{"id":6885,"date":"2024-03-17T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.xtiles.app\/%d0%b1%d0%b5%d0%b7-%d0%ba%d0%b0%d1%82%d0%b5%d0%b3%d0%be%d1%80%d1%96%d1%97\/how-to-plan-and-write-notes-and-ideas-for-working-and-personal-affairs-in-one-service\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:06:53","slug":"how-to-plan-and-write-notes-and-ideas-for-working-and-personal-affairs-in-one-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.xtiles.app\/en\/blog\/how-to-plan-and-write-notes-and-ideas-for-working-and-personal-affairs-in-one-service\/","title":{"rendered":"How to plan and write notes<\/mark> and ideas for working and personal affairs in one service"},"content":{"rendered":"

The story about how an approach to taking notes and planning has been evolving over a year.<\/p>\n

Affairs, notes, ideas, tasks, knowledge, links\u2026 How to keep everything in your head and don\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n

All people make plans, make to-do lists, create documents, and sort them into folders. One finds everything they need in Apple Notes or Google Keep and folders on their laptop, but others need more. A simple notebook in their smartphones or a paper notebook may be insufficient. That\u2019s why this article is about organizing digital space.<\/p>\n

But first, a story<\/h2>\n

I have worked with xTiles for over a year now. When I got an offer to work with a start-up that wanted to create an application that would be like a baby of Notion or Miro, I didn\u2019t hesitate for a second, even though I\u2019ve never liked Notion or Miro.<\/p>\n

Before that, I worked in an advertising agency and as a freelancer marketer-strategist. I had to spend much time structuring information in presentations, tables, and folders. I tried many different applications at that time so that I knew that Notion, Miro, Obsidian, Evernote, Todoist, and others might ease the process of tasks and data organizing a bit. However, I couldn\u2019t use them fully for my knowledge base, work for the agency, freelance projects, or my personal diary. Keeping in mind what and where I put it was quite a challenge.<\/p>\n

So, when I saw xTiles, I fell in love almost on instance\u2026 or rather, I felt intuitively that this was what I needed. Additionally, I could work on such an outstanding product. That was a perfect combo!<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how my journey of experiments in creating digital space started. I had the need to keep tasks, ideas, compendium, and links in one place, but neither the team nor I had ready templates or solutions. Everyone created their own space, sometimes, we \u201cspied\u201d on others, and step by step, we got different use cases of xTiles.<\/p>\n

The team conducted many interviews to understand the product better. During one of them, I saw how someone planned their week using xTiles. It was a powerful insight and revelation. I wanted to try it too. I started applying many approaches to planning. I read everything about planning and productivity I could get my hands on. As a result, for 3 or 4 months, I used classic Weekly Planning. Slowly, I found out that planning in the context of days is great, but:<\/p>\n