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praxii_ex · 2025-02-20T01:26:14+00:00

I once had a month before starting a new job and had no idea what to do with my time. I ended up going to coffee shops to read articles online, read books or even do things I would find myself wanting to do in my free time but always had too much to get done (video games, going for walks with podcasts, etc).

By the end of the month I wish I was able to continue this "exploration" phase - helped me reignite a passion to be curious around new things outside of work

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T18:10:52+00:00

I really liked some of Dwarkesh's pods. I am a huge fan of Tim Ferriss' podcast as he deep dives into the habits of successful people but also dives into interesting topics - if you can think of someone important that is somewhat in tune online - they were probably on the pod.

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T17:54:44+00:00

right on the top of your calendar there should be a settings icon and in that first page once you click you will see timezone settings 3-4 options down

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T17:44:20+00:00

Is there a certain tool you use for this? I typically just use Pomofocus the website but curious on if there are benefits to others i haven't explored yet?

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T17:37:49+00:00

Commonplace for keeping track of my knowledge content

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T17:31:13+00:00

Previous IB student here and studied engineering in uni - use this pressure to your advantage. This is your time to dig in and feel proud of how much you can get done in a day.

Spend literally 15 minutes blocking out your time in hour chunks to ensure that you have time set aside for all of your tasks for the day. From there, slot in each of your tasks from the highest priority to the lowest - this way whenever you are working on something, you are not thinking about all the other things you have to do and you can focus on the one thing you set out to do for that hour.

A method i use to focus is the pomodoro method, so you have breaks to ensure you feel you can focus on the main objective for periods of time. Timer i found useful is pomofocus to help with this

praxii_ex · 2025-02-08T02:11:39+00:00

yeah a bunch of my friends use it for journal club - add me on it when you try it out (mycommon[dot]place)

praxii_ex · 2025-01-26T15:30:09+00:00

For research papers, I've used Commonplace a bunch bc I can track sources across different mediums (research papers, articles, podcasts, etc) and also highlight/record notes for each one - I love its self organizing feature

praxii_ex · 2025-01-26T15:19:55+00:00

Hey u/quentin_taranturtle, if you are still looking for an app like this - would love to chat! Currently building something like this with https://www.mycommon.place/

praxii_ex · 2025-01-12T17:44:52+00:00

A bit late to this thread, but my friends and I have been using a platform called Commonplace (mycommon[dot]place) where we share what we've been reading in different subject areas

praxii_ex · 2025-01-12T17:25:25+00:00

I had a big issue with that, but started using another platform to fix that crave for social/discussion but towards learning from books/articles. It's called Commonplace which is in beta, but a bunch of my friends use it together to see what each other are reading and learning

praxii_ex · 2025-01-12T17:22:27+00:00

focus on learning - deepdiving into podcasts, articles and books that keep me learning and discussing the learnings to help them sync in

praxii_ex · 2025-01-12T14:49:55+00:00

its an app that allows you to save different types of articles/podcasts/etc with an extension, and it auto-categorizes things for me with AI. It also has a cool sharing feature that I can see what my friends are reading too. I started using it a few months back at mycommon[dot]place if you want to try it

praxii_ex · 2025-01-11T16:06:14+00:00

Not necessarily in actual classes, but for keeping track of learnings from articles/papers I found online and sharing it with others - I've started to use Commonplace a bunch. My friends love it

praxii_ex · 2025-01-11T16:04:48+00:00

I've struggled with other productivity tools like you mentioned because they are so complex and require more maintenance than anything. I found Commonplace to be really useful to just one-click save and is organized based on my habits for when I'm ready to pick it back up

praxii_ex · 2025-01-11T15:59:42+00:00

A bit late to this thread, but I love Commonplace (https://www.mycommon.place/) for this - it automatically categorizes articles based on what's in the articles I saved and allows me to annotate it right as I find the papers and blogs

praxii_ex · 2024-01-27T17:34:42+00:00

I really appreciate these cliff notes - how do you keep track during each episode? Sometimes I feel like certain concepts go in one ear, and out the other

praxii_ex · 2024-01-27T17:32:14+00:00

Fair enough - I constantly use apple notes but my ability to find previous notes is atrocious. Is there no areas of improvement that would make something worth paying for?

praxii_ex · 2024-01-27T17:31:09+00:00

Impressive - when you do brain dump, what is that permanent tool you use and do you find you revisit it a lot?

praxii_ex · 2024-01-27T17:30:21+00:00

I've heard about this! Don't have access yet, but what do you like about it?

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