But I’m pretty fuzzy on what its components really are. These are largely blank in the kit (and understandably so, since they’re pretty personal), so I’m having a hard time getting a clear picture of what “inputs” are here, even though they all seem valuable.
Anyone already using this, or something similar, who can clarify or wants to discuss this overall idea?
The Life Map template note includes links to:
My Roles
My Permissions
My Environment
My Tools
My Experiences
Life Reflections
My Virtues
My Skills
My Spark List
My Manifesto
My Goals
My Obituary (okay, @nickmilo , I have to know: are you writing your actual full, word-for-word obituary for your friends/family to cut-and-paste later?)
Some of these are more self-explanatory than others, and some could be understood in more than one way, depending on who’s doing the reading. (Which is both good and bad. It makes for the ability to personalize, but also might lead to unwittingly overlooking a valuable usage.)
Anyway…I’m interested in discussion of how you would interpret these categories/what you would include or link in them, and/or other uses of a similar compass note like this.
It’s surely a very personal thing.
Talking about compass rather than life map, I don’t have an explicit one, but facing an idea or a concept I often ask myself, spontaneously:
do I agree?
this is useful for…
this thing is similar to…
I can generalize or abstract this to…
can I extract a claim, a rule or principle?
The process is rather simple for me.
For example, when I’ve met the concept of the compass idea model, I’ve asked myself:
is it a good idea? yes
is it useful for me? yes
can I think something more generic? yes, there is not a single compass idea model, everyone can develop the suitable compass for himself.
Yesterday I listed out everything: all the topics, activities, and roles I participate in. It’s a very long list. I started organizing them under what seemed like the most natural headings. These headings could become folders, MOCs, or the first level of a nested tag, depending on what it is, but I’m still trying to figure that out.
You made this post in October, so I’m really keen to see where you’ve taken things since then.
Thanks! Glad to know I’m not the only one trying to map it all out.
The chart is created dynamically by Dataview and the Obsidian Charts plugin. The values are calculated by filtering existing tags from my notes.
My learning:
If the ideas in your Zettelkasten don’t support the goals on your wish list, it’s a call for a purposeful realignment.
Filter:
Career: #theme/work OR #theme/management OR #theme/datastory OR #theme/agile OR #theme/facilitation OR #theme/thinking OR #theme/writing OR #theme/sketchnotes
Learn: #theme/learning OR #theme/ai OR #theme/pkm OR #theme/zettelkasten OR #theme/obsidian
Relationships: #theme/community OR #theme/family OR #theme/wol OR #theme/socialmedia OR #theme/sketchnotes
Wealth: #theme/finance OR #theme/living OR #theme/travel
Health: #theme/health OR #theme/self OR #theme/sports OR #theme/climbing OR #theme/hiking OR #theme/swimming OR #theme/skiing OR #theme/cooking OR #theme/psychology
I don’t know that mine would correlate exactly, even in the ideal scenario. Because my vault is largely information, and my relationships, for instance, don’t revolve so much around information, I wouldn’t expect them to be as heavily represented, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
But it’s certainly something we would want to thoughtfully decide doesn’t need to correspond, rather than just overlooking that certain areas are underrepresented, when maybe they shouldn’t be.
My goals, basically decision tree (excalidraw) where the root is fundamental goal (I’d rather use the word “theme” or direction as usually use the word “goal” with a number and date)
(Excalidraw) Cannot show, very personal, but it’s a line with ups and downs representing good/bad times which tons of pictures + i wrote chapters as if i was a hero in a story or smthing
I also use 4 variables to assess metrics in my life throughout this timeline (numbers summed, between 0-5)
I use a markdown table to list my values
Cheatsheet i share with new people (personality type, attachment style, love language, work style, etc.)
