Focused

114: Inputs and PKM Stacks

Dec 8, 2020

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Setting specific times to check and respond to email helps prioritize and prevent distractions.

Deleting unnecessary apps and turning off notifications reduces distractions and allows for greater focus on important tasks.

Setting specific time blocks for managing inputs, such as email, helps strike a balance between addressing important messages and preventing them from dominating the entire day.

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Managing Email Inputs

To manage the overwhelming amount of email, setting specific times to check and respond, such as a short morning check and a longer afternoon session, helps prioritize and prevent distractions.

Contemporaneous Communications Can Be Really Effective for a Lot of Things

02:36

How to Manage Imputs, but Don't Let It Be the Job

03:38

What Are the Types of Distractions?

02:21

Introduction

3min

The Blue Toothed Water Bottle

4min

The M One Apple Processor Is a Game Changer

2min

What's Your Personal Knowledge Management Stock?

1min

The Personal Knowledge Management Stack

2min

How to Use Roaming Research to Plan Your Week

4min

Using Du on I OS D U E

3min

Having a Focused Follow Up Notes Page in Rome

2min

Square Space - The All in One Platform for Your Next Web Site

4min

10.

Keeping a Note on What You're Doing for Your Projects

4min

11.

The Advantages of Having Backlinks to Projects

4min

12.

The Daily Notes Page

4min

13.

Is There a Problem With Input Management?

3min

14.

The Challenge Inputs Are Out of Control

2min

15.

The Brain Wash for Bookworm - I've Been Thinking About This for a Long Time Now.

2min

16.

Do Not Disturb Izon on My Mac, Do Not Dispatch Izon All the Time

4min

17.

How to Manage Imputs, but Don't Let It Be the Job

4min

18.

Are You Dying?

3min

19.

Eddy, I'm Not Going to Be Good at Emal

4min

20.

The Advantages of Slack

3min

21.

Do You Get Phone Calls?

2min

22.

The Challenge of Phone Calls in Law Practices

3min

23.

Contemporaneous Communications Can Be Really Effective for a Lot of Things

3min

24.

How Do You Manage Imputs for Video Calls?

2min

25.

Video Calls Are a New Technology, and People Are Using It

3min

26.

Is There a Difference Between Work and Life?

3min

27.

What Are the Types of Distractions?

2min

28.

The Brain Wash Book, the Science Yo Mentioned Social Dilemma

3min

29.

The Input Management System

2min

30.

Is There a Need to Document Your Inputs?

6min

Inputs! We all have too many of them and not enough of us have a plan for them. In this episode, Mike and David talk about those pesky inputs and how to deal with them.

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