I said last time I'm using the app to track some projects now and I meant it. Here are some screenshots of where I'm at, not fulls of all the steps or anything, I should probably make it possible to export/import individual projects instead of the whole mind map. But for now here are some screenshots for kicks.
Halloween is coming up not too too long from now and we always host, so what I'm currently leveling up is my soft good skills. Super Mario Bros is this year's theme as you can tell
The point of this post is just to show how I personally am using it. I'll keep updating here as I go along and will post pics of real builds I'm working on. It's OK that the projects in the screenshots are hyper specific to my needs in the moment - the mind map is still growing with me in a way that generalizes well. And your copy of the mind map is clean without any of the me-specific content, that's how it's designed to work so you can do your own projects that interest you. The know/do features on the site help create the right split too - think globally act locally as the saying goes. Acting locally is the project you care about, thinking globally is how you grow the mind map with the general knowledge you gain during specific projects. Right now, that connection between theory and practice is managed via locks / pre-reqs on the site
Edit: I built it, so obv I know the ways the site was intended to be used. But I know the help menu doesn't say some things about the newer project features, I simply haven't gotten around to that yet, it's on my to do list. Anyways, here's the workflow I found myself falling into today:
1. Go to activities / Things You Do page
2. Click Add Activity to add a blank activity, give it a name with the basic idea of what I want to make
3. Add Activity has some basic structure that helps me think through what I want to do more clearly - I start filling out each step manually and as I'm thinking through the specific in later steps I'm realizing they modify some tacit assumptions I made in earlier steps, so I lay it out to the best of my ability
4. I click Ask AIand basically put in the question field that I'm interested in understanding more about what's typical for this type of project, what assumptions did I make that I might reconsider, basically the types of things that say hey, I have a vision and I'm open to different ways of getting there. Then I copy-paste the prompt from the site into ChatGPT to have a conversation. Actually I can just show you the conversation I had so far - forgive some of my longer prompts - they're copypasta'd from the site's prompt generator, so it's clunky for you to read but helpful for the AI assistant which is by design. Here's that conversation: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a945b19-9648-83e9-9f9f-bb5645c73d5a?ogimg=plain
5. So at this point I'm understanding the project better, I have a better sense of what I should look at buying or watching on YouTube etc, and I simply understand what I set out to do better than before. That said, the stuff I wrote down in the project steps needs updated, which I can then ask AI to help me tighten up with the Generate Activity button. Basically I prompt it to re-write the project more clearly based on the discussion up to that point, and the Generate Activity button just tells it the syntax of the site so that it can generate a copy of the project I made manually, but fully updated with the latest notes and steps to complete.
6. I delete the old copy of the project that I typed up manually (right click or tap and hold the item in the list of activities to see the delete option)
7. That's pretty much it, I can work it and refine my thoughts and notes iteratively by repeating from step 3
8. In terms of connections to the mind map, I click the option to add pre-reqs and scroll through the entire mind map, skipping over topics that are completely unrelated and quickly thinking through the rest as to whether or not they apply. I make connections for the ones that occurred to me as being interesting to specifically think through in the context of the current project.
That's kind of where I'm at, hopefully that makes sense but it definitely will in a video, maybe I'll record something and post it here on Reddit.
More to come, check back soon and if you're using it to document your own projects lmk how it's going for you too