{ Building a Second Brain

Metadata

author: & Tiago Forte in conjunction with & Ali Abdaal
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_6U0FoqDk

C.O.D.E

Capture

Notes

• Physical journal notes
  • Morning Pages
• Apple Notes
  • good for offline
• "Readwise is the center of my capture system"
  • I take notes in Kindle and it sends straight to Readwise
  • Articles on Instapaper go to Readwise
    • #comment Raindrop.io a good substitute for this
• ROAM research
  • #comment it looks like Ali is using ROAM much like I use obsidian
• Notion
  • Anything business/company oriented gets captured and organized in notion

Tasks

• ToDoist
• Voice Memo
• Otter.ai
  • a transcription app
• cleanshot.io
  • turn screenshot videos into gifs
• "What is the unit of output that I care about?"
  • Then let's just do whatever it takes to get to that as efficiently as possible
  • Don't be wed to the organization of the system

Organize

• a lot of capture sources are organize sources
  • Notion, ROAM, and Apple notes
• Sometimes Apple Notes is unorganized or unfiltered (long inbox of items)
  • "Let chaos reign, then rein in the chaos" - & Andy Grove

Distill

Heigharchy

1. First Brain:
   1. What can I come up with on my own
2. Second Brain:
   1. What material that I have captured in the past can I use to answer this question?
3. Optional The Internet:
   1. Use this as little as possible.
   2. in fact, try using what you have (your brains) before going to this medium. The content you search for is not well refined, nor is it time effective

Express

Apple Notes

• Apple Notes vs. Roam
  • All the friction of Roam is more annoying than writing in a plain, simple notes app
  • Just need to converge or sprint towards a conclusion of an answer to an idea
• Apple notes a landing space for information found in a research app just as ROAM or obsidian