mem it's a fairly new note-taking application in this video I wanted to show you how I'm using it
and a few of the different ways including page anchors journal and a bit of insight around the
flows experience in it that gets me around my week so let's dive into today's video if you
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my mem usage in this video so here we have mem in front of me and collectively I've only made
just over 300 mems and this isn't actually my account because I wanted to demonstrate
um what I'm talking about in terms of creating pages with you just to visually demonstrate it
but also because I do a lot of personal journaling in mem so obviously I don't want to share it in
for full capacity but I'm going to build exactly what I have in a symbols anchor page setups and
journal in this video so you can see here that mem is structurally pretty similar to a lot of
note-taking applications but from the start you have this area called timeline one thing I really
like about timeline especially for journaling is it captures when you begin a note and when you
finish it note and I quite like that because over a time period you can see this timeline of when
you've not only created the note but when you've viewed a note too so you get this really nice like
um timeline on the right hand side sort of like Google photos approach to notes which is really
nice now as you can see here this is a example of a note and a mem a mem is very much a simple note
and when you go and create a mem you have to create a header to start and start typing away
and there's not really a hideous amount you can do with the multimedia side as much as you would
in say an app like notion or Evernote however you can add things like templates attach files they've
recently added a PDF ability images and date entry too now let me show you first off how I
create something I call Anchor Pages now anchor pages are basically these pages that are like
the core Foundation of some of the setups I have so one of them as a good example is my
mortgage balance because I like to keep updated with how I'm sort of going in with each month
and things like that how many overpayments I'm potentially trying to make or underpayments
Etc and you can see here that it's very simply structured like this I put an emoji in front of
it with the title of the page and what I'll do is if I have an update about that I will simply do
type in today and I will add the balance say you know here and you can see there that it comes up
like this and it's quite nice because I can get this running tally almost like a diary ongoing
of how I'm making progress on this and potentially be able to reference it for future now I do this
with actually a few different areas so the other thing I do it for is let me just go and create it
um so I do this for weight and very simply all I do is essentially just put today
State and add my weight to it maybe that for example and I'll just keep a tally of it and I
do this with a few different categories like how much is in my pension how much is in my mortgage
my weight and it just gives me an idea of sort of collectively how I'm working on things and and
progressing and I quite like having that actually it's sort of like connected with my journaling
which I'll talk about later now the other way that I sort of combine this ongoing tallying
methodology in a simple text format is actually by doing goals so what it would do is I will
have a goals page that have a goals for the year in the different categories like Health family
um at work and personal life maybe or something like this as just a breakdown so here's a good
example of this and what I'll do is I'll link any of the relevant areas that I see fit like
I could be like years ago like reduce by x amount on and then add Mortgage Balance so
that they begin to build relationships with them but what I do is I actually have down here is 22
goals and then I have a page called say June 2022 goals and I'll create these every single
month and what I'll do is I open them up on the right hand side make the title nice and big
and what I'll do is at the top I'll say I'll write so far and I have a template for this in
which I'll show you near the end of this video and I also have down the below goals health work
family just as a sort of rough sketch and then I'll be basically just add like
uh do one press up I'll add um these Health these breakdown of goals here
and I'll give this one a heading three and this one I had in three but I normally
just save them time in the template and what I noticed I was doing last year was
um every year I was I every year I've done sort of like an annual review type of
um thing where I've been able to look back and sort of review what I did month to month at least
successes but what I've started doing this year is actually doing this per month so anytime I get
some form of success in the month whether that is auto learning to read a new book or him learning
a new word all the way to a success in launching something or a success on the channel for example
I will just log in here and it'll be as simple as Auto learned new word or and maybe like secured
new sponsor for and then I'll link the page Bento say etc etc so I I have what I believed on going
to be a tally of successes and losses as well and this actually helps me when it comes to the
journaling side of stuff and let me show you what I mean by that so for example um I know I wouldn't
do this typically on the goal side actually let's do this properly let's say I'm writing a journal
for a week review and I'll only tend to do a week review which is something that
is just normally on a Thursday and I'll put today's date for example so what I would do is
I'll make a simple title like um how did this week go and I won't do this manually I'll do this using
the flow ability which I'll show you near the end of this video and I'll say thoughts on next week
and then I'll oh and then I'll go then I'll go to priorities so what I'll do is I'll write a few
musings about how this week has gone the last week and I'll do some thoughts on next week but at the
same time at the top and I'll unlink it because I don't necessarily need it to be there I'll link my
June goals because say that's the month I have and I'll keep my June goals to the side so that
every weekend I'm like okay let me review last week I write down what I reviewed last week and
then I'll pick up things and I'll go oh yeah I did this or oh yeah I did that or I didn't do well at
this I didn't do well at that and I'll potentially add this to the so far area which is really really
helpful and what I also do is down the bottom here I will link um well I haven't created it yet
because this is a dummy account I'll I'll create the same for July 2022 goals and I'll write next
then when I go back to the collective goals so let me just find that page
um long-term goals and I open it up I could be like okay I can see my June
goals here which is ideal and uh I'll just open it up again I can go to and create
huh there we go
and I can begin to connect up the Dots here and be able to see an ongoing tally of my goals as
they run along if I have a journal then I'm say writing about that it's starting a new month it
gives me the opportunity to start a new months so that's how I go about sort of structuring my
week review I do last week I do next week and I do priorities but what's nice about the way that I do
um my sort of weak review is is sometimes if I'm in a position where I want a little bit
of clarity about how I'm like planning stuff what I'll do is I'll it sounds weird but I'll
talk to myself as I'm writing my week review so for example I'd be like okay what are the
priorities this week launch Bento for Android say I'll be like okay so this is going well
um right now I'm feeling a little anxious about it
I'm just trying to give you what it actually is a bit like that and then I'd be like let me
quickly check what the results were for pre-launch registrations then what I'll
do is I'll actually go and do that and then I'll come back and start typing and I don't
know whether it was Thiago Forte who said to me that this is a type of journaling that is
used in I don't know whether he said it's CBT or something of a similar kind and it's like a
guided journaling where you're thinking out what you're doing at the same time as you're activating
it and actually it's quite mindful because we rarely do that when we're doing a task it's like
having an internal monologue as you're trying to complete a task and it does keep you on task quite
effectively so I do find these weak reviews to be quite good in terms of looking at priorities as
well but also keeping updated with that annual review and keeping an eye on on sort of goals
but what is nice is when I grab time to look at my long-term goals I just swap that out and then what
I'll do is I'll open up the latest month's goals or let's say for July and I'll correlate them I'll
be like okay so how is work going am I what do I need to do this month is a 30-day window to launch
Bento to reach 250 and keep productive etc etc and what it what it helps me to do is is correlate
what are the long-term goals and how do I make smaller movements in this month to work towards
those goals so I really like the way that you can split mems up in in terms of of breaking them down
so as I said I use flows a lot flows basically has a bunch of features including a lot of
capture functionality but one of the things I use most is the templates so let's say I'm I'm trying
to replicate a monthly goals one and that's just to save me time at the end of the year
um well not the end of the year every time I create those monthly goals areas so I
could for example say okay let's call this one month goals 2022 and then I can replace this
when it's relevant of course and then below I can be like okay so far
this month and I can put some nice emoji on it Etc
and I could start us off with a bullet point so you can start to see that this is actually saving
me time when it comes to doing the actual thing and then I could be like okay goals for this month
and and already create this structure that I need and then create template okay so this is where the
magic happens if I'm in this area for example and I am like okay I'll press slash command and I'll
type in monthly goals template boom done and I can be like July goals 2022. actually I I structured
the title a little bit differently I got goals to it like that so you can start to see how easy
the template side of stuff is and the same goes to the weekly review side of stuff so I might
be like okay go back to flows go to templates go to actually I had a weekly review template there
This Is My Demo account as you can see and I can be like boom and just add some nice emojis
so you start to get the idea of how things are how I go about structure in my account
now you're probably wondering um what does this look like week to week how often do you use it and
things like that so when I'm trying to get a bit of clarity midweek what I'll tend to do is I'll
grab this and I'll sit down and I'll Journal through a week review so that's normally on a
Thursday and it takes me about 20 minutes this is my carrot cake and coffee shop trip so I'll try
and get a nice cake combined with getting this out and and working on it which is really nice
um the other thing that I'll try and do is during the week maybe when I'm doing say something
related to I press command K I'll go to like okay pension portfolio then I can do these so when it's
when it's specifically time I can go in and log this when I weigh myself I'll go in and log this
and I find that actually to be a really nice location to do stuff like that then when I have
a success I'm like okay um July 2022 goals and I'll go and I'll um I'll log you know um I ran
5K under 20 30 minutes you know like I'll try and keep that log going and one of the things I'll do
as well to sort of emphasize something inside of a log um I will just highlight it in bold
and it's really really simple I moved away from notion a long time ago probably about two years
ago well I guess I found my productivity system to be a lot more simple than I was making it
um the way that I tend to do productivity stuff is like I was adding databases and I felt like I
don't need databases for it to work and I found a pretty robust plane tax system that I found to be
like bubbly and useful and some of the more recent PDF abilities that they've been working
on and email is quite nice and it's quite um quite speedy so I've shown you in this video
about anchor Pages journaling and how I do it and flows and how that weaves into all of
them and that's pretty much how I use mem at the moment like all of these new note-taking
applications it's a bit of a preview of what is going to be coming I guess I'm just going
to continue to extend how I'm using it and see where my limits are whether I need to fine-tune
things or whether I need to improve them but I hopefully that gave you a bit of an insight into
how I'm using it for a day so folks hopefully you found this video useful if you're new to
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