Best Second Brain Ready Note-Taking Apps for 2023

Second Brain is a concept developed by Tiago Forte but it extends to the use of PARA and CODE within tools like Notion, Mem, Reflect and many more. Let's explore the best note-taking apps for Second Brain use and how to use the system daily.

00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - What is the Second Brain concept?
00:40 - How to Find the Best Productivity Tools?
00:55 - Who is Tiago Forte?

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00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - What is the Second Brain concept?
00:40 - How to Find the Best Productivity Tools?
00:55 - Who is Tiago Forte?

[aivy-aigeneratedmusic]

Obsidian User here. Absolutely love it. But I don't think it's that easy to use, in fact the possibilities to make it more and more complex and tailored to your needs are endless, and that is great! But Needs some time to get into it.

[brettjohnson]

Tried just about all of these. Switched from Obsidian to Capacities. Absolutely loving it. Switched from Milanote to Lucidspark, and nothing beats Lucidspark for visual mapping of ideas. It's amazing.

[Gjermund-Sivertsen]

Sticking with Roam Research. The only second brain I've tried that works so well.

[adityabhat]

Strictly for Notion Users who has invested a lot of time into build their second brain in notion**
I really don't understand how MEM is that much better than Notion. With all due respect, since you are an investor in MEM there maybe some confirmation bias to what you are saying. Even if MEM AI is better as of now there is no reason to believe that Notion cannot improve its AI capabilities. Moreover if we are using AI to search for things without recalling the path of a particular note then we maybe missing out on a great way of practising active recall.

[DustinMillerPolyInnovator]

I really think Capacities might be all of these

[siddharthdhm]

I think RemNote is the best of all these simplly bcoz it allows u to link individual bullet points rather than entire pages. It makes linking thoughts much berree

[Alex-svth]

I am definitely going to try some of these. I have been using Notion for the past few years but I am not the biggest fan of the UI and I’ve always found the mobile experience to be quite cumbersome, so looking for something that’s a bit snappier on mobile, unless Notion introduces more UI options and the UX on non-desktop devices improves

[colinpowda]

If I can't color a word or title in a note taking app, that ain't a note taking app. Most of them you mentioned here except Evernote and Notion, does not allow coloring the text.

[Pesssimistos]

Why? Why is the line that is drawn down Obsidian so ugly (01:42)?! Notion is also out of luck. In general, a good review, only for some reason roam and tana were not included in the list.

[brisardo]

Is it possible to use Second brain with ClickUp? A video about that would be great

[rupenjshah]

Nice video but it woule be great if you highlight which ones are ios only, online only and ones that have a webapp

[shadabsheikh]

Hi, is there a note taking app which can also take handwritten inputs. And I am not talking about One Note. But the ones that can help me to build a second brain.

[TommyGreenTeas]

Apple notes + ticktick (only for future things) + motion 💯

[genefifer]

Devonthink and Craft are good apps to add to this list.

[manymoms]

One thing that is never covered because not many of uour audience will do this is qualitative research. That is an academic approach to handling written or visual material its the opposite of using quantitative approaches. One of the leading tools academics use is nvivo. Evernote notes can be imported into nvivo. We have to use nvivo because despite what people think AI cannot yet and is unlikely to replace hand coding of text for meaning. Apps at the moment dont understand cultural meaning and sarcasm for example

[sandwicheems]

Mymind is definitely like a child of Pinterest and Google keep

[ToriZealot]

Did Roam forget to pay or why is it no longer considered?

[tylenzer]

What application has “network” capabilities and can collaborate with numerous applications to generate a cohesive identity for brain mapping utilizing, to do list’s, brain maps, photos, documents, pdf, bookmarks reminders, AI etc..

[nelty]

Personally enjoy RemNote maybe not as polished as others but suits my note taking style