Inputs, Unified Daily Views and Currency Conversion

1. Productivity: Input Is Still Required

There is no substitute for actually getting things done.

That may seem strange to read in a newsletter focused on productivity and time management, but it remains true.

If you want to create output, you need to provide input. You need to get things done.

All the productivity and time management techniques in the world simply let you create massively outsized output compared to the inputs you provide. So 1 unit of input = 10 units of output, instead of the standard 1:1 ratio.

But these techniques do not (yet) let us create output without input. You still need to put in the hours and take action to produce.

2. Ops: Combining Business and Personal Tasks

I recently had an interesting discussion with a client about how the best way to manage having both a personal task management app like Things, and a business project management app like Asana or Monday.com.

Ideally, you don’t want to work out of both systems. Nor do you want to be transferring tasks from one system into the other.

What you want is a unified view of both.

And the perfect way to do that is with a daily journal entry.

This is simply a daily note in your app of choice, that you populate daily and pull in tasks from both your personal and business apps.

Then you clear this list to zero and reflect this back into your apps at the end of the day.

This is the exact system that I cover in the Perpetual Journal System.

3. Tech: The Best Currency Conversion App

I recently came back from Japan and wanted to give a shoutout to my favourite currency conversion app:

Coinverter.

It’s fast, easy to use, and 100% free.

— Aaron

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