> [!example] > From [[Knowledge Accelerator Presentation Slides]] ## PKM: Creativity  notes: - After taking the writing original works workshop, I have been clarifying and refining my creative workflows with the lens of the creators codex to be more aware of the different stages of the creative process --- Bottom-up: [[Evergreen Notes]] via [[My Greenhouse]] Top-down: [[Brainstorms]] via [[My Brainstorms]] notes: - When it comes to the two thinking styles of top down and bottom up, I have two main ways to facilitate this for my creative efforts - Personal ideas that I grow and collect overtime based on non-rigid curiosity are nurtured in [[My Greenhouse]], the traditional evergreen notes approach - The three usual stages of evergreen notes - But for more top-down thinking for a certain outcome like a new video or essay, I have a brainstorm note where I have a more systematic way of developing the idea. Recently I've used it to write a personal reflection of my two week vacation with Aidan, so I'll share my thought on process on how I wrote it using the [[Creators Codex]]: --- ## Add  notes: During the add phase I mostly noticed and explored by journalling during the trip in a memory thought note I had for [[Meeting Aidan for the first time in person]]. This is where I took daily logs of the different experiences, activities, and conversations we had, which became future retrieval cues for when I started writing. --- Relate: Prompting  notes: Once the trip was over, it was time to write. I first started off with prompting by asking myself questions to create remarks and comments in the form of connections to ideas or other experiences. - I just decided ask myself: based on these experiences, what insights did I come to about myself, aidan, or the world? - The root bullet points were the main ideas, which had further subpoints - These became the main sections i wanted to include in my reflection The next question was how could I organize these into some form of writing structure --- Relate: Planning  notes: I did some outlining during my morning walk by thinking about the structure I would like to have. I used voice-to-text transcription using [[Fleeting Notes App]] to think about a potential introduction, then imported it into my Obsidian for more source material to work with. For more clarity on what the structure should look like, I applied the [[Name it to frame it]] strategy covered in WOW where you change your perspective of the note by trying to think of a title for it. As a result, I saw it from the new perspective, thanks to my new title of: How making online friends changed my life Further tweaking it to match my brand values, I ended up with: Building lifelong friends for self-actualization Not the best, but it opened up potential routes to connect it to self-actualization. Now it was just time to further expand on each insight I got from prompting. --- Relate: Drafting Types of nuance: - Rationality - Empathy - Detail notes: When looking Aidan's notes from taking the writing course thinking in stories, I personally enjoyed a setion called [The Problem Half Solved](https://publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/Literature+Notes/%F0%9F%90%89Courses/Thinking+In+Stories#The+Problem+Half+Solved) that explains how you can develop ideas from having a mix of the following explorations: - Rationality (knowledge) - Empathy (experiences and feelings) - Depth (nuance and diving deeper) I felt I already had empathy since the writing was founded on this 2 week experience, but realized it would also be fun to incorporate the other layers: - For rationality I expanded on my insights related to work by exploring relevant notes. The most relevant notes I found was [[My Inputs/My Books/The Pathless Path|The Pathless Path]], so I found quotes from there that supported my thoughts - I went into detail exploring what traits of my friendship made it so impactful I started writing this in my brainstorm template that focused on organized ideas. Now that I had the structure and contents, it was just time to further develop it. --- ## Relate: Crafting  notes: - The last part was just crafting where I ended up integrating all my ideas into the cohesive structure and topic - in the same header where i started collecting the details, i combined all the parts together - used the introduction and hook from planning stage - then led into the paragraphs that started from prompting and were developed through drafting - Makes sense it was a reflection. ideas came from within out of curiosity and introspection, but were just shaped a bit to be digestible Now it was time for the final step. --- ## Communicate: Shape and Share  notes: During the last stage, communicate, I have a header in my brainstorms note called potential outputs to help me think about what note I want to shape my draft into. I wanted to include this in my next weekly newsletter, so I created a new note for that edition and copy pasted the current draft as one of the headers. i create a note in my website instead of the email directly to make it easier to link to other notes in my vault in case people want to read further. I didn't change the reflection itself much to publish it because I like having my newsletter editions more casual. ---  notes: I do still think it has room to grow, so I took the draft from the `# Organized ideas` header to a new writing note titled `Building lifelong friends for self-actualization`, and marked it as a herb. This makes it a clean page free of any of the in progress notes or thoughts. I published it on newsletter software of choice Convertkit mentioning I had a new edition, and linked it to the new weekly newsleter edition. Now, the last use case. productivity.