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Tana Outliner Live Build: the focus dashboard

This session is about building a focus dashboard: a living system that ties together your areas, projects, actions, and reviews into one adaptable flow.

The focus dashboard

What do the most popular productivity frameworks have in common?

  • Tiago Forte's PARA
  • August Bradley's PPV
  • Cal Newport's Multi-Scale Planning
  • Jordan Peterson's Future Authoring

They all try to solve the same challenge: how do you stay focused and keep moving forward, even when the goalposts shift?

This session was about building a focus dashboard, a living system that ties together your areas, projects, actions, and reviews into one adaptable flow.

We showed how to:

  • Capture tasks, projects, and routines across every area of life
  • Align them with shifting goals, objectives, and KPIs
  • Review progress across multiple time horizons (daily, quarterly, yearly)
  • Bring it all together in a dashboard that keeps your focus on meaningful action, even as circumstances change

Mark started with a pre-built demo and then built a focus dashboard live from scratch, showing how to move from knowledge management to systems for action in a way that works for executives, consultants, and individuals alike.

Access the pre-build template here: Focus dashboard pre-build

Tana Outliner Live Build: the focus dashboard - Tana Outliner Learn