Build a personal system to manage your knowledge
The Linking Your Thinking Workshop is an online workshop that will teach, train, and support you in building a personal knowledge management (PKM) system you can trust.





Is this workshop for you?
Sign up if one or more of them does!
Researchers
Life-long learners
Content creators
& essayists
Authors, novelists
writers, & worldbuilders
Life designers
Productivity
& project-focused people
What results can you expect?






What is included in the workshop?

Live deep dives with alumni

10 interactive live sessions
Four 60-min sensemaking sessions
on Wednesdays.

Live showcase sessions

90 lessons, videos, & exercises
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.
60+ minutes of video weekly.
Lifetime access to the lessons.

Private online community

LYT Kit Pro
Trusted by 700+ note-makers
I didn't think it was possible to do that. It’s transformed my perception of what a system can be like and I am blown by the possibilities!
Sharalene Moonjely

Marleaux Flournoy


Cris S.


Narelle Rowe


Helen Zhu


Matthew Strother


Noah Matthews


Calahan Morse

What will you learn from the curriculum?

- 🔗 Learn how links are allowing us to lose less and create more
- 🎵 Identify when note-taking fails and when you need note-making
- 🤗 Learn how to make meaningful relationships between notes
- 🏋️ Practice with each type of relationship between notes
- 🔬 Use your PKM Planet results to gain clarity on your use-cases

- 👹 Learn how note-taking creates weak thinking habits
- 🔆 Learn how note-making unlocks your best thinking
- 🌲 Learn how to make notes grow in value over time
- 🎨 Practice the 7 C’s of note-making
- 🌊 Understand the fundamentals of fluid thinking

- 🛑 Recognize mental squeeze points. Learn how to overcome them
- 🗾 Understand the fundamentals & power of Maps of Content (MOCs)
- 🗺 Practice the 11 C's of map-making
- 🏗 Explore the benefits of MOCs and other ways we can use them

- 🌐 Complete your idea emergence network
- 🏛 Build your library note
- 🌍 Build your ultimate dashboard. Your home note
- 🧰 Refine your use of links, folders, tags, and queries

- 🔊 Improve how you separate the signal from the noise
- 📝 Practice the skill of transitioning from idea to note-making
- 🚰 Create and develop your PKM workflows
- 💡 Explore advanced sensemaking tactics
- 📤 Improve where and how you share things with others
How it works
For 6 weeks, you can expect the following:
Tuesday sessions
- Live 90 minute super session with Nick
- Learn the latest concepts in PKM
- Get hands-on reps through guided exercises
- Plus an extra 20+ minutes of Q&A after hours.
Wednesday sessions
- 60 minute sensemaking session with Nick
- Dive deeper into the core concepts
- Share and get feedback in breakout rooms
Weekly guide sessions
- Get targeted deep dives in specialized areas
- Apply workflows to your unique use-case
- Ask questions to the weekly guide
Learn from your peers
- Strengthen your insights by engaging on the forum
- Share raw ideas and provide quick feedback to each other
- Deliver and attend showcase sessions from your peers
New units each week
- Receive 70 minutes of video and exercises every Wednesday
- Each unit covers crucial elements of PKM
Lifetime access
- Workshop curriculum
- Workshop recordings
- Future curriculum updates
- Community and alumni forum
How it works
Every Tuesday, attend the 90 minute super sessions
Every Wednesday, attend the 60 minute sensemaking sessions
- These are high-value training sessions where you work your note-making muscles.
- Strengthen and rebuild your muscles of thinking critically, creatively, connectively—and generatively—all at the same time.
Every Wednesday, the next unit is released
- You receive 70+ minutes of video and exercises each week.
- Each unit covers crucial elements of the latest PKM theory and practice.
Every week, you are active in the online forum
- Deepen your learning as you interact with the curriculum.
- Strengthen your insights as you engage with each other.
- You will be assigned a special “crew”.
- Share raw ideas and provide quick feedback to each other.
We get better, faster, together.
What is offered in this 6-week workshop?
- 5 live super sessions (90+ minutes of lessons, exercises, and Q&As).
- 4 sensemaking sessions (60+ minutes of hands-on sensemaking).
- A private online forum filled with diverse thinkers all interested in knowledge management. This is a home you never knew you wanted.
- An opportunity to show and share your progress with your peers.
These "showcase" sessions are a great way to galvanize your efforts and learn from an amazing gathering of great thinkers. - Results to your PKM personality based on LYT's proprietary "PKM Planet" survey.
Plus, you'll also get the following:
- Lifetime access to the workshop curriculum.
- Lifetime access to curriculum updates.
- Lifetime access to the community forum.
- Lifetime access to all the recordings from your workshop.
Your support team
by the amount of support you have during the workshop.
Your core team

Nick Milo

Dan Lardi

Bianca Pereira

Keaton Sondreal
Your weekly guides
Expect four 60-minute session from each of them.
For LYT Workshop 8, these are your weekly guides.

Bianca Pereira

Sana A Ahmed

Rok Sanda

Eleanor Konik
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- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
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- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

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- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop+

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
222
LYT Workshop+

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

222
LYT Workshop+


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop++

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
223
LYT Workshop++

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

223
LYT Workshop++


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

D - LYT Workshop + Team member

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
D - LYT Workshop + Team member

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

D - LYT Workshop + Team member


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

Obsidian Flight School

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
224
Obsidian Flight School

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

224
Obsidian Flight School


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop Re-Attendance

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
LYT Workshop Re-Attendance

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

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- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop - Scholarship

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
LYT Workshop - Scholarship

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

LYT Workshop - Scholarship


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop+ - Scholarship

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
LYT Workshop+ - Scholarship

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

LYT Workshop+ - Scholarship


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

LYT Workshop Pro

- 6 super sessions.
4 sensemaking sessions.

- 5 units. 90 lessons.
Targeted exercises.
Time-released weekly.

- Targeted sessions led by alumni on research, content creation, creative writing, and more

- Attend explosive showcase sessions from your peers

- Experienced alumni facilitators
Recordings for each live session
LYT Workshop Pro

- Week 2 - Overview
- Week 4 - Focus
- Week 6 - Fine-tune

LYT Workshop Pro


- Focus & Strategy
- Custom Workflows
- Fine-tuning & Problem-solving

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LYT Workshop++
Meet the creator of Linking Your Thinking
Hi, I'm Nick Milo.
I’ve spent the last 15 years using digital notes to create and grow a fitness boxing into an international company, produce two independent feature films, become a TV and film editor, and—perhaps most importantly—to calm my thoughts and make better sense of the world around me.
I’ve tested and stretched the limits of Personal Knowledge Management in the “real world”:
- from the fitness industry 🏃♂️ to the film industry 🎬
- from the football field 🏈 to civil engineering 🏗
- from strength training 🏋️♂️ to the boxing ring 🥊
- from public speaking 🎤 to content creation 🎨
What I’ve learned is this: being effective at managing knowledge is a superpower—and linking your thinking supercharges it.
The frameworks I teach unlock our ability to work with ideas in a way that is fast, flexible, and future-proof. I have taught the principles of linked notes to thousands of people with great results. These principles are flexible enough for you to shape them to your unique use cases and personal needs.
I'm Nick Milo.
I’ve spent the last 15 years using digital notes to create and grow a fitness boxing into an international company, produce two independent feature films, become a TV and film editor, and—perhaps most importantly—to calm my thoughts and make better sense of the world around me.
I’ve tested and stretched the limits of Personal Knowledge Management in the “real world”:
- from the fitness industry 🏃 to the film industry 🎬
- from the football field 🏈 to civil engineering 🏗
- from strength training 🏋️ to the boxing ring 🥊
- from public speaking 🎤 to content creation 🎨
Being effective at managing knowledge is a superpower—and linking your thinking supercharges it.


Workshop 9 main schedule
1) great content
2) great people
3) great organization/production
4) great help to go over whatever issues emerged during the workshop
5) extremely friendly staff willing to help at ANY time even though I was a novice in many areas
6) It was even funny; I had a lot of fun and had many laughs together with my Cohort. The biggest thing I am taking away is one of the most pleasant experiences in my entire life.
If you are looking for a "language" to exchange information between your most inner-self and the external world, this workshop will get you on the way.

The experience I liked the most was the idea of making sharp choices: question everything. Especially your own assumptions and hidden ways of thinking and doing.
This was a game changer for me. My PKM is a direct reflection of me and not some half-modelled, half-copied system of someone else.

This workshop will show you how to harness the power of idea emergence to improve your thinking, engage with the work of other thinkers, boost your creativity and make each day more productive.
I especially liked the Discourse community. Certain members of our cohort have been terrific about sharing their successes, failures, attempts, frustrations, aspirations and their organizational strategies, and I loved those interactions.


UNLOCK THE WAY YOUR IDEAS EVOLVE.
The ENCODE framework gives you the keys to reliably unstick your thinking so you can generate more meaningful insights and spend more time doing your best work.
We can't avoid it. But we can get better at it.
The ENCODE Framework describes how
your knowledge evolves.
- Encounter new ideas
- Note the ideas that interest you
- Connect ideas to things you know
- Organize ideas so you can find them
- Develop ideas to generate new insights
- Express your ideas to others
Creative expression is NOT a linear process. ENCODE is our diagnostic tool to
decode where you are locked, so every part of you can be playing in sync.
Why the workshop works
Linking Your Thinking created and follows the
six principles of Lean Forward Learning™
Online learning is different. It's the wild west out there.
My deep goal is to inspire other teachers in online education to incorporate the paradigm of Lean Forward Learning into their own educational products and services.
The Lean Forward paradigm is an extension of the "Learn by doing" theory of education set forth by John Dewey in the early 1900's. However, the Lean Forward paradigm is different because it outlines principles specifically for online education.
I believe online workshop designed like Linking Your Thinking are just the beginning of a deeper level of digital learning. Sitting back and passively watching instructional videos is easy, but the results are far less powerful. Instead, the LYT formula forces you to grab the controls and pilot the ship.
Designing the right educational experience with these principles in mind provides students with an effective and profound learning experience.
Here are the Six Principles of Lean Forward Learning™.
- Curated yet Non-linear: There is a sense of freedom, and yet, a sense of structure. As a student, you have some agency to “Choose Your Own Adventure”.
- Hands-on Repetitions: The very nature of the workshop builds in inescapable hands-on repetitions with the exact thing you are trying to learn. Just like a video game, if you don't take the controls and move forward, you don't make progress. In other words, it's designed to force "unavoidable engagement".
- Uncomfortable: The very nature of the workshop means that the adventurer will be uncomfortable, challenged, and sometimes even frustrated. Those are "deep reps". That’s when the deepest, stickiest learning happens! And it's the getting stuck that leads to sticky learning.
- Immersive: It feels like a special self-contained mini-world...a holistic learning system.
- Measurable: There are ways to measure a student's progress.
- Multiple Avenues of Engagement: Students don't just "read" and "watch". They DO. Plus they also do some combination of: commenting, interacting, and sharing. This ties back into getting reps: reading reps, watching reps, doing reps...reps commenting, interacting, and sharing.
The LYT Workshop did not design the six principles of Lean Forward Learning™ . No. The principles were born from the LYT Workshop!
The LYT Workshop is the model for an all-encompassing tsunami of a learning experience.
Learning is better together

Active, not passive
Faster alone at first, further together forever
Comfortably uncomfortable
Frequently Asked Questions
What is your refund policy?
You can make a full refund request at hello@linkingyourthinking.com before the end of the first week of the workshop.
No withdrawals or refunds are possible after the first 7 days of the workshop.
When does the course start and finish?
The next enrollment opens on mid-September.
Here are the dates to keep in mind:
Workshop start date: Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
Workshop end date: Tuesday, November 22, 2022.
We can inform you more about the details when you've signed up for our waitlist.
How long will I have access to the program?
You will have lifetime access to the program.
Plus, as we update the curriculum and continue to provide resources for the workshop, you will continue to have access to those updates.
Can you show me examples of previous students?
For sure! We have so many examples to show, and they are starting to make their way onto Youtube.
You'll see Designers. College Students. Marketers. Interesting Thinkers. Writers and 1000-page novel Worldbuilders...and that's just for starters.
This is a handy public reference for you.
Their full Showcase Presentations, along with their Q&A's are available only to workshoppers.
I'm new. What type of technical help can I expect?
While this workshop isn't course on how to use a specific piece of software, you're surrounding yourself with people you can help, and surprisingly, like to help a lot!
That said, please have a basic understanding of how to make links and how to make tags. This is not a course on teaching you Obsidian!
Now as far as the workshop, all the examples are shown in Obsidian, and the fancy advanced features are not needed. I'll talk about some cool hotkeys from time to time, but the focus is squarely on how we can work with link-based notes. These are timeless fundamentally no matter the software.
This ties nicely into the next question....
Do I have to use Obsidian?
No. You'll just want to use something that allows you to link notes quickly.
So that would be something like Obsidian or Roam or Remnote or Athens or anything that allows for link-based notes can work.
I use Notion, Roam, or Logseq. Will this work for me?
Yes! Because the principles are based on linking ideas.
We had a few people use Roam in the previous workshop. They found the MOCs in particular to be very empowering.
I'd love to join, but I'm from a developing country and the cost is too high for me. Are there scholarships?
"Like a string of beads, it is our unique differences and intricacies that make us so appealing and attractive." — Lindsey Lunsford, M.E.M., Second Edition DEI Fellow
It would break my heart if the reason you can't attend is because of where you were born. That's not just. It's important to me—and crucial for all of our thinking—that we have a diverse mixture of perspectives. This means not turning a blind eye to how the price point can immediately exclude valuable voices.
That said, you can apply for our scholarship program when we're ready to open it soon.
What amount of time will I need to commit to the course?
It depends. The minimal time you should be able to commit to make this thing worthwhile is probably around 1-2 hours per week.
For the expected experience, try to budget around 6-8 hours per week—that includes the live sessions of course.
For the best experience, just attend the live sessions (or watch the recordings as soon as they are available), go through the lessons, make comments, read what others have shared, and be an active part of this amazing gathering of inspiring thinkers!
Do you offer payment plans?
Yes, we do. But only for Workshop and Workshop +.
Click here for the Workshop+ payment plan option.
Can’t I just learn all of this for free online or in Youtube?
I do my best to provide MASSIVE amounts of free value on Youtube. But even that content can't compare to the value you get in the workshop.
The workshop is hands-on, focused-work, with people solving the same problems that you're trying to solve...that's how you accelerate your growth! Instead of walking down the wrong path for several years (like I did in Evernote by over-collecting), you can quickly revise and iterate your knowledge management system in "real-time" so you not only build a system that remains useable and scales with your ever-changing needs—but you also ensure that your digital notes remain a source of joy.