#12: 🛠️ It's tool time!

Digital workspaces to help get sh*t done

Happy Friday, Friends!

I don’t know about you but I tweeted up a ⛈️ STORM ⚡️ this week and people really seemed to enjoy it. Which, for me, is kind of a big deal 😆.

Driven by the inspiration facilitated by Twitter and my desire to jump into my notes, I ended up writing a bunch about my personal apps and tools, because…well…I guess I had the time.

So, today I’m happy to share with you a) my most popular tweet in a while, and b) all the words I wrote about what I want out of My Workspace™. I also have one request:

Would you forward this letter to a friend or share with your social networks?

People seem to really like this type of content, and I really enjoy writing it, so would love some help getting the word out. No pressure! Just wanted to get the ask in.

Enjoy the notes, let me know your thoughts, and see you on the internets!

‘Til next time!
Mike Tannenbaum | The Refined Mind

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Mike Tannenbaum he/him @TheRoyalTbomb

My latest thinking as I try to ditch all the apps I use and instead rely on essentially Things and Craft, with Evernote as a backup/archive catch-all for discoveries worth saving

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2021-04-29 — All about digital workspaces

• Added

  • I want somewhere to be My Workspace™

  • what I need in a digital workspace

  • evolution of the ecosystem

  • Craft is my workspace

  • Things is for getting shit done

  • Roam is for collecting the internet

• Updated

  • Obsidian is for building my body of work (title change)

  • my digital ecosystem

  • A knowledge worker’s toolkit needs to be well-rounded

2021-04-21 — Browser tabs as non-linear thinking

• Updated

  • browsing the internet through multiple tabs is non-linear thinking

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Revisiting updates from the last newsletter

2021-04-16 — Zoom-in-zoom-out thinking

• Added

  • New Rules for the Workplace

  • zoom-in-zoom-out thinking

• Updated

  • We have barely begun to see the effects of the fallout from this pandemic

  • digital garden

  • digital ecosystem

  • web of thinking

  • build a body of work

  • Non-linear writing’s ability to jump from sentence to sentence, idea to idea, changes the way the mind thinks through ideas

  • Obsidian is for tending my digital garden

  • Sensemaking and wayfinding are critical skills for thriving in 2020 and beyond

  • Data ≠ Insight

  • Black Lives Matter

2021-04-07 — digital exhaust

• Added

  • digital exhaust

2021-04-02 — digital ecosystem

• Added

  • digital ecosystem

• Updated

  • these notes are written for myself

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