Less collecting.
More creating.

Why I wrote this book

I always have ideas. Things I want to make, subjects I want to explore and skills I want to learn. Music production is a big part of that. But with so many ideas at once, I also lose track. I start one thing, jump to another and forget what I originally set out to do.

I was often busy, but I couldn't always point to a clear goal or see the progress I was making. I needed a way to organise my ideas and turn them into concrete steps.

That's why I started using AI and Notion together. AI helps me work through my thoughts, ask questions and break down a big goal. In Notion, I give those plans a home: what do I want to learn, where do I start and what have I already tried? It gives me something to return to and makes it easier to pick up where I left off.

Talking to other people learning music production, I recognised the same struggle. There is plenty of advice, but how do you choose what you need? How do you turn it into a plan that fits your experience, ambitions and available time? Because this way of working helps me, I wanted to share it.

This book and its website grew out of that same process: developing ideas with AI, keeping track of decisions and next steps in Notion, making something, seeing what could be improved and building on it. The book itself became an application of the approach it describes.

I'm still learning. In this book, I share the way I work so you can try it with your own ideas and ambitions.

Brian van Veen