More important than context for modern knowledge workers is the notion of activity. Thus, the notion of context presented in Getting Things Done is archaic and not particularly helpful for knowledge workers. My own Cognitive Productivity contains an AI-based extension of Popper’s seminal concepts. Essential readings on knowledge work include Karl Popper’s Objective Knowledge and Carl Bereiter’s Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age. Philosophy of knowledge is one of the cognitive sciences. Cognitive science is, after all, quite concerned with the production and usage of personal and objective (public) knowledge. To understand my point it helps to read about knowledge work by cognitive scientists and philosophers. It’s just a correction of its common misrepresentation in the blogosphere, and I am sad to say, in some books written by academics on productivity (as I have mentioned elsewhere on this site). That book is instead a general productivity system. Where are the examples in that book about creating new theories, for instance? You will find them in the empty set. Although many who write about the book have swallowed the claim hook, line and sinker, that Getting Things Done presents a knowledge work system, the fact is that it was clearly not designed specifically for the core functions of knowledge work -e.g., learning and creating new scientific knowledge. The system deals with piles of paper and projects like cleaning one’s garage. As popular and useful as the book is, its ideas were developed in the 1990s. However, a major limitation of those apps is that they do not provide time tracking functions.Īnother issue with OmniFocus stems from its over-commitment to David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. Unfortunately, in terms of non-Java mindmapping programs, Scapple is probably still one of the most well built for computers.Beyond creating and editing projects in personal project management software like OmniFocus and Things, one needs to know how much time one has sunk into one’s projects. Generally I find it a bother and used notecards and the corkboard in Scrivener to plan things. I guess on Sierra you could do this to create a "tab" structure for working with multiple files. You can drag a Scapple file into an existing Scapple file to link to it, but it is a file hyperlink, not an embed, so not that great when you are juggling between a few different files just for a snappy experience. I love Scrivener really (and even have a copy of the iOS version), but I think Scappe is great when you can either get it on cheap (a 40-50% discount) or you have a strong enough computer where you aren't likely to run into slowdown and performance detriments at 150~ nodes. Here's a post on the maximum number of "nodes" per scapple file. I can still add nodes and connect things, but it becomes unwieldy and a poor experience, and 100-150 nodes on surface may seem like a lot, but isn't necessarily so always. I'm using an early 2011 MBP (so, think about 5-6 year old tech) with 4GB RAM, and after hitting around 100-150 "nodes" or entries in Scapple, the program slows to a crawl. My issue with Scapple is that the way the program is built is that unless you have a very beefy computer, you really can't use it to plan en entire novel in one file because you will hit into slowdowns. How this translates is that you have an instant idea for something, then pull up Scapple and make like 20-40 notes expanding it. My experience with Scapple is that it is very good for on the fly brainstorming and mind mapping. Please check out the new Discord channel created by /u/thatsSomeNeatShit Just click this link to add to your Discord account Discord Thank you to Brodrost for our fantastic "Stop Redditing, Start Writing" Alien! If you have a subreddit you think would be great featured here, please send us a modmail message with a link and we will check it out and let you know if it is something we feel would be a good fit here. No kidding! It can be done, and is - every November. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a month where ordinary people write novels. If you need anything: have a look at the links in the sidebar, hit up the IRC room or Discord Channel (note: might not be active until November), and unleash your inner writer! See you all at the finish line! Please note that this community is not supported or affiliated with the official National Novel Writers Month organization in any way.
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