Interstitial journaling is just so powerful It was just about two years ago that I first shared the concept of interstitial journaling, and I’ve been at it ever since. If it’s new to you, that old post (which includes a short video) helps explain it.
Good advice to motivate me. One thing I have become adamant about is my contact directory. When I even consider a scientist or journalist I might want to contact I immediately take the considerable time necessary to create a contact and fill it with email, phone, snail mail and urls of their social and professional presence and relevant papers. This often spreads to their coauthors on a paper of interest, not just the lead. Even capture a headshot.
Very cool! Does that sync to your main contacts on your phone?
I generally make sure to add them to "ContactsPlus" (which syncs to my phone and email), mostly so I know who is calling me. Literally everyone I meet goes in there so I can be aware of who might be calling.
I keep some of that info in Tana as well, but it's of less value there.
For headshots, I put some in Anki so I can remember the name <-> face, but not all of them.
I'm curious to hear a bit more about this "contact directory" and how it works across the rest of your world.
Elementary address book. Mac OS Apple product. Syncs between my iPhone, my three Macs and iPad mini. And backup in my iCloud for safety. I was thinking of ContactsPlus type of professional customer management tools, but my budget is Social Security checks, after taxes (yes SS is taxed even at 74). I fancy some day I might get phone calls from some of these folks, but that’s only a pipe dream.
Good advice to motivate me. One thing I have become adamant about is my contact directory. When I even consider a scientist or journalist I might want to contact I immediately take the considerable time necessary to create a contact and fill it with email, phone, snail mail and urls of their social and professional presence and relevant papers. This often spreads to their coauthors on a paper of interest, not just the lead. Even capture a headshot.
Very cool! Does that sync to your main contacts on your phone?
I generally make sure to add them to "ContactsPlus" (which syncs to my phone and email), mostly so I know who is calling me. Literally everyone I meet goes in there so I can be aware of who might be calling.
I keep some of that info in Tana as well, but it's of less value there.
For headshots, I put some in Anki so I can remember the name <-> face, but not all of them.
I'm curious to hear a bit more about this "contact directory" and how it works across the rest of your world.
Elementary address book. Mac OS Apple product. Syncs between my iPhone, my three Macs and iPad mini. And backup in my iCloud for safety. I was thinking of ContactsPlus type of professional customer management tools, but my budget is Social Security checks, after taxes (yes SS is taxed even at 74). I fancy some day I might get phone calls from some of these folks, but that’s only a pipe dream.
Gotcha. That seems like a solid setup! My main goal is to keep things syncing around, and you've got that covered pretty well.