I have bookmarked and enabled notifications and I will try to keep up in here and I’d love to learn some new tricks or resolve my perceived limitations and frustrations. I’m an IT Security Architect (and parent and writer and photographer) and don’t enjoy hacking on code most of the time. There are really cool chart-building query-based dashboards that look wicked but I can’t figure out how it makes my life better enough to warrant the development time. I think it sucks and relies on add-ons that can stop working tomorrow unless I’m literally just keeping lists of actions and at that point just use Taskpaper notation and do that. My experience with Obsidian as a project/task management platform isn’t great. I am an old unix and mac nerd and I’ve been using OmniFocus and DEVONthink Pro Office for years and years. I take stimulant medication and it’s extremely easy for me to literally sort photos for five hours applying metadata to them - the stimulants anchor you on what is in front of you (at least for me).Don’t overdo taxonomy (stop creating tens of thousands of nested tags).Stay in your genius as much as possible (this is something my kids’ therapist told me when I was talking about a new job a couple of years ago essentially spend as much time as you can doing the things that are natural and that you excel at).Don’t force anything, technology should augment and enhance and facilitate.I’ve been trying some new things lately but the essential things for me to keep in mind: I’ll have to think about this a bit because I am not in a great position with this myself right now - professionally I am on pretty solid ground but everything else is chaos right now because I stopped doing regular reviews and fell off the metaphorical wagon. I was diagnosed like 40 years ago and I end up trying all sorts of things to accommodate this brain of ours.
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