Productivity for Teachers and Trainers An Interview with AJ Smith

The Teaching Space

Highlights

• Introducing AJ Smith (00:40).
• On AJ's switch from secondary to primary (01:16).
• On my switch from finance to education (08:00).
• How I "met" AJ... spoiler - it's YouTube (10:05).
• Starting to talk about Notion (10:53).
• One trust place for everything (12:50).
• Productivity challenges for teachers (13:24).
• Finding the Notion community (20:45).
• What is Notion? (22:47).
• AJ's Notion setup (24:00).
• Using Notion to improve your mental health (28:53).
• How using Notion makes you a better person (!) (32:42).
• The quick capture/inbox concept (35:20).
• The second brain (38:20).
• Is there a danger that we will collect too much information? (43:30).
• Curate with an action attached (46:11).
• AJ on YouTube (47:00).

Thanks

Thanks to AJ for being such an interesting and engaging guest.

Helpful links

• AJ on Twitter
• Martine on Twitter
• AJ's blog
• AJ on YouTube
• How AJ uses Notion as a Teacher Planner (YouTube video)
• Notion Mastery course
• Martine's Notion templates
• David Allen, GTD
• Comparative judgement
• Notion