Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
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Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
The first way that people tend to use their Second Brain is as a memory aid.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Think of yourself not just as a taker of notes, but as a giver of notes—you
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
the combination of a study notebook, a personal journal, and a sketchbook for new ideas.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Capture isn’t about doing more. It’s about taking notes on the experiences you’re already having.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
There are relatively few things that are actionable and relevant at any given time, which means you have a clear filter for ignoring everything else. Organizing
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
organizing methods that are overly rigid and prescriptive. The best way to organize your notes is to organize for action, according to the active projects you are working on right now. Consider new information in terms of its utility, asking, “How is this going to help me move forward one of my current projects?”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“knowledge building block”—a discrete unit of information interpreted through your unique perspective and stored outside your head.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“I think it’s important to put your impressions down on the first reading because those are the initial instincts about what you thought was good or what you didn’t understand or what you thought was bad.”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
We need an external medium in which to see our ideas from another vantage point, and writing things down is the most effective and convenient one ever invented.