You’ve got me thinking too! I have a similar system to the one you describe as just used to having. Plus I have loads of stuff rattling around my brain until it just runs out of energy or gets replaced by something more energetic. I did tidy my creative room this week and while that feels amazing, I’m aware it’s only a transitory thing til I make a mess again. I’m adding your book recommendations to my list ...
I really want this workshop! I've been thinking about applying the GTD system for a long time but I always felt it's not a 'buddhist' or 'artist' thing to do. So it would be lovely to hear about sytematics from a creative buddhist!
Relish the nerdery. McCluhan the media is the message. Now we have so much choice. I have never really mastered mixing the media. My music, poetry, writing, ... seem to live in different places. Numerous sheds filled with organised stuff. Yes it really does come in eventually. Doesn’t it. Should we just chuck everything away that we don’t need right now. My problem with all of it is remembering where it is. Which country for a start with tools and fittings, nails, screws, bolts, washers.... on and on. Current joy my winter harvest of fallen wood turned into chippings for mulching my trees. Have nearly half a ton of wood ash/ charcoal (bio char) to put back on the soil, from a years worth of bonfires go pernicious weeds and branches/brushwood too hard to shred. Cleared out 3rd compost space today. Like crop rotations important to plan the spaces.
Still have the file cards from 60 years ago. Like to use plain playing. Cards for sets of potential activities/games. Love coloured post its. Coloured envelope files. Wonderful
What becomes redundant. Just dissolved the trust for 3 eldest granddaughters set up in 2010 when their dad died aged 46. I get back a quarter of a filing cabinet drawer. The girls are now young women, launched. Job done. Next project?
Just remembered taking 40 years of teaching notes to the tip. Realising I could never ever reconstruct it. BUT the good stuff is in “The Really Useful Maths Book” I wrote with my friend and colleague Tony Brown. Now organising joint writing that is fun! Tag clouds.
I like the word Zettelkasten, but being german would like to make a plea for a measure of disorder and randomness amidst it all, to keep things spontaneous and alive...
Agreed. But I would argue that's what is so great about the zettelkasten, all the ideas are kept in a completely random order so that spontaneous connections can arise between them.
Late to the party but absolutely LOVE this entire post. Please never hold back your nerd self from the people! I’d love this workshop too. I’ve been a GTD devotee for a decade or so as well - so brilliant! Really into the concept you shared of stand-alone notes that aren’t buried and undiscoverable. Also love the 12 burning questions thing. Basically this is all brilliant, thank you for sharing!
This so resonates with me - I really need to be more organised to stop wasting time and have more time for creativity, a workshop would be great!
Okay, you're on!
You’ve got me thinking too! I have a similar system to the one you describe as just used to having. Plus I have loads of stuff rattling around my brain until it just runs out of energy or gets replaced by something more energetic. I did tidy my creative room this week and while that feels amazing, I’m aware it’s only a transitory thing til I make a mess again. I’m adding your book recommendations to my list ...
Ho long is your list? 😂
... it’s pretty epic 🤣🤣
Ooh yes please, a workshop would be fab. I know I have valuable notes that are undiscoverable!
Years and years worth probably!
I really want this workshop! I've been thinking about applying the GTD system for a long time but I always felt it's not a 'buddhist' or 'artist' thing to do. So it would be lovely to hear about sytematics from a creative buddhist!
That's so funny, 'getting things done' isn't so Buddhist 😂
Relish the nerdery. McCluhan the media is the message. Now we have so much choice. I have never really mastered mixing the media. My music, poetry, writing, ... seem to live in different places. Numerous sheds filled with organised stuff. Yes it really does come in eventually. Doesn’t it. Should we just chuck everything away that we don’t need right now. My problem with all of it is remembering where it is. Which country for a start with tools and fittings, nails, screws, bolts, washers.... on and on. Current joy my winter harvest of fallen wood turned into chippings for mulching my trees. Have nearly half a ton of wood ash/ charcoal (bio char) to put back on the soil, from a years worth of bonfires go pernicious weeds and branches/brushwood too hard to shred. Cleared out 3rd compost space today. Like crop rotations important to plan the spaces.
Still have the file cards from 60 years ago. Like to use plain playing. Cards for sets of potential activities/games. Love coloured post its. Coloured envelope files. Wonderful
What becomes redundant. Just dissolved the trust for 3 eldest granddaughters set up in 2010 when their dad died aged 46. I get back a quarter of a filing cabinet drawer. The girls are now young women, launched. Job done. Next project?
2 eldest granddaughters sorry
Just remembered taking 40 years of teaching notes to the tip. Realising I could never ever reconstruct it. BUT the good stuff is in “The Really Useful Maths Book” I wrote with my friend and colleague Tony Brown. Now organising joint writing that is fun! Tag clouds.
I like the word Zettelkasten, but being german would like to make a plea for a measure of disorder and randomness amidst it all, to keep things spontaneous and alive...
Agreed. But I would argue that's what is so great about the zettelkasten, all the ideas are kept in a completely random order so that spontaneous connections can arise between them.
Late to the party but absolutely LOVE this entire post. Please never hold back your nerd self from the people! I’d love this workshop too. I’ve been a GTD devotee for a decade or so as well - so brilliant! Really into the concept you shared of stand-alone notes that aren’t buried and undiscoverable. Also love the 12 burning questions thing. Basically this is all brilliant, thank you for sharing!
Yay! Let's make sure the workshop is a time you can make. I'll send you a private message. can't wait 😜