A project can be something that someone told you you need to do. You have a deadline for something. You have a speech that you have to prepare, whatever it is, or it can be something that you're doing on your own accord. If it's something that you're doing on your own accord, I really just encourage you to pay attention to those rabbit holes that

so we're starting with a completely blank slate. If you go over here to this little search icon, you can see all of your different cards.

f I decided to take this in the direction of the stoicism branch, then Kurt Vonnegut's notes on creative writing may or may not have any relevance to that final product. But right now, I'm just allowing my brain to have a full experience of exploration and it will become clear as I build out this mind map and I can visually see where my interests

The thing that makes it overwhelming and frustrating is the inability to focus and get to the next state of attention.

Which is the state of attention that I move to when I'm really working on a specific project. I need to, at some point, move from the general digital gardening of like I'm reading a random essay and taking notes on it and pulling

I try not to get too in my head about making this an aesthetic process.

I tend to switch from one thing to the next and get curious about everything that it gets frustrating and over

I think that it’s important to move from just writing a bunch of notes and storing a bunch of sources into building out more of a mind map for yourself in the canvas feature because it just helps you launch one step closer into creation mode.