Everyone who spent some time getting into productivity tools like Notion or Obsidian will most likely at some point come across the terms PKM which stands for personal knowledge management, Second Brain, GTD (Getting Things Done) and others.
While trying to get the most out of these tools - which are both fantastic tools btw - I quickly fell down a rabbit hole of productivity topics. This was really a lot of fun. And it felt productive. After all I read about and watched videos on productivity, right?
Wrong.
While I spent many hours thinking and reading about how to be productive, or how to best work in these tools, I spent very little time actually working on what I wanted to work in them.
But of course I didn't see it like that at that point. Surely, there must be something wrong with my productivity system. Let's look at habit trackers and task managers. I tried a lot of those.
And I'm not alone with this. Just go to YouTube and look up common productivity terms. Over the last few years there seems to have emerged a whole new market of productivity tools and methods.
At some point in our Fastlane journey most of us will probably start to use some kind of productivity system. Otherwise handling a whole project can become really difficult really fast. As someone who read a lot about action faking on here and was quick to see it when others did it, it took me way too long to realize that I was action faking being productive. You might find yourself in a similar situation when you start to work on a project.
Learning about productivity systems and tools is great, when you use the learned to take action. But like the person who wrote this article states:
Or this great article by Todoist - which is a fantastic tool, when used as intended:
And:
While trying to get the most out of these tools - which are both fantastic tools btw - I quickly fell down a rabbit hole of productivity topics. This was really a lot of fun. And it felt productive. After all I read about and watched videos on productivity, right?
Wrong.
While I spent many hours thinking and reading about how to be productive, or how to best work in these tools, I spent very little time actually working on what I wanted to work in them.
But of course I didn't see it like that at that point. Surely, there must be something wrong with my productivity system. Let's look at habit trackers and task managers. I tried a lot of those.
And I'm not alone with this. Just go to YouTube and look up common productivity terms. Over the last few years there seems to have emerged a whole new market of productivity tools and methods.
At some point in our Fastlane journey most of us will probably start to use some kind of productivity system. Otherwise handling a whole project can become really difficult really fast. As someone who read a lot about action faking on here and was quick to see it when others did it, it took me way too long to realize that I was action faking being productive. You might find yourself in a similar situation when you start to work on a project.
Learning about productivity systems and tools is great, when you use the learned to take action. But like the person who wrote this article states:
Or this great article by Todoist - which is a fantastic tool, when used as intended:
And:
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