The Second Brain Method

Once everything is ready, you can use the collected information to express your thoughts. So, pick an idea from here, one from there, mix them, and create something unique.

When I started filling my second brain, I used to paste the links to any idea I had and leave it there for future projects.

But then, I had to read the entire article or see the video again to extract information. So now, I write a s...

First, identify all the points of interest in your life. They may be:

• Work areas like marketing, product management, design, etc.
• Or private areas like health, finance, ...

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According to Tiago Forte, your brain’s goal is to generate ideas. Don’t overload it by trying to remember any deadline you have in life.

With this definition, the second brain becomes your support to keep all kinds of stuff....

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Imagine a world where you can remember anything that matters. A system that helps you find any information you once thought useful. And a system that answers all your questions.

Wouldn’t that be awesome?

However, forgetting can also be frustrating when you can’t find the keys to your car and have to go to work. Or when you know you have to do a fundamental task for a project but can’t remember which.

In all those cases, a second brai...

In the resource section, you can collect anything you want. So, you will have many properties for each resource.

• The status shows a New, To Review, or Reviewed resource.

For any of the other three types of elements, you will have an archive checkbox to send them to this section.

In the archive, you can find anything you worked on in the past. So, if you ever need it, you can find it here.

PARA is an organizational method developed by Tiago Forte to track and organize goals. It became famous a few years ago when people started using it to build a “second brain.” And thanks to its simplicity, it became the starting point for any new beginner.

Now, it’s time to think about the short-term goals you must do to advance in those areas.

You can see projects as macro goals to achieve. And, for every project, you can write many tasks and subtasks to track your improvemen...

Everything seems fine and beautiful from the outside. But why should you build a second brain? Is it that advantageous? Or is it only a waste of time?

You choose. Here are a few benefits you will get once you build one.

So, for each project, you will also have many tasks. And each of them will contain:

• A status between New, Next Action, and Completed. Also, as we saw in a recent article on productivity...

PARA stands for Project, Areas, Resources, and Archive. And the method uses these four categories to identify anything you might want to track in your life.

• A P...

As you collect resources, you might feel the urge to categorize them in a strict hierarchy. But, if you resist the temptation, you will have at least two benefits:

• First, you will spark new connections between topics if...

The human brain is so complicated we haven’t understood yet how everything works.

We decoded some behaviors over the past centuries. But most of them are still a mystery we may never uncover.

For centuries,

I am an organizational geek. I love to track everything that goes around my mind. And every time I think about a new project, I build an infographic or Notion page to keep track of everything I need to do to succeed.

But I never thought abou...