LIFE
Overview of Notion AI and Coda AI as of April 2024
Overview of Notion and Coda AI as of April 2024, with a particular focus on databases/tables and how AI can interact within them.
Import, transform, and use your data from CSVs into Coda
Explore the ways to import data into Coda from CSV files and third-party tools.
Notion Calendar: All the Essentials You Need to Know
Notion Calendar can be one of the latest tools in your toolkit. This article explains all the essentials you may want to know about it.
The 2024 evidence-based goal setting system in Notion (with template)
Define your priority goal, break it down into micro-actions, track your habits, and flip reward coins for random reward generation. All in one digital system.
Exploring Notion AI Q&A: Your New Workspace Companion - Guide to Notion AI Q&A
Notion AI Q&A leverages your workspace content to provide accurate, relevant answers to common questions. Learn more about its features, current limitations, and how to use it effectively.
How to use Notion in Make - the ultimate guide (Integromat/Make)
This essay covers important workflow automation principles, the process of creating a connection between Notion and Make, the different modules available in Make, and how to use custom API calls.
How to create native automation in Notion: Notion database automations
A powerful new feature to create light native automation in Notion databases.
How to sync your Zotero references in Coda (Using Make)
A deep dive into implementing automation to connect Zotero items to Coda tables, including items and authors.
How Coda AI works - overview and best practices
Coda AI is the native artificial intelligence tool you can use in Coda. This post delves into all the features and functionalities of Coda AI and its three building blocks.
Pragmatic ambitions: goal-setting sanity
Pragmatic ambition is the patient and determined pursuit of achievable lifestyle-centered goals that you can see from a pragmatic distance.
Divergent and convergent thinking: the yin and yang of creativity
There are two main modes of creativity: divergent and convergent thinking. The former is a state of intentional chaos and idea generation. The latter is focused, narrow, and persistent to find the best idea.
Powering up your system with Notion Buttons (March 2023 new Notion feature)
Notion Buttons are the latest Notion feature that enables you to create more advanced automation without external tools. This post explains how Notion buttons work, and presents two example use cases for task management and how to set those up.
Centralizing your academic resources: how to sync Zotero and Notion through Make (Integromat)
You can centralize your Zotero references in Notion, to maximize your thesis/paper writing experience and quickly reference resources while writing in Notion. This post explores automation between Zotero and Notion using Make.
Project-focused productivity: the path to consistent progress
Working on many projects at a time can feel overwhelming. Project-focused productivity is the principle of focusing on making progress on projects, rather than getting lost in tasks. One project at a time, one day at a time.
The Ultimate Personal Finance System in Coda
The Coda Personal Finance Tracker is a comprehensive system to help you manage your wealth, budget, record transactions, review dynamic charts, and minimize the friction of data entry. It includes features such as monthly review and budgeting, categorizing transactions, and graphical representation of data.
Attention, not time, is your most valuable resource
Memento mori, as the Stoics would put it. Remember you are going to die. Life is finite, and so is your attention in the era of information overload and context switching. This post explores time management as philosophized by Oliver Burkeman in his book, 4000 Weeks. Notion template included.
Do What’s Urgent, Skip What’s Important - The Urgency Trap
This is one of the existential conundrums of time management and life itself: how might we discern what’s truly important from what’s “seemingly important” (urgent) in the short term? Drawing from the organizational philosophies of Basecamp, this post explores the possible root causes of the urgency trap.
- cognitive bias
- College
- dunning-kruger effect
- essentialism
- expectations
- Habits
- happiness
- intentionality
- Internship
- Knowledge Hub
- management
- meaning
- metacognition
- mindfulness
- Notion
- Personal Growth
- Personal Knowledge Management
- productivity
- Resonance Calendar
- Second Brain
- sociology
- Spaced Repetition
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