However, even here I most likely will decline. I did have high hopes that Notion might help me manage certain team projects. The cost/benefit ratio to transition what I have to Notion is too high. It is however not anything that I will consider to manage my personal workflow. I just believe that the hype around some of these “change your life with this new tool” videos must often be tempered with the equivalent balance of the harsher realities.Īfter a few hours of play, I must say that Notion on macOS is impressive. I know also from experience that my use of OmniFocus + Curio for my own workflow took … a few years … to evolve and mature to the stand that it is today. I could see for example in the first few minutes of the video where the lack of “due” dates and the use of what I believe is an Eisenhower priority matrix already run counter to my own deeply embedded approaches. Better said, I think you are white-washing the aspect of the “major time invested” as though it is a throw-away part of this whole process. I doubt that, absent the latter, one can set up the former in the time that you claim. You must first fully embrace the philosophy in the video that you reference. The technology is not the magic bullet that you seem still inadvertently and unintentionally to want to claim. While from the outside it looks very complex many of the entries are automated and the major time invested is in the initial setup and I think only 5>10 minutes per day with 30 minutes for the weekly review and planning, Even though I make efforts to keep things as simple and usable as possible, if I had to detail my entire system from end to end… well, it makes sense to me, but I imagine it still might seem hopelessly complicated to some! Sometimes it expands as I add a new workflow to manage a case I haven’t satisfactorily accounted for often it contracts as I abandon workflows that weren’t practical or just weren’t easy enough for me to adjust behaviour and make regular use of. I say this as someone who regularly tweaks and refines his own system for managing everything. I suspect the truth lies somewhere between the two… Or, perhaps even our relatively simple set-ups are more involved than we give credit for? That said… if this is replacing the range of documents and even tools that some of us have accrued and stitched together over time, it might not be as complicated at it seems on first glance. Agreed on both counts: both not wishing to criticise a system that works for others, and the fact that it seems quite involved.
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