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How I Use Notion to Organize Ideas and Manage Creative Projects
If you’re a creative person, you probably have hundreds of ideas and projects you’d like to work on. But many of them never see the light of day. If you learn to organize your ideas the right way, you’ll be much more likely to bring them to life. The tool you use is not nearly as important as the system you develop for organizing, capturing, and capitalizing on your ideas.
The biggest issue I’ve come across with coaching clients is that they struggle to organize their ideas.
Sometime last year, I interviewed Tiago Forte about how to build a second brain. Your brain is a terrible place to store information. When you try to store information there, you end up using its processing power for storage instead of creativity.
Tiago built his system based on Evernote. I prefer Notion because I have one tool for distraction free writing, project management, book notes, and task management. It’s replaced many of our other tools.
In your physical world, you have designated places for things. You might have a closet for your shoes, a kitchen drawer for your utensils, a bathroom drawer for your makeup.
Holding on to thoughts is like trying to catch a fish with your bare hands: They easily slip from…
