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AP Productivity: Cohort 5
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Roam users: Install SmartBlocks and Roam42, and learn SmartBlocks basics
Group Orientation Zoom
Week 1 (July 8 - 14)
Lecture 1-1: A note about our cohort content
Lecture 1-2: What Productivity Is and Isn't
Lecture 1-3: What kind of system do we need?
Lecture 1-4: It's not you. It's friction
Lecture 1-5: AP Productivity Framework: Big Picture
Lecture 1-6: New Ps: Practice and Prototype
Lecture 1-7: Patterns from the bottom up
Lecture 1-8: Your User Manual: Document your processes
Lecture 1-9: Front End: What’s the Daily Cycle?
Lecture 1-10: Back End: Where do we keep our tasks?
Lecture 1-11: Roam implementations, or "Learning by example"
Lecture 1-12: Obsidian implementations, or "Pick a tool and build your system"
Lecture 1-13: Amplenote users: What do YOU do with the implementations?
Markdown files 1-1: Roam Implementation: How to import markdown files
Markdown files 1-2: Download & Import Markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 1-3: Download & Import Markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 1-1: Roam Implementation: Daily Cycle (alpha) walkthrough
Sample workflows 1-2: Roam Implementation: Choosing your work for your Agenda
Sample workflows 1-3: Roam Implementation: Tracking your work in your Log as you do it
Sample workflows 1-4: Roam Implementation: Capturing in your Inbox
Sample workflows 1-5: Roam Implementation: Connecting what’s in your Inbox to your Back End
Sample workflows 1-6: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing Tasks in Projects
Sample workflows 1-7: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing Recurring Actions
Sample workflows 1-8: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing with Linked References
Week 1 Live Session
Week 1 Office Hours #1
Week 1 Office Hours #2
Week 1 (July 8 - 14) — DUPLICATE: Videos hosted on Teachable
🚨 These lectures are duplicates
Lecture 1-1: A note about our cohort content (2:33)
Lecture 1-2: What Productivity Is and Isn't (7:23)
Lecture 1-3: What kind of system do we need? (8:55)
Lecture 1-4: It's not you, it's friction (1:53)
Lecture 1-5: AP Productivity Framework - Big Picture (5:31)
Lecture 1-6: New Ps: Practice and Prototype (4:20)
Lecture 1-7: Patterns from the bottom up (6:25)
Lecture 1-8: Your User Manual: Document your processes (5:48)
Lecture 1-9: Front End: What's the Daily Cycle? (3:46)
Lecture 1-10: Back End: Where do we keep our tasks? (4:41)
Lecture 1-11: Roam implementations, or "Learning by example" (2:28)
Lecture 1-12: Obsidian implementations, or "Pick a tool and build your system: (2:19)
Lecture 1-13: Amplenote users: What do YOU do with the implementations? (2:27)
Markdown files 1-1: Roam Implementation: How to import markdown files (3:02)
Markdown files 1-2: Download & Import Markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 1-3: Download & Import Markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 1-1: Roam Implementation: Daily Cycle (alpha) walkthrough (4:13)
Sample workflows 1-2: Roam Implementation: Choosing your work for your Agenda (7:45)
Sample workflows 1-3: Roam Implementation: Tracking your work in your Log as you do it (6:33)
Sample workflows 1-4: Roam Implementation: Capturing in your Inbox (2:50)
Sample workflows 1-5: Roam Implementation: Connecting what’s in your Inbox to your Back End (6:55)
Sample workflows 1-6: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing Tasks in Projects (6:22)
Sample workflows 1-7: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing Recurring Actions (9:34)
Sample workflows 1-8: Roam Implementation: Structuring and Surfacing with Linked References (2:59)
Week 2 (July 15 - 21)
Lecture 2-1: Clarity: What is an Inbox?
Lecture 2-2: Have as many Inboxes as you need...
Lecture 2-3: ...but as few as you can get by with
Lecture 2-4: The fallacy of "too many 'little things' to do"
Lecture 2-5: As easy as 1-2-3
Lecture 2-6: Daily startup & shutdown routines
Lecture 2-7: Opening & closing loops
Lecture 2-8: The Levels of Want
Lecture 2-9: Your User Manual: Updates for Week Two
Markdown files 2-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 2-2: Download & import markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 2-1: Roam Implementation: Daily Cycle changes overview
Sample workflows 2-2: Roam Implementation: Adding to your startup and shutdown
Sample workflows 2-3: Roam Implementation: Inbox list and links
Sample workflows 2-4: Roam Implementation: Open Loop SmartBlock
Week 2 Live Session
Week 2 Office Hours #1
Week 2 Office Hours #2
Week 2 (July 15 - 21) — DUPLICATE: Videos hosted on Teachable
🚨 These lectures are duplicates
Lecture 2-1: Clarity: What is an Inbox? (7:36)
Lecture 2-2: Have as many Inboxes as you need... (10:46)
Lecture 2-3: ...but as few as you can get by with (7:38)
Lecture 2-4: The fallacy of "too many 'little things' to do" (7:03)
Lecture 2-5: As easy as 1-2-3 (9:56)
Lecture 2-6: Daily startup & shutdown routines (6:58)
Lecture 2-7: Opening & closing loops (7:11)
Lecture 2-8: The Levels of Want (10:16)
Lesson 2-9: Your User Manual: Updates for Week Two (8:22)
Markdown files 2-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 2-2: Download & import markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 2-1: Roam Implementation: Daily Cycle changes overview (3:15)
Sample workflows 2-2: Roam Implementation: Adding to your Startup and Shutdown (7:21)
Sample workflows 2-3: Roam Implementation: Inbox list and links (5:14)
Sample workflows 2-4: Roam Implementation: Open Loop SmartBlock (8:04)
Week 3 (July 22 - 28)
Lecture 3-1: There is no falling behind (0:43)
Lecture 3-2: What are projects and how do they fit in our systems (3:11)
Lecture 3-3: A project is a checklist, or a set of related checklists (2:39)
Lecture 3-4: What processes are involved in working with Projects (2:14)
Lecture 3-5: Starting and Shutting down Projects (6:26)
Lecture 3-6: What are contexts and how do you use them (4:51)
Lecture 3-7: What's "next"? (4:04)
Lecture 3-8: The power of combining contexts with @next (2:49)
Lecture 3-9: An exploration of Next and its inverse (2:18)
Lecture 3-10: What is Interstitial Journaling and how can we use it (2:57)
Lecture 3-11: How do we overcome Productivity Paralysis (3:59)
Lecture 3-12: Additions to your User Manual (4:22)
Lecture 3-13: Roam Philosophy - Project pages are hubs (5:06)
Markdown files 3-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 3-2: Download & import markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 3-1: Roam implementation: Daily Cycle update (1:08)
Sample workflows 3-2: Roam implementation: Contexts list (6:24)
Sample workflows 3-3: Roam implementation: Next Action queries and how to use them (10:05)
Sample workflows 3-4: Roam implementation: How to create and initialize projects (6:40)
Sample workflows 3-5: Roam implementation: How to use the Productivity Paralysis checklist (2:53)
Week 3 Live Session
Week 3 Office Hours #1
Week 3 Office Hours #2
Week 4 (July 29 - August 4)
Lecture 4-1: Shoring up our systems (1:56)
Lecture 4-2: What are probes (2:24)
Lecture 4-3: Probes are oil changes for our system (4:46)
Lecture 4-4: Probes can recur at a variety of periods and can review either work or metawork (3:36)
Lecture 4-5: What is a backstop (4:57)
Lecture 4-6: Probe example - What is a GTD-style Weekly Review (6:01)
Lecture 4-7: Distributing the Weekly Review—it's just Recurring Actions (6:26)
Lecture 4-8: Use journaling Probes to set and review intentions (7:16)
Lecture 4-9: User Manual upgrades for Week Four - Checklists and Meta-checklists (2:06)
Markdown files 4-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 4-2: Download & import markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 4-1: Roam Implementation: Using Inline References or the sidebar to assign Next Actions (5:06)
Sample workflows 4-2: Roam Implementation: Using page tags as filters to upgrade your Projects page (5:36)
Sample workflows 4-3: Roam Implementation: Adding Active Projects as a backstop (Daily Cycle upgrade) (2:25)
Sample workflows 4-4: Roam Implementation: Systematic long-term deferring with @someday (2:54)
Sample workflows 4-5: Roam Implementation: Systematic delegation with @waiting (3:53)
Sample workflows 4-6: Roam Implementation: Systematic error-handling with Unassigned Tasks (6:13)
Sample workflows 4-7: Roam Implementation: Walking through (and distributing) a Weekly Review (16:45)
Sample workflows 4-8: Roam Implementation: Self-coaching as a journaling probe (5:46)
Sample workflows 4-9: Obsidian Implementation: Kara's Obsidian Vertical Project Kanban (5:23)
Week 4 Live Session
Week 4 Office Hours #1
Week 4 Office Hours #2
Week 5 (August 5 - 11)
Lecture 5-1: A week to make sense of things (2:12)
Lecture 5-2: Working in the Log - What, why, when, and how (17:01)
Lecture 5-3: How to do Deep Work, even when there's no time (6:42)
Lecture 5-4: What are Ongoing Tasks and how do we deal with them (4:34)
Lecture 5-5: Turning Ongoing Tasks into Recurring Tasks (3:35)
Lecture 5-6: Be diligent about Opening and Closing Loops for Ongoing Tasks (3:51)
Lecture 5-7: Making Passes at Ongoing Tasks (8:57)
Lecture 5-8: Using BOMR (10:43)
Lecture 5-9: System Balances (4:26)
Lecture 5-10: User Manual - Practice, Practice, Practice (2:00)
Markdown files 5-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Markdown files 5-2: Download & import markdown files for Obsidian implementation
Sample workflows 5-1: Using postpone in the Daily Cycle (4:00)
Sample workflows 5-2: Tagging conventions for working in the Log (6:03)
Sample workflows 5-3: Tagging passes (12:30)
Week Five Live Session
Week Five Office Hours #1
Week Five Office Hours #2
Week 6 (August 12 - 18)
Lecture 6-1: The case for a bigger picture (3:17)
Lecture 6-2: What are Priorities (5:46)
Lecture 6-3: Why are priorities critical (6:34)
Lecture 6-4: What are the three types of priorities (4:55)
Lecture 6-5: Projects imply priorities (2:57)
Lecture 6-6: This projects imply priorities approach bridges us into the big picture (8:35)
Lecture 6-7: We can organize our Projects by Priority (1:32)
Lecture 6-8: How do we discern our Priorities (4:38)
Lecture 6-9: User Manual - How do your Priorities relate to your other lists? (3:21)
Markdown files 6-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Sample workflows 6-1: The Priorities Review SmartBlock (4:51)
Sample workflows 6-2: Organizing Projects Page with Priorities at the top level (4:22)
Week Six Live Session
Week Six Office Hours
Week 7 (August 19 - 25)
Lecture 7-1: How do we know what to do—Speed vs Velocity (5:13)
Lecture 7-2: What are Points (11:50)
Lecture 7-3: Points may be MacGuffins (5:53)
Lecture 7-4: How do we create and adjust our Points (2:00)
Lecture 7-5: How do we align our Projects with our Points (8:01)
Lecture 7-6: Practical Horizons for Priorities and Points (2:55)
Lecture 7-7: User Manual - How do Points link into the mix (2:58)
Markdown files 7-1: Download & import markdown files for Roam implementation
Sample workflows 7-1: The Points Review SmartBlock (5:44)
Sample workflows 7-2: Using tags and Probes to stay in alignment (6:23)
Week Seven Live Session
Week Seven Office Hours #1
Week Seven Office Hours #2
Week 8 (August 26 - September 6)
Lecture 8-1: So, how does it all fit together? (5:39)
Lecture 8-2: What do I do with the freed up time? (5:25)
Lecture 8-3: If you have a system breakdown, it doesn't mean you're a bad person (2:18)
Lecture 8-4: Troubleshooting your system, part 1—Day to Day issues (6:41)
Lecture 8-5: Troubleshooting your system, part 2—Long-term issues (7:44)
Lecture 8-6: Recognizing and Eliminating Friction (4:06)
Lecture 8-7: Create a "To Fix" list for system maintenance (2:26)
Lecture 8-8: The ultimate troubleshooting - back to basics (4:08)
Lecture 8-9: User Manual - Knowing where to look (2:58)
Week Eight Live Group Coaching
Week Eight Office Hours #1
Week Eight Office Hours #2
Cohort Five Final Live Session
Markdown files 1-3: Download & Import Markdown files for Obsidian implementation
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