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Impact: Experimental Curiosity Log Guides my Routines

Experimental Curiosity Log guides my routines. Results from my experiment using my Day Log.

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.