Taking notes consistently is a difficult task, so we are reaching out to our power users to hear their stories. Hopefully their knowledge and insight

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Taking notes consistently is a difficult task, so we are reaching out to our power users to hear their stories. Hopefully their knowledge and insight will help you with your own productivity workflow. This week we are hearing from James, one of our new Unlimited users.

Hi! My name is James, I'm 41 and live in Stockholm, Sweden with my wife, two daughters, and a cat. I'm VP of Engineering at Griffin Bank, which means that I coach our engineers, grow the teams, and lead our engineering process.

I've been using DayOne as my work (and family) diary since 2012, and Notion as my Personal Knowledge Management tool since 2018.

Prior to discovering Notion, I had used (though not all at the same time) a number of other writing, note-taking, knowledge capture, and task tracking tools: Wunderlist, Ulysses, Letterspace, Bear, Dynalist, and Airtable.

My favourite way to use Notion was to capture knowledge "cheatsheets" on topics such as agile (e.g. pre-mortems, retrospectives, roadmaps), behavioural science (e.g. cognitive biases), design (e.g. guidelines, user testing, workshops), leadership (e.g. coaching, conflict, decision making, feedback, motivation, needs), and recruitment (e.g. interviewer questions, job postings).

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