Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes

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[sanguinj]

Tiago, I really like your whole message. I identify myself a lot with the second brain. I am a 63-year-old engineer, that just retired, and during my management positions, I was always concerned about today's tons of information that people like me have managed and our worries about how to preserve it. Evernote has helped me a lot. Personal Knowledge Management is a very important buzz word nowadays.

[InappropriateShorts]

Reduce some of the information you take in today by skipping to 10:08

3 important parts of the system

Remember- 12:03
Connect- 25:25
Create- 30:48

[martywilsonlife]

So much technology available today... the second brain is hugely important for increasing our reach into the world. Knowledge is power.

[spacebeetle]

41:00 this section about situational awareness really hit home. It's just so much information overload everywhere that it really boils down to pragmatism in today's world.

[prigoose]

Love the framing in the beginning about delivering decks that were then stuck in a drawer. That was my experience in my last career too, as a market research consultant. Months and millions were spent researching...but in the end, the results would get 'stuck in a drawer'.

[DanDascalescu-dandv]

@39:45 is the most important slide, I think. Aside from deep niche knowledge (not discussed here), your brain is most useful as a hub of awareness of where the most relevant further information can be found. The "links" to this information are memories of the relevant media (articles, books, videos etc.) and people. A second brain helps your memory be as specific and broad as possible, by utilizing recognition ("I know I've read somewhere about this... let me search... oh here it is") rather than recall ("This piece of info is in this book at page 109").

[MichaelStanwyck]

Listen to someone yell you you spend your day consuming too much information and then spend 1/3 of a 45 minute video getting to the point

[paulfrischknecht]

This part is important: 43:10 - "investing our knowledge into artifacts that have their own life" ... IMO this should translate not just to collection of knowledge in human readable forms (evernote, unstructured websites and articles) but into machine readable, actionable forms, CODE, microservices, knowledge automation... so that we can much more easily share active tools (tiny programs) with each others and have our machines exchange that knowledge so that they can do more and more things for us. Explaining a piece of code or a programming language or a few commandline snippets in a blogpost is madness - but it is just not easy enough yet to share 5-10 lines of code to do something useful with anyone in the world... only a very simple tool is missing there...

[tekeek]

Mind blowing...Thanks. It was like you read my thoughts. I was checking things off in my head...going yep, yep, yep.

[jonhowell]

This is great! Thank you. As a knowledge worker in an extremely complex domain with tens of thousands of coworkers and chaos in the org, I'm sure this will be a lifesaver.

<fantasy>
What I REALLY want is an AI-powered admin assistant designed with ubiquitous UI in mind. It follows me everywhere - all screens, all IOT devices, my car (well, at least until personal car ownership becomes obsolete), my glasses or (fingers crossed) my artificial eyeballs, my brain implants etc.

It will be polite and deferential, and will "duck out of the room" on request. It will capture and organize all of my input, all of my work, all of my output, all of my interactions with my team, my stakeholders, my company - and outside of work, all of the aspects of my life I choose.

I'd love more on top of that - a coach, an advisor, a front line diagnostician using behavioral cues and advanced sensor tech to identify early warning signs of physical and mental illness and direct me in a timely manner to the professionals that can get me the help I need.

<fantasy />

I could go on but you get the idea. :)

[Nomenclatureish]

Brilliantly conceived and expertly executed!

[ceili]

You had me at 1.18. That's my desktop - which is basically a reflection of my life!!

[Sujitshetty]

Who's here after Ali's video?

[oldAyushShuklaYouTube]

Guys, I am confused about having multiple Apps. Tiago has apple notes, Evernote and notion? And he keeps both prof & personal together? So how are they different? He keeps them all and replicates the, manually?

[deathray]

How can I use a second brain with knowledge from Audiobooks? I’m legally blind so I do much of my reading on audio. Thank you.

[TheLifeOfRatay]

Thanks a lot! Liner is a game changer for me!

[simonhooper]

Just received your book in the post:) was a birthday present to my self.

[daviddelgadovendrell]

How would you implement CLIENTS database within a system based on PARA method. Should we consider them as a RESOURCE? or essentially a completely different DATABASE (like AREAS, PROJECTS, ACTIVE TASKS....)?

[wilsonparry]

Should be required course at every high school and university. Btw, Notion is best tool for building second brain - it blows away Evernote.

[ArthurKDurden]

Interesting video, but the high amount of ads you have to watch to get to the end is really annoying.