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My Notion Note-Taking System (Or How I Read Online)

by Sam Thomas Davies | Last updated: August 15, 2023 | Filed Under: Notion, Productivity

Notion Note-Taking System

I love learning from online content as much as I do from books. It doesn’t matter whether it’s an article, an email newsletter, or a tweetstorm—if there’s a lesson I can gleam related to an area of interest, I want to write it down. Up until recently, I didn’t have a good system for reading […]

7 Ways I’m Using Notion’s Grouping Feature

by Sam Thomas Davies | Last updated: August 15, 2023 | Filed Under: Notion

Notion Grouping

Notion just launched one of its most requested features: Grouping. And I couldn’t be more excited to share how I’m using it to organize my life and work better. Here are my seven favorite “group by” use cases. Notion’s Group By Feature: My Favorite Use Cases 1. Group Summaries by Rating 2. Group Summaries by […]

Notion OKRs: How I Set and Achieve My Biggest, Most Ambitious Goals

by Sam Thomas Davies | Last updated: August 15, 2023 | Filed Under: Notion, Self-Improvement

Notion OKRs

One problem I’ve always had with traditional goal setting is not knowing what I want so far in the future. In Q1 2020, for instance, I started a weekly newsletter called Words Into Works. But after 52 consecutive weeks, I paused it to prioritize a more important goal (launching Getting Things Done with Notion).  This […]

How to Read More: A Busy Person’s Guide

by Sam Thomas Davies | Last updated: May 29, 2023 | Filed Under: Self-Improvement

How to Read More

There’s a lot of advice online on how to read more.  And a lot of it is helpful—especially if you’re a beginner looking to read more often and more widely. But a lot of the advice also ignores busy professionals trying to balance life and work. That’s what I’m going to cover today. In this […]

The 20-Second Rule: How to Build Better Habits

by Sam Thomas Davies | Last updated: May 29, 2023 | Filed Under: Self-Improvement

The 20-Second Rule

In his book, The Happiness Advantage, happiness researcher Shawn Achor discusses how he wanted to make practicing guitar a daily habit. However, he encountered a problem, one that plagues everyone: He couldn’t motivate himself to do it. No matter how much he tried to motivate himself, his guitar remained in his cupboard. Achor recalls: He couldn’t […]

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