The System That Changed How I Think About Ideas
Once you’ve begun capturing notes with the ideas that resonate with you, you’ll eventually feel the need to organize them.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Capture vs process
is one more important
or are they two phases to oscillate between?
As I begin to structure my notes I also have to preserve the utility of the free writing which often yields insights.
The difficult thing here is to handle the exchange between the analytics part of the brain that seeks to organize every detail, and the creative side
"I had so many ideas that I simply wanted to take them out of my head and see them before me.
After that, I could see how they connected with one another and started developing an argument for my article.
I was begging for a space that could give me freedom when I needed to brainstorm and enough structure to turn those ideas into my final artefact.
Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Put Ideas in Their Place