Posts tagged “quantification”
Should You Have a Note Goal Per Day? How To Quantify Creativity to Boost Creative Performance
In the world of the Zettelkasten Method and in the broader world of PKM, size matters. The big, beautiful graph view images, and the number of notes in one’s repository are part of the genre of productivity porn that consistently catches attention. Another genre of productivity porn is the number of written notes per day. So, why not make it a goal to write 10 notes per day? (or 6 or 20)
Optimize Productivity by Measuring the Mightiness of your Zettelkasten
If you want to increase your productivity, you need a method to measure it. After all, you need information on how high your actual productivity is and what effect changes in your working methods have. The subjective feeling of whether you had a good day has a big advantage and a big disadvantage. The big advantage is that at the end of the day you have a surprisingly accurate sense of whether you were productive or not. In my personal experience, people who are really satisfied with their day and consider it productive are rarely wrong.