# DeveloPassion's Newsletter 150 - Level Up ## Welcome Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩 This week, I've received my new toys: a [reMarkable 2](https://amzn.to/3GGsTvS) and a RocketBook fusion. I've continued reading [Stumbling on Happiness](https://amzn.to/3v8ZPuJ), and started using the reMarkable to take notes. I've always considered my analog notes to be transient and waiting to be converted into digital form. Thanks to these cool devices, I'm now able to go digital first, making it much easier for me to convert the notes I take into much more valuable [atomic](https://www.dsebastien.net/the-value-of-atomic-notes//) and connected notes. ADD IMAGES The notes I take using the RocketBook are easy to scan and share, and those I take using the reMarkable are immediately available to my other devices. From there, I can easily convert the images to Markdown using ChatGPT and import those to my Obsidian vault where I can connect those notes with the rest of my knowledge base ❤️ Alright, let's gooooo 🚀 ## The lab 🧪 This week, I've also launched a new promotion to celebrate the end of the year. You can find all the details over here: [End of Year Sale](https://www.dsebastien.net/last-discount-of-2025/) ## Productivity + Knowledge Management = Win 🚀 This week I had a few coaching sessions, one of which was particularly interesting. It centered mainly on Personal Organization and how to go from idea to execution across all slices of life. I've summarized what I explained during the session with the following diagram: ![[image.png|Human operator in neon command center where an AI agent autonomously traverses a knowledge graph network]] It is a vital one that I'll be covering in great length in the [Knowledge Worker Kit](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowledge-worker-kit) and share with the private community there. In that diagram, I show how a Personal Productivity System can leverage a Knowledge Management System to build a powerful Personal Organization approach. The key elements in the diagram are the daily notes and the periodic reviews. That is where the actions to realize are ultimately stored to help focus on achieving what matters. That is also where the output is stored: new knowledge, achievements, etc. On the other hand, the periodic reviews help review the past, adjust plans, plan ahead, but also help ingest new knowledge. Last but not least, the Learning System feeds daily notes and leverages the knowledge base that expands over time and generates compounding returns thanks to an Idea Capture System that can be visualized as follows: ![[image-1.png|Life Tracker view auto-generating charts per column: stress trend, energy heatmap, evening energy bars]] This is just a high-level overview, but I'll go much further in the Knowledge Worker Kit. Don't forget to check it out! [Knowledge Worker Kit and community (BETA)](https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowledge-worker-kit) ## New articles No new articles this week. ## Quotes of the week - If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change — Tony Gaskins - Don't count the days, make the days count — Muhammad Ali ## Thinking and learning [ The Journal as a Tool for Thought — The Eudaimon The humble journal is a valuable tool. The journal, and its pragmatic cousin the ‘Commonplace Book’, have been used for millennia — the… MediumThe Eudaimon  ](https://medium.com/@The_Eudaimon/the-journal-as-a-tool-for-thought-the-eudaimon-a887e6e54cfd)[ Extreme brainstorming questions to trigger new, better ideas We know, “no idea is a bad idea,” but brainstorming is often unsuccessful. These prompts actually work. They could even lead to a unique business model. A Smart BearJason Cohen ](https://longform.asmartbear.com/extreme-questions/)[ 22.00.0012 Being disorganised: $4bn║J•D Johnny.Decimal is a system to organise your digital life ](https://johnnydecimal.com/20-29-communication/22-blog/22.00.0012-four-billion-dollars/)[ Building a Second Brain — the pain points PARA didn’t go smoothly for me at all. MediumRob Wilson  ](https://codingrob.medium.com/the-pain-points-of-building-a-second-brain-3045270fe012)[ How Tana Made Me Choose Obsidian as My Note-Taking App and It’s Amazing Choosing the right note-taking application can be overwhelming. I didn’t fail to fall into this trap. Quick look on my decision process before choosing Obsidian ![[output-onlinepngtools-4-.png]] Caption: Flavien BonvinFlavien Bonvin ![[og-5.png]] ](https://www.flavienbonvin.com/how-tana-made-me-choose-obsidian-as-my-note-taking-app-and-its-amazing/)[ Why I Migrated 300+ Posts From Obsidian Publish to Ghost 303. 303 posts manually backfilled one by one from Obsidian Publish to Ghost, with great effort and mental + physical expense. But why? The Goal of a Zettelkasten For the uninitiated, a zettelkasten is a form of a personal knowledge management system (PKM). The Zettelkasten method prioritizes small pieces of information ![[leda-2.jpeg]] Caption: Bram AdamsBram Adams ![[DALL-E-2023-03-16-14.29.12---abstract-pencil-and-watercolor-art-of--22Why-I-Migrated-300--Posts-From-Obsidian-Publish-to-Ghost-22.png]] ](https://www.bramadams.dev/202301312143/)[ An aperiodic monotile   ](https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hat/) LINK: - [[10 Essential Knowledge Management Methods Every Professional Should Master (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/10-essential-knowledge-management-methods-every-professional-should-master/-every-professional-should-master// LINK: - [[Why Obsidian is All You Need - From Simple Notes to Complete Productivity (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/why-obsidian-is-all-you-need-from-simple-notes-to-complete-productivity// LINK: - [[The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Obsidian (Article)]] - https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-obsidian// LINK: - [[Knowii Community]] - https://www.store.dsebastien.net//product/knowii-community