Quick capture
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This experiment started on 6 Sep 2021 and concluded on 8 December 2021.
This was an experiment to simulate the "quick capture" and "revisit" experience I had been imagining for by stringing existing tools together into a workflow that felt somewhat cogent.
The goals here being to learn:
What did I notice myself doing/needing after having a reasonable "stock" of cards?
What – if anything – might I need develop a habit of making cards?
What would I write cards about and what form(s) would cards take?
#TODO
The intention I had here was to:
Make it easy for me to "reach" for a stock of strategies (read: quotes I found inspirational, things I thought to be true, etc.) I could use in moments where I felt faced with a choice that would could bring me in or out of alignment with how I was trying to be and what I was trying to do.
I used two iOS apps for this experiment:
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ii. I set up a new, dedicated email account for receiving the thoughts I was jotting down with Paper Plane so as not to muddle this experience with the existing email workflows and habits I'd established.
The led me to see as core to helping me evolve past reflexes that were no longer useful to me.
Drawing inspiration from flash cards, , and (namely ) I sought to come up with a flow that would enable me to quickly create and revisit digital cards.
Keep present in my mind throughout the day and
for quickly getting down resonant thoughts so that I could explore and refine them at a later time using the Spark Mail app. [i]
for receiving the emails I sent to myself using Paper Plane.[ii]
i. I considered using instead of Paper Plane because of the edit history and metadata Drafts exposes about each draft you create. Although, I decided against using it because the actual input didn't feel quite like how I imagine the cards input to feel: fast, simple, and detached from the future.
