Since the start of 2023 I’ve been publishing writing on the internet, sharing information about what I’ve learned in my life, around PKM, note-taking, productivity and more.
I intend to have them all uploaded on this website soon, but until then, they’re probably still best read over on Medium.
In the last two months, since I’ve come to Southeast Asia, PARAZETTEL has changed and looks completely different. And I realise that I’ve not really spoken about this on any of my channels. So that’s what this piece is going to be… A low-down on how PARAZETTEL has changed, why it’s changed and how it’s designed to help you more than ever today. The two core pieces of the business are now… ...
As I’ve developed my ideas more and more, the teaching that I now do surrounds more of the theory and ideas behind personal knowledge management that apply to any system and any app that you might want to use, rather than Obsidian. This is the piece where I bring everything together and let you know the ultimate PKM theory starter pack. This article is going to serve to consolidate things and do the best possible job of giving you somewhere to go if you lose track when trying to manage your knowledge and take notes. ...
The two note-taking strategies of Niklas Luhmann’s Zettelkasten and Tiago Forte’s PARA in Building a Second Brain have dominated managing many people’s personal knowledge and projects. Freshly introduced to the world of PKM and note-taking, I started out reading books such as How to Take Smart Notes from Sönke Ahrens, convinced that making my second brain into a slip box for managing ideas. Then I saw a video of Ali Abdaal interviewing Tiago Forte about his book Building a Second Brain and decide to make a purchase. ...
I sat A-level exams in the summer of last year. Being from the first cohort of students to have GCSEs cancelled because of Covid-19, I had no experience of the kind of pressure that end-of-course exams can bring. Despite this I achieved the grades that took me to my firm choice university, the University of Sheffield. Throughout revising for and sitting these exams I learned a lot about mindset and strategies that made the process of achieving my desired grades easier. Here I share four lessons that I learned from the experience that I believe can be applied to pursuing success, academic or not. ...