content Machine to merge the process flow views. Maybe set up a full content machine dashboard / pipeline inside the development goal/project workspace (that would be super cool). (2) Do mundane notes the Notes DB but set up a tag for “temporary” to delete sooner. Or just use a separate app such as Drafts or the one built into your is for temporary mundane notes.
Yippee, new video. Taking a break to watch this now.
Thank you so much! I've just binged your entire notion series to get my system setup and you've been my guiding star!
This type of systemized approach is exactly what I've been looking for in my organisation software and you've given me great insight into how to get it up and running.
Will you be making videos on your fitness, biz overview and sales & marketing databases? I'd love to see how you've set those up.
Thanks again for all these valuable videos and your templates!
Have a great day!
Awesome to hear that Jay, and congrats on your progress! Yes, I intend to dive into those topics in future episodes. Lots more to come!
Thank you very much for this series, August. I downloaded Notion few days ago. I just want to learn how to use it, but you taught me more than what I need.
This will definitely help me get my shit together. Again, thank you very much!
Excellent! We're all on this journey creating together.
Can I hang a poster of August in my home office?
You are my hero!
Thank you for liberating these ideas into the world.
PD. this is also my first comment on youtube 🙂
Great video as always! I call mine a "Fusion Lab" where ideas and notes are fused into new material.
Excellent. Thanks, thanks thanks!!!!
I'm curious about how you've become so genius! Hahah
Your system idea about recycling every peace of information is amazing! I've read 90 books in the last 18 months, and I wanna to use all the information for growth faster.
Thank you for your guideness!
Yes, get the most out of the reading and effort you put into learning, capture the knowledge! I learned all this the hard way, through trial and error. Thanks a ton for your support Guri!
I strongly suspect that even the people who created Notion knows its power as August does! Another incredible video, as always!
I don't think they fully realize yet what I'm up to here, but they will 😎. Thanks Anwar!
You sir, are incredible. Thank you 👊
Thanks, I appreciate that Landon!
High quality content as usual.
Much appreciated
Great video! Thanks for taking the time to do this. Two questions:
1) Would your equivalent to “evergreen notes” be the notes in the Knowledge Lab DB or the notes in the Ideas and Notes DB? Or would both be considered “evergreen notes”?
2) Why do use linked db for the Ideas and Notes within a Knowledge Lab entry, if they are already listed in the “relational db” property?
Thanks so much! I really enjoy your content - it’s helping me reflect about my own KM system and make it more robust!
Hello August, I'm going through your videos again in a little more detail now that I've set mostly set up and begun using parts of your system (building up to the whole system), and in this video I noticed that there were no relational links connecting the Media Vault and Academy to the Knowledge Lab. If the knowledge lab is an aggregate of collected knowledge that you want to develop, refine and use, why is the media and course training not connected to the knowledge lab? I'm so grateful to have crossed paths with you online. Your systems have changed my life.
In earlier replies by August Bradley (to Jasin and to Hashim Naushahi) he says this is addressed in a later video.
Alhamdulillah thank you dear brother.
I am making a new start. Right now. I am so impressed
Excellent Aziz! Make it happen.
Thanks August, this is great. I am curious if you capture conversations with people the same way? Been thinking about having several "meeting notes" templates that I assign participants and attach to a knowledge lab.
So useful thanks for these ideas! great to have so much to get started with for free. You're helping a lot of people! I was wondering with the knowledge lab you have the self-referential database linking the notes for a specific topic. But you don't link the books or media related to this topic? Is it because you've already transferred the most useful parts into the topic entry, so it would be redundant?
Self-referencing filtered views for Media Vault, the Tools-Skill-Services Vault (and for some people the Courses Vault) were quickly added to the Knowledge Vault template shortly after this video, it now includes all of this. You'll see that added in videos that follow in the series. Good observation, Paul!
Hi August, you're great. Thak you for your work and for giving all this for free. I'm building my Life operative sistem on Notion and I really needed it. Thank you so much!
I've a question about this video. I'm actually using Roam, you think tath it can be easier to build my Knoledge Vault on Roam? Thank for your great help.
I wonder how roam can do the emergence thing.
Where do you get your shirts? I know that’s such a silly question in the midst of all this intellectual systems thinking, but I like your shirts. Oh, and I love what you’re doing with Notion. I’m building most of the system now, and following the videos as I build and connect the databases.
Hello, how could you create a database in Notion to add bibliographic citations to scientific articles, books with an endnote, zotelo or mendely application? Thank you very good contribution
Hey August, I just want to thank you for sharing your system. It has given me a new tailwind to get out of my rut and get organised and focus.
One question: Why do you only link the Notes/Ideas database to the knowledge lab, and not the Book Vault and Media Vault as well? Do you extract all the important bits into separate Notes/Ideas after reading the book/media? Currently I am linking each Book and Media to the different knowledge lab topics as well. So in the Knowledge Lab Topic I see all the relevant Notes as well as Books and Media. What are your thoughts on this?
Great to hear that Werner, congrats on your progress!
I did/do also link the media vault to the knowledge lab, the property might be turned off in the table view you saw, but it is linked through a relation. I don't have the book vault linked because I tend to do bigger sit-down sessions to coordinate those two, and rely less on a quick connection. But nothing wrong with connecting it too. My next video will resolve that issue regardless, with a new twist to the system.
@@augustbradley Ah okay, I am definitely looking forward to it :)
Great explanation. I was looking for a method to store ideas, taking notes from websites, tutorials, books, and this video was very helpful. I was wondering whether you will add Knowlege Hub in your existing template at present there are 5 database in the template.
Thank you! No plans at the moment, but am thinking about potential template expansions as I release several new exciting things for the community,
Hi August, I noticed that in your knowledge lab under the "Systems Thinking / Systems Design" topic you linked to an external webpage that had some sort of drawing. Just curious, what webpage is that? It looks pretty useful. Thanks!
Hey August, another great video.
This series is truly invaluable for everyone who can make use of it, thank you so much for your time and effort.
I am building my Notion system right now, with some personal preference adaptions to your system.
I love this fully customisable "all in one place" solution, it's what I've always been looking for.
It also seems like the company and thus the software will stick around for a while, which is great.
It would be awesome if you could give a quick hint on the structure in which you're managing your finances and if you have any thoughts about integrating part of it into Notion. I haven't really found a fully satisfying solution for it yet.
I am looking forward to your future content a lot, expect me to stick around.
Greetings from Italy
Thanks Jannik! Notion will definitely be around 🙂. For business finances, I do everything in Xero which Notion can't come close to, need a specialized tool for that. Notion could be good for personal budgeting, will think about that one -- haven't one that in Notion myself yet. Lots more to come.
Hey August! I remember you mentioned something about a method to easier save podcast notes or snippets from podcasts to Notion via a software. Has there been any update about this software? Sounded very promising!
please put ads in your videos man. Make your money you deserve it !!!!!!!
Hey August, I saw all your videos so far, they have been so valuable to me. For a period of time I tried to analyze what I consume and figure ways to quantify it, I consumed a lot of media but not all benefited me so that was the reason I had to implement such a system. I am a big fan of giving time specific value, and I also think that time can be measured by peace of mind. So for example if I worked really hard all day and got past the 8 hour screen Time limit across all devices, I would prioritize peace of mind over the money that would be brought by the time spent achieving it. I also wonder where you would manage Documentaries in the Life OS in Notion? would you manage them in the media vault or in a separate section. Seeing that some documentaries may offer value in between books but also more than normal media vaults. and lastly much thanks for the clean and organized videos that you present. It has been so helpful in figuring out my life.
Great questions Abd, and I love to see you thoughtfully you're approaching all this. Documentaries can get close to video courses, but are generally more like books or other movies/videos. Usually I would put them in the Media Vault but take more extensive notes than usual on them. Alternately, if it's super instructional it could go in the courses vault. Cant go wrong, just capture the knowledge from it and make it accessible for future revisits and maximum learning!
Thank you August for yet another great video as are all your videos!
Quick thought...
I'd expected to see not only a relation with Notes & Ideas but also with the other databases in the Mind Expansion page to have all your sources for a specific topic in one place. Or is there another way you pull from those databases to fill a topic in the Knowledge Lab?
Anyway, thank you for all that you've shared so far. Your series about your Life OS in Notion is one of the most valuable series I've ever watched in my life!
Good thoughts Hashim! Yes, it's coming. Your instinct is correct, I'm stepping though it one element at a time (or smaller doses). In a few videos from now we will expand and improve both the Mind Expansion dashboard and the Knowledge Lab Vault template to include Media. It's coming, stay tuned!
Any updates on when you are going to do the Mindset & Identity Sculpting video? 🙏 :D
August, are your categories for your Knowledge Lab available as a part of the template, or have they been stripped down to just a few as examples.
Amazing stuff! I was wondering if you still reference the origin of the notes or ideas in knowledge lab cards, or are most things paraphrased or and over again that they have become your own writing? And then maybe only reference when you really want an exact quote from somewhere?
I do it both ways, depending on context or situation (or what's fastest). Apply it however makes the most sense to your needs. The approach is flexible. Thanks Sam!
Hello August, incredible video once again; this system has literally transformed my life already. Quick question though - How do you find the time to complete all of this notation & aggregating of notes into the Knowledge Lab articles? Do you schedule this time in or have it as action items in the Action Zone? Or is it just done when you have spare time?
As a related question, would it be useful to have the media vault right in the knowledge topic (like the notes database) filtered for that topic? This way you could perhaps more readily bring the highlighted parts of those clipped articles in the knowledge lab?
Thanks James, super happy to hear it has all been helpful.
Great question, I should have elaborated on that. I'll aggregate and refine the info going into the Knowledge Vault when I have a need for it. No set pre-schedule routine, just as I approach a need for new insights on a topic, I will collect and pull the relevant info into it and organize my understanding on the topic in the knowledge lab entry. This could be for e an upcoming meeting, a newsletter or video in production, a need to change something in my business, whatever sparks the need for the information. I will then use the knowledge lab entry as the place I process and organize my thinking on it. So apply it here as the need comes up, otherwise would take too much time. This is typically part of completing another task in the Action Zone, not just working on the knowledge lab for its own sake Hope that helps!
@@augustbradley Thanks August, appreciate you taking the time to reply. Super helpful as ever!
@@augustbradley at some point, when you have videos for most of the system built out, you should consider doing a "my morning in LifeOS video where you go through a topic and how it touches your various DBs and dashboards". It'd have to be a non-personal topic, of course, but it would be nice for most of us to see the system in action.
As I personalize my Knowledge hub as I call it, I find myself wanting to add toggles for Media & Books vaults as well in the page content under the Notes & Ideas one. Does anyone else also use them ? I don't really see how we can't bring together all this data for one topic other than adding vaults into the topic page. Any advices ?
Thank you :)
Superb!!! Greetings from Berlin..
Thank you very much! I love Berlin.
Hey August, big fan of your content so far! I have a question: what do you do with “archived” projects and goals that have been completed (and also older weeks from week reviews). My system is growing quite large and I find myself having to sift through a lot of drop downs when creating new relational databases. Do you move them into a completed projects database? Do you ever “clean up” the weeks? Kudos on your growth and thanks again to anyone who could shed light on this!
Thanks! So far I have not done anything other than marking complete, as it has not slowed down the databases. At some point size might slow down databases, at which time I would either delete the very old ones or move them to an archived database (set up the same as the active one). For the issue you mention, sifting through long lists when selecting DB relations, I just go straight to the search field and type the first few letters to find the one I'm looking for. Hope that helps!
Thank you Bradley for yet another valuable and insightful video.
One question: Why do you only link notes and ideas to the lab?
Do books, media and courses remain "separate" from the lab? Why not also link to all resources in the various formats in the lab?
Notes and ideas DB is also linked to the book and media vaults (as “sources”), it’s described in the video on the Notes & Ideas DB. I also have it linked to Clients and Projects.
@@augustbradley yes, I saw this connection as a source in the notes. But the question was about the link between the lab and the media and course databases. From what I saw in the video there is a "manual" step between the courses and media databases towards the lab, without a direct link. I was wondering why this configuration (in my lab I put the link, and I find it useful).
I've been wondering about that also. Obviously we are free to add whatever extra properties we like, including relation to Source (e.g. Books/Media) DB. But does their noted absence imply that it is inadvisable - that we should instead stick to a recommended workflow where we first deliberately make "interim" notes on bunches of media/books based on some "theme of the moment" (transient perspective, in the long term) then base the (continuously evolving) "evergreen" knowledge lab items on bunches of these notes? Deliberately keeping the knowledge dependency pyramid-shaped (no lumps or props half-way up!). Of course, apart from properties, any such links (e.g. to particularly illustrative sources) can also be included in the content portion, either free-form or via filtered views of linked tables, as demonstrated in this presentation. Properties being more about knowledge flow/dependency/rediscovery support and management, in this (PPV) scheme via data-based dashboards. Have I got it right?
Aha! I just discovered an earlier reply by August Bradley (to Jasin and to Hashim Naushahi) saying that this point is addressed in a later video.
In 24:00 you show a template with a task-progress bar. How did you do that?!
I can’t believe how extensive and well thought out you system is! Now, I don’t have much experience with Notion (yet), so I have a question: How would one start to implement your Life Operating System? I mean, there are a lot of interlinked databases, so which would be the best place to start?
Fantastic to hear this! I'm working hard to get the course ready that will take you from scratch (blank page) to the system implementation. If you want to start sooner, start with my Action Zone template for Tasks and Projects, then add my Daily Tracking template (both in my template pack), then built up the Alignment Zone through Goals and Pillars. I'll be rolling out more resources soon to help with implementation. Thanks for your interest and support!
@@augustbradley Thanks August! The more I watch your videos on this, the more I realise this is exactly what I need in my life. I had thought about a "master system" to which I could feed data and tasks in to, and it would crunch it up for me. I heard about Notion few months ago, but I really decided to check up on it few days ago, and your videos were basically the first ones on the subject I ran in to. Lucky me :)!
Have you thought about turning your system and related information in to an e-book? I would be really interested in one.
@@Zereniti77 Yes, I am developing materials and a course to teach it in an easier and more complete way, Thanks!
If i join the community, do I receive the Master PPV Template? Im trying to dive into this right away. Thanks in advance.
August - Your videos, your training style, your approach to handling various situations is....amazing! Thank you for everything you do. The concept of this Knowledge Vault, itself...is BRILLIANT! Is this included in your template pack? ...because I haven't found it. Is there anywhere that I could get a copy of this as a template? I do love it and would like to implement it. Thanks.
Thanks so much for the feedback David! The full Knowledge Management System (with Knowledge Vault) is not hard to build on your own if you wish, or it is part of the pre-built Master PPV Template that comes with the course. Details here: www.yearzero.io/notion-course
@@augustbradley Damn i was searching for it a while now, when i found this comment :(
The template would have really helped to build the knowledge, sadly i dont have time to consume your couse so I guess i will try to build it myself.
Outstanding.
Looking for the vault templates. Is it available to download or buy?
Why do you only link the notes database within the knowledge lab template? Why not the books, media and course databases?
Wondering the same thing
In earlier replies by August Bradley (to Jasin and to Hashim Naushahi) he says this is addressed in a later video.
I think the only difference between this and what I have in my space is the names of the databases 😅Such a good workflow in my opinion.
What if knowledge vault topics overlap, like for example Goal Setting, Productivity, Discipline, Time Management... Do you copy relevant broader/overlapping bits to every topic to have a broader, fuller perspective on it, or just focus on aggregating specific information to the specific topic?
Tags from Media Vault, TSS Vault, Notes Vault, etc… can of course be tagged to multiple KV topics. In the body of the knowledge Vault topics, use “synced blocks” to have segments with related info up to date and synced across all of them. Works great!
Another great video August - Thanks. I like the way this pulls information together. Your enthusiasm has the desired effect of motivating me to make the connections etc.. Thanks. Have you considered using a Master Tag Database as well?- or do you consider that the Topics in the Knowledge Lab is where the pooling for ideas happens and therefore no need for one? Would like to know your thoughts as I am trialing one at the moment, but feel sure you have considered this and have some views on the subject. I know Marie Poulin is or was trialing one too.
Thanks Gary! Will post the reply from our twitter discussion here too in case others are think they’re valuable in specific instances. When on the fence I go ahead and build it and see if I like it, which I recommend you do.
I found your templates but where do I download the mind exapansion workplace template? Notion noob here
I'm from Tamilnadu , This is the best series that I have watched regarding Notion , but if you can share some tips to implement your idea for students , it would be very helpful ❤️
Hi Jeya, greetings to Tamilnadu! Great to hear you are finding it valuable. I really think everything in the series so far is directly applicable to students, but will look for some specific applications for students to potentially discuss in future videos.
As I get more and more of your system implemented, I realize that my biggest limitation right now is my inexperience with manipulating Notion. I just wanted to check and make sure that I haven't missed something. Have you posted any templates OTHER than the ones that come with subscribing to your newsletter? I'm slowly learning the Notion tools, but just want to make sure that I haven't "left something on the table" by accident.... Thank You!
Thanks Taylor! No other templates, but I'm working hard to get the course ready that will take you from scratch (blank page) to the system implementation. That will provide a lot more than templates can.
Hey August
I got recomended to watch your videos by a friend of mine, and i have almost powered through your notion playlist during my summer brake!
I was just wondering why there is no relational link between the knowledge lab, and the book- and mediavault? It seems like a greate place to put a link to already have the knowledge you consume connected to a knowledge field. Is there any reasoning behind this choice?
Im looking forward to completting the playlist and really feel the systems power when i get back to studying
Good idea, add it to your system!
How to get this template? It's not available in the link which you shared in the video description?
HI August, this is fantastic. I'm really excited to implement this mind expansion template. At the risk of embarrassing myself on a public thread, I cant seem to find this template on your notion page where I downloaded the action zone and others. Is there somewhere else where I should go to download it?
Thanks Lachlan! I have not made a public template of this one at this point.
the knowledge Lab is the last piece in the network of the vaults and it indeed provides emergence as you explain, very well designed and super useful. I am questioning the need for Roam Research as you have links within the knowledge lab to make connections. Of course there is no graphical view of the links (yet!) but the reference between content pieces is managed quite nicely I think. I watched your presentation on Notion + Roam. Are you still using both or did you move to a "notion only" knwoledge management? Thanks, Jean-Francois
Agreed, I'm also questioning the need for Roam, and drifting away from it. Notion just does so much more, and the little extra Roam provides is not adding that much value. Thanks for your feedback and support Jean-Francois!
Have question regarding databases. I have a school system setup and wondered what is best way to have info stored, like notes from books and class lectures. Should they be in one big database then link it to each class page then filter contents or have a separate database for each class and put notes in there?
I’m always inclined to put them in one database, start with that assumption. Then if you hit a problem with that you can then consider alternatives and specific reasons why to consider separating.
Hey, first of all, thanks for your awesome videos. I’m mindblown by how meticulously you’ve designed your system and I never expected to find anything like this on RUclips. After watching this video (and considering my own implementation), I was wondering, do you have a specific reason for not having a direct relation between “Notes & Ideas” and projects? I often find that I have ideas or notes related to projects I’m working on that I want to capture quickly. They’re not necessarily linked to a knowledge subject as they can be very project specific, so I figured I’d just add a link to projects as well. So do you have a specific reason not to or is it just that you haven’t needed it (yet)? Or do you perhaps have another way to capture project related ideas?
Yes, I have a relation between Notes & Ideas to Projects, Clients and any other relevant DB. Add it wherever it's useful!
Where is the knowledge Lab being place in? since knowledge vault is in the hot and cold Mind Expansion dashboard.
For notes that have multiple links to knowledge lab cards, you could also just remove the link to card 1 once it has been integrated in card 1, but leave the link to other cards. This was you can empty the notes and ideas box so to speak, what do you think?
Good thought! Many ways to slice and dice it. Be creative.
Hi August, great work on this series, its first class!
One of you Knowledge Lab titles is discipline, if you were to recommend the most influential book you have read in this space, what would it be please?
Thanks again.
More than any book, I would start with RUclips videos and podcasts with Jacko Willink and David Goggins. Also look at my recent newsletter issues #11 and #12 on the subject. ( news.mindandmachine.io ). Thanks Chris!
...In addition, I should point out that discipline ultimate comes down to habits and routines (and systems) so would recommend James Clear’s book Atomic Habits to start with on the subject. We don’t rise to them level of our dreams, we fall to the level of our systems.
I finally got this concept 3rd time looking at the video:)
Its this the right way of thinking ?
-Information from thoughts meeting and such decomposed into Knowledge to be used in Projects/inatives (that off course contains the acionts) that's within a Pilar.
I don't understan the reason you don't also have media vault I t tagged to the specific knowledge and embedded.
Maybe you have some really nice video or book notes that you read that's in a page in the media vault / book vault. They should also be referenced into the right knowledge vault topic?
Nice video August! One question, how to link up this approach with Obsidian/Roam note flow for ideas. Thanks,
I'm fading away from that, it's just not worth the effort. Notion does so much more, I suggest keeping it all in Notion.
Thanks August! We all here really appreciate all the thoughts and great ideas you share with us!
Please make a detailed video on how your Notion Knowledge management system connects with ROAM. I have seen your video on Keep Productive. But I think More details will be really really helpful as ROAM takes the links we create between Knowledge Labs on another level.
I'm loosing interest in Roam. Notion just does so much more and it's not worth spending the time bridging the two.
@@augustbradley Oh Wow.
I saw your Notion-Roam video on Keeping Productive. I've watched it three times. Where in this system you describe in this current video would you send refined stuff from Notion to Roam?
Hi Bill, good question. With Roam now being expensive for most (at the time I recorded that video Roam was free), and this being a Notion series I didn't want to being that into this series and felt it was covered on Keep Productive fully. But the other reason is frankly I'm loosing interest in Roam, it's not living up to the initial hope I had for it. Not delivering enough insight and unexpected connections. Notion just does so much more so much easier, even in the note-taking realm (let alone all the other areas). I'm fading away from Roam. If (hoping) we get inline bi-directional linking of Roam in Notion, then game over.
Yeah. I don’t know if Roam’s back linking actually generates new ideas. I’ve never seen anyone give any real examples of how they discover new ideas by means of that. I think I dear generation has to occur in our OWN brains. I haven’t found much discussion about this on the net. Maybe some productivity you tuber will do a video on this.
@@billpippel2667 I think it happens, but not at the degree to which it justifies the effort to set that up. Always trade offs. Good thoughts.
@@augustbradley please keep pushing Notion internally for automated backlinking. Following Obsidian's approach would be excellent here.
Wow do I edit the width of columns on iPadOS
You can't (yet). I'm just a noob but read that elsewhere.
Are you deliberately calling the notes 'note 1, note 2' etc, or are they just dummy names for your demo database? I feel like having a more descriptive title of the ideas and notes would help differentiate the note and idea context.
Great video and thank you for your content.
These are samples for the purpose of the demo in the template. Use descriptive note titles for actual notes. Hope that helps!
11:37 "It's" --> "its". I point it out only to help discourage the spread of inappropriate apostrophe use.