Impact: Experimental Curiosity Log Guides my Routines

As part of my PKM system based on linked notes in Obsidian, I use Day notes along with Horizon notes for each time period (week, month, quarter, year, and decade). Each periodic note has a similar structure and related linked notes for Plan, Log, Actions, and Review.

For my experiment, I decided to use a separate Curiosity Log as my experimental log, and posted my results within the community and on my website. I used the Plus-Minus-Next framework for doing my reviews. This summarizes my experience with my first tiny experiment.

Plus ➕

- Recorded all my diabetes events for the entire day (glucose, insulin, carbs, meals, activity, and alerts).
- Template provided structure for my routines, planning, log, actions, and review practices.
- Examined and refactored my daily actions; aligned OmniFocus routines with Obsidian notes.
- Refining shortcuts for capture and workflow actions.
- Restarted a consistent morning meditation practice and reflection.
- Avoided processing email until after morning focus sessions.

Minus －

- Logging all my events, thoughts, questions, actions enabled me to identify what I'm actually doing with my time.
- Discoveries learned every day enabled me to tweak my routines and refine the workflows for my actions when something didn't work quite right or was out of sequence.
- I found some older shortcuts that no longer worked because of changes with some of the apps, so I was able to fix them and get them working again.

Next →

- I will merge the Curiosity Log into my existing Log note, and update related templates.
- Continue with this experiment every day in March.
- Continually refine and improve my workflows with automation where possible.

Impact

- Create a post for the Curiosity Collective community to share the results of my experiment.
- Create pages on my Ghost website about the Tiny Experiments book, as well as my posts from my Curiosity Collective experiment.
- Post on social media about the Tiny Experiments book via link to my website.