Value of saying NO, Your Single Source of Truth and more...
Steps to financial independence, 5 scopes of management in personal productivity.
When you say YES, you are agreeing to one.
When you say NO you are opening your possibilities for many other than the one in question.
3 steps to achieve (personal) Financial Independence — snippetter.com
Step 1: Grow the gap - the gap between your monthly expense and monthly income.
either by curbing your expense
or increasing your income
or by doing both
Step 2: Invest the gap - invest your energy in increasing this gap.
Step 3: Repeat.
Source: Paula Pant on Big Think
P.S. Aim to save at least 20% of your income every month (or) Increase your savings rate by 1% each month.
Single Source of Truth (SSOT) App
Choose an app (among 5 scopes of management in personal productivity) as the single point of reference for all your personal data.
All the other apps under the umbrella of your personal productivity should reflect or depend on this. Derived and different versions of the "truth".
The one place to refer to and which holds the latest information. Source of "truth".
Inspired by What is your "SSOT" app for personal productivity?
P.S. This SSOT is a reverse concept of the original SSOT used in IT.
5 scopes of management in personal productivity
Task Management (including Projects and Goals Management) - consider financial management as a project inside this.
Time Management (events to attend, meetings)
Notes Management / Ideas, PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) / Minutes / Journaling (including physical notes).
Files Management (including physical resources), Document management.
Communication - Email Management, People/Contacts Management
What are the apps you use for each scope?
Other News Snippets
the fate of newsletter services
What's left is Substack.
Nothing is promising like Substack. If there are any, put them in the comments.
Notion is getting the taste of A.I.
Source: Notion Blog
Join the waiting list (it's now in private alpha)
Evernote is acquired by Bending Spoons
Source: Evernote Blog
Bending Spoon is a Milan-based app developer. It has over 100 million users combined for its apps Splice -Video Editor, Remini -Photo editor, and some other apps.
Evernote is not shutting down, instead, it is expected that it will gain additional features from the products of Bending Spoon.