🧠 Second Brain

An acronym popularized by Tiago Forte on taking notes the smart way:

C - capture - collect ideas

O - organize - put things into order

D - distill - find the essence & throw away the rest

E - express - shar...

Use progressive summarization to distil the ideas: Summarise your notes, then summarise that summary, then summarise that summary.

There are five layers to progressive summarization.

1. The book's notes and highlights are unedited and lack contex...

1. Decide who it’s for
2. Start reading (with a “teacher mindset”)
3. Highlight and take notes
4. Write mini-summaries for each chapter
5. Organize your mini-summaries
6. Condense main points to a bullet list
7. Use bullet list to write your final summary