Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes
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A presentation based on Tiago Forte's online course Building a Second Brain. Learn more at www.buildingasecondbrain.com/
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Tiago, I really like your whole message. I identify myself a lot with the second brain. I am a 63-year-old engineer, that just retired, and during my management positions, I was always concerned about today's tons of information that people like me have managed and our worries about how to preserve it. Evernote has helped me a lot. Personal Knowledge Management is a very important buzz word nowadays.
Who's here after Ali's video?
I have just seen Ali video and came here. Lol
Yep. Right from Ali.
This feels like slow motion after him
@@the_sleepy_engineer who is Ali?
Same here
Listen to someone yell you you spend your day consuming too much information and then spend 1/3 of a 45 minute video getting to the point
So much technology available today... the second brain is hugely important for increasing our reach into the world. Knowledge is power.
Love the framing in the beginning about delivering decks that were then stuck in a drawer. That was my experience in my last career too, as a market research consultant. Months and millions were spent researching...but in the end, the results would get 'stuck in a drawer'.
41:00 this section about situational awareness really hit home. It's just so much information overload everywhere that it really boils down to pragmatism in today's world.
@39:45 is the most important slide, I think. Aside from deep niche knowledge (not discussed here), your brain is most useful as a hub of awareness of where the most relevant further information can be found. The "links" to this information are memories of the relevant media (articles, books, videos etc.) and people. A second brain helps your memory be as specific and broad as possible, by utilizing recognition ("I know I've read somewhere about this... let me search... oh here it is") rather than recall ("This piece of info is in this book at page 109").
Cannot wait for the book!
This part is important: 43:10 - "investing our knowledge into artifacts that have their own life" ... IMO this should translate not just to collection of knowledge in human readable forms (evernote, unstructured websites and articles) but into machine readable, actionable forms, CODE, microservices, knowledge automation... so that we can much more easily share active tools (tiny programs) with each others and have our machines exchange that knowledge so that they can do more and more things for us. Explaining a piece of code or a programming language or a few commandline snippets in a blogpost is madness - but it is just not easy enough yet to share 5-10 lines of code to do something useful with anyone in the world... only a very simple tool is missing there...
The more I keep rereading your comment the more I am fascinated by your perspective. Can you elaborate on what you're envisioning as the transformation of information from HI (human interface) to MI (machine interface) between MI and back to HI (all ll the appropriate abstractions of info)?
Mind blowing...Thanks. It was like you read my thoughts. I was checking things off in my head...going yep, yep, yep.
You had me at 1.18. That's my desktop - which is basically a reflection of my life!!
Brilliantly conceived and expertly executed!
19:00 is so important. Thank you
This is invaluable! Thank you. 💯
Reduce some of the information you take in today by skipping to 10:08
3 important parts of the system
Remember- 12:03
Connect- 25:25
Create- 30:48
This is great! Thank you. As a knowledge worker in an extremely complex domain with tens of thousands of coworkers and chaos in the org, I'm sure this will be a lifesaver.
What I REALLY want is an AI-powered admin assistant designed with ubiquitous UI in mind. It follows me everywhere - all screens, all IOT devices, my car (well, at least until personal car ownership becomes obsolete), my glasses or (fingers crossed) my artificial eyeballs, my brain implants etc.
It will be polite and deferential, and will "duck out of the room" on request. It will capture and organize all of my input, all of my work, all of my output, all of my interactions with my team, my stakeholders, my company - and outside of work, all of the aspects of my life I choose.
I'd love more on top of that - a coach, an advisor, a front line diagnostician using behavioral cues and advanced sensor tech to identify early warning signs of physical and mental illness and direct me in a timely manner to the professionals that can get me the help I need.
I could go on but you get the idea. :)
Thanks for shifting my paradigm!
Thanks a lot! Liner is a game changer for me!
This is amazing. Thank you.
Just received your book in the post:) was a birthday present to my self.
Thank you, great advice!
Thank you so much!!
Wow. This is amazing. Thanks
Wonderfully explained such a subtle subject in a very productive way
awesome !!
How can I use a second brain with knowledge from Audiobooks? I’m legally blind so I do much of my reading on audio. Thank you.
Guys, I am confused about having multiple Apps. Tiago has apple notes, Evernote and notion? And he keeps both prof & personal together? So how are they different? He keeps them all and replicates the, manually?
Should be required course at every high school and university. Btw, Notion is best tool for building second brain - it blows away Evernote.
nah. seems to be relative to the individual? . . . i luv's EvErNoTe :)
As I say with communication tools, I think the same applies here, “the one that works is the best tool.” For communication I think Slack is hands down the best at understanding the actual flow of conversation and retrieval but if a group communicates well on Facebook groups I’m not going to deter them. In this case Obsidian is quite a powerful and free tool, but I don’t doubt Evernote could work for many. Notion is marketed better for PKM but is a little too Windows-esque for me.
@@Xtremefaith13 Agree on "one that works is best tool" and your comment on communication. Disagree on Notion as window-esque. That's evernote. It crashes, has a terrible folder structure and search and is not well designed. Will check out Obsidian.
How would you implement CLIENTS database within a system based on PARA method. Should we consider them as a RESOURCE? or essentially a completely different DATABASE (like AREAS, PROJECTS, ACTIVE TASKS....)?
@WisMiz | Quantum Sales Mentor I finally moved the DB into a new AREA called CONTACTS.
Hi I have a lot of notes in notebook …. Since 1992 .. what do you recomend .. i use microsoft
Glad I learned about this
How is Obsidian for Note Taking?
I find it hard to see the point of this video. I am quite familiar with many oragnizational principles and implemented them in my life. I have a feeling that this is very shallow presentation of a much deeper subject and the author is not giving much value. In contrast, I believe author is so much better than this presentation where I can point to any alike book and it will be better. This *second brain* concept looks like "trying to make this something new and author's own". It would be easier just to point you to David Allen. This is where my dillema lies.
Why isn't there any description how *second brain* concept compares to others or simply what it is? Is it just to outsource your brain memory for outside system so you can think situational? I understand Tiago is a concept person which is exactly how I learn. Can anyone point me to any of his work/video where I could "see" his system so that I can compare and hopefully improve my own? Looks like this video just gave me a lot of questions about author and content instead of answers. (;
how is he gonna sell his course if he actually provides you some value and doesn't just give you base level information, sadly thats the trend youtube creators have saturated now we have a generation of people learning everything from youtube when the people teaching have no basis to do so and end up spreading misinformation and confusing people.
not necessarily saying this guy doesn't know what he's talking about as I have never watched his videos to comment on that but is the case with the majority of youtube channels now
Thanks a lot, you've save my time.
What stack is the best for an android on samsung + pc ecosystem. Is Evernote the only one note taking/ file dump that has global pdf text search?
Check anytype, is and alternative to notion focused on privacy, I'm not sure about about the pdf text search tho
Goto 10:35 to skip intro.
hammockmonk you’re the real hero
I read this comment when I reach 10:33 :/
Tiago, what about receipts? I've been listening to your book BASB and am currently fine-tuning my process. I'm wondering where you store your receipts. Like business expense receipts. Would you have a PROJECTS folder called 2022 Taxes and a subfolder/tag for receipts?
Like you, I am using Evernote as well as Google Drive, so I'm also wondering which software you use to store your receipts (I would imagine Google Drive). But the previous question still applies, since you recommend setting up file storage AND note software using PARA.
I know this is kind of late but in case it's still relevant:
If you may need to refer back to the receipts in any current or upcoming projects/areas, put it in a folder in Resources.
If it's important to keep the receipt, but you generally expect to never need to look at it again, put it in a folder in Archives.
If you'd like, I can explain the reasoning behind this.
(edited for typos)
@@loricat5606 a couple questions then:
1) Tiago uses Evernote and Google Drive. I'm curious which software he uses/you would use to store your receipts.
2) If you are using "Resources" to organize receipts, are you proposing to just dump all receipts into the Resources folder with no further organization? Or would you add a folder within Resources titled something like "2022 receipts"?
@@tylerchasebusiness1001
1) I use Obsidian as my second brain. I don't have business expense receipts. I do always opt-in to recieve receipts from online orders, though, and that's to my email (I use Gmail). Because the receipts that I want to save always come to my email, and I don't expect to ever need to reference them, I have a "label" in my Gmail inbox that I mark all receipts with, and then archive them within Gmail. I could download the receipt emails and save them as files in my second brain, but that would take too much time for what it is (something that I don't ever expect I will need to reference, but keep just in case).
So with that said:
2) If I did save receipts to my second brain, I would not just dump them all into the Resources folder without further organization. I would definitely make a folder within Resources (or Archives, depending on how relevant, refer to previous comment) titled something like "2022 receipts" (if I rarely got receipts, I would probably skip the "2022" part).
Does that answer your question as needed? (apologies for the somewhat late reply)
What research are you referencing that taking notes and highlighting are effective analysis strategies? I have read the research summaries in Make it Stick, A Mind for Numbers, and Ultralearning. All three of these learning analyses found evidence against those strategies, so I'd love to hear the other side.
Yea, just marking large text snippets is probably not very effective for learning. However, summarizing what you read and making a few notes about it I think is very effective.
There are people dumb enough to pay $700 for anything if you spin it hard enough.
He never referenced it did he? I really love him and his work but using controversial research and then NOT giving sources always triggers my bullshit detector.
The question is what is your goal: is it to memorize info? In that case the most efficient method is to test your self. Useful for exams: you need to recall things and don't have access to external info. Or do you want to keep accesible records that you can use as sources to build on and create knowledge? In that case you need a centralized system to keep track of info you have engaged on and your own thoughs. This is useful for reseach: when you write an article, dissetertaion or book, you have all the info avaible, you don't need to memorize the info but you need to curate it.
The research you mention about highlighting being not effective is measured with exam taking, not about doing research/writing. I don't know any reaseach that concludes that making reference notes is not effective for writting articles.
La Petite Chérie not just exam taking, a mind for numbers at least anyway, allows you to not only to memorise material but allows you to understand the concepts and apply them in every day life. These are important especially in engineering careers where exams alone won’t cut it.
How does Notion compare with One Note?
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Here after Ali Abdaal’s video?
Digital handwriting wasn’t possible when this video was made?
Uses Emacs with Org-roam and Org-mode to help me out.
(34:22) "Taking good notes has been shown to greatly improve recall and retention." Reference please.
I share your scepticism. Look up some of Ali Abdaal's videos for some excellent advice on retention and recall. He doesn't take notes but came first in his 3rd year in his subject at Cambridge university.
1200owner he does take notes still, but turns these into either an active recall or a “what’s the deal with x”.
2021 - is notion backed up in the cloud and on the computer (app)? anyone? :-)
yessir
Interesting video, but the high amount of ads you have to watch to get to the end is really annoying.
after using Roam research I just forget about evernote and notion, and apps like that.
what’s Roam research?
@@WarrenKirkpatrick it's a note taking and managent app, having feature of bi directional links..
They don’t have a mobile app I don’t think
Okay, really interested in the content and course, but that just took about 40 minutes for what could have taken 10. Hope the course isn’t this way...
The first 10 m about time wasted finding information made it seem like he had never heard of search, and the stuff in the middle seemed like an ad for some note taking and highlighting apps. What a waste of time!
The course is like that.
Mr. Charles sure? U bought the course?
@@DGHF yed
Mr. Charles can u tell me more about it? Per mail? Daniel@bookstracts.de
4:15 note
Who is here after Ankur warikoo video???
Me
What type of Orwellian stuff is this?
07:00
31:36
42:35
I’m 6 minutes in. The info is excellent... but I’m at x2 speed and it’s still too slow.
Also I’ve maxed the sound out and still pushing to hear it.
Same. It’s a very low sound and very slow... at 2x it still feels like it’s 0.75. I also feel like I didn’t gain anything
Damn! This text is too small for me. I can't see what all of you are writing about.
On a real computer you can hide the files on your desktop
watched it at 2x, still SO slow and uninformative....
I didn't gain no knowledge, so still thanks I suppose.
I also listened to it at 2x; it still feels very slow.
ari bimo haha I appreciate the response! Yeah its tough - youtube notion tutorials are filled with fluff, but its almost all we got unless you want to sit and learn by going through the templates and exploring
29:11 That should be "Lego pieces."
I like this video, but if you haven't already, please stop that repeated smacking.
Americans call them legos haha
video is awfully quiet. I turn it up to hear the content and then get blasted by the ads
roam research
Tu eres mexicano?
Manjistha Seeburn
I like the idea but never use a presentation in a video
Bollocks & dated
If these are novel ideas to you, ok boomer.
i mean, i still found it quite insightful, and besides, he’s not a boomer
@@user-rn9wv4pd5o78 Yeah but you are.
@@user-rn9wv4pd5o78 What's insightful about using the most popular organization tools available? Am I missing something?
citizen im not even an adult yet
@@citizen3743 there are different ways to use those apps. I have no idea because I haven't watched the video yet