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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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*** 1 - Intro & Overview of Pillars, Pipelines & Vaults – Notion Life Operating System 2 - How The Notion Productivity App Changes Everything 3 - Systems Thinking Intro – Notion Productivity Series 4 - Notion Design with Systems Thinking Approach 5 - My Notion Life Operating System Overview 6 - Notion Dashboard Creation - Command Center (Beginner Level) 7 - Notion Widget Embeds – Adding Weather Widget to Dashboard (or other dynamic content) 8 - Notion Task Database for Comprehensive Linked System 9 - Dependent Tasks in a Notion Task Database (aka Master/Sub-task or Parent/Child Tasks) 10 - Daily Data Tracking in a Notion Database 11 - Notion Daily "Action Zone" Dashboard Design 12 - "Task Status" Enhancement to Notion Life OS for Better Project Management 13 - Notion System Design: Create a Flow Chart 14 - Notion Quick Entry Notes & Tasks (Viewer Q&A) 15 - Notion Task Lists & "Do Dates" (Viewer Q&A) 16 - Notion "Alignment Zone" Master Dashboard || Essential Episode 17 - Notion Project Database + Project Workspace Template Design for Powerful Project Management 18 - Notion Goal Setting with "Goal Outcome" & "Value Goals" Databases 19 - Life Pillars in Notion — Aligning Pillars, Goals, Projects & Tasks 20 - Recurring Tasks in Notion + Self Referencing Filter (New Feature) 21 - Weekly Reviews In Notion — Master Level Life Alignment 22 - Monthly Reviews In Notion — Master Level Life Alignment 23 - Notion Content Creation Pipeline with Dashboard + Database 24 - Notion System Updates + Task-to-Content Coordinated Sync 25 - Notion Database Relations & Rollups + System Updates 26 - Advanced Notion Rollups & Formulas for System Automation 27 - Knowledge Management System in Notion – Introducing Vaults 28 - Notion Book Reading Database — The Book Vault 29 - Notion Media Capture Database + Course Database – Vault System 30 - Notes & Ideas Vault Notion Database 31 - Knowledge Vault – Notion Knowledge Management System 32 - Auto-Synced Reading Highlights in Notion via Readwise (Kindle, Pocket, Instapaper) 33 - Capture Podcast Highlights Into Notion with the Airr Podcast App 34 - Enhanced Mind Expansion Dashboard – Notion Knowledge Management System 35 - Hot & Cold Knowledge Topics – Notion Personal Knowledge Management 36 - Software Tech Stack, Skills & Services Research & Tracking in Notion– Vault System 37 - Master Tag Database for Notion Life OS & Personal Knowledge Management 38 - Pillars Expanded — Notion PPV Life Operating System 39 - New Command Center V2 for Notion Life Operating System 40 - PPV Outside of Notion – Notion Life Operating System 41 - Implementing Habits & Routines in Notion Life Operating System 42 - Timelines for Projects in Notion Life Operating System 43 - Planning Your Day in the Notion PPV Life Operating System 44 - Time Blocking with Google Calendar + Notion PPV Daily Plan 45 - Google Calendar in Notion Dashboards + More Embeds 46 - MINDSET In Notion – PPV Life Operating System 47 - Notion Bullet Journal Daily Planner – Notion Life OS *** Teal Swan - Containment - What a Woman Needs From a Man in a Relationship Teal Swan - What Every Woman Should Know About Men *** Driving Test Report Did 15 hours of lessons and about as many hours of theory after New Year's. Took the practical test today to upgrade my license and add it to my growing list of machinery qualifications. Fully licensed and unrestricted big rig operator now! Nice challenge, good adrenalin. Notes *** Very Naughty, Very Mischievous ***

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