A peak into my mind

I started using Notion from the beginning of my writing journey.

Why? Because when I began writing on the internet, I used Dan Koe’s framework of TwiX/Notion/Beehiiv to get started.

While I’ve ditched the first one for Medium and Substack, the other two have been very effective. In reality, Notion is where most of my content ideas are captured so it from that perspective, it’s the engine for Beehiiv as the main content hub with Substack and Medium being the places where I release them.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ve used the same Notion page over the past three years for daily thoughts. Each year, I simply duplicate to it to a new year. The cool part about that is when I pull up the page for the date of the current year, I have notes from the previous one to look at.

Stuff hits differently after 365 days.

On this date…

Here’s what today’s page looks like:

If you look at it, you’ll see all sorts of mental flotsam drifting about. I won’t have the chance to write about every single one of these ideas, but they’re on the page now for future musings.

Here’s the rest of the page further down from previous years:

As you can see, I was in a very different headspace in the past. I was still mulling over short form and the earlier iterations of this newsletter.

Hey, I actually completed the analogy email course! I do have plans to do the other courses as well, but their relevance has evolved somewhat given that I’m now actively pushing forward on storytelling. Mixed-media would fit nicely into leveraging all the features that Substack has to offer.

Endless content starts here

Nothing too profound or deep for this particular issue, but I wanted to share the heart of my system.

It’s simple, straightforward, maybe a little jumbled up, but it’s mine and it’s always evolving. As I revisited these notes just now, I was reminded of the fact that there are multitudes of tools out there for you to use when it comes to making life easier, more organized, or more fulfilling. It doesn’t mean that you have to use them all, though.

Getting a handle on a handful of tools and taking advantage of them to their fullest extent is much better than cobbling together a clunky patchwork.

At least that’s what I’m come to realize for myself.

What does your idea-capturing process look like?