What's one thing - product, technique, strategy that has changed the way you work in the last year?
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Product: Notion.
While I've been using it for. couple of years, the past year has seen me get serious about how I use it and how I can use it better. Now I'm at the point where I'm helping others. This is turn has generated new clients for my Graphic Design business.
Strategy: Helping others
It wasn't a strategic decision, but it seems the more good stuff you put out in the world, the more open you are to seeing it.
@peter_costello Would you say Notion is able to replace Jira in productivity analytics?
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@between_team I think so. But it requires set up and integrations to do so. I think with the recent purchase of automate.io this will open up significant opportunities for this sort of thing.
Having use JIRA and Confluence in the past I know that there is definitely less friction in getting the team to use notion.
One integration we use id toggl time tracking on a per task basis. This allows push time tracking that's super easy for the team.
Product: Notion, it replaced Google Doc, Google Drive, Trello/Asana as an all-in-one for small/ early stage team.
Technique: the book "Mom Test", talk to user is key and knowing how to talk to them is gold.
Strategy: Act fast, more fast, keeping the momentum > planning everything out and not doing.
Bonus: A lot of networking and meeting great people. You can learn whole lot from a 2-hour conversation with a price of coffee.
just realised how much could be learnt n changed in a year!
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@tszhoi_19 Great strategy point. It's a hard one to wrestle with sometimes.
Sounds too simple, but just working on a project consistently has changed everything.
I know what is happening, I solve problems when I am doing other things.
Just programming on it an hour a day has changed the way I work - https://twitter.com/JoshDance/st...
@joshdance Yes I totally agree with this. Consistency is huge!
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@joshdance hmm I like the idea of just doing an hour a day. Sometimes I feel that overwhelmed with all I have to do for my business - As I know it will take me hours and hours to do it all, so sometimes it really puts me off after already doing a day job and having a long work day. However, maybe telling myself to just do an hour per evening could work.
Webflow & Bubble: Easy of building things
Zapier & Airtable : Automating lots of repetitive stuff
Strategy: Just do it; it's much better than just thinking about it & never achieving it.
PH: Networking is important and building in Public
@integromat@vincentguittet Yes... I was thinking of starting with that as well ... currently building forms on bubble... once its over the next project would be on webflow and would require Integromat
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Strategy - A mindset to produce work that adds to my strengths, to produce content that feeds my optimism. This has helped me create work that is appreciated.
Technique - Change the perspective such that I can learn/benefit from mistakes, failures or shortcomings.
Product - Revue, it has saved a lot of effort in terms of organizing the newsletter.. Now I'm on the verge of switching to Ghost.
I hid my bookmarks tab in Chrome.
Bookmarks are meant to save you time.
But me, it just made me go on useless websites all the time.
Now I actually have to think for 30 seconds to find something useful to do.
Technique/ Strategy: Define tasks by hours. Knowing where my time is going (and how much of it) is key to evaluating bandwidth and avoiding burnout.
In my context, I make sure the number of task hours doesn't exceed 35. In a 40-hour week, that gives me wiggle room for meetings and unforeseen requests from the team.
I start by writing down all my tasks and assigning hours to them (always erring on the higher side). Then, I divide these into higher-level categories and choose 2-3 categories to focus on for the week. It stops me from jumping between categories and losing my train of thought. At the same time, having 2-3 categories means I can move to something else if one task is too overwhelming.
If anyone's interested, I documented a few more techniques in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/sindhusprasa...
Sports in the morning. Early morning. Every morning.
Clears the head.
Focuses on key points.
Makes ideas surge.
Only pain point: hard to take notes when running.
I'm replacing more and more of my traditional tools by building them myself. I don't get all the features but I get all the control. Coding = Super powers.
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Product: Notion for professional/personal life task management and Teal HQ for providing amazing career planning resources.
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