For me this is an incredible process because I lose focus a lot when I work and something distracted to me. So this process with some changes for adapt it to me, is perfect!
Appreciating seeing how you are using Tana with these workflows. I'm really liking how you can build up structure from a fairly unstructured starting point. Seems rather powerful.
I am impressed with your elaborate process, but to be honest - if I had to go through this every time I wanted to get something done, I would have no motivation left after this exercise, would be bored silly, and probably would have forgotten what I originally wanted to do.
Yeah I feel you. Thought the same when watching him go through the process. But I guess that is in the nature, isn't it? He somehow needs to produce "sophisticated" solutions for self-legitimization purposes. If that stuff would be dead simple (it is probably, just strip it down to the really necessary parts of it) there would not be any need for people telling people how to be productive while not being productive (in this case: cause you waste probably 30 minutes of a 2 hour working session which is 25% (!) on just working on your working session...).
@@fynn8195 the entire setup with explanations took 30 minutes. Filling the fields in would take around 5 minutes. I would suggest checking the ideas from Huberman and Newport on how to shift between states and contexts. I think this could be a great approach.
Thank you for the Video! my idea of setting up a system like that would to link the Cycles with actual Task. and then to be able to see, looking at a Task, when was this worked on. and also being able to evaluate how much time was spent on a project by adding the time spent on the Tasks, which belong to that project.
Wonderful video. I’m on a four week break from the routine daily corporate grind with time and the goal of ing my personal knowledge/time management hybrid. I’d LOVE to get my hands on Tana, but alas, I’m gazing in from the outside on the waiting list and they appear to have all the beta testers they need. In the meantime I think I’ll try and reproduce your interstitial method with Templater in Obsidian. It won’t look as good, I suspect, but I think it can be done. Any other Obsidian user thinking similarly? Thanks for the inspiration and looking forward to more videos. You are appreciated.
Great videos! Thanks very much. Tana seems to be adressing issues I've had setting up workflows in Obsidian using plugins like Dataview, Templater etc.... The friction inherent in the setup of Obsidian and the difficulty of making "on the fly" changes to my ontology has seriously impeded my use of the tool. I spend way too much time writing queries and trying to figure out how to write JS in Dataview to do simple things like create table views. Can't wait to get to use Tana. It looks incredibly promising.
Awesome video, thank you! One request please. How would you set up a Live search to find all your field values for potential distractions so you could get an overview in a table to monitor what distracted you and when?
How often do you actually do the searches and check the data? I have a similar practice of setting intention and reflecting, but actually looking at that as data is really very different - how much value do you find in being data-driven (forgive the clumsy question, please, I'm a little stunned at the thought!)
Great question. I keep a similar work daily work log. But while I find it helps me process my day to day activities, I don't review my logs to see what I can gleam from them. I think the daily writing kinda motivates for the following days.
@@MacAutomationTips Yea, agreed - I find the rhythm of writing intention and reflection is very helpful - where this approach shines is a) consistency b) visibility - being able to pull things up as a table enables me to see patterns - but I am looking at patterns in narratives and my process is not really informated/data-driven - I wonder if this one we are seeing is more data-driven.
Awesome approach. Again, software industry methods providing PM background to the rest of other industries. 2 questions: a) Does the field "What am I trying to get done?" within the microCycle supertag have high-level tasks or just "goals"? b) Should the sub-nodes from the "Plan" field within the nanoCycle be tagged as #task or #todo? Otherwhise I don't know how we are able to track that work from a CRM perspective.
Ah, inspiring. Will try this for sure :) I'm wondering if it might be a bit 'much' for me, but it all has purpose and I think it could work quite well for a intermittently not-very organized self. ^_^
I did not get how did you do some of what you did, like some comments, I couldn't find where you wrote them!. Also, in the NanoCycle part, sometimes your picture prevent me from seeing what you're doing. The Tana I have looks different from yours in the video!
How does one relate the work performed to any projects they may have defined in Tana? I.e. "Create NanoCycle" would be related to some larger goal/project of creating, say, Video on Interstitial Journaling, which might also be related to a larger goal/project of "Create Introductory Tana Videos".
Anyone know how long it takes to get access to Tana (I’m in the wait list)? I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Plus, I’d like to get my team to also use it together.
The "hide field" is not working. I guess it is b/c of the nodes within it ("What did I get done?") etc. not making it empty and thus showing all the time. There are prob some updates in Tana that broke this as of September 2023.
For me this is an incredible process because I lose focus a lot when I work and something distracted to me. So this process with some changes for adapt it to me, is perfect!
Appreciating seeing how you are using Tana with these workflows. I'm really liking how you can build up structure from a fairly unstructured starting point. Seems rather powerful.
I am impressed with your elaborate process, but to be honest - if I had to go through this every time I wanted to get something done, I would have no motivation left after this exercise, would be bored silly, and probably would have forgotten what I originally wanted to do.
Yeah I feel you. Thought the same when watching him go through the process. But I guess that is in the nature, isn't it? He somehow needs to produce "sophisticated" solutions for self-legitimization purposes. If that stuff would be dead simple (it is probably, just strip it down to the really necessary parts of it) there would not be any need for people telling people how to be productive while not being productive (in this case: cause you waste probably 30 minutes of a 2 hour working session which is 25% (!) on just working on your working session...).
@@fynn8195 the entire setup with explanations took 30 minutes. Filling the fields in would take around 5 minutes.
I would suggest checking the ideas from Huberman and Newport on how to shift between states and contexts. I think this could be a great approach.
Incredible breakdown! Thanks for putting this out there!
This is a great video, thank you! Just followed your set up in Tana and excited to try it out properly tomorrow
Glad it was helpful!
Great content with the discussion of the thought behind it and well constructed Socratic questioning 👏
Thank you for the Video! my idea of setting up a system like that would to link the Cycles with actual Task. and then to be able to see, looking at a Task, when was this worked on. and also being able to evaluate how much time was spent on a project by adding the time spent on the Tasks, which belong to that project.
I like this. Let me try to implement it in my systems and see how it goes.
Wonderful video. I’m on a four week break from the routine daily corporate grind with time and the goal of ing my personal knowledge/time management hybrid. I’d LOVE to get my hands on Tana, but alas, I’m gazing in from the outside on the waiting list and they appear to have all the beta testers they need. In the meantime I think I’ll try and reproduce your interstitial method with Templater in Obsidian. It won’t look as good, I suspect, but I think it can be done. Any other Obsidian user thinking similarly? Thanks for the inspiration and looking forward to more videos. You are appreciated.
Great videos! Thanks very much. Tana seems to be adressing issues I've had setting up workflows in Obsidian using plugins like Dataview, Templater etc.... The friction inherent in the setup of Obsidian and the difficulty of making "on the fly" changes to my ontology has seriously impeded my use of the tool. I spend way too much time writing queries and trying to figure out how to write JS in Dataview to do simple things like create table views. Can't wait to get to use Tana. It looks incredibly promising.
Awesome video, thank you! One request please. How would you set up a Live search to find all your field values for potential distractions so you could get an overview in a table to monitor what distracted you and when?
Super interesting! Cool method, I'll try for a time.
How often do you actually do the searches and check the data? I have a similar practice of setting intention and reflecting, but actually looking at that as data is really very different - how much value do you find in being data-driven (forgive the clumsy question, please, I'm a little stunned at the thought!)
Great question. I keep a similar work daily work log. But while I find it helps me process my day to day activities, I don't review my logs to see what I can gleam from them. I think the daily writing kinda motivates for the following days.
@@MacAutomationTips Yea, agreed - I find the rhythm of writing intention and reflection is very helpful - where this approach shines is a) consistency b) visibility - being able to pull things up as a table enables me to see patterns - but I am looking at patterns in narratives and my process is not really informated/data-driven - I wonder if this one we are seeing is more data-driven.
You mention the Huberman Lab podcast a few times. Would you car to share your favorite 1-3 Episodes that you'd recommend?
Awesome approach.
Again, software industry methods providing PM background to the rest of other industries.
2 questions:
a) Does the field "What am I trying to get done?" within the microCycle supertag have high-level tasks or just "goals"?
b) Should the sub-nodes from the "Plan" field within the nanoCycle be tagged as #task or #todo? Otherwhise I don't know how we are able to track that work from a CRM perspective.
Ah, inspiring. Will try this for sure :) I'm wondering if it might be a bit 'much' for me, but it all has purpose and I think it could work quite well for a intermittently not-very organized self. ^_^
This is great. Can a workflow like this be shared?
I did not get how did you do some of what you did, like some comments, I couldn't find where you wrote them!. Also, in the NanoCycle part, sometimes your picture prevent me from seeing what you're doing. The Tana I have looks different from yours in the video!
Great content! Thanks for your efforts!
It would be even better if you chopped it up into sections/chapters with timestamps.
Done!
How does one relate the work performed to any projects they may have defined in Tana?
I.e. "Create NanoCycle" would be related to some larger goal/project of creating, say, Video on Interstitial Journaling, which might also be related to a larger goal/project of "Create Introductory Tana Videos".
Ouch... I watched all those amazing videos, but don't (yet) have access to Tana (-;
Anyone know how long it takes to get access to Tana (I’m in the wait list)? I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Plus, I’d like to get my team to also use it together.
Is this the Ultraworking method?
Yes, with slight adjustments :)
Love it!
The "hide field" is not working. I guess it is b/c of the nodes within it ("What did I get done?") etc. not making it empty and thus showing all the time. There are prob some updates in Tana that broke this as of September 2023.
I found a solution: If you change the "What did I get done?" nodes from bullet points into the field typ "plain" nodes, then hiding works as expected.