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How to do Basic Automation in Integromat | Like a Tweet to Save it in OneNote

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Some basic automation in Integromat. Suggestion, when you save your tweet, you may want to make the title something like: Tweet by *Author Name* | *Date* If you look through the dynamic tweet data thats available, you should be able to find any of the tweet's metadata you'd like to use.

How to Setup Todoist Tasks, Projects, and Areas for Maximum Flow

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Welcome, this post is m eant to help you streamline your setup for managing your tasks, projects, and life areas. To follow the video, here are some of the principles I build around: Invisible work is the enemy of our inner peace and flow. Work items we hold in our heads and don't write tend like to wait until we're engaged in some other activity before assaulting the backs of our brains. In extreme cases, this feels like a whirlwind in our minds and harms our ability to focus and stay present. Because of this, we need to commit to capturing every to-do . In order to keep that commitment, we need to be mindful of our internal resistance which tends to flare if we don't have: Easy and predetermined ways to capture these items a system to manage (or process) items easily after capturing them certainty that they will surface at the right time Because the goal is productivity but also flow, and because we aren't always at our best, we need to build systems t...

How to Grow Inner Peace: Stop Believing Everything You Think

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Inner Peace sounds great. We tend to be pretty aware of outer peace, which we know because most people are easily disturbed by noises, smells, or moving visuals in our environments. What's incredible is that most of us have a neurotic person chattering non-stop in our heads. Worse, we listen to all of its advice, without even wondering about its track record. If this was an external person, who was always getting us riled up, whispering to us in the middle of the night about everything worrisome, and so often shouting to us about anything but the task at hand, we would never accept their calls. Since it's always been this way though, it seems normal to us. Lately, I've been acutely aware of the voice in my head —the one so many of us have; it's been there as long as I can remember. When I was in my teens it felt more like 2 voices: my analytical and emotional selves. I experienced dialogues between different parts of my mind. There's an analogy tha...