How I Built a SECOND Brain 🧠 in Obsidian MD (Tiago Forte BASB / PARA Method)

By the end of this course you will know how to:
- CAPTURE ideas throughout the day like thoughts, journal entries, and inputs into your second brain
- ORGANIZE information to easily find information when you need it and personalize your PARA system to seamlessly integrate with your life
- DISTILL insights into future-proof notes and grow your web of ideas
- EXPRESS yourself through progress projects and creative outputs

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Building a Second Brain 🧠 in Obsidian MD (Tiago Forte BASB and PARA Beginner Setup)

If you have any other video suggestions or tips, feel free to let me know!

In this video, I'll share how I've implemented the essential principles from the book "Building a Second Brain" (BASB) by Tiago Forte into practical use cases with my favourite note-taking app Obsidian.

By following the CODE method to process information or the PARA method to organize your notes, you can make the most of the content you consume.
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00:00 - The importance of a Second Brain

CAPTURE
01:07 - How I capture information into my notes
02:05 - Creating notes on the content you consume
04:11 - Capturing thoughts using thought notes
05:30 - Organizing thought notes

ORGANIZE
05:52 - How I organize my notes
06:26 - PARA Method in Obsidian

Projects
06:58 - Creating and managing projects
07:55 - Creating tasks using kanban boards
08:58 - Connecting notes to your projects

Areas
09:37 - Areas in Obsidian
10:16 - Example area for my second brain

Resources
10:31 - Using zettelkasten and maps of content to organize my notes
11:16 - Example map of content for personal knowledge management

Archives
12:02 - Archives in Obsidian

DISTILL
13:28 - Evergreen notes to connect and grow your ideas
13:55 - Turning captured notes into evergreen notes

EXPRESS
15:06 - Apply information using the brainstorming template
16:18 - Retrieving and searching for information from your notes

17:28 - Quickstart your note taking with the Ultimate Starter Vault

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Credit to Bryan Jenks for the description formatting!

Songs Used:
Bunny Girl Senpai ED Fukashigi no Carte [ Lofi Remix ]
BlockBuster 🎥 No Copyright Lofi Hip Hop & Chillhop Mix 2021 _ Chill lofi beats to study _ relax to (128 kbps)

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[yannickhs]

Astonishing work. There doesn't seem to be currently any clean second brain setups like there are on Notion, but this system is exactly what us users who are transitioning from Notion to Obsidian are looking for. All the functionality of the program et get immediately started, without getting lost in endless hours of tutorials.

You got the formula right, had me sold already in the first half of the video. Hope to see your channel grow !

[georgemarshall]

You are 20 years old and already doing stuff like this?! Can't wait to see what you're doing at 30! More power to you!

[sfield]

Wow! The quality and depth of your content has grown exponentially since I started following you, well done!

[lte]

Hi John, I've got one word to say about your Starter Vault - brilliant.
I've been using Obsidian for a little bit now, initially for writing and then to start importing years worth of notes from a labyrinth of folders. So I started learning more about Obsidian itself and researching PKM as a practice. Among the very valuable resources I came across was your channel, this video, and ultimately your Starter Vault (which I have bought). It really is brilliant and working my way through the thorough guides contained within it I get a real sense of how much work has gone into producing it. Impressive, useful, and well worth the money. Also very useful for both practical and creative outcomes.

[vincenteb.]

Great stuff Maverick, keep up the good work!

[DustlyFog]

Happy to have you back after 3 months!

[galeanoclaudio]

Great video man 👍 thanks for create this type of content (obsidian), greeting from Argentina

[DocFleg]

This is really impressive. Thanks for putting this all together. As someone with ADHD I find the idea of setting this up extremely exciting but mostly overwhelming. I really appreciate that there's some free stuff to try out first to see how it goes for me before I get the starter vault.

[AlexandreUng]

This tutorial is very well documented. I just feel so unprepared to start using obsidian.

I think a bare bones version of this video for total newbs would be needed.

Then start building my skills from that.

[adamiannoon]

Fantastic Starter Vault, I very much appreciate all the work you've put into this!
Something I can't figure out, however, is how you have the Dataview tables to take up the full width of the note pane whilst having "Readable line length" enabled.

Keep up the great work and I'm very much looking forward to your future content and updates to the vault!

[Oscar_Lagrosen]

Great video and great editing too! Subscribed and look forward to see your future videos 👌

[daniellogik]

Wanna try but yeah feels too overwhelming.. Don't know where to start 😅

[szczypawa]

0:18 "backlog (main)" xdd relatable

[marcelobarcia]

great job! your content is super useful!

[duaa]

This was a nice video! I never used kanban boards but it looks like a good idea. Can you tell me how you made the date pop up for task due date? And how it then appeared on your daily note?

Hope you make new videos! Don't let ppl drag you down. Not all ppl need complex systems but the one that do, can't find good videos to learn from. You're doing great!

[DanielSpielmann]

I love the software, though with 13 I only see minor improvements and not really a reason for a new version number. What's more, I have to admit, I am very unhappy with customer service. Whenever I get in touch with an issue or a question, I get ignored big time - no matter whether via email or social media. Pondering dropping my support for the software as a result.

[viilabs]

I don‘t exactly get the difference between thoughts and notes in this system. Anybody got an idea?

[holger]

Nice toolset, but PARA is about simplicity, which your system is certainly not :)

[nandishajani]

You're a wizard ! Good work brother

[Chen-vwnc]

I think your starter vault is amazing based on what I have seen from this video, but it's very hard to convince myself to spend 58 AUD on your vault starter kit lol