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0:00 Intro The Master Tag database is something that has been difficult to decide whether to implement or not, get's a lot of questions, and polarises users; some love it some find it cumbersome. This video will explore all the different aspects of it, it's a great idea if you're doing a comprehensive system across many parts of your life. Augusts has also come up with an expansion of the concept that takes it to another level of value and power in the system. First, we will cover the standard Master Tag database then we will dive into the expansion. The Master Tag database is a concept that has been advocated by many people such as Maire Pullen(?) who popularised it with a few videos she did. For a long time August was focused more on the Action part of the system; Goals, Projects, Tasks, Daily tracking. In this area, the Master Tag database is not that critical However, in the Knowledge Management area and the expansion of this component of the system it's become something that adds a lot more value. 1:51 Traditional Tagging In the last video, we looked at the TSS's Vault In a database like this, you are going to want to be able to sort and filter by different criteria. 2:25 There is a property in this database called Functional Category which is how a traditional local database-specific tagging system is set up. Typically you will use a multi or single select 2:50 3:05 Master tag Database Concept A Master Tag database is a database that purely contains tags; each entry in the database is a different tag. Then in this example database, instead of having a property for local tags, we would have a relation to the Master Tag database. This would also allow you to sort and filter through the relation, as opposed to the multi/single select. One of the negatives and points of resistance to this is that these multi-select tags look better than relational links which don't have color-coding and aren't as easy to open and select. The other is that most of the databases didn't need the same tags over and over again. The point of the Master Tag database is to apply the same tags across different databases. As Augusts' Knowledge Management system is expanding he finds more and more of the databases would benefit from having the same tags applied to them. A Master Tag database would have a few advantages Firstly any updates to a tag in the database would update across all of them Secondly, the Master Tag database will then be able to provide a central viewpoint providing visibility across the entire system for everything else tagged to individual items. 5:55 Enhance Master Tag Database After he started applying the Master Tag database he kept finding that the same tags he was applying to it, he was also (through the separate relation to the Knowledge Vault) tagging Knowledge Vault topics. He then realized that the Knowledge Vault should be the Master Tag database In the Knowledge Vault, you would already have made a collection of all the topics that are important to you. All the topics you are aggregating knowledge, ideas, insights, taking highlights from books, articles, videos, etc. and having information resurfacing contextually (as has been covered in past videos using templates with self-referencing filters under toggles) There is no point in duplicating all this and having a separate relation to a master tag database. Not only do you have a Master Tag database built into the Knowledge Vault, but you also have extensive knowledge and research already organized in the workspaces there. Many of these topics are already interconnected to many other parts of your system. 7:45 Looking at the Knowledge Vault; a global repository for all the best thinking and research organized by topic for all the topics that are important to you. 8:15 Looking into a topic we can see it's already connected to Pillars, other Knowledge Vault topics, TSS's Vault, Media Vault, Habits and Routines, Content Pipeline, Action items, etc. 9:00 Using this instead of a different tag database provides not only the tagging and its benefits, but you are also always one link away from the depth of information accumulated for each tag. 12:00 By feeding two birds with one scone you make both of them more powerful The one caveat is that in theory, you might come up with some topics that you'd want to sort out and organize by, but you're not really interested in collecting knowledge on, you can simply add these to the vault and not build out the workspace of that topic. At any point, if you do have ideas or insights on that topic it will be sitting there waiting for you. 13:10 the title to the Knowledge Vault relational link is now called Tag/Knowledge Vault Examples in the Notes, Meetings and Ideas Vault as well as the Media Vault 14:12 Closing Thoughts Merging the Master Tag database with the Knowledge vault is a very powerful way to organize your information and provide visibility, sorting, and filtering capability across the system at the same time. This gives you a lot of nuance and finesse as to what you have across different dashboards and pages in the system as well and makes the Knowledge Vault itself even more powerful by providing transparency and consistency. It's particularly elegant to have this one vault and its topic category organization serving as the connective tissue across the entire system; Pillars, Pipelines, and Vaults. Soon we will cover an enhanced look at pillars before giving a detailed overview of the entire system again.

0:00 Intro Today August will demonstrate that the Knowledge Management system in the Vaults department is not just about aggregating media, inputs, notes, and ideas into Knowledge Vault items but about capturing ANYTHING that will be valuable to you in the future. Any notes or research you've ever done should be available for future decisions and future research to build upon. Sometimes we do research across software/technology that we want to implement, or for tools, we may want to use in certain instances. We may compare multiple options to make a decision but further down the road we need to revisit the information, or there may be a different context in which something else might be more suitable. We can have all the research we do available for any subsequent decisions or expansions on that research category. We might be looking for people/skills to help us with a problem such as plumbing, accounting, law, etc. and we research people and categories, compare options, accumulate contact information for various possibilities We can ensure that in the future all this information is readily available We want all the information we collect to be accessible and we want a central place to collect it and organize it the first time, every time. Today we will cover how to capture and maintain information about software tools, various people skills, companies/service providers, service categories, and aggregate and organize everything. The previous few videos covered how to capture ideas and insight from various media sources and from our own thinking to be funneled into the Knowledge Vault. The next video will cover the Master Tag database; how to implement a global tagging system. Preannouncement about the new course. 3:05 3:40 Database Evolution Tools-Skills-Services Vault (TSS Vault) Initially August started with databases for individual skill providers, service providers, professional services, software tools, etc. He noticed it became difficult to decide how to categorize some things, e.g. the line between software and services has become blurred. Etc. Having separate databases made things confusing. The distinction August uses to decide whether to combine databases is whether the properties are similar or different. For the most part, the differences in the properties of these categories are not huge so it's not difficult to combine them. 6:57 Database Structure A look at the properties that make this work as a single database. This is very different from media, but all these things fit reasonably well together. 7:37 Looking at an example page Type Individual Service Provider Profession Membership Automated Service Software Functional category 7:53 Tagging system that allows filtering in other dashboards Long list of tags in this example These tags are unique to this database Description 8:15 This is very important and is required every time August adds one Website link August almost always captures these using the Notion web clipper and fills in the very few required properties for each of them. August has started using the smiley face icon for individual contractors, individual icons are used for things like software; this makes things easier to see at a glance. To Review 9:50 If it's something that he saw, and looks interesting/relevant to a need but he doesn't have time to look at it he will tag it here to take a closer look at it in the future. Notes For comments Rec/Ref/Used By Recommended by, referenced by, used by : If somebody you trust is either recommending or using something then it's useful information. Pay Frequency and Price Useful for subscriptions 11:10 Company Email 12:30 Knowledge Vault Integration When in the Knowledge Vault topics it can be helpful to have a listing at the top of that Knowledge Vault topic of all the TSS's that are related to that topic area e.g. there are links to every TSS related to Law and Legal Setup in the Knowledge Vault. Overall it's just another database, it's very simple but it's very valuable to aggregate this information that you can also then embed in a wide range of dashboards and different views across the system. 13:40 Back in the Mind Expansion dashboard where we access the Knowledge Vault we can see where the TSS's roll up into context 14:03 Quick note on correcting the filter for this view that was covered in the last video For cold topics, Active Projects, None, Is, Checked 14:50 from the example today we can see the Law & Legal setup topic Just as we had Notes and Ideas aggregating under a toggle, along with Media, there is also tools and skills aggregation. 15:35 How tools and skills are sorted and filtered 16:45 Closing Thoughts Information on TSS's becomes a valuable resource just like the Media and Knowledge Vaults In the next video, we will cover the Master Tag database, August is excited to share a 'next level' innovation on the entire concept of a tag database There will then be a video providing an expanded vision of what pillars are. The previous video on pillars was insufficient and misleading in many ways. After having gone through the Pipelines and Vaults in depth we can now cover pillars that will allow a strong interpretation of the entire system.

0:00 Intro We are in the final few videos that cover the Knowledge Management section of the overall system. These last videos for this section will cover ways to enhance and optimize. These are little touches that can really be added to almost any Knowledge Management system but it fits in exceptionally nicely with the PPV system we are constructing. This video covers a feature to add to the Knowledge Vault which is HOT and COLD topics. The knowledge vault is where all the best thinking, notes, and ideas are brought in from all the resources we consume and come up with on our own all come together by topic. This new addition to the Knowledge Vault makes it easier to interact with quickly and efficiently; Hot and cold topics. Hot topics are those that we engage with more frequently, cold topics are those that we may want to build knowledge and insight in but are much less frequently engaged with. As you do more knowledge aggregation in this system, the vault will begin to expand with more and more topics, which is positive and will make this one of the most valuable resources you own. Although we have the ability to archive topics, we will find that we have many that we are active with only periodically, perhaps only a few times a month or less but are still important to us. Hot and Cold gives us a way to separate such topics and integrate them into our mind expansion dashboard. 1:56 Roadmap & Course Info The next video will cover some specialty vaults The tech stack Vault and how we collect information on skills, people we might draw on, contractors, professionals etc. After that, we will look at the concept of a master tag database There are pros and cons to this, but August has had a breakthrough idea on how to take this database to the next level. You will be getting a sneak peek at the second version of the PPV system that have been creeping in. A lot of version 2 is about consolidating/simplifying while maintaining or even expanding the power of the original. The details of the next course will also be covered while giving you the complete on-ramp and integration of the PPV system into your life. The course will go into depth on how to integrate it into your life and make its principles a part of your daily living and to bring clarity, alignment, and focus to everything you do. 4:01 Mind Expansion Dashboard Updates A lot of the top banner graphics are in the way and push the functional parts of the page down meaning you have to scroll to access some of them. They have been removed as a result. An icon is still needed to make it easy to spot in spite of how much room it takes. The spaces between the media toggles have been removed to collapse them down tighter 4:50 5:10 The Notes and Ideas section at the top has been removed as they aren't entered here very often. 5:30 there is a toggle here and a separate page on the phone for quick entry of notes and ideas. 5:52 Hot & Cold Topics The Knowledge aggregation area is the same, with the same vault but now there are toggles for Hot, Cold and All topics. First, the topic categories will be explained and then the circumstances you might want to use them and those in which you don't There are systems that force you to use them and sometimes it's detrimental when a global category can be used. 6:20 In Notion you can have both Hot topics are those that you are going to engage with more frequently, the benefit of having a section like this is that it's easier to find things quickly that you access on a regular basis as opposed to sifting through your growing list. Cold topics are those that aren't accessed as often and can be sorted through quicker than an all topics category. 7:35 Filter Setup This is very dynamic and largely automated. 7:55 Archive is unchecked 8:10 The middle section here is most important The first and more dynamic of the 2 is Active Projects, Any, Is, Checked Seeing what this does 8:20 Product design is linked to 2 different projects (example) through a relational link to the projects database 8:30 There is a rollup to check whether they are active projects. If the project is active it will have a checkbox 9:04 If any of the projects are checked then it will pass this filter screen 9:22 Reminder of how that checkbox is calculated in the Projects Database Active checkbox is actually a formula (although it could simply be a manual check if you wanted) Since you need multiple projects to move your goals forward we wanted to have a counter in the goals database for the projects. 9:59 This formula simply checks whether the status is active. 10:30 Any Knowledge Vault topic that is linked to an active project will automatically appear here, which is what you want because the topics that are linked to the active projects are the ones you are going to be the most engaged with. Occasionally there will be topics that aren't connected to active projects that you access frequently. 11:03 Example 'Business building' There is a checkbox for priority topics that is selected for in the filter 11:35 11:45 The filter for the cold topics is the exact opposite. The All Topics category has no filter and shows everything. 12:15 When to Use Hot & Cold Topics Some personal systems will benefit from Hot/Cold topic categories and some will be hurt by it. This is why systems that force them are not always optimal. The Hot/Cold topic distinction is helpful if you are not cycling through projects at a rapid speed. If this is the case for you, you won't know where any of the topics are and will waste time searching for them. It would be better to simply use the All topics category. If your projects are static for a month or so, you will be familiar with the organization and positioning of topics and will be able to access them faster. Try both and see which works best for your circumstances. 14:08 Closing Thoughts The next video will cover a few more specialty categories, how to aggregate research on skills; from people, professional services, and how to aggregate research and knowledge on your Tech Stack. Tech Stack: All the technology and software that you use or may potentially use in the future. Then we will cover the master tag database which will be a fun exploration. The course will be released soon and will be the complete aggregation of everything August knows about how to implement this system in your life. Whether you take the course or not this youtube series will continue with more information on ways to enhance the PPV system and how to bring other life enhancement practices into the way you live your life.

0:00 Intro August has come up with some better ways to interface with the knowledge management system, The mind expansion dashboard is where this happens primarily where we bring in our inputs from our own thoughts and other resources. The readwise integration now handling a lot of the apple, kindle, pocket and Instapaper notes automatically. The new dashboard uses the same databases, but interfaces with them differently. 0:57 New Mind Expansion Dashboard Quick overview Looks cleaner and more stylized with some quick access to some filtered views This uses the exact same databases as the previous version with the readwise integration feeding both the books and all the other media into the same database. From now on the Knowledge lab will be called the Knowledge Vault for naming consistency. 2:20 The notes and ideas vault has now been changed to a gallery view. The toggle has been removed for very quick access. Filtered by either today or yesterday, most of the time. The filter can be changed very quickly The gallery view shows us a nice block of information (as opposed to it sitting in a table), and it makes starting new entries easier as well. There is now a toggle for the Notes and ideas Vault in the Action Zone as well, immediately above the Daily action zone. 4:40 Below that are the sources, the layout of the Vaults has been changed. Courses is put into a half column in a list view which works really nicely as a half-page column, sorted in order of status and creator. 5:10 The book Vault is a nice long gallery view of the books including their covers, sorted by last highlighted descending and last edited. These are automatically syncing through readwise to the kindle app and updating automatically as shown in a previous video. Each time highlights are added to a book, that book will move to the top of the book list so the books that are actively engaged with will always be on the top. These can then be reviewed a second time and highlighted using the tiered highlighting system already outlined in a previous video. 7:00 Articles are also put into their own section on list view, filtered by the past month sorted by last edited and highlighted. These are all also being updated automatically using the readwise integration, if you want the full article you use the Notion web clipper as was shown in the past. 8:20 Twitter Threads can be easily saved using read wise and some valuable information can be imported, these are also available here in list view. The previous video covered how to do this, they save with the same level of automation as books and articles. 9:20 Videos are not saved automatically, but very easily using the Notion web clipper. Videos can be saved and watched in Notion allowing you to take notes underneath immediately. Recording timestamps allows you to access the information again in context. 10:25 Podcasts are also kept in a list view The last video covered how to save snippets as you listen to them and then bring them all in together. 10:40 AirrQuotes saved example 11:25 The Knowledge Aggregation section is now shown in gallery view as well, sorted alphabetically. The same database is used with the same functions in the Knowledge Vault video layed out much nicer. The template workspace within each topic has been altered. 12:10 New Knowledge Vault Template with Contextual Media The properties are the same 12:30 The TOC is on the top, each heading automatically creating a quick link. 12:40 The References block contains what we originally had with the Notes and ideas listed in order from most recently edited, but there is also a self-referencing list view of any Media from the Media Vault that is related. 14:20 Gives an indication of all the items in the Media Vault that are related to the topic, make the content type visible by adjusting the properties. 15:10 Jumping back into the mind expansion dashboard we can see how to set up this template 15:30 quick notes is set up because inevitably when something is being started you want to throw something in very quickly. As the topic is built out, these will be moved into context within a larger organizational structure. 15:50 All the Notes are set up to filter for the Knowledge Vault property within the Notes and Ideas database contains Knowledge Vault template, which means when you apply it to Knowledge Vault entry it's applied to itself. All of the items in the Notes and Ideas Vault that are related to that item in the Knowledge Vault 16:15 The same thing with the Media Vault; it is self-referencing to the Knowledge Vault Template which means for any new Knowledge Vault entry we create all the media items that are linked to that new knowledge vault entry will appear. It is sorted for descending, by Last edited. 17:04 Mobile Phone Demo of New Dashboard This is just for you to see how nicely this new design works on mobile. The list views for all the databases (with the exception of the Books which are in gallery view) scroll very nicely. 18:20 At the bottom, the alphabetically listed items in these nice blocks are very aesthetically pleasing and are very easy to open. This new interface is perfect for mobile! The buttons are bigger and it's easier to organize and digest the information on the dashboard. 19:12 Conclusions & Plan for Future Videos The old interface is perfectly functional, but this one is a little bit more efficient and looks a little better. Choose what works for you. There will be one or two more videos on specialty vaults just to show you more capabilities of what you can do in the Vault section and then we will get into the Pillars, Pipelines, and Vaults overview after now having gone through each of the segments in detail. We will then have a higher-level overview, summary and in some ways introduction of the PPV organizational structure. Having gone through each of the sections now individually allows for a more comprehensive understanding to emerge. The PPV system will then be compared and contrasted to other available systems. There will then be some more specialty segments such as mindset and identity sculpting and client operations that are important for a fully functional LOS and business operations system.

0:00 Intro This episode will cover a cool little add on to the media vault; which is where we capture videos, articles, podcasts, books that we find valuable and want to keep. This typically all funnels into the knowledge lab as covered in the previous 2-3 videos. This addendum is for one category of media that is particularly hard to capture; podcasts. Typically you listen to these on the run, while you're driving, at the gym etc. where it's hard to stop and take notes and typically the way the spoken word is expressed is part of the nuance of the ideas being communicated. There is a new podcast app called Airr (no sponsors), that although very new does solve the problem of capturing highlights and segments of podcasts for sharing on social media or for capturing into the media vault. This is the best solution August has seen to capturing podcast highlights and notes on the fly in a shareable way, that also allows you to capture the nuances of the spoken word. The last video covered the new Media Vault which is very similar to the original except that it's automated using the Readwise integration with Notion that brings in automated highlights from kindle, apple books, pocket, Instapaper and Twitter. If you use the manual version of the vault and don't want to pay the monthly fee for Readwise then it looks just like the original video and this will work fine either way. Podcasts are going to come in from Airr, however, Airr is working very closely with Readwise right now and in the not too distant future, the Readwise integration should be able to bring in the Airr clips that we will see very soon. For now, it's still very good and if you're not going to use the Readwise service in the future, you would use Airr as it's covered in this video. The core features of the Airr app should be free for the foreseeable future. 3:35 Using the Airr App Opens the App on iPhone. You can select an episode to download and these will be visible in the library. You can also select to automatically download episodes from creators as they come out, but then you won't have a handpicked selection to choose from. 5:00 Selecting Highlights 5:15, while listening to an episode when you come across something interesting you can push the quote button and it will enter a clip mode with the endpoint. You want to listen until the end of what you want to save and then you can scroll back to the beginning point of what you want to save. When you stop at a point it will start playing in your headset from that point so you can clearly see if that's the starting point you wanted to save from. When you let go, it saves that clip and you can title it. 6:50, These saved clips also have transcripts, popular podcasts will have transcripts attached, but if not you can select to request a transcript (7:05) and it will take about 30 minutes for it to be generated. The idea is that when you save the Airr quote you get both the audio quote and the transcript of that section of the podcast. 8:20 Capturing Highlights to Notion If you go to 'My Airr Quotes' you will then have this episode with all the segments that you saved. 9:00 select all the clips you want to export, then go to share via, press and hold and select copy to send them to your phone's clipboard. Click on the episode itself and share episode, choose Notion, and then your Media Vault. Then paste the notes into the page that is created. If you are only adding a single quote you will get the full quote, if you add multiple, you will just get the links to the podcast section. The beauty of this is that we are now saving individually selected segments of podcasts. 10:30 Returning to the Desktop Notion database, we can see the podcast we just entered with the Title notes you add and link to the Airr quote itself and its transcript. You can then play back the individual snippets and you can share them with others and/or review them in your notes. All of the special elements of an episode are then available to you. The functionality of Airr and the ability it grants to quickly and precisely extract a very specific snippet of audio with the ability to have it converted into text is the best August has seen. If you intend to listen to a podcast it's easiest to request the transcript upfront. In most cases, there is something worth saving and remembering in a 45min plus podcast. If you are listening to podcasts you probably find yourself hearing thoughts all the time that you want to save, now it's possible. The next video will have a surprise reveal of the revamped front interface of the Mind Expansion dashboard. We will be looking at how the databases we've covered in the last several videos are now interfaced with.

0:00 Intro This video will introduce methods that radically enhance the media vault that was covered a few videos ago. There are going to be 2 parts to this video: How to go into amazon and create a nicer format of your highlights and notes in the amazon kindle platform that can then be brought into your book vault. Then we will cover something amazing allowing us to do all the automation we'd need for the entire PPV system without the API For knowledge management what we really want is to be able to automatically sync all our notes and highlights in kindles, apple books, e-readers, pocket, Instapaper, Twitter threads etc. into our notion media vault database. This is now possible with an integration of a beta version of Readwise This is not a paid promotion of Readwise, August has just personally found this to be something valuable. This automated integration does require a paid service, costing $8-9 USD per month. This will give you the automated syncing and a spaced repetition system to help you learn and internalize the notes and ideas that you're taking in across all these platforms. After the integration has been covered there will be some information on the core service of readwise which is very valuable on its own. We will be working in the media vault and in this demonstration, we will have the book and media vaults combined into one database, as discussed there are pros and cons to this, but the integration requires that they're all in one database. You can have one relational link to all the other databases that give you access to all the different types of media you have notes and highlights from. 3:55 Importing Kindle Notes First, we will cover how to take your book notes and bring them into Notion manually. This is very simple and is basically a short addendum to the book vault video This can be done for a stand-alone or combined book vault First, go to amazon and there will be a page with all your book notes Read.amazon.com/notebook On this page will be all the kindle books you have highlighted. As you click on each book you will see all the highlights from that book. You could copy and paste these directly but they will come over in a format that doesn't look very nice. The best way to bring them over is to visit readwise.io/bookcision Drag the javascriplet into your bookmarks bar Return to your Amazon page and select a book, then click the applet and copy and paste the highlights from there. 6:33 Auto-Syncing Database Setup Now we will cover the completely automated option which takes things to the next level. Readwise has a free trial period, so you can test it out and see if you like it before subscribing. In order to set this up, you have to start at the readwise page on your account. Go to the Notion export area, link in description for how to set this up The setup itself is incredibly easy and only takes a few minutes 7:50 settings The first time you do this it will create a new database for you in Notion, after it's been created you can then customize it as you like 9:00 You need to leave the synced category names the same as well as the synced property names. You can create additional categories for videos, podcasts, etc and you can then save these formats to this database as well without messing up the syncs. You can't use the database that we set up previously, you need to let the integration create a new one which then becomes your new media vault and you can add to it from the old one. You need to set up the integration through chrome or firefox because there is no real API for Notion, they've created it through a browser extension. 11:00 Merging Old Media DB + New Synced DB If you have already added a lot of material to your existing media vault, but you wanted to move into this automated direction you'd set up the new one, label the old one and then move old content into the new one. Highlight the ones you want, click the handle on the left choose 'move to' and select the new database. Before you do this take columns that are overlapping already and give them the same property names, this will save you a lot of time. 12:00 In the old vault we had two tags columns, one called tags and one called purpose, these are now consolidated, this should also be adjusted in the old database before bringing them over and adding a new property. 13:00 14:00 New Highlighting Strategy The new formatting also changes how the database is used, previously this was August's next read/watch list, but when it's completely syncing with the other apps he is now able to use pocket as his read later list and youtube's watch later feature for videos, The reading experience in pocket or insta paper is nicer, but there is a trade-off that is now being made; you don't have the highlighting options you get in notion and you are only saving the specific highlights from each article Previously you would highlight only the most important gems of an article, but now we know it's only saving the highlights so we can highlight more context around key points. Then the relevant gem can be highlighted in Notion later on. 16:00 In some cases, you might want the entire article, which you can just clip through in pocket and send to Notion using the web clipper. Videos and podcasts will be much the same, the next video will cover this in more detail with another cool integration. 17:28 eBook/Kindle Synced Highlights Inside the books, there is a toc at the top of each page If you are just highlighting in readwise as you go, you will not get these section headers automatically, however, if you tag in readwise in an app on your phone, or on your kindle when you highlight if you add the note .h1, .h2, or .h3 it will designate that highlight as a header of the corresponding level. 18:40 example on phone app for kindle Tap the kindle sync option in the readwise app Back in Notion the new highlights are imported with the headers settings 21:23 Article Synced Highlights (Pocket) Very similar to the book highlights on the kindle app 22:40 Synced Tweets & Tweet Threads Increasingly you come across long thoughtful tweet threads that you might want to save. Go to Twitter and find a thread you like You can reply to it with @readwisio save thread, post it and readwise will reply saying that the thread has been saved (everybody can see this) Alternatively, you can click share to and send via direct message to @readwiseio, in the comment write 'thread' 23:40 Takes some time to sync but it will then be available in Notion 24:37 Synced Print & Audio Book Notes If you are listening to an audiobook or reading a paperback that cannot be synced all you need to do is enter a note using the pen on the readwise app for your desktop or mobile, then enter the note, hit next and select the book you've been reading. This note will then automatically sync. 25:27 Spaced Repetition with Readwise Now we will briefly cover the core service that Readwise offers outside of Notion. The original intention of Readwise is to enable spaced repetition of content. 26:00 in the app click on your daily review once per day and see the highlights from content you've read that have been cued up. You then choose the ones you want to revisit using keep and discarding the others. Over time you will accumulate a lot of very high-quality notes that you'll remember well. You can have these emailed to you, but for most people, this won't be ideal as the emails won't come at good times. 28:23 Closing Thoughts If you are reading a good number of books or articles, the price is worth it to have all these notes automatically sync and have access to the spaced repetition of your highlights. The next video will show you how to capture notes from podcasts which have always been one of the hardest things to capture in note form.

0:00 Intro We are now in the midst of our exploration of knowledge management which is a module that can stand on its own but also plugs into the goals, projects, and task management system in the LOS. We are digging deeper into bringing knowledge into the system, how to use it, how to make ourselves smarter, and make the system smarter so that it can support and facilitate our goals across our life. The Knowledge Lab is Augusts' favorite of all the vaults, it makes us smarter and congregates all the different ideas and resources, notes that we bring in. The last several videos have focussed on the various different input sources such as books, media, articles, etc. how to organize them and have them available. The previous video looked at the notes and ideas database, how to quickly capture our thoughts and ideas and organize them in a way that makes them accessible. Today we are looking at the Knowledge lab which is where all this information is mixed together and turned into something much more valuable, actionable, and powerful. The Knowledge lab will grow into one of the most valuable assets you have. We hear about many systems such as external brains, second brains but as David Allen pointed out brains are good as some things and not others. They're really good at thinking, processing, sifting through organizing and prioritizing, and extracting insight, but they're not good at remembering, holding, and containing. We have one brain that is really good at the things brains do; thinking, analysis, critical assessment. Why would we duplicate what we already have? We don't need external or second brains, what we need is an extension to our brain that can do things we can't inherently do well. This is what the Knowledge lab ultimately does, it not only helps you remember, but it puts pieces together gradually as you grow, building them into bigger ideas that are more useful and actionable. These ideas can also be funneled into so many different directions. Your better understanding of a topic, creative output like articles/videos, etc. it can funnel into better contributions to meetings and work discussions, better performance. We're going to dive into how the Knowledge lab takes all these pieces and brings them together into something far greater than the sum of it's parts. This is where the emergence happens. 4:37 Database Structure 3:40 from the command center we jump into mind expansion We can see the quick entry location for notes and ideas, as well as the option in the action zone. 4:15 looking at the mind expansion dashboard we can see all the sections we've already covered. Notes and Ideas, The Library, Media Vault, Academy. Now we are entering the Knowledge lab, 4:32 4:30 When working with teams this is called a Knowledge base, for individuals, it's called a knowledge lab. Unlike all the previous vaults which are defined by the type of entry/source, this one is defined by topic categories themselves. Examples: Community building Course creation Design thinking Discipline Divergent/Convergent Thinking Fitness Goal setting Habits & Routines Home creation Marketing Metacognition PPV development Product design Professional Network Sales Each entry here is a topic or 'zone' of knowledge that you want to develop insight into and understanding of. In many cases, each of these are linked to many other items in the Knowledge Lab 8:30 There are also relational links to Notes & Ideas We'll see how this develops in a much more interesting way than simply relational links Projects Projects we are working on will be linked to relevant Knowledge Lab topics When you are in the project's workspace there you will only be one link away from all the relevant information Habits & Routines Content Links Example, August knew that he was going to write an article on Design thinking so he created a topic and aggregated all the relevant information from all the books, articles, podcasts, and videos that he read. Database if filtered by active status, and sorted alphabetically 10:40 Knowledge Workspace Build-Out Inside the community building topic, all the properties we just went through are linked her e. There is then a table of contents created using '/toc' automatically using the heading types Beneath that is extensive information that is pulled from different sources As you adjust, add, remove different sections and headings the table of contents will automatically adjust and update. The best highlights and insights from various sources are used, the things that give you the most actionable and interesting insights are put in these topics. The articles that are the most interesting and relevant are brought into the media database, books into the Library, Courses into the Academy, and then the most valuable points from each of these are brought into the topics. After all the most valuable notes have been brought in, it will then be refined further to be really sharp and powerful. Hierarchical highlighting could be used again Diagrams can be added, along with quotes or other formatting You want to format these topics in a way that allows you to quickly move through it, digest it and revisit is to pull out the valuable pieces with a quick skim. If you are developing an idea for a type of output like a video, presentation or keynote this is where it's built and shaped. If you just want to be more knowledgeable about something then you want to structure it in a way that makes it easy to review and get the benefits of spaced repetition. 14:00 Notes & Ideas Contextualization This is one of the most interesting toggles You enter notes, ideas, thoughts all time into all those different entry points we looked at in the last video. Here is where they resurface in the time and place that is most valuable. The place is the context of when you sit down to examine what's happening in a topic area all the ideas that you've collected link to the topic. The key is that these notes resurface contextually rather than just arbitrarily by some date. Notes and ideas are filtered and then sorted by last edited, so the most recent notes appear first. Having the notes here is very valuable, you can simply open them up and see everything within, If you are fleshing this out, building it out further, etc. you can take a note and drag it out of the notes database (assuming it isn't linked to other important topics) and drag it down into the topic page. Alternatively, you can just hold down the Alt key and drag out a copy of the note. Notes are probably connected to several things, they are captured and tightly defined. You can drag them to relevant subsections of topic ideas and keep things growing. This is what makes this a comprehensive system that allows for emergence. Ideas are captured anytime anywhere and they reveal themselves at the right time and place. New topic template 19:53 The notes and ideas database filtering to the relational link to the knowledge lab and contains New Topic template (this was covered early with the self-referencing filter that can be applied to a template. The template automatically creates the table of contents You quickly create headers using markdown language # +space creates a header 1 ## + space creates header 2 etc. Whatever topics are pertinent to you, to learn and understand, for work, for projects, or for any area of your life, build a specific topic category for it, read and research the relevant information, bring the sources into the other vaults. Think about it, add your own ideas and notes as you have them Have locations all over your system to immediately enter ideas as you have them 23:55 Project DB Knowledge Integration Moving into the alignment zone when we open any project we will have an immediately accessible link to any of the knowledge lab topics relevant to the project. In the projects page, you could add a filtered database for all the knowledge lab items for each project as your knowledge lab grows 25:20 26:08 Closing Thoughts You can now see how each piece works together to create such an incredibly valuable resource. This becomes a zone of ideas that can flourish and grow, taking on a life of their own over time. This is a brain extension, meaning it does things that a brain can't do. Bringing ideas, information, and resources to light in the right context is what makes them valuable, this is what the system does and is hard to do in general. If you're taking notes by any other means, the information isn't going to surface as it's needed. Notion has the whole task management system with the interconnectivity of all these different databases and the self-referencing resurfacing capability of having one database bring the notes and ideas together in context through these relational links and smart system design.

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