PTPL 40: One Small Idea Has Profoundly Changed the Way I Use Obsidian

PLUS the pens I’m currently using, how your tools affect your work, and the benefits of co-working sessions

Plain text, paper, less Productivity Digest 40 graphic by the Author

This week —

• How co-working sessions have supercharged my productivity
• The tools you use and the places you use them in, really do affect your thinking
• Obsidian is now for thoughts and ideas written in my words, no one else’s
• A new sketchnoting book, and the pens I’m using

Productivity Tips and Inspiration

Co-working sessions

Co-working sessions are great for productivity. At the time of writing I’ve been to three, and can’t speak more highly of them.

Our sessions are two hours long, in four 25-minute pomodoros. The accountability factor is enormously motivating, and the reason why I’m focussing better and getting more done than I thought possible in each session!

Our sessions are community organised through Ness Labs, but I’m sure there are other places already running sessions in your time zone. Javier Luis Gomez*, who runs the session I’m in, is a health coach who runs an Asian time zoned…