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Building a Second Brain Application

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Top 3 Quotes

The purpose of knowledge is to be shared. What’s the point of knowing something if it doesn’t positively impact anyone, not even yourself?

  • Promotes sharing knowledge, only capturing it for genuine application
    • It’s not to learn, but to use.

The world is desperate to hear what you know. You can change lives by sharing yourself with others.

  • Motivational to help me remember why I make content

When you are captivated and obsessed by a story, an idea, or a new possibility, don’t just let that moment pass as if it doesn’t matter. Those are the moments that are truly precious, and that no technology can produce for you. Run after your obsessions with everything you have.

  • Be mindful of your experience, and add it to your second brain

we consume the equivalent of 174 full newspapers’ worth of content each and every day, five times higher than in 1986

3 Sentence Summary

What are the crucial points in this book that make it iconic, ideas I want to remember for the rest of my life?

  1. Follow the CODE framework to best manage and utilize the information you consume
  2. Knowledge management is essential for our world’s abundance of information and to have a system for creating outputs
  3. Divergence on capturing inputs, convergence when creating

Author’s Purpose

Content

Personal Revelations

How was this book relevant to my current life? Did it answer a specific question, enlighten me on a topic, etc.

Reading Logs

2022-06-25

  • He does a very good job of applying the importance of a second brain, further selling his product

2022-06-27

  • Only highlighting is actually OP
  • Perfect timing for creative output, actually going to be applying it hehe

Principles

  • First inform the reader to help them understand, then give them actionable advice
  • Read it later apps might be the play
  • Writing style
    • Has a checklist, with sentences to explain each step, then elaborates on each step with the original sentence as the first.
      • Procedural, explains some of the things he considers
    • He also has quarterly goals

Review

I’m blown away by the powerful mix of productivity and inspiration.

Being a creator in the PKM system myself, I’ve always wanted to spread the message of how influential a personal knowledge management system is. Tiago’s deeply rooted understanding and belief in the field has rekindled my passion for my second brain.

Building a second brain really is an effective antidote to the business and overwhelm of the current world, and I don’t think there could be a more all-encompassing book on the subject. Out of the hundreds of resources I’ve consumed on knowledge and personal productivity, nothing has been as actionable and insightful as Forte’s words.

If someone were to ask me how I’m able to live such a fulfilling life, this would be my go to response.

He has distilled the most valuable essence of PKM into simple steps and mindsets to help anyone at any stage. This book single-handedly empowers people to live more rich and fulfilling lives through meaningful self-awareness and self-expression.

Thank you for spreading awareness for PKM, I’m looking forward to it becoming mainstream because of your thought leadership.

Future Plans

  • Building a Second Brain in Obsidian (Tiago Forte Book)

Questions

Further Reading

  • Ali abdaal second brain
    • otter for audio and conversation
    • cleanshot for yt into gifs

Book Implementation

Habits

  • Link notes with their related projects, through tags or links

Dailies

  • Move non-essential daily prompts into a file I can reference, I won’t have to fill out each one
  • After, move it to my required place
    • Make a prompt about PARA

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