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Clearing your mind with note-taking apps

Clearing your mind with note-taking apps

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Clearing your mind with note-taking apps

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- When it comes to productivity, one of the most powerful tools is having a clean mind. Now if you have a mind that's filled with all different kinds of tasks and to-dos, that becomes very distracting. What we want to do is the moment one of these things pops into your head, you immediately gather it quickly and put it into an approved gathering point. I'll walk you through an example in a moment, but first let's talk about some of the principles behind this. First, I recommend that you stay digital in the way that you gather. Yes, you can use a physical notepad to gather these things, but there's real value in having a device with you at all times that can sync across multiple devices. Second, you want to create a folder called inbox where everything goes automatically. If you're dumping these random ideas into lots of different folders and sections, they're likely to get lost. Third is you want it to be able…

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