How We Organize Our Life in Notion | Second Brain

I had to learn to stop trying to REMEMBER what’s important and start writing those things down instead. And one of the most important places I do that is in an app called Notion.

In this video, I break down how I use Notion to focus on what matters most in my life, my business, and my creativity.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 The most powerful thing I've done for my business, life, and, creative work
00:32 STEP 1: How I Manage My Business in Notion
01:00 Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's)
04:07 STEP 2: How We Manage Our Life in Notion
06:08 A Look Inside Our House Systems
08:35 STEP 3: How I Use Notion for Creativity
09:02 Notion’s Kanban Boards for Blog Workflow
11:25 Tiago: "Nothing kills the creative spirit like self-judgment."
11:29 How I never forget the information most important to me

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[TiagoForte]

📍Our Free Notion Home Operating Template Is Now Live!📍

[brandonemmanuel]

Is it only me or Tiago Forte is Elon Musk on a weight-loss diet?

[JoshGonsalves]

We need to see more of Lauren! Her presentation and energy is incredible. She looks and sounds super pro on camera.

[lifesrealityis]

Honestly the "home managment section" is a brilliant idea! I will definitely start one for my household.

[disparato]

This is just wonderful. Part 3 in particular where you've shown how one can systematically execute on ideas and simultaneously be flexible enough to select which piece to work on is a master stroke of genius, it really mitigates what is otherwise a very stress inducing dilemma for me. It's not something I've considered before, a million thank yous Tiago!

[alxj]

Tiago, I'm new to discovering your material, however I'd like to compliment you in your presentation style, your calm, clear, appropriatness in how you speak and share - it projects space, the ease and confidence in your own workflow (which is clear here), and how your face brightens when you discuss home or family and of course carrying your child in this video. Very inspirational as all inspirational Teachers are - they embody what they teach so even in simple gestures, it is projected and via that special type of osmosis shared - Gratitude for your sharing 🙏

[GaelyneGasson]

As someone who is self employed and the sole owner of my home - part two was extremely helpful. At one point I used Evernote for some of this info but you and your lovely wife have really got a fantastic resource happening.

[robertb.]

This is such a great video! I've only been using Notion for the past 3 months, and already, I feel more organised and crucially, less stressed about my workflow. I real game changer!
More content please! 👍

[davidrascoe]

Production value is on another level. Kudos to the team!

[makbuldaian]

I love the way you explain everything slowly and confidently since I don't speak and understand English so much. I personally use Notion for my personal life, college, and work. I can use Notion to store everything I need in my life without feeling overwhelmed by the database feature. In fact, the database I've built is kinda complicated to operate. Thanks for explaining this app for me. I definitely gonna watch more videos from you.

[manytinyprojects]

Loved seeing Lauren in the video, clear explanations and now I'm motivated to update my notion home pages

[sullivx]

Tiago, I just started reading your Building A Second Brain today and watched Ali Abdaal's breakdown on the 10 concepts. Ali's video is outstanding. It's all making sense. DEEP gratitude for all that you do Tiago and for having created these materials for people to have!! I'm not a very anxious person, but in the times I have experienced it, it stems from the overwhelm on how to keep up with information overload in our day and age that is not going to slow down. Since discovering your method, I am feeling PROFOUND RELIEF to discover ways to manage not only information relating to my work, but information relating to what you say in the book PKM Personal knowledge Management. Deep deep gratitude for all that you are and create in the world.

[ryanmc]

Originally being from a smaller town in New Jersey, it always weird hearing recognizable people live so close. I have probably watched a billion second brain videos realizing that the basically mostly stem from you. Glad I landed here and looking forward to continuing to learn.

[plastelina_ytb]

Thanks for this. The part towards the end about things stalling and how you handle that mentally hit home with me. I'm just starting my second brain journey after ages of taking and collecting millions of notes, but only intermittently completing the projects. Looking forward to trusting the process and seeing where it leads me. Cheers -

[liammakesphotos]

New studio is looking badass. Well done on that project, worth it! Looking forward to more content soon!

[SolLeeYT]

I’d heard of BASB and would catch a stray tweet of yours here and there, but this is my first time actually watching a video of yours. I love how level-headed and information-focused you are!

I’d pushed off the kaban board for my creative work for a while, but I’ll go ahead and make one right now.

[oponder]

I just wanna add that Kanban is not just for tracking the progress of an item across multiple stages, but crucially for spotting and improving bottlenecks in a process. 

If you aren't trying to optimize a process, then Kanban is a nice way to get an overview of everything and the stage it is and that's fine if that's what you use it for. I think for creative work items like blog posts that just one person is working on that makes sense.

But theres a an extra layer of information and usefulness that you can get out of it if you are trying to iterate on and improve the process of moving items from left to right.

[stuartsw]

Great, clear presentation. I came to it off of the Forte labs website, and thus having read the intro material on P.A.R.A.. At this stage of my life (retired, a leadership position with a volunteer emergency preparedness team, extended family in the area, an avid sailor, a Wisdom student/facilitator) I am more a librarian with a student approach to new topics. After reading the PARA material, I instantly gravitated towards both Apple Notes for projects and Evernote, and that was before seeing this video.

[brian_akhtar]

The most incredible thing from this video is the fact the previous owners gave you that massive stack of files. So lucky I would've loved to have that when I got my house. I think I'll do that for whomever owns this house next

[tabbywarrior]

U seriously need more subscribers. I don't say that lightly; your quality is nearing the levels of Matt D'Avella, which is insane!