Productivity
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I’m diving back into my productivity system update. My task management has been languishing under my awkward system while the holidays and other things took precedence. But now I’m getting back to it, if I can get past some invoicing early in the week. Here are the outcomes I’m targeting for this iteration:
- Facilitate prioritizing tasks.
- Simplify managing a task’s stages.
- Centralize a topic’s notes across tasks and meetings.
- Simplify the structure of a topic’s notes.
- Simplify the way I register the tasks I work on each day.
I developed a way to get my work emails into Notion. As usual, I haven’t been waiting to tinker with my system. I already had a way to easily email Notion tasks to myself. But a couple of weeks ago I saw that coordinating my open tasks in Outlook and Notion would be easier if the link went in both directions. I needed to add Notion tasks from Outlook too. So I took a couple of afternoons to create a browser bookmarklet that sends info from an open email to a Make scenario, which then creates a Notion task based on it.
Health
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The insurance issue got resolved quicker than I expected. My medication is on its way to me from the new pharmacy. I was expecting the insurance to want a brand new prior authorization just because of the pharmacy switch, which would’ve taken weeks, but it turned out my old one was still good. And this time there was no hack to threaten my shipment.
Spirituality
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On my daily virtual journey through Jesus’ life, I made some revisions to the schedule based on Wikipedia’s articles on the events. They helped me even out the coverage of notable incidents. And having the article links in the spreadsheet gives me an easy bridge to art, interpretations, liturgical associations, and other information about the episodes. Next I want to turn the schedule into notifications on my phone so I don’t forget about it for hours.
On my discipleship study, I added my perennial questions to my framework so I can address them throughout the study. It was satisfying to collect them all in one place. Next I’ll move on to studying my first topic, which will be a sketch of the character traits discipleship aims to cultivate.
