soft-skills-toolkit

List Kit

• A framework for managing lists
• Provides hints for deciding how to manage them
• “Management” includes designing, creating, operating, and distributing

Tools

3L cycle:

## List (title here)
- (list items)
- ...

## Log
- (impressions after trying it, progress, and results)
- ...

## Lesson
- (reflection based on the log and what you learned from it)
- ...

3L cycle discussion points:

- Do you write the 3Ls in the same file, or split them into separate files?
- How do you write timestamps for Log and Lesson? How do you separate entries?
- When do you write Log and Lesson?
- What format do you use for Log and Lesson entries?

Trigger list for designing when to use a list:

- Is it As an input?
    - Example: I'll read this as input before doing ~~
- Is it As a tool?
    - Example: I can use this to do ~~ so I'll use it
- Is it As an output?
    - Example: I want to capture ~~ now, so I'll capture it in list form
...

Trigger list for designing how to use a list:

- Order: Do you read it top to bottom in sequence?
- Write-in: Do you write answers into it?
- Immediacy: Does it drive action on the spot? (Does not include thinking or writing; a typical example is a procedure.)
- Optionality: Is it okay to skip an item?

Trigger list for designing how to start using a list:

- When and how will you remember that the list exists?
- Do you have (or can you create) cues or mechanisms to remind you the list exists?
- How will you access the list?
- If the list requires writing, how will you create a file/page/paper that can be written into?

Trigger list for thinking about how to create a list:

## Medium
- Plain text?: txt, Markdown, etc
- Rich text?: Word, PDF, etc
- Slides?: PowerPoint, Keynote, etc
- Canvas?: Miro, Figma, Canva, etc
- Spreadsheet?: Excel, Google Sheets, etc
- Note pages?: Google Docs, Notion, etc

## Criteria
- Ease of saving
- Ease of access
- Ease of writing
- Ease of sharing

Reference: 3L Cycle

A cycle for creating and operating lists.

About the three elements:

• List:
  • Create the list
  • Update the list based on the results from Lesson
• Log:
  • Record progress and results from using the list
• Lesson:
  • Reflect on the Log and write down what you learned

About the cycle:

• Typically, you start by creating a list, then repeat Log and Lesson
  • List → Log → Lesson → Log → Lesson → …
• You revise the list after going through Lesson
  • … → Lesson → List → Log → …

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