My workflow update in the middle of 2023

And it’s interesting too..

PKM or to say ‘personal productivity space’ is the most dynamic space in recent time and everyone of us is becoming victim of ‘the next best app’ and I am no different.

But to my surprise, I have been using the same set of apps for almost 2 years now, not much of change for so long is new to me and so last week, I sat down with the most loved one apps and decided to fine tune it further and see how the change goes for next 6 months or so.

Here’s the list of app’s till June 2023:

• Note-taking & PKM: Reflect
• Task Manager: Todoist
• Project Management: Coda
• Planner: Routine

From the 5th of July; I have committed myself to 2 apps mainly:

1. Tana
2. Mem.ai

The idea is to create a single source of truth inside Tana (Project Management) & Mem (Personal Knowledge Management)

My experience being a knowledge worker is like keeping everything everywhere; I have used Todoist for sharing quick notes, interesting weblinks, articles to read and tried using Coda for daily task management and tried collecting notes inside Planner. Not the best ideas, I know.

So the idea is to avoid collecting fragmented thoughts, ideas into everything and anything. Instead build a simple system of collecting fleeting & fragmented thoughts or idea in only one system. As of now that is Tana — Daily nodes.

• Tana is faster than Mem; to give you the reason.
• Mem is best for me, in long-form writing. I prefer simple markdown compare to outliner.

Here’s a quick look inside my Tana Project Management:

Here’s a quick look at Mem — the most interesting AI supports in any apps:

I am kind of feeling excited and scared at the same time. The beginning looks very promising and there is a long road to go. Learning the basics and advance use cases of both the most beautifully designed UI/UX, super fast, unique apps and that itself is making my journey more joyous.

Let’s see how the experience.

Thank you for reading.

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Astu.