<aside> 🪓 “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” — Not Abraham Lincoln

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Core Tools

**Notion 📓**

• Functions as a second brain/long-term memory
• My entire life is stored inside Notion. It's a little scary, but I love it
• See my templates here: Jesse’s Notion Templates
• Things I use it for include: this website, journaling, book lists, shopping lists, career planning, job applications, school assignments & classes (when I was in school), task management, relationships, and so much more…
  • Relationship database - I keep track of people, their birthdays, when I last reached out to them, and what journal entries they were involved in. I have a linked database that shows people I haven’t reached out to recently
• Why you might not want to use Notion

**Arc Browser 🌈**

• I love how you can save and organize tabs into spaces and folders, especially in the sidebar. Makes much more sense there, and having no top bar makes the screen feel so much bigger
• I like the keyboard shortcuts. The split screen is nice
• The AI features are decent, especially the find-in page with AI - nvm I never actually use them
• It is seeming like Arc is dying (not being developed anymore) :/ - I’ve heard Zen Browser is a good replacement?

**Notion Calendar 📅**

• It uses Google Calendar accounts, so it is a pretty small investment to try
• Because it is connected to Notion, it can show Notion databases on the calendar
  • This is especially useful for showing my tasks/to-do database
  • I also use it to show people’s birthdays and workouts
• I’m a big fan of time blocking, including things like sleep, meals, etc.

**Google Keep 📝**

• Functions as my short-term memory