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LYT Pipeline

I presented a Showcase on LYT Pipeline: Workflow with Arc Browser, Drafts, and Obsidian spaces for members of LYT Workshop 12. I'm sharing a summary here beyond the LYT Community.

Introduction

LYT Workflow (or Pipeline)

I’m working on an effort that involves a note collection about the LYT Pipeline that I am developing for Idea Emergence using the ACE and ARC frameworks based on everything I’m learning in the LYT Workshops.

I explored definitions for “pipeline” that applied to my workflow, and discovered interesting synonyms for the categories of “conduit”, “calendar”, and “communication”. These seemed like an appropriate metaphor for my flow of ideas across time for my future self and sharing with others.

LYT Pipeline

Sparks … Share

My ideas emerge and develop by linking my thinking using these Ideation Skills for Idea Emergence with the ARC framework for workflow: Add, Relate, Communicate.

I organize my notes and maps by knowledge, time, and action using the ACE framework for organization: Atlas, Calendar, Efforts.

  • Notice the Spark – “That’s interesting”
  • Make a Note – Remark & Relate (R&R)
  • Make a Map – Collect & Cluster (C&C)
  • Just Write – Journal, Freewrite, Note-making
  • Map the Gap – Categorize or Create
  • Resolve the Tension – Cluster to Create
  • Write to Share – Match the medium
  • Just Share It – Lower the bar

That’s interesting because it reminds me of a pipeline for linking your thinking that accepts ideas, transports them across time through various valves & filters to their destination to be shared.

LYT Pipeline: Spark > Note > Map > Write > Gap > Tension > Write > Share

LYT Spaces

Places to Link and Think with Focus

Using spaces for my LYT Pipeline helps me to focus on different aspects of the ARC ideation workflow as I Add, Relate, and Communicate.

They help me manage what I’m doing so much more effectively, especially with integration and automation assistance from Reader, Drafts, Shortcuts, widgets, scripts, views, Hookmark, Yoink, Eagle, etc.

  • Obsidian: Workspaces
  • Arc browser: Spaces, split views
  • Reader: Library, shortlist, books, articles, videos, feeds
  • Drafts: Workspaces, capture, editor, dictation, action groups, actions
  • macOS: Desktop spaces, split views, Stage Manager, and Dock
  • OmniFocus: Folders, perspectives, projects, tasks, tags, action lists
  • iOS Screens: Lock, home, efforts, folders
  • WarrenWeb – Website menu: home, blog, efforts

ACE Folders

Organize ideas, thoughts, knowledge

I organize my folders using the ACE framework organization based on knowledge, time, and action to help me “link my thinking”.

  • Atlas
  • Calendar
  • Efforts

I use the same structure across major apps in my environment.

  • Home Note
  • Obsidian folders (explorer)
  • Arc browser folders (sidebar)
  • OmniFocus (folders)
  • DEVONthink (groups)
  • macOS Finder (folders)
  • WarrenWeb (menu)

ARC Workflow

Idea Emergence

My LYT Pipeline helps me with idea emergence from capturing, collecting, and clustering sparks (and links) in my environment … through notes, linking, thinking, and mapping … and packaging and sharing with others.

  • Periodic Notes: Day, Week, Month, Quarter, Year, Logs, Journals
  • Add: Mail, Arc browser, Reader, Drafts, Obsidian
  • Relate: Obsidian, Maps, Canvas, Excalidraw, MindNode
  • Communicate: Website, X, Mastodon, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress Reader

Questions

Subscribers can post questions, suggestions, or other feedback as a comment on this page and I will reply. Or if you prefer, anyone can always Contact me directly.

Summary

Thanks!

I want to thank Nick Milo for Linking Your Thinking and the LYT Team and Community for such an awesome opportunity to think, link, and share my ideas, thoughts, and knowledge. This has been an amazing, transformational experience for me.