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

2. Review folders (or tags) that might contain relevant notes.

External knowledge could include: Highlights: Insightful passages from books or articles you read. Quotes: Memorable passages from podcasts or audiobooks you listen to. Bookmarks and favorites: Links to interesting content you find on the web or favorited social media posts. Voice memos: Clips recorded on your mobile device as “notes to self.” Meet

This is basically a catchall for anything that doesn’t belong to a project or an area and could include any topic you’re interested in gathering information about.

We know from neuroscientific research that “emotions organize—rather than disrupt—rational thinking.”8 When something resonates with us, it is our emotion-based, intuitive mind telling us it is interesting before our logical mind can explain why.

This is where the Curator’s Perspective I used when I first captured the content really pays off—because

the meeting begins, the team sits down to start discussing the project. You are already prepared. You’ve already considered the main problems from several different angles, mapped out a number of possible solutions, and started thinking about the big-picture implications. You’ve even received feedback from some of your colleagues and incorporated i

By training ourselves to notice when something resonates with us, we can improve not only our ability to take better notes, but also our understanding of ourselves and what makes us tick. It is a way of turning up the volume on our intuition so we can hear the wisdom it offers us. Adopting the habit of

we go to work five days per week, but spend more than one of those days on average just looking for the information we need to do our work.

shifting our relationship with information toward the timeless and the private.