Joy at Work

The other day I read through this book. It only took me a few hours, so you can see it's not the longest book.

I think if you're the kind of person that's obsessed with organising (like me), you'll know a lot of this stuff already. I wanted to read it for the non-physical tidying tips; how do you tidy your learning, your schedule, your brain? There are a few chapters that I found helpful, but a lot of the ideas are quite basic. I suppose people have such different lives and schedules that it's impossible to give specific advice. When it comes to tidying a house or an office, most people have clothes or files, but non-physical is different.

"Does it spark joy?"

Personally, I feel the 'spark joy' attitude doesn't really work when it comes to your career, I can't really put my schedule in a pile on the floor and chuck out everything that doesn't spark joy.

Anyway, whilst the search continues for deep, non-physical tidying inspiration, I have started a 'personal wiki' on Notion. I was using a combination of OneNote on my computer, and GoodNotes on my iPad but it feels much better having it all in one place. I started a separate personal wiki for work as I had a similar problem with organising myself.

I have a 'Back and Forth' and 'Forth and Back' list, which is a list of all the subjects I'd like to work on. Each week (or however long it takes to get through them all) I pick a task from the list, do some work on it and then move it into the opposite list. That way I keep everything moving.

Another thing I quite like is the ability to add code (formatted correctly) in Notion. I've been working my way through "Sam's Teach Yourself: C Programming" book and I use Notion to record my learning.