# How to Build Your Personal Productivity Stack - Tiago Forte Synced: [[2023_11_30]] 6:03 AM Last Highlighted: [[2023_08_07]] Tags: [[pkm]]  The thing here that I think is missing is that, can there be an all in one tool to accomplish these things. I love the Readwise Reader integrates several parts together, integrating with services, hosting the data but not taking it hostage. How can we do that for other sorts of systems like this. How can a I make a task into a project into dashboard? Can it be done? ## Highlights [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76gxq8d1efjg6206ecmwevv) > **Task overwhelm** occurs when the actionable items in your list are crowded out by the non-urgent ones: when your ideas, list of someday-maybes, inspirations, and random learnings make it difficult to find the singular, next important action. [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76h29rq5em9ct85q14drnbs) > **Notetaking overwhelm** happens when you’re collecting everything, processing your notes, and growing a knowledge system – but somehow, you never revisit the notes you’ve captured, and don’t seem to be able to achieve the day-to-day usefulness from your notes you’ve already collected. [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76h6qjhdcm09p5bbghpv9e8) > The “job” of Personal Dashboards – which notetaking apps are least suited to – is to **guide day-to-day decisions and actions**, and “do work” by **processing and reframing information** in ways that are difficult for a human brain to do on its own. [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76hdxh3pmt6vvcrzt4b1vqk) > Your dashboards proactively inform the actions you take every day. To do that, *they have to be dynamic and responsive to your changing needs.* They have to change in response to how you want information presented in the moment, which facets you want to explore or understand, or based on changes in your digital environment. Interesting - "I've noticed your spending is higher than usual, want to look into that?" Man, I wish you could just have a personal data store for your data, so you can drive whatever you wanted with it. Maybe an incantation of my [[Storeme]] idea? [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76h85xx8vn0p8ya3s74vg42) > This new kind of document is perfect for modern knowledge workers – more **interactive** than simply editing text, more **intelligent** than a static document, more **dynamic** than a bullet point list, and more **collaborative** than a Google Doc. And they address notetaking overwhelm by structuring, organizing, and reframing your existing notes on a just-in-time basis. It's like flowcharts at agile, comibing documentation with workflow is powerful. Building something that can do that for your life is a multiplier. [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76hq09sfq16kwa6w04v5f2e) > Here’s my advice for deciding what is worth building in a more advanced tool like Notion: **start building with the end in mind.** [[2023_08_07]] [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h76hw6pf15dkngtk22yqzrfh) > The truth is, all these tools and all these layers only matter to the extent **they bring you more of what you want in life**.