Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

Get set up with PARA. Set up the four folders of PARA (Projects; Areas; Resources; Archives)

Choose a capture tool.

Choose your notes app.

Decide what you want to capture.

Show your work (Express)

Find the essence (Distill)

Save for actionability (Organize)

Keep what resonates (Capture)

Wherever you are at this moment—just starting a practice to consistently take notes, or finding ways to more effectively organize and resurface your best thinking, or generating more original and impactful work—you can always fall back on the four steps of CODE: