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Then one day I had a realization: Why didn’t I just organize my files that way all the time? If organizing by project was the most natural way to manage information with minimal effort, why not make it the default?
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
To be productive, you need to set up systems for holding ideas, and those systems need to be optimized for retrieval of information. After all, if you have a bunch of systems for holding ideas but it takes you hours to comb through them and find the one you’re looking for, what’s the point?
Nick Sonnenberg • Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work
My old belief was that storing all these links in a souped-up database would lead me to magically generate new insights about the topics I write about. After several years of banging my head into a wall, I realized that to generate new insights from these links I would need a new approach.
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
That led me to Zettelkasten, a technique for creating webs o... See more
Casey Newton • Three apps that made me more productive this year
That manual step is something we can introduce in digital notes too.
The benefits?
You can filter ideas that are not worth coping over into your actual notes. Also, you can wrestle and develop ideas when you have more time to think about them.