It's interesting that you said that - I was leaving a comment and it's already too long so i left it out but I was going to say, I can imagine if I wasn't already super familiar with Notion...would I think 'cool this is really detailed?' or 'holy shit...this is a lottttt'. Seems the answer can be both. You'll be totally fine though! It comes with templates, examples and has little pop-up guides and stuff.... i'd just advise setting a goal and trying to stick to it... I tend to end up getting new ideas as im going through it, like spotting a feature and thinking 'that'd be good for X' and before i know it I've made a long 'to do' list and not actually finished my first goal lol. IMO learn what a 'view' is, generally speaking...then pick a view and start to organise something from it, whether its a list of your favourite movies or whatever, then you can build on it, with ratings, year of release, main actors...then seeing how different views show that data differently....a big chunk of intimidation will vanish when you see 'Views' and it's as recognisable as knowing what a 'notepad' file is or ''googling' something 👍
@@360Fov Thank you so much for such a helpful message, it's encouraged me to actually give Notion a try. I love researching and organising information, so the idea of having a second brain sounds very appealing, but the seeming complexity scared me off at first. I'll share my impressions in this thread later.
Same and then I reminded myself that I don't have to do things the same way. You are an individual and that's ok. Not everything has to resonate with you.
LMAO same. I still took the plunge and set this up today. Let's see how this goes over the next couple of weeks. Whether I stick to it or not at all XD
*2022 Notion Update* : Since the board feature has been updated, let me explain to you how you can work with more than 3 columns again. For me, it took some time to understand how this works, so I hope i can spare you some time. Step 1: Start a new database and choose board view. Step 2: Click the three buttons on the upper right hand corner and choose "Layout". Step 3: Click "group by" and then "status by". Open the drop down menu and swich from "Group" to "Option". Afterwards you click the three dotts again and choose "Properties" and click on "status". Here you can add options to "to do", "in progress" and "complete". Here you can add the headings to your new columns and also add colors. It actually doesn´t matter in which category you put the option, all of them will be displayed next to each other as columns. At the end you can sort your headings if you want to by clicking on the three dotts again and click on "groups". There you click "sort" and change to "manual". You then can drag and drop the options in their right positions. I hope that helped :)
This is the kind of comment that can save you a ton tof time and that makes a great video like this to make sense and have a concrete approach. Thank you very much for your generosity.
Danke für die Ausführliche Hilfe, hab deinen Kommentar auch unter dem Notion Video gesehen. Geht das immer noch? ich hab es die ganze Versucht und kein annähernd solches Board hinbekommen. Ich würde dieses System aber zu gerne ausprobieren. Auch wenn ich status ausschalte. Kann ich dich irgendwo kontaktieren? Insta oder so? Du würdest mir unglaublich helfen 🤗 beste Grüße!
Girl, if this was your first explanatory video, you have everything it takes to be a professor (if you are not already). Congratulations and thanks. It is inspiring to see you're so happy and involved in this work of yours.
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO DO THIS IN 2022 Apparently Notion made an update which causes a minor struggle to follow Liz's great tutorial, I'm going to try to explain how to fix it. If you cant add/change the properties called "Status", you need to: 1. Click a card under any group 2. Under the card's title there will be several properties, one of which is labeled as "Status" - you need to delete that. 3. Once you deleted it, you will now create a new property of type "Select" 4. Name the newly created "Select" as "Status" Hope this helps someone :v
I'm sorry if it is a stupid question, but how can she see for every source where it is cited as a primary tag, secondary tag, etc. ? At minute 10:21, we see that the source selected has properties referring to all the topic the source has been referred has a primary tag, secondary tag, etc.. I tried to do that, but I can only link the article to a database and not a note. Do you have any idea? Thank you :)
I know what you're asking, but I'm sadly not that good of a notion person myself :( I only managed to fix the basic structure for my specific usage and didn't delve into the "categorizing sources" deal because it was maybe too much for myself, sorry :
Awesome! I love this concept a lot. As someone self-diagnosed with ADD I can be hyper focused on something, then quickly move on to something else, often forgetting the thing I was previously focused on. Having a visual and digital library of concepts that you WANT to remember is both empowering (because I’m putting effort and investing energy into knowledge I want to instill in my life) and comforting (I can refer back to these things without the stress of it knowing where to find them or if I’ll remember them). Thank you again! ❤
Your youtube content is so good! You've quickly become one of my favorite youtubers. I am a getting my Doctor of Nursing practice in psychiatric nursing. I need to work on my second brain in notion!
I don't know why but this is the first short video I watched on building a 2nd brain workflow on Notion that just made sense. That's not to say everyone else's is wrong but probably more a comment on how this is closer to how my own way of thinking works. Thank you for sharing. It would've taken me ages to come up with the workflow you've shown here. You just saved me a ton of time.
Thank you Elizabeth! Would be great to see a "full Tutorial" for example; how you add Articles, how and where you write your Ideas, Quotes etc.. how you categorized it and which apps do you use.. wish you all the best.
I was creating a lot of concepts, prototypes, ideas, schemes - Notion, Trello, Excel, notebooks, Files, notes. And finally - I found your video. Thank you. That looks like the tool I was searching for many years. Bless you!
When she adds a property (column) to the Slip Box table (at 6:20), the Name column has been moved over to be the 2nd column. The 1st column is then “Topic” (7:03). A Name column, by the way, cannot be deleted and it is the primary way that individual rows within a database can be cross-referenced. The icon in a Name column’s header is “Aa”. The Topics in the first column are for organization of the coded sub-topics that are in the Main Cards column (the one with the column header beginning with “Aa”). She’s using the classic Luhmann coding system of Num-Alpha-Num-Alpha to mark Topic, Sub-Topic, and Sub-Sub-Topic. The Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources are all related to the same Database, which is “Drafts 2” in her example. “Art”, “Rules,” “Studies,” etc. are different databases (not “Drafts 2”) in her Notion setup. Judging from the icon (or lack of icon) before the Code of each of her Main Cards, she doesn’t write notes inside the Main Cards. Instead, she is using them as an index of Keywords. So, instead of cross-referencing the Sources in her Drafts 2 database (which is what Luhmann did with his “permanent notes”), in her customized version, the Sources are tethered to the Main Cards. The benefit of her customization is the emphasis on engagement with the notes and their organization. She diverges from Luhmann’s focus, which was on generating writing. That said, it would be totally possible to, say, populate the Main Cards with texts that draw on the linked sources. Of all the videos out there on the slip-box, this is the only one I’ve found of a Slip-box that is (1) in actual use; (2) it seems to work for her needs; (3) she can trust her own system.
I've been looking for an old (10-15 yrs?) article I found about "offloading your brain" by creating one's own personal wiki and adding to and connecting things regularly. It's always seemed like the holy grail of personal reference info storage and organization. This seems like a great new way to handle this and I thank you so much for the detail! Diving in, and see a lot of note taking/organization in my future!
Just dropping in the comments to confirm this was an UH-mazing walkthrough! - watched the whole thing at 1x speed and fascinated by your “workflow” when reading through books. (Maybe even worth experimenting with a title like - How I remember everything I read) since it’s something myself and A LOT of people struggle with. Thank you for sharing this👊🏼🔥
@@elizabethfilips If you don't, I eventually might haha this is a great idea! Also, great video Elizabeth. I'm just getting started on Notion and this video has super helpful, I will have to give this layout a try! Thank you
"Don't believe everything you thinks." For an overthinker myself, the last word is so powerful! Thank you Elizabeth for sharing the process of managing own thoughts. Seems more manageable than my current way, telegram & google drive. Ecspecially linked the different sources.
Wo... I don’t think I will ever reach that level ever on note taking and building my second brain. I am amazed by how much work has been put on notion and I’m sure the editing the video must be lot of work.
Wow.. .... This is an amazing way to take notes. I wish this video existed when I was in university. I always kept taking notes but never found a way to bring together everything in one place. It's never too late though. Thank you so much for sharing this. :D
Your videos NEVER fail to inspire and teach me something new. You're seriously the prettiest and smartest person I know!! I want to be intellectual like you!! Lots of Love from USA, Bindiya!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow that's impressive and very well detailed !! I think you'll love the Obsidian app, it totally embrace the "link between idees" process. It's way less fastidious to do links and more visual so it's easier to see the link between them. But this videos was exactly what I was searching for to organise my notes, thank you !
My thoughts exactly ! Those primary, secondary and tertiary sources and numbering can be replaced with a knowledge graph where you can double triple click.
YES! I was searching all week for notion knowledge management set up videos and all I could think was I hope Elizabeth puts up her tutorial soon! Thanks for this!
This is such a good video! Most of the videos out there talks only about the uses of having a second brain and never about how to put it together or how it works in real time. Tbh notion was always confusing to me and I never understood why people said it was better than all other note taking apps but I'm starting to see its use, thanks to you!
This is one of the most simplistic workflow explanations of the Second Brain. Fatnastic job Elizabeth, I've been capturing and organizing a lot of stuff but my second brain needs an elevated dashboard with the right linking - gonna use your setup :D
You're the only youtuber that I could click with in every single way possible. I've always had the concept of second brain and used mostly sticky notes on my phone and laptop to store these, but I never fully knew how to integrate the things in one place, that I wanted to store from other places like digital books, physical books, audio books, etc. I've always been a nerd too with a creative side of me and a logical side of me, a software engineer as well as an artist. I just found you recently, and I am able to relate everything you say on another level, with every single video of yours I watch. I'm so glad I found you. Your videos are just the next level. Thank you so much for this.
This is my kind of nerdy maniacal. I have a gratuitous, color coded note taking system for paper books and for audiobooks, but they are not integrated and I can feel the lost psychological potential of not taking the second step to connect them. I have an intuition that this video is going to change my life for the better. Thank you for making this and sharing your nerd wisdom with the world! Also total tangent, loving the drop shadow on the circular video of yourself in the corner. Nice little bit of aesthetic differentiation from other explainer videos. Cheers! -CP
@@victoriacordeiro5714 I felt the same way as the author of the comment above. From my perspective, I can say for me it worked out perfectly 😻 have been using it for almost two years, implementing my own additional features to it - and it’s the best way of storing knowledge now and expressing it later 👍
I've just proudly added my first note to my second brain from your another video. "brains are for making connections not storing information" 1000 thanks
This was great, I loved how straightforward and succinct you were. I just started using Notion last week and have been researching the best ways to set up a second brain/zettelkastern, and this was probably the clearest and most helpful tutorial I've seen. Thanks for actually showcasing the process of how you format/use your system, it was really helpful!
Thanks for this video. As I was getting ready to comment, "This feels like a Zettelkasten process," I saw the video was tagged with it. I really appreciate getting to see how you incorporate the raw material from the sources into a larger framework. I also like your comment that it takes time. I have spent a lot of time taking notes on individual sources. But the notes have always only covered the one source I'm taking notes on. In the last six months, I've been looking for ways to find intersections. Your system with "primary," "secondary," and "tertiary" is REALLY interesting. It's like a layered Zettelkasten! Thanks for taking the time to share this!
Holy Teledo! She would flip out at my "almost all in my mind" method. She demonstrates a polar opposite methodology 😄. You have to admire her enthusiasm👍
Thank you so much Elizabeth ! I started reading How to take Smart Notes and was really lost when it came to implement it into a Note -Taking app efficiently. So thank you thank you for showing your process and explaining it clearly. All the best for 2022 ! Happy to follow your newsletter to start this year
The way you explained really explains how your brain works. All the points were delivered clearly and easy to understand and I love how you walk us through your thinking process in setting up Notion as second brain. Been taking some notes from your videos and will add it in my drafts too. Thanks for sharing!
How you implemented it is freaking awesome! I made a video to share this with the Spanish community because this video is a big piece of gold! Thank you so much!
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This was absolutely spectacular. Thank you for making this video; I've been introduced to a new concept that I can identify with so strongly that it has made my entire night. We appreciate you, and I hope we get to hear more from you!
Thank you so much, Elizabeth! I have been running in circles from devising to revising then to deleting my notion page for making study notes for exams, capturing ideas, quotes and artworks from different sites (and god knows how maaannnyy bookmarks and folders i still make to keep things organized) because it doesn’t just work. Thank you for being generous with your “systems” and going an extra mile to explain them! Just wanna say this: I think one of my blessings this year is stumbling upon your channel after going through a bunch of videos that could potentially provide some emotional lifting and soothe my discouraged self after a chemistry exam which I remember had me questioning my decision of entering a health-allied program. In your stances and thoughts on productivity, philosophy and laziness, I have found some sort of rationalization of how i approach and do my studies and even my work ethic :)) I‘m still young (but not much younger to be fickle about it) and I can see myself emulating your approach and practices in life.
I started watching your videos just yesterday. I sit in front of my laptop and just listen to you, and it is just not boring. It feels like I am directly talking to you. Not sure why, if its the topic, or the content, or simply you, but, yeah.. I like you :)
i’ve only seen the second brain concept with obsidian and I find it hard to get a handle of the software. i work with notion much easier and i really appreciate this notion second brain approach and i might just make my own in the morning 😊
There is an easy way of add columns. 1. Just create a new page and choose Table. 2. Click on New Database button. 3. In the three dots, change the Layout to Board. Now you can add more columns, change the color and edit the name of it. You just need to click on the "+" button besides of the no tags column.
I really like the idea that you connect your thoughts to different categories. I think it enriches the way you view things in life and helps to see new ways of looking at topics/ideas that may on the surface not appear to be connected at all. I wish I could work on my notes after I've finished a book, but I find it hard to have that same level of clarity of the thought that came to mind when something stood out to me after the fact. Because of that I tend to allow myself to write out my thoughts as they hit me while I read, even though it unfortunately takes me so much longer to actually finish a book. :/
Simple explanation and not too long for my concentration with proper example of the one you actually use. I like it. I will try to implement it to my notion.
Love this!! As a person who has lived unorganized and never thought to capture things I read or learn, this is mind blowing and you’ve simplified the process so well! Now just have to start and develop the habits!
I've actually been clicking on your channel almost everyday waiting for the new video! this far exceeded what I already hoped a great video from you would deliver! As someone with ADHD reading books for me always instigates analysis and ideas but then my working memory fails to remember anything and it feels like i passively read books that i soon will forget. I am so excited to adopt my own version of this and it will definitely make reading books a more hopeful and insightful journey. Thank you so much Elizabeth
It is the fifth time I have watched this video because of the updates to the Notion. 😂 Finally, I set up my second brain by following your way which is the clearest way I have found. Thank you, Elizabeth.
I feel like I've always needed this, but I didn't know how to practically do it. The development of your second brain is mindblowing. Thank you sooo much!!!
If I understand right: - captures are in "Drafts" because explaining what makes it important to you is a draft of a proper main card in the Slip Box - they are un-processed until a proper main card cites and elaborates them - "sources" is an all-purpose bin for citable annotated excerpts and summaries - the other columns are for whatever particular kinds of content you capture often, or whatever reasons you keep having for citing them from your Slip Box thoughts - in the Slip Box, topics and outline numbers set each thought in a neighborhood of related thoughts, so you'll see it again at opportune times - the "source" properties refer to reasons for citing an existing item: It's the actual, immediate trigger of the thoughts on the main card; it seems probably related; it smells possibly related - you'll find you cite things for more specific reasons than that (like "here's a picture of the phenomenon" or "peer reviewed studies are trustworthy" or "stories help people relate") - if you cite for a certain reason often, giving it its own property makes it quick to throw a link in without having to explain - rows of the table usually won't have *all* of those properties filled in Is that about right?
Greetings from indonesia 🇮🇩I feel so luck to find your video which show me step by step (even i learn which one you click) in notion in not boring (and not too short tips and trick which make me need to look another video about the feature) 💕 using notion to help us connecting the dot for all information. Thank youu
I have been watching this video all day! it toook me six hours but I finally figured it out 😂 thank you so match for making such an amazing detailed video this is absolutely brilliant!
Amazing video, thank you! I've recently downloaded Notion and will give your set up method a go 👍🏼. Loving all of your videos! This one definitely deserves more than 'good stuff' from Ali 😂.
Thank you! I read the book How to Take Smart Notes and I understand the concept of creating a zettelkasten, but have been trying to find the right way to create this digitally! This is brilliant!!
Our brains are so beautifully complex! I watched this video maybe a week or two ago and thought it was brilliant that this was working for you, but wouldn't work for me. Guess what, I've been researching the Zetterkasten method and watching all the videos and reading all the blogposts on how to do it the best way possible in Notion and I'm rewatching this and thinking you're an absolute legend and your system is perfect! Ahah, thank you so much for sharing :)
Loved this video ☺️ thank you so much for it! I’ve been meaning to get started with notion and this video finally gave me the push to do it - all set up now and excited to finally capture and organise all the thoughts and quotes etc in one place instead of the many many notebooks I have scattered around!! Xx
I watched this so many times to wrap my head around the process steps (mainly cus I was doing something else while it played) All of that to say THANK YOU I finally got it, and now have a system that I don’t have to think up my own one!
So nice to see a digital Zettelkasten that clearly relates to the original method as described in Ahren’s How to Take Smart Notes. Helped me imagine it more coherently - thanks!
Didnt know that Scarlet started doing TH-cam videos, between being an Avenger and making a series about your family, this is the best piece of content that you created, thanks Scarlet!
I watched this video couple of months ago but found it too complicated maybe because I was new to Notion. I came across the concept of second brain again now and looked for helpful videos but didn’t find any video helpful until I decided to rewatch this video now that I know how to use notion. OMG it’s amazzzing how helpful and detailed this video is 😍 I added second brain database to my notion and I’m so excited to use it.
Hi, this was super interesting. What is the benefit of keeping everything as interlinked single items rather than putting all notes from a book or a course together on one page? To me this looks chaotic and disjointed, maybe my brain works differently 😉 But I would appreciate if you could elaborate on that a bit more. 🤩
I think it just depends on the person. For instance, I can’t put multiple notes on one page because I’ll get overwhelmed and I would probably cry. But other people find it helpful. It’s amazing how different peoples minds are to each other’s! :D
Hi Elizabeth! Consolidating and connecting my thoughts that have sparked from different parts of my life has been something that I had always struggled with, but I never realised that I could do it so systematically! I absolutely LOVED this video, and I can't imagine how much preparation it took to deliver such a detailed video. Thank you for taking the time to share with us how you use Notion and all the other fun parts of your life!
This is simultaneously brilliant and intimidating, i’m feeling both inspired and stressed
It's interesting that you said that - I was leaving a comment and it's already too long so i left it out but I was going to say, I can imagine if I wasn't already super familiar with Notion...would I think 'cool this is really detailed?' or 'holy shit...this is a lottttt'. Seems the answer can be both.
You'll be totally fine though! It comes with templates, examples and has little pop-up guides and stuff.... i'd just advise setting a goal and trying to stick to it... I tend to end up getting new ideas as im going through it, like spotting a feature and thinking 'that'd be good for X' and before i know it I've made a long 'to do' list and not actually finished my first goal lol.
IMO learn what a 'view' is, generally speaking...then pick a view and start to organise something from it, whether its a list of your favourite movies or whatever, then you can build on it, with ratings, year of release, main actors...then seeing how different views show that data differently....a big chunk of intimidation will vanish when you see 'Views' and it's as recognisable as knowing what a 'notepad' file is or ''googling' something 👍
@@360Fov Thank you so much for such a helpful message, it's encouraged me to actually give Notion a try. I love researching and organising information, so the idea of having a second brain sounds very appealing, but the seeming complexity scared me off at first. I'll share my impressions in this thread later.
Same and then I reminded myself that I don't have to do things the same way. You are an individual and that's ok. Not everything has to resonate with you.
@@oliviakrause3336 That is absolutely true, our version of Notion or second brain can be self-tailored. Thank you for the reminder
LMAO same. I still took the plunge and set this up today. Let's see how this goes over the next couple of weeks. Whether I stick to it or not at all XD
Makes a lot of sense even after 2 years. You should do a refresher video on this. We would love to see how it has evolved in the last two years.
not me watching this side by side with notion open
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Same!😂😭
same! Also this is like my 5th time viewing it! Currently trying to recreate, its so good!
Where you able to recreate to me is missing Tags looks simple but cannot make it work
*2022 Notion Update* : Since the board feature has been updated, let me explain to you how you can work with more than 3 columns again. For me, it took some time to understand how this works, so I hope i can spare you some time. Step 1: Start a new database and choose board view. Step 2: Click the three buttons on the upper right hand corner and choose "Layout". Step 3: Click "group by" and then "status by". Open the drop down menu and swich from "Group" to "Option". Afterwards you click the three dotts again and choose "Properties" and click on "status". Here you can add options to "to do", "in progress" and "complete". Here you can add the headings to your new columns and also add colors. It actually doesn´t matter in which category you put the option, all of them will be displayed next to each other as columns. At the end you can sort your headings if you want to by clicking on the three dotts again and click on "groups". There you click "sort" and change to "manual". You then can drag and drop the options in their right positions. I hope that helped :)
This is the kind of comment that can save you a ton tof time and that makes a great video like this to make sense and have a concrete approach. Thank you very much for your generosity.
thank you!
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Danke für die Ausführliche Hilfe, hab deinen Kommentar auch unter dem Notion Video gesehen. Geht das immer noch? ich hab es die ganze Versucht und kein annähernd solches Board hinbekommen. Ich würde dieses System aber zu gerne ausprobieren. Auch wenn ich status ausschalte. Kann ich dich irgendwo kontaktieren? Insta oder so? Du würdest mir unglaublich helfen 🤗 beste Grüße!
bruh thanks u so much
Girl, if this was your first explanatory video, you have everything it takes to be a professor (if you are not already). Congratulations and thanks. It is inspiring to see you're so happy and involved in this work of yours.
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO DO THIS IN 2022
Apparently Notion made an update which causes a minor struggle to follow Liz's great tutorial, I'm going to try to explain how to fix it.
If you cant add/change the properties called "Status", you need to:
1. Click a card under any group
2. Under the card's title there will be several properties, one of which is labeled as "Status" - you need to delete that.
3. Once you deleted it, you will now create a new property of type "Select"
4. Name the newly created "Select" as "Status"
Hope this helps someone :v
How do you delete "Status"? Are you removing the "Status" property type and replacing it with the "Select" property type?
@@trashcontent5393 Yes! Precisely :)
I'm sorry if it is a stupid question, but how can she see for every source where it is cited as a primary tag, secondary tag, etc. ? At minute 10:21, we see that the source selected has properties referring to all the topic the source has been referred has a primary tag, secondary tag, etc.. I tried to do that, but I can only link the article to a database and not a note. Do you have any idea? Thank you :)
I know what you're asking, but I'm sadly not that good of a notion person myself :(
I only managed to fix the basic structure for my specific usage and didn't delve into the "categorizing sources" deal because it was maybe too much for myself, sorry :
@@5daydreams Thank you so much for your answer! :) I hope you'll have a great notion journey yourself ^_^
Awesome! I love this concept a lot. As someone self-diagnosed with ADD I can be hyper focused on something, then quickly move on to something else, often forgetting the thing I was previously focused on. Having a visual and digital library of concepts that you WANT to remember is both empowering (because I’m putting effort and investing energy into knowledge I want to instill in my life) and comforting (I can refer back to these things without the stress of it knowing where to find them or if I’ll remember them). Thank you again! ❤
Your youtube content is so good! You've quickly become one of my favorite youtubers. I am a getting my Doctor of Nursing practice in psychiatric nursing. I need to work on my second brain in notion!
Awh thank you sooo much!
My notion board: x+1 = x ☺️
Elizabeth’s board: {3:5} < 99^(6-9)/2 |3| 🧠
Welcome
How do u guys learn Notion soo well?
I don't know why but this is the first short video I watched on building a 2nd brain workflow on Notion that just made sense. That's not to say everyone else's is wrong but probably more a comment on how this is closer to how my own way of thinking works. Thank you for sharing. It would've taken me ages to come up with the workflow you've shown here. You just saved me a ton of time.
Thanks so much for this :)
I need to sort out my first brain ffs 🤦🏽♀️ 😂 sick explanation as always yung filly
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Ironically, you need second brain to sort out your first brain! 😅
Thank you Elizabeth! Would be great to see a "full Tutorial" for example; how you add Articles, how and where you write your Ideas, Quotes etc.. how you categorized it and which apps do you use.. wish you all the best.
yes yes yes 😅
it's like you stole this point from my mind.
This is the first "second brain" notion video I have found that fully clicked. I now feel I have the knowledge to set on up for myself, so thank you!
Love to hear it, thanks so much for letting me know and for watching :)
Same here, amazing
Thank You Elizabeth for this video
I was creating a lot of concepts, prototypes, ideas, schemes - Notion, Trello, Excel, notebooks, Files, notes. And finally - I found your video. Thank you. That looks like the tool I was searching for many years. Bless you!
When she adds a property (column) to the Slip Box table (at 6:20), the Name column has been moved over to be the 2nd column. The 1st column is then “Topic” (7:03). A Name column, by the way, cannot be deleted and it is the primary way that individual rows within a database can be cross-referenced. The icon in a Name column’s header is “Aa”.
The Topics in the first column are for organization of the coded sub-topics that are in the Main Cards column (the one with the column header beginning with “Aa”). She’s using the classic Luhmann coding system of Num-Alpha-Num-Alpha to mark Topic, Sub-Topic, and Sub-Sub-Topic.
The Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources are all related to the same Database, which is “Drafts 2” in her example. “Art”, “Rules,” “Studies,” etc. are different databases (not “Drafts 2”) in her Notion setup.
Judging from the icon (or lack of icon) before the Code of each of her Main Cards, she doesn’t write notes inside the Main Cards. Instead, she is using them as an index of Keywords. So, instead of cross-referencing the Sources in her Drafts 2 database (which is what Luhmann did with his “permanent notes”), in her customized version, the Sources are tethered to the Main Cards.
The benefit of her customization is the emphasis on engagement with the notes and their organization. She diverges from Luhmann’s focus, which was on generating writing. That said, it would be totally possible to, say, populate the Main Cards with texts that draw on the linked sources.
Of all the videos out there on the slip-box, this is the only one I’ve found of a Slip-box that is (1) in actual use; (2) it seems to work for her needs; (3) she can trust her own system.
Thank you for expanding on these!
Thanks so much for the additional explanation ❤ helped a lot!
This is what I needed to be able to make this process work on Notion.
I've been looking for an old (10-15 yrs?) article I found about "offloading your brain" by creating one's own personal wiki and adding to and connecting things regularly. It's always seemed like the holy grail of personal reference info storage and organization. This seems like a great new way to handle this and I thank you so much for the detail! Diving in, and see a lot of note taking/organization in my future!
Just dropping in the comments to confirm this was an UH-mazing walkthrough! - watched the whole thing at 1x speed and fascinated by your “workflow” when reading through books.
(Maybe even worth experimenting with a title like - How I remember everything I read) since it’s something myself and A LOT of people struggle with.
Thank you for sharing this👊🏼🔥
Thank you so much! I might do that one too 😅
@@elizabethfilips If you don't, I eventually might haha this is a great idea! Also, great video Elizabeth. I'm just getting started on Notion and this video has super helpful, I will have to give this layout a try! Thank you
"Don't believe everything you thinks."
For an overthinker myself, the last word is so powerful!
Thank you Elizabeth for sharing the process of managing own thoughts.
Seems more manageable than my current way, telegram & google drive. Ecspecially linked the different sources.
Wo... I don’t think I will ever reach that level ever on note taking and building my second brain. I am amazed by how much work has been put on notion and I’m sure the editing the video must be lot of work.
Just looking you made this video is already made Notion better for my life.
Watching your video on the second brain while I am studying the embryology of the nervous system... Notion's Brain embryology is much simpler
I've seen a lot of videos on Notion but this is the best video that I've seen so far. Thanks! :)
thank you so much!!
Wow.. .... This is an amazing way to take notes. I wish this video existed when I was in university. I always kept taking notes but never found a way to bring together everything in one place. It's never too late though. Thank you so much for sharing this. :D
Your videos NEVER fail to inspire and teach me something new. You're seriously the prettiest and smartest person I know!! I want to be intellectual like you!! Lots of Love from USA, Bindiya!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow that's impressive and very well detailed !!
I think you'll love the Obsidian app, it totally embrace the "link between idees" process. It's way less fastidious to do links and more visual so it's easier to see the link between them.
But this videos was exactly what I was searching for to organise my notes, thank you !
My thoughts exactly ! Those primary, secondary and tertiary sources and numbering can be replaced with a knowledge graph where you can double triple click.
YES! I was searching all week for notion knowledge management set up videos and all I could think was I hope Elizabeth puts up her tutorial soon! Thanks for this!
This is such a good video! Most of the videos out there talks only about the uses of having a second brain and never about how to put it together or how it works in real time.
Tbh notion was always confusing to me and I never understood why people said it was better than all other note taking apps but I'm starting to see its use, thanks to you!
You're so welcome, thanks for watching!
Saw a lot of these Second Brain setups and note systems. This is by far the most straight forward, easy to navigate and clever! Good job!
Yay! I've been looking forward to this. Thanks for putting it out
Elizabeth :D
You're so welcome, hope you enjoy it!
I have looked at so many peoples Second brain ideas and yours is the only one that truly made sense. Well done and it was clearly explained.
This is one of the most simplistic workflow explanations of the Second Brain. Fatnastic job Elizabeth, I've been capturing and organizing a lot of stuff but my second brain needs an elevated dashboard with the right linking - gonna use your setup :D
Thank you so much!!
You're the only youtuber that I could click with in every single way possible. I've always had the concept of second brain and used mostly sticky notes on my phone and laptop to store these, but I never fully knew how to integrate the things in one place, that I wanted to store from other places like digital books, physical books, audio books, etc. I've always been a nerd too with a creative side of me and a logical side of me, a software engineer as well as an artist. I just found you recently, and I am able to relate everything you say on another level, with every single video of yours I watch. I'm so glad I found you. Your videos are just the next level. Thank you so much for this.
This is my kind of nerdy maniacal.
I have a gratuitous, color coded note taking system for paper books and for audiobooks, but they are not integrated and I can feel the lost psychological potential of not taking the second step to connect them.
I have an intuition that this video is going to change my life for the better. Thank you for making this and sharing your nerd wisdom with the world!
Also total tangent, loving the drop shadow on the circular video of yourself in the corner. Nice little bit of aesthetic differentiation from other explainer videos. Cheers! -CP
hey just for curiosity, did you implemented in your life? did it work out?
@@victoriacordeiro5714 I felt the same way as the author of the comment above. From my perspective, I can say for me it worked out perfectly 😻 have been using it for almost two years, implementing my own additional features to it - and it’s the best way of storing knowledge now and expressing it later 👍
I've just proudly added my first note to my second brain from your another video. "brains are for making connections not storing information" 1000 thanks
This was great, I loved how straightforward and succinct you were. I just started using Notion last week and have been researching the best ways to set up a second brain/zettelkastern, and this was probably the clearest and most helpful tutorial I've seen. Thanks for actually showcasing the process of how you format/use your system, it was really helpful!
Thanks for this video. As I was getting ready to comment, "This feels like a Zettelkasten process," I saw the video was tagged with it. I really appreciate getting to see how you incorporate the raw material from the sources into a larger framework. I also like your comment that it takes time. I have spent a lot of time taking notes on individual sources. But the notes have always only covered the one source I'm taking notes on. In the last six months, I've been looking for ways to find intersections. Your system with "primary," "secondary," and "tertiary" is REALLY interesting. It's like a layered Zettelkasten!
Thanks for taking the time to share this!
Was so excited for this after watching your previous video on a second brain! Thanks Elizabeth 😊💕
Hope you enjoyed it :)
Holy Teledo! She would flip out at my "almost all in my mind" method.
She demonstrates a polar opposite methodology 😄.
You have to admire her enthusiasm👍
Thank you so much Elizabeth ! I started reading How to take Smart Notes and was really lost when it came to implement it into a Note -Taking app efficiently. So thank you thank you for showing your process and explaining it clearly.
All the best for 2022 ! Happy to follow your newsletter to start this year
The way you explained really explains how your brain works. All the points were delivered clearly and easy to understand and I love how you walk us through your thinking process in setting up Notion as second brain. Been taking some notes from your videos and will add it in my drafts too.
Thanks for sharing!
Definitely adding this to my media database in my Notion!
I don't understand how this doesn't have more likes whlie it was the best breakdown for how to use notion as a second brain. Thank you for doing this!
Yayyy I've been waiting for this since your last video on your second brain !!:))
How you implemented it is freaking awesome! I made a video to share this with the Spanish community because this video is a big piece of gold! Thank you so much!
Oh my GOD I’m so flattered thank you!
@@elizabethfilips you deserve it :)
That was pretty much to the point, simple and clear.. not at all intimidating as other notion set-up walkthrough videos are... Thank you.
So happy to hear this :)
One thing I must tell you I m also a medical student - but your hairs soo nice and I like the curly one when you do it curly thn it’s soo nice and you looking pretty
This was absolutely spectacular. Thank you for making this video; I've been introduced to a new concept that I can identify with so strongly that it has made my entire night. We appreciate you, and I hope we get to hear more from you!
Looovee you !
You are amazing!
Please, never stop your channel!
I learn so much from you.
And you are so unique!
Thank you for existing!
Thanks so much!. I think now my second brain is ready to kick life.
Thank you so much, Elizabeth! I have been running in circles from devising to revising then to deleting my notion page for making study notes for exams, capturing ideas, quotes and artworks from different sites (and god knows how maaannnyy bookmarks and folders i still make to keep things organized) because it doesn’t just work. Thank you for being generous with your “systems” and going an extra mile to explain them!
Just wanna say this: I think one of my blessings this year is stumbling upon your channel after going through a bunch of videos that could potentially provide some emotional lifting and soothe my discouraged self after a chemistry exam which I remember had me questioning my decision of entering a health-allied program. In your stances and thoughts on productivity, philosophy and laziness, I have found some sort of rationalization of how i approach and do my studies and even my work ethic :)) I‘m still young (but not much younger to be fickle about it) and I can see myself emulating your approach and practices in life.
nice series. waiting for your video on third brain
I started watching your videos just yesterday. I sit in front of my laptop and just listen to you, and it is just not boring. It feels like I am directly talking to you. Not sure why, if its the topic, or the content, or simply you, but, yeah.. I like you :)
i’ve only seen the second brain concept with obsidian and I find it hard to get a handle of the software. i work with notion much easier and i really appreciate this notion second brain approach and i might just make my own in the morning 😊
There is an easy way of add columns.
1. Just create a new page and choose Table.
2. Click on New Database button.
3. In the three dots, change the Layout to Board.
Now you can add more columns, change the color and edit the name of it. You just need to click on the "+" button besides of the no tags column.
I really like the idea that you connect your thoughts to different categories. I think it enriches the way you view things in life and helps to see new ways of looking at topics/ideas that may on the surface not appear to be connected at all.
I wish I could work on my notes after I've finished a book, but I find it hard to have that same level of clarity of the thought that came to mind when something stood out to me after the fact. Because of that I tend to allow myself to write out my thoughts as they hit me while I read, even though it unfortunately takes me so much longer to actually finish a book. :/
Simple explanation and not too long for my concentration with proper example of the one you actually use. I like it. I will try to implement it to my notion.
Love this!! As a person who has lived unorganized and never thought to capture things I read or learn, this is mind blowing and you’ve simplified the process so well! Now just have to start and develop the habits!
Thank you so much!!! Hope it does help!
Mindblowing! You dont wanna watch this on 2x speed.. its a Gem!
Yesssss I need to sort out my second brain🧠 great video!
Thank you sooooo much for this video!!!! Omg... thank you.
Thanks Ali for this incredible video recommendation
I've actually been clicking on your channel almost everyday waiting for the new video! this far exceeded what I already hoped a great video from you would deliver! As someone with ADHD reading books for me always instigates analysis and ideas but then my working memory fails to remember anything and it feels like i passively read books that i soon will forget. I am so excited to adopt my own version of this and it will definitely make reading books a more hopeful and insightful journey. Thank you so much Elizabeth
Yayyy so happy to hear you’ve enjoyed it!! Thanks for watching 🙏
It is the fifth time I have watched this video because of the updates to the Notion. 😂 Finally, I set up my second brain by following your way which is the clearest way I have found. Thank you, Elizabeth.
This is like nuclear physics to me 🤯 Too detailed and specific
I feel like I've always needed this, but I didn't know how to practically do it. The development of your second brain is mindblowing. Thank you sooo much!!!
Well done! Great video =) Would never have guessed you haven’t been a TH-cam creator for a long time!
Ahhh the compliment!!! Thank you so much for watching :)
If I understand right:
- captures are in "Drafts" because explaining what makes it important to you is a draft of a proper main card in the Slip Box
- they are un-processed until a proper main card cites and elaborates them
- "sources" is an all-purpose bin for citable annotated excerpts and summaries
- the other columns are for whatever particular kinds of content you capture often, or whatever reasons you keep having for citing them from your Slip Box thoughts
- in the Slip Box, topics and outline numbers set each thought in a neighborhood of related thoughts, so you'll see it again at opportune times
- the "source" properties refer to reasons for citing an existing item: It's the actual, immediate trigger of the thoughts on the main card; it seems probably related; it smells possibly related
- you'll find you cite things for more specific reasons than that (like "here's a picture of the phenomenon" or "peer reviewed studies are trustworthy" or "stories help people relate")
- if you cite for a certain reason often, giving it its own property makes it quick to throw a link in without having to explain
- rows of the table usually won't have *all* of those properties filled in
Is that about right?
Greetings from indonesia 🇮🇩I feel so luck to find your video which show me step by step (even i learn which one you click) in notion in not boring (and not too short tips and trick which make me need to look another video about the feature) 💕 using notion to help us connecting the dot for all information. Thank youu
Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you sooo much! ❤️
I saw many videos about creating a second brain, but this was by far the most approachable one. Kudos to you!
Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a lovely day 🌻
Just found this channel and I'm obsessed
YAYYY I think you have convinced me to use notion (finally)😂
Notion is awesome :)
your channel friggin gives me life
Amazingly detailed!! Loved the content. Would love it if you can make another video pertaining specifically to medschool 😅
Yes yes yess I have been waiting for this!! Thank you Elizabeth!!
It's a stupendous way of making the most of reading books. I am mighty impressed, Elizabeth.
Thanks Liv!
I guess i will just connect this "Second Brain" idea to Ali's "Resonance Calendar" 💪.
I have been watching this video all day! it toook me six hours but I finally figured it out 😂 thank you so match for making such an amazing detailed video this is absolutely brilliant!
Love the video funny how I commented on your second brain video saying if you could give us a tour/template ❤️
Totally a sucker for this - So far I kept many tabs on a spreadsheet :D from medical results, to books read, to mealplan.
Amazing video, thank you! I've recently downloaded Notion and will give your set up method a go 👍🏼. Loving all of your videos! This one definitely deserves more than 'good stuff' from Ali 😂.
hahahaah thank you Emma, I wouldn't have my hopes up for Ali's comment though 😂
Thank you! I read the book How to Take Smart Notes and I understand the concept of creating a zettelkasten, but have been trying to find the right way to create this digitally! This is brilliant!!
Thankyou for sharing your process. Well explained. New subscriber ✌️.
Thanks for dropping by :)
Dear your speaking speed just like the speed of light through zero, love from india, actually you are really looking just like angel
Our brains are so beautifully complex! I watched this video maybe a week or two ago and thought it was brilliant that this was working for you, but wouldn't work for me. Guess what, I've been researching the Zetterkasten method and watching all the videos and reading all the blogposts on how to do it the best way possible in Notion and I'm rewatching this and thinking you're an absolute legend and your system is perfect! Ahah, thank you so much for sharing :)
The video which I definitely needed, Thanks Elizabeth!!🤩 Can you please share the template of this?
You're welcome! I don't use any templates in it - It's just one table 😅
When you spoke about the second brain before i really needed this❤
Thank you so much!!
Loved this video ☺️ thank you so much for it! I’ve been meaning to get started with notion and this video finally gave me the push to do it - all set up now and excited to finally capture and organise all the thoughts and quotes etc in one place instead of the many many notebooks I have scattered around!! Xx
OMG this is the best video I have ever seen about using Notion to built second brain!
Oh my, thank you!
I watched this so many times to wrap my head around the process steps (mainly cus I was doing something else while it played)
All of that to say THANK YOU I finally got it, and now have a system that I don’t have to think up my own one!
Can you share a template for this pls!! Some of the words are too small
So nice to see a digital Zettelkasten that clearly relates to the original method as described in Ahren’s How to Take Smart Notes. Helped me imagine it more coherently - thanks!
Thanks Will!
This feels like a lot of work. I dont think i can do this for myself.
You don’t have to do everything in one day :) One note at a time which would then compound over time.
Didnt know that Scarlet started doing TH-cam videos, between being an Avenger and making a series about your family, this is the best piece of content that you created, thanks Scarlet!
What are your tips for finding tertiary sources? I think it's imperative we have at least been exposed to counter arguments for a better understanding
I watched this video couple of months ago but found it too complicated maybe because I was new to Notion. I came across the concept of second brain again now and looked for helpful videos but didn’t find any video helpful until I decided to rewatch this video now that I know how to use notion. OMG it’s amazzzing how helpful and detailed this video is 😍 I added second brain database to my notion and I’m so excited to use it.
Thank you!!
Hi, this was super interesting. What is the benefit of keeping everything as interlinked single items rather than putting all notes from a book or a course together on one page? To me this looks chaotic and disjointed, maybe my brain works differently 😉 But I would appreciate if you could elaborate on that a bit more. 🤩
I think it just depends on the person. For instance, I can’t put multiple notes on one page because I’ll get overwhelmed and I would probably cry. But other people find it helpful. It’s amazing how different peoples minds are to each other’s! :D
Hi Elizabeth! Consolidating and connecting my thoughts that have sparked from different parts of my life has been something that I had always struggled with, but I never realised that I could do it so systematically! I absolutely LOVED this video, and I can't imagine how much preparation it took to deliver such a detailed video. Thank you for taking the time to share with us how you use Notion and all the other fun parts of your life!