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  • Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024

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  • @user-ws7kf1fd9w
    @user-ws7kf1fd9w 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this update Frank... I feel like I've been living under a rock seeing all this!! I had workflowy and todoist for quite some time....but let just say that I will only be needing one app now 😆

  • @vijf67acht
    @vijf67acht 5 месяцев назад

    this is putting the pieces together for me. built in reflection too!

  • @chanietwersky
    @chanietwersky Год назад

    your guidance appears to be the solution for my challenges with using my time most aligned with my goals and desires. I look forward to tranferring to this system and experimenting!

  • @uxleo
    @uxleo 9 месяцев назад

    Great stuff to reflect on! I'm also using a timeline in my workflowy setup. However I also have a database which is not connected to particular actions. Say quotes from books, reference materials. Do you manage your knowledge database inside your timeline? And good luck with your book - looking forward to it!

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  9 месяцев назад

      Interestingly, I have a lot of reference material that's stashed away in specific projects, which are on my timeline. I also have other reference material (quotes, book notes, etc.) that I like to keep on my timeline for review as intervals... but to your question... yes, anything reference material that is not project oriented (ongoing projects) or info. that you'd like to revise on occasion - you should keep that in a separate outline outside of your timeline.

  • @BenCassani
    @BenCassani Год назад +1

    How does this workflow (no inbox) work with the Workflowy web clipper?

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад +1

      Hey Ben! In the Timeline book, take a look at the chapter on Inboxes :-)

  • @bernardzitzer
    @bernardzitzer Год назад

    Hi @frank,
    You have shared valuable tools to re-evaluate your tasks and hours in the week. The push/pull method allows you to consciously know when what is happening and if aligns with your values and responsibilities and therefore either becomes a priority or does not.
    There's one thing I wonder, the way you're using your timeline, it does not create a history. Are you not interested in going back in time and seeing what happened on each of those days? In Bullet Journaling terms we'd call it "Logging".
    I wonder what's your take on it and why're fine with leaving it out. Or would that then be part of your "Journaling" section?
    Once again, thanks for sharing!

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад +1

      Excellent question, Bernard! I do logging in my journaling outline. It's a parallel (not connected) system to my timeline. Every couple of hours I jump in there and log the evets of the previous few hours. I find this incredibly helpful on so many levels when I want to look back...

  • @GregHaasienda
    @GregHaasienda Год назад

    I'm really enjoying using this timeline idea. I jumped right in and didn't push everything forward or to reflections or forward log. I'll have to go back and fix that. For now I just dumped all of May into reflections. One thing I'm confused about in this video is right at the 9:00 point. That little » mark seems to act like a tag, but it doesn't have a # mark. Is it an Internal Link? How did you make that link filter your scheduled coaching sessions?

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      Hey Greg! Glad you're making use of the timeline system...
      Yep... that's an internal link embedded into the "»". In the browser app once you've filtered for whatever you want, you can grab the URL... and then embed that as a "saved" search into text. Or you could just star the resulting search and that will appear in your left bar in the starred pages section as a saved search,

  • @akuentzler
    @akuentzler Год назад

    Also, the system covers well how to "push" things if you are too busy, but what if you are suddenly freed up, or something didn't take as long as expected? Do you start looking into the next day(s) for things on your calendar to do?

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад +2

      I usually have more than enough to do when things free up. That's the benefit of having either, (1) a family, (2) a side project, (3) a hobby like birdwatching that consumes as much time as you'll give it, (4) a book you're currently reading... and, yes, (5) stuff that you've pushed ahead that you ca now tackle.
      But the idea is not so much to see how much you can squeeze into every waking moment. You've got to have some downtime too. At times like that, I may jump into my journal and start to think through what I'm going to do with the rest of my day. For me, the whole point of productivity is to see how much space I can free up for the most important things in life.

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      I'm always wanting to write more than I do daily. I try to get in at least 2 hours... but I go for 4+ whenever I can.

  • @gavinsmith4489
    @gavinsmith4489 Год назад

    Frank this is fantastic thank you. Really helpful. How do you handle routines that require input e.g. I have a morning routine part of which is series of questions and prompts that I answer. So I need to copy that routine before its completed to the next day or add to say each day of week. Would you just duplicate it or create template?

    • @gavinsmith4489
      @gavinsmith4489 Год назад

      Hi Frank same also applies to your daily log. Do you just duplicate daily

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      @@gavinsmith4489 Hey Gavin! I'd just create a project outline with a template therein for your questions. Every day, duplicate your template and give it today's date. Keep your Q&A under a date for each day, with the latest date at the top. Once you're done, move it to the next day... or keep it within a broader morning routine outline (if you have other items that are part of the same routine) and move that once done. I'm including several of my own examples in the upcoming Timeline book.
      To answer your other question... yes, you can duplicate a template of prompts you have and fill that in as you progress throughout your day. I'll be giving a show and tell of that in the book too...

    • @gavinsmith4489
      @gavinsmith4489 Год назад

      @@WorkFlowyAcademy great. Thank you Looking forward to the book :-).

  • @akuentzler
    @akuentzler Год назад

    looks super smooth and streamlined. What if you need to work on a project or reference something from a project before you are scheduled to look at it? For example, a project outline is nested under June 1 because that's the next time you plan to work on it, but today you get a phone call about the project and and need to work on it. Do you just search the outline for the project and update it from it's June 1 home? and then move it to today's schedule? or does the project live somewhere else and is just mirrored in the timeline?

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад +4

      Good question... if you need to reference stuff before you're scheduled to look at it, jump to the project just as you would for any project in another system that would be buried deep somewhere: (1) via a starred page (2) a WFx shortcut, (3) a tag on your home page/ top of calendar, (4) using the Ctrl+K jump-to menu to search for a tag or unique string in your project and then jump there.
      But really, in practice, what you might do (what I do for some projects) is have those projects in a project outline somewhere below your timeline... and you would put a placeholder for that project in your timeline. Either way, I use a shortcut or one of the other options above to jump to my project... and so it really doesn't matter where your project is.
      I wouldn't mirror an entire project. Depending on how big it is, it could make your account "heavier". Use mirrors sparingly/ when needed.
      Probably the simplest for someone breaking into this system would be to tag their projects with some sort of a minimalist tag and then filter for those with a tag on your home page... or via the jump-to menu.
      You'll have to see how it plays out in reality to find an elegant way of getting to your reference material.

    • @akuentzler
      @akuentzler Год назад

      @@WorkFlowyAcademy Thanks Frank! That makes sense. On second watch-through after I posted this comment, I did notice that you used the placeholder method for writing your book. I like it. Thank you for sharing and replying. I love how clean this is. Looking forward to more of these!

  • @lasseboe
    @lasseboe Год назад

    Did I spot a settings-gear on the Dates pop-up at 3:19 ? 😎

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад +1

      You did! Well spotted. It's has a couple of possible future features therein.

  • @DanyPelletier
    @DanyPelletier Год назад

    I find this approach interesting, but I'm not quite clear on how/where you archive stuff.

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      1. Everything that repeats gets recycled to its next occurrence on the timeline.
      2. Tasks that are in project outlines (or are mirrored from project outlines) get archived within their respective projects (for me in a "DONE" stage).
      3. You can keep an archive in your calendar outline if you wish. I don't. I send once-off items to my journal/ log...
      4. ... and every couple of hours I log what I've done during the day, manually.

    • @DanyPelletier
      @DanyPelletier Год назад +1

      @@WorkFlowyAcademy OK, so I understand that you keep your timeline(Calendar) as a separate node from your Journal.
      I understand repeats being pushed to their next occurrence, but that means you don't actually have a history of these repeat items, or do you also log them separately in your journal node when you push them forward?
      How do you handle items that repeat only Yearly, or every 2 years or more??
      I appreciate your input very much.
      This Workflowy thing is so cool to use and simple to use, it is it's simplicity and flexibility can can easily and quickly lead to big mess :-)

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      @@DanyPelletier Sure... I have a record of all repeat items... because I log everything I've done every few hours. I just type it out in my Journal. It's not so much to have a record than it is a rolling review in real time, though.
      Items repeated yearly or every 2 or more go into my tickler file... as illustrated in the webinar at some point. A tickler file is concerned with the next month up ahead (at least 31 folders... plus an extra 12 for each month of the year. You just pop recurring yearly (or longer) items into the appropriate month... and then pull them out of the month slots into the day slots when that month comes around.

  • @exlibrist
    @exlibrist Год назад

    ARE YOU BRAZILIAN!? I find your calendar very brazil-ish. Working until 6PM, playing volleyball!

    • @WorkFlowyAcademy
      @WorkFlowyAcademy  Год назад

      Actually it's my daughter who plays volleyball 😉. We live in the North East of Brazil... in Fortaleza.

    • @exlibrist
      @exlibrist Год назад

      @@WorkFlowyAcademy Cool! Fortaleza it's beautiful. Nice to see such a great tool being developed from the north east of Brazil. I wish the best for your business!

    • @Cafe655a
      @Cafe655a Год назад

      @@exlibrist This is amazing that just based on the times on the calendar you were able to geolocate Frank! Haha...Good job!

    • @exlibrist
      @exlibrist Год назад

      @@Cafe655a I`m available for the intell services! 😁

    • @Cafe655a
      @Cafe655a Год назад

      @@exlibrist You're hired!

  • @MarkArness
    @MarkArness Год назад +3

    I've come here to review another productivity system rather than actually accomplish anything. I love ADHD.

    • @DovahsarusRex
      @DovahsarusRex 6 месяцев назад +1

      As a fellow ADHDer, I've find that Workflowy plays well with it. Not too many features to be distracting, easy to capture and move on, and easy to change as your focus needs it.