How to Manage Your Ideas with Mike Schmitz
Interview
Examples of Personal Knowledge:
- Tasks
- Articles
- Archives
- Events
- Contacts
- Ideas
For better creative output, get better input
Your PKM system needs to have a creative output. For better creative output, consider better inputs.
What are the sources you are collecting information from? (News, RSS, social media, books, podcasts, etc…) Not all information is created equal. Consider your information inputs and if those sources are in alignment with your goals for output.
Basic Steps of PKM
- Capture ideas and inspiration (make a note about what that idea means to you)
- Look for new connections
- Consistent output (the shortest road to greatness is shipping repeatedly)
The PKM Stack
What is your “PKM Stack”? The apps you use for managing information, ideas, etc…
What apps do you use (intentionally or unintentionally) for managing and organizing:
- Tasks
- New information
- Past information
- Events
- Contacts
- Ideas
- Projects
Links and References
- Building a Second Brain, by Tiago Forte
- Why You Should Stop Reading the News
- “The more news we consume, the more misinformed we become.”
- Day One as a Commonplace Book
- Alternatives to the Just Checks
- Everything is a Remix (Kirby’s YouTube video)
- The Great Mental Models, Volume 1
- Liminal Thinking, Dave Grey
- How to read a book – Mortimer Adler
- Bookworm podcast
- To Obsidian and Beyond – Mike Schmitz
- Included inside Accelerator Membership
- Sermon sketchnotes
- The Secret Lives of Customers, David S. Duncan
- Timery: The Best Time Tracking app
- Shawn’s Hybrid Productivity Method
Note: Inside the Accelerator membership you get access to the entire Obsidian course, our productivity course, mind mapping course, time blocking, and time tracking course. (Full course library details here.)
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