A powerful tool to free the mind & surface information where & when it is useful.
Contextual reminders is one of the most helpful tools you can add to your personal arsonal of achievement.
Periodic Reviews are just an excuse to have a framework of recurring contexts, and a time to deal with those tasks surfaced by the reminders/calendar events.
Context Classes
- Location
- Physical
- The surface of your workbench
- Next to your car keys
- Literally the middle of your floor
- Logical
- Common directories in your computer
- Same page in Notion
- Physical
- Time
- Absolute
- At 5pm
- On March 2nd
- At 9AM on April 9th, 2021
- Relative
- Tomorrow
- Next week
- Three fridays from now
- Absolute
- Relationship
- Interpersonal
- With my spouse
- With my boss
- With Jimbo Jones
- Logistical
- Stack ripped clothes on the sowing machine
- Interpersonal
Notion is capable of both variants of time-based reminders. “@remind next tuesday” and “@remind 3/4/2021” both work to create Notion, mobile, & emails notifications.