The approach of building a Second Brain is focused on behavior and habits first, rather than tools, and consists of 4 universal steps called CODE.<ul><li>C (COLLECT)</li><li>O (ORGANIZE)</li><li>D (DISTILL)</li><li>E (EXPRESS)</li></ul>In this case, we will focus on the O phase in which we need a method to organize the information we have collected.This can be achieved with the PARA Method.

Building the Second Brain with The PARA Method

PARA is a principle that’ll help you organize your work digitally. <ul><li>Projects: series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline.</li><li>Areas: spheres of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.</li><li>Resources: topics or themes of ongoing interest.</li><li>Archives: inactive items from the other three categories.</li></ul>

What is the PARA Method?

A project has a goal to be achieved — a discrete event that will happen, allowing this item to be completely checked. This goal is supposed to take place at a specific moment in time. It has a deadline or timeframe, whether externally or self-imposed.Projects always fall into Areas. A few examples:<ul><li>Running a marathon is a project, whereas Health is an area</li><li>Publishing a book is a project, whereas Writing is an area</li><li>A vacation to Thailand is a project, whereas Travel is an area</li></ul>

PROJECTS 

Areas of Responsibility are the roles you take on in life and the hats you wear, the ongoing standards where the buck stops with you, and things that take a certain amount of constant attention.<ul><li>Exercise, Finances, Apartment, Pets.</li></ul>

AREAS

Resources are interests, themes, and assets. <ul><li>Psychology, politics, leadership</li><li>Web design,architecture; note-taking</li><li>Stock photos, typography links</li></ul>

RESOURCES

Archives are inactive items from the other three categories.<ul><li>Projects that have been completed or become inactive</li><li>Areas that you are no longer committed to maintaining</li><li>Resources that you are no longer interested in</li></ul>

WORKFLOW

<figure><img alt="Building a Second Brain - Tiago Forte.png" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aeaca4197aeadddeef26f8/1597848647711-2QUI4M1BNC2JKOL6H2JM/Building+a+Second+Brain+-+Tiago+Forte.png"></figure>During <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkoc9YGDeNzY_KS8azT6G8ATg881tLeKr&amp;v=xt53SYCzP9g" dir="ltr">our Tiago Forte Week </a>in October, we chatted with him about his digital organization concept called the Second Brain. The Second Brain has helped millions to get organized using a framework that scales to each platform allowing you to map your brain digitally. Tiago himself has taught 20,000+ people how to organize their lives using tools like Evernote and concepts like PARA and CODE. In this post, we’ll share some of the best resources out there for the Second Brain, introduce these concepts and share more about his prolific course, how to build a second brain. <div class="embed-placeholder" data-type="youtube" data-id="5zhCd04a-4w"></div>We all consume lots of interesting information in our day-to-day life but, most of the time, we don't do anything with it. <a href="https://learn.fortelabs.co/?affcode=58608_6bydfpnr" dir="ltr">Tiago Forte's Second Brain</a> method helps people to save their best ideas, organize their learning, and expand their creative output. This concept is focused on behavior and habits first, rather than tools, and consists of 4 universal steps called CODE.<h3 dir="ltr">C (Collect)</h3>Your second brain needs a place to collect all the things that resonates with you, from an online article to your grocery list, through reliable tools like to-do list apps, web clipper, note-taking apps, and more.<h3 dir="ltr">O (Organize)</h3>Collecting things is easy but then you need to organize and structure them. Tiago uses a system called PARA to organize his content in 4 different categories:<UL><LI>Projects: series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline.</LI><LI>Areas: spheres of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.</LI><LI>Resources: topics or themes of ongoing interest.</LI><LI>Archives: inactive items from the other three categories.</LI></UL>Read more about PARA <a href="https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-p-a-r-a-method-a-universal-system-for-organizing-digital-information-75a9da8bfb37/" dir="ltr">here</a>.<h3 dir="ltr">D (Distill)</h3>Capturing and saving notes usually leads to large collections of information, but the more notes you keep, the more crucial it is to keep an effective summary of them in order to be able to immediately grasp the meaning of them. Through progressive summarization, you'll be able to get the core of your notes.<h3 dir="ltr">E (Express)</h3>Once you've collected and organized all your notes and information, you should consider sharing what you've learned with the world. Otherwise, hoarding information without putting them out there in the world would be pointless.<h2>WHAT IS THE PARA METHOD? </h2>Briefly covered in the CODE aspect of the Second Brain, PARA is a principle that’ll help you organize your work digitally. <div class="embed-placeholder" data-type="youtube" data-id="95hTa0JkE9Y"></div><UL><LI>Projects: series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline.</LI><LI>Areas: spheres of activity with a standard to be maintained over time.</LI><LI>Resources: topics or themes of ongoing interest.</LI><LI>Archives: inactive items from the other three categories.</LI></UL>PARA helps to determine the goal of each folder. Here’s what goes within: <figure><img alt="PARA Method - Second Brain.jpeg" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aeaca4197aeadddeef26f8/1573814423740-RNYSC1PG068SVMOOO26Q/PARA+Method+-+Second+Brain.jpeg"></figure><h2>SECOND BRAIN: EXPLAINED</h2>The very wise Maggie Appleton put together a visual explainer to the Building a Second Brian concept. This is only the Part 2 and she has more available via her <a href="https://illustrated.dev/sketches/secondbrain1" dir="ltr">website</a>. <figure><img alt="CREDIT: ILLUSTRATED DEV" src="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59aeaca4197aeadddeef26f8/1573814624228-LCO01WGN1E021RFMSO02/Building+a+Second+Brain+.png"><figcaption dir="auto">CREDIT: ILLUSTRATED DEV</figcaption></figure>

The PARA method has helped me organize the information I collect into actionable things like uploading a post or finishing a university assignment. 

Tiago Forte is most known for his concept of developing a Second Brain. The 
Second Brain helps thousands to organize their minds digitally using 
concepts like CODE and PARA plot out everything in an organized fashion.

During <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLkoc9YGDeNzY_KS8azT6G8ATg881tLeKr&v=xt53SYCzP9g">our Tiago Forte Week </a>in October, we chatted with him about his digital organization concept called the Second Brain.

The Second Brain has helped millions to get organized using a framework that scales to each platform allowing you to map your brain digitally.

Tiago himself has taught 20,000+ people how to organize their lives using tools like Evernote and concepts like PARA and CODE . In this post, we’ll share some of the best resources out there for the Second Brain, introduce these concepts and share more about his prolific course, how to build a second brain.

We all consume lots of interesting information in our day-to-day life but, most of the time, we don't do anything with it. <a href="https://learn.fortelabs.co/?affcode=58608_6bydfpnr">Tiago Forte's Second Brain </a>method helps people to save their best ideas, organize their learning, and expand their creative output.

This concept is focused on behavior and habits first, rather than tools, and consists of 4 universal steps called CODE .

Your second brain needs a place to collect all the things that resonates with you, from an online article to your grocery list, through reliable tools like to-do list apps, web clipper, note-taking apps, and more.

Collecting things is easy but then you need to organize and structure them. Tiago uses a system called PARA to organize his content in 4 different categories:

<ul><li>P rojects: series of tasks linked to a goal, with a deadline. </li><li>A reas: spheres of activity with a standard to be maintained over time. </li><li>R esources: topics or themes of ongoing interest. </li><li>A rchives: inactive items from the other three categories. </li> </ul>

Read more about PARA <a href="https://praxis.fortelabs.co/the-p-a-r-a-method-a-universal-system-for-organizing-digital-information-75a9da8bfb37/">here </a>.

Capturing and saving notes usually leads to large collections of information, but the more notes you keep, the more crucial it is to keep an effective summary of them in order to be able to immediately grasp the meaning of them. Through progressive summarization , you'll be able to get the core of your notes.

Once you've collected and organized all your notes and information, you should consider sharing what you've learned with the world. Otherwise, hoarding information without putting them out there in the world would be pointless.

Briefly covered in the CODE aspect of the Second Brain, PARA is a principle that’ll help you organize your work digitally.

PARA helps to determine the goal of each folder. Here’s what goes within:

The very wise Maggie Appleton put together a visual explainer to the Building a Second Brian concept. This is only the Part 2 and she has more available via her <a href="https://illustrated.dev/sketches/secondbrain1">website </a>.

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