I’m rediscovering the use of a blue SAD light for productive works/study time.

Also Newton’s cradle is good for setting a beat

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Structured brainstorming has helped me a lot. I have ideas for specific protects at completely random and arbitrary times, and they disappear if I don’t immediately lay them out. By adding a mind mapping app (MindNode, iOS) on my phone, I can quickly add new thoughts and ideas to my outline of a project in a way that’s easy to follow later, and I’m not wasting near as much of the time when I can actually sit down and work on trying to reconstruct those random thoughts.

    I’ve done similar with my nonfiction reading. MarginNote also allows me to turn quotes and blurbs into mind maps quickly and easily, so I’m able to more quickly retrieve information when I want it.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        If you search mind map, you should be able to find a variety of options. I can’t vouch for one specifically.

        I did look to see if there was a multi platform app that similarly met my needs like MarginNote (to use with my ereader), but I wasn’t able to find anything I didn’t consider a meaningful downgrade. There are a lot of note taking apps out there, but none of them seem to work well as both readers and notes simultaneously. I haven’t done a deep dive yet, but there were a lot of “there’s not a good comparison” in other threads on it.

        A very early in the book, halfass (I missed part of one of the quotes that makes it make sense lol) example of marginnotes I did to show a friend the idea of using it for note taking: