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Jun 13, 2024 | 
medium.com | Denis Volkov
In the productivity community, there's a well-known statement by David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology: "Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them." This advice was meant to encourage offloading tasks and ideas from our brains onto paper or digital tools, freeing mental space for creativity and problem-solving. It is often cited in discussions about productivity and information management. And as you can tell, I am not a fan of this statement.
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May 16, 2024 | 
medium.com | Denis Volkov
I like native applications, the ones designed specifically for the system they are intended to work in. That's why, whether we speak of macOS or iOS, Apple Notes, Bear, Craft, or NotePlan were always at the top of my list. But throughout all these years, there has always been this weird interest in one app that many call the "King of Them All" - Obsidian.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
medium.com | Denis Volkov
During another iteration of getting creative in my attempts to stretch applications beyond their limits (and the designed use cases), I came up with quite an interesting workflow for Bear Notes, which [at least for one week] served as a good one-stop-shop both for non-actionable and actionable types of notes. Let’s see if that’s something you may find interesting.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
medium.com | Denis Volkov
Exploring Sorting Methods in Your Personal Knowledge Management SystemIntroductionIn a personal knowledge management (PKM) system, organizing and sorting your notes is crucial for efficient information retrieval and discovery. Various applications offer various methods to structure and categorize your notes, including tags, folders, backlinks, and even YAML metadata.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Andrei Kolesnikov |Denis Volkov |Valerie Hopkins
It’s been almost two years since the Kremlin launched what it terms its “special military operation” against Ukraine, and most Russians have learned to cope with wartime pressures by distancing themselves as much as possible from what is unfolding on the battlefield. At the same time, hopes for peace—or at least peace talks—are becoming more and more common.
How can this combination of indifference and a desire for peace be explained?
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Alexander Gabuev |Andrei Kolesnikov |Denis Volkov
Since Russia launched its "special military operation" against Ukraine, Russian society has adapted to living amid conflict. Despite initial predictions that public outrage would topple the regime, the majority of Russians have consolidated around the Kremlin, viewing it as a defender against a perceived threat from the West.
How accurate are wartime opinion polls? How have the dynamics of support for the war in Russia changed during the past year?
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Denis Volkov |Andrei Kolesnikov
In the nearly two years since Russia launched its “special military operation” against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian society has gotten used to living against the backdrop of a brutal armed conflict. A significant part of the population has reconciled itself to the idea that they will be living under the current state of affairs for quite some time, and that they must therefore adjust to reality, which ordinary Russians are in any case unable—and often unwilling—to change.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
carnegiemoscow.org | Denis Volkov |Andrei Kolesnikov
In the nearly two years since Russia launched its “special military operation” against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Russian society has gotten used to living against the backdrop of a brutal armed conflict. A significant part of the population has reconciled itself to the idea that they will be living under the current state of affairs for quite some time, and that they must therefore adjust to reality, which ordinary Russians are in any case unable—and often unwilling—to change.
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
medium.com | Denis Volkov
So, the other day, I faced the need to process a big bunch of files and an even more significant amount of notes corresponding to them. There was a need to structure it using folders only, so I had to come up with some sort of logic that would help to make sense of it all. So I wondered, how many types of information are out there overall? We are aware of "actionable" and "non-actionable," but are there other types? The best source of that kind of knowledge is ChatGPT, I thought.
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Apr 25, 2023 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Denis Volkov |Andrei Kolesnikov |Tatiana Stanovaya
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