Life
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.
How to not win a debate and more debate mental models
Debating is about dropping the ego for the greater pursuit of reality as is. This post presents some mental models we could use in debates/arguments or everyday conversations.
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.
How Notion Pricing Plans Work - 2023 Notion Pricing Overview
As of February 2023, Notion offers four pricing plans: free, plus, business, and enterprise. Each plan has its advantages and limitations. This post delves into those, and also includes a video version.
The identity trap: pay attention to not get trapped in your identity
Identity is a constantly negotiated endeavor between yourself and the people around you. You can get trapped in a self-enclosed identity box(es), and this post explains how that could happen, and what you could do about it.
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.
How Notion integrations and connections work - full 2023 overview
Notion integrations and connections empower you to make your Notion system come to life by syncing data with other tools. This post provides a detailed and concise overview of integrations and connection settings in Notion.
Notion AI: The Future Of Knowledge Work Communication? - How To Use Notion AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been reaching new heights in the past decade, after a long period of stalemate. Notion has recently released Notion AI, a powerful product that seamlessly integrates within the Notion ecosystem and helps you expand your capabilities.
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.
One-Up and One-Down: The Art of Relationships
Drawing from Haley’s framework of relationships, in a radio talk from the 1960s, Alan Watts explains that in a therapist-patient relationship--and in most normal life relationships for that matter--there is one person who is one-up and the other person who is one-down in any given situation.
How You Can Influence Your Mindset to Live a More Examined Life
“Mindset is a portal between conscious and subconscious processes” (dr. Alia Crum). The profound progress in the science of mindset and cognitive psychology can teach us how to implement a sustainable growth mindset in life, where you take responsibility for your life, not the other way around.