Makestack

What if organizing your creative process was as easy as breathing? Start using Makestack and discover a more fulfilling workflow.

Makestack

What if organizing your creative process was as easy as breathing? Start using Makestack and discover a more fulfilling workflow.

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A good knowledge management system can change your life

I built Makestack because I wanted to solve this problem for myself…

How do I organize my projects and processes in a way that consistently makes sense and biases me to do better over time?

I’d reorganized my workflow using other popular methodologies and systems countless times. They always fell short, and I was tired of it.

Tired of methods that marketed themselves as a “one size fits all”
Tired of systems that were dreamt up before the massive flows of the digital age
Tired of the bloat and misconceptions that organizing your projects equals doing your projects.

So I said “Screw it, I’ll make the best organization system for me. And maybe if I do it well it’ll be useful for others, too.”

Makestack is that system. As I’ve built it, I’ve used it to massively progress 9 projects, including this website and all of the Makestack material (yes, Makestack runs on a Makestack).

Here’s why you might love using it, too.

What is Makestack?

A Makestack is an system that helps you stay predictably organized, sometimes referred to as a knowledge management system or framework. Makestack provides the basic structure for productive efforts and process that require intake, transformation, and output of stuff.

A Makestack is a way of organizing your thinking so that you can focus on the actual task at hand and stay predictably organized as you go.

Each Makestack consists of six (6) core collections. They are:

Inflow
Input Buffer (Inbuf)
Transformers
Output
Output Buffer (Outbuf)
Feedbacks

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Unlike other systems for organizing, tracking, and creating things, Makestack is not meant to be a “one size fits all” solution.

If you use Makestack, you will eventually run into situations where you’ll want to “extend” your Makestack by customizing it.

Here’s the beauty: When your Makestack grows, it grows in a way that makes sense to you. And the core collections of all Makestacks are the same, making it easy to move between your clusters of knowledge, processes, projects, teams, and more.

Makestack gets you started

The primary goal of any Makestack is to give you a simple organization system to help you get started and easily pick up wherever you left off.

As you make progress, Makestacks gives you an outline of how to keep your many threads of work predictably organized. This helps you create more because you spend less time asking yourself “What should I do next?” and “Where’d I leave that one snippet I need?”

Makestack is not…

Designed to cover all areas of your life, though you may find it useful in many.
Meant to be a strictly enforced system. Names can be changed, categories added, and the core system still functions.
Confined to any one tool, though there are tools Makestack naturally fit well with.

Makestack is…

A great organization system for getting organized and staying organized in a predictable way.
Made to help you get things done and delivered, whether you’re a student, an seasoned pro, or anything in-between.
Designed to be empowering, reusable, and extensible.

Makestack helps you

Keep a handle on your ideas, notes, and milestone moments

Makestack provides an intuitive way to capture and organize fleeting thoughts and significant achievements.

Whether it’s a sudden spark of inspiration, a critical observation, or a key achievement, Makestack helps you capture valuable signals and keep them readily accessible for future reference.

Break down goals, projects, and jobs into doable tasks… and actually get them done

Unlike many other systems, Makestack helps you keep tabs on your tasks and the output they create.

This makes even daunting projects approachable by keeping progress and next steps visible.

Makestack’s flexibility allows you to adapt it to various types of work, be it personal goals, professional projects, or day-to-day jobs, guiding you from dreaming to delivery with ease.

Finish, share, and evolve as you progress

With Makestack, the journey from starting a task to sharing your creations is seamless and rewarding.

Your hard work comes to fruition in the Output and Output Buffer collections, and your work is ready to be presented to the world.

As you progress, your Feedbacks collection helps you reflect on your progress, learn from experiences, and make informed decisions for your next move.

Makestack doesn’t just help you get stuff done, it helps you level up as you do.

By using Makestack, you learn a powerful organization system to help you learn, make, and share (almost) anything.