10 Reasons I reckon NotePD is cool
1. Idea List Formalisation
We have all heard James mention this on his podcast forever - I have so many other journaling sketchbook items that I complete daily (importantly on a physical thing I carry around with me)- there is literally no room on my sketchbook for any thing else - but this is like some kind of in-between space
2. It is an in-between space
Its like I have a hierarchy - notes app with endless half formed, half completed, or too detailed ideas / notes / you name it. Then there is the serious critical daily / team stuff which is sketchbook to business. Then there is the very sporadic longer form newsletter blog post - which takes ages to do - so I do infrequently. But then there is this space which I'll detail below:
3. Better than Notes App...
I finish, formalise, and think through more thoroughly thoughts than the sporadic notes app... and more importantly think I can come back later to flesh out, branch, I really like it. My 'half formed' and 'pinned' notes are all over the shop - and theres gold in there.
4. Better than physical lists..
Disclaimer: I think physically reading, physically drawing, physically sketching, physically journaling gratitude proof etc - is a super important daily practice - which I am religious about. But as above - I have no room in that practice for this one. Yet for some reason I continue to commit to this....
5. Probably better than Facebook...
I am not on facebook. Looks like a terrible way to receive negative commentary from people I never wanted to see agin since high school...
6. Better than Instagram...
For this kind of yet to be perfected idea forming. I love IG and it suits the visual nature of architecture, design process to shoe off the culture to new young grads looking for work, finished products for client direct contact - and mag editors - as commissioned photography is a thing of the distant past. That is great for business ,but as such needs to align with brand i.e. full service, top tier etc - not a publicly safe way to test ideas. Also FULL of snoops haha - all the architects are watching :) Gotta love the competitive niche artistic community!
7. Better then Newsletter / Blog
As it takes me forever to wrote and proof read and be clever enough for something that warrants ( in my mind) bulk email - even though I only have around 200 subscribers....
8. Better than Linked In
I only ever post there based on my newsletter articles (but not the raw struggle process ones - just the 'professional enough ones'... hence I post there even less. More of an inbound thing for my bus.
9. Freedom
I just get the feeling - based on how I'm on this beta from listening to one of James podcasts - that similar minded people, open minder people are all here to support and gain value and give value to and from each other. Just a hunch.
- I will endeavour to start reading others lists - at the moment I am trying to squeeze in this new habit! see 10.:
10. Habit
Habit forming is difficult.
I didn't start my fitness journey until very very late 30s (39!). At the time my wife travelled OS all the time for works and my company was up and down, and I have 3 young kids at home. So through some weird trigger, joined a local Crossfit gym and committed to the 5am class full of ex-policemen, emergency workers, and an assortment of people that are now great friends.
Point being I needed to wake (as a night owl!!!) at 4:30am, do the class, home by 6:30am, wife OS, to get all 3 kids awake, school run, the lot. The get to the studio. Run a biz. Brutal. But I stuck with it.
She doesn't travel OS any more (thanks COVID!), and my kids are much older, and I have a bigger team etc etc.
And yet I still get up at 4:30am 5 days a week.
Why?
I don't know... sometimes you just have to respect those habits that come blustering into your life... that are good for you... even if they're a bit weird.
I love em.
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