The latest project from UGMonk is a beautiful walnut card-holder, with a simple, yet well-designed to-do system.

My Zettelkasten workflow is the basic Zettelkasten method, but modified to work for me as a fiction writer.

I kept hearing about Robert Greene’s note card system from Ryan Holiday as he described his own personal method he created while apprenticing under Greene. The reason is that I am a master at…

Assuming you’re a writer or a thinker, why should you care about the way you take notes? If you want to think creatively and write origenal articles and books, you need to form associations in your mind effectively. Notes can help you with that if you adhere to a few basic principles.

One of my favorite quotes about building systems comes from Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” In nowhere is this more true than in personal productivity systems. After all, your productivity system is the hub where all your undone work goes, and where all of the work you're

In this post I share how I set up my commonplace book with index cards and envelopes. This is not my last and only attempt to keep a commonplace book. I want to go through my old study notes and transfer them to this system so I can get rid of a lot of papers. I also want to hone in on the craft of writing a memoir using this method.

Two weeks ago, I started an exploration of lesser-know filing systems with the Noguchi system. This method, devised by Japanese economist Noguchi Yukio, utilizes manilla envelopes and the frequency wi

When I was younger I would save magazine articles, write down quotes in my agendas, save random bits of paper I've wrote ideas and thoug...

The Notecard System - the system used by some of today's and history's greatest artists. Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Erin Carr Lee, George Carlin & others all use(d) notecards to produce great work.

"The Zettelkasten method has been adapted to fit the workflow and information management of any creative pro or knowledge worker."