Pausing to express empathy for the hesitant "I don't really organize things" which I know from first-hand experience sounds contradictory but is so true for ADHD brain. I'd organize everything in a way that made sense last week, but this week my brain's in a different space and that organization makes no sense to me. Nowadays I focus on s structure and discoverability that will survive whatever high-level organization approach I may suddenly obsess over.
notion isnt difficult really but you just need to define a role for it and not try to make it work for everything. if you try to make it work for everything like task management and a second brain and a life os thats when it gets confusing and messy
If Tana doesn't click for someone, maybe because the outline structure doesn't call out to them, maybe try Capacities? The easiest summary for someone familiar with the domain is a simplified Tana that looks like Notion. The core unit is a page, but it lets you define your own object types and convert between them. After some time getting carried away with defining object types, I *mainly* use it as a bookmarking tool, because it saves web links as a built-in type that you can then arrange to your liking. Another nice hook is that the journal page includes a gallery of objects created on that day. Mobile client is handy too, at least on iOS.
Pausing to express empathy for the hesitant "I don't really organize things" which I know from first-hand experience sounds contradictory but is so true for ADHD brain. I'd organize everything in a way that made sense last week, but this week my brain's in a different space and that organization makes no sense to me. Nowadays I focus on s structure and discoverability that will survive whatever high-level organization approach I may suddenly obsess over.
I so much empathize with your frustration when someone doesn't want to embark on crazy setups to use the perfect apps 😂
Apologies for the poor placement of the video tiles - unfortunately I couldn't edit that away 😑
notion isnt difficult really but you just need to define a role for it and not try to make it work for everything. if you try to make it work for everything like task management and a second brain and a life os thats when it gets confusing and messy
Retrieval is not great in Notion IMO
If Tana doesn't click for someone, maybe because the outline structure doesn't call out to them, maybe try Capacities? The easiest summary for someone familiar with the domain is a simplified Tana that looks like Notion. The core unit is a page, but it lets you define your own object types and convert between them. After some time getting carried away with defining object types, I *mainly* use it as a bookmarking tool, because it saves web links as a built-in type that you can then arrange to your liking. Another nice hook is that the journal page includes a gallery of objects created on that day. Mobile client is handy too, at least on iOS.
To be honest, the only real problem with Notion as a PKMS is... backlinks and effective resurfacing of information.
But it's quite a big problem :)