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Author: Tiago Forte
Series: --
Format: e-book
Pages / Mins: 260 pages
Genre: self-help
Started: 2024-07-26
Finished: 2024-07-27
Rating: 5/5
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6705498889
🧠 How I Found The Book
📖Book in 3 Sentences
2. You can use this system to CODE: capture, organize (via PARA: Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive), distill, evaluate
3. This will allow you to be more creative, mindful, open new ideas, and able to live your life without stressing about remembering things or ideas.
🤔My Thoughts
- I ended up using this system to make this book note in Obsidian, and I started using PARA as soon as I read about it.
- This made me want to work on some projects that I managed to think about while reading this
- I finished this in a whole day!
💗Who Should Read This?
👍Top Quotes
As knowledge workers, attention is our most scarce and precious resource
To truly make an idea stick, you have to engage with it
Self direction is impossible without self knowledge
😲Did This Book Change My Life?
YES. This reduced some of my anxiety when it comes to organization in my personal and professional life. Plus, it is allowing me to come up with more ideas and thoughts for projects, and a bunch of other things that I have struggled to capture in the past. I think this will eventually lead to me being less stressed out and anxious, and also more productive.📑Notes
- Don’t save entire chapters or articles or transcripts.
- Cathedral Effect - our physical environment influences our thought. Large rooms and tall ceilings = lofty ideas. Small and organized workspace = concrete ideas
- CODE: capture, organize, distill, express
- Organize via PARA
- Remember to capture and organize in separate steps. That is why the Inbox is important.
- Move quickly and touch lightly
- Reuse notes and move them around, tag them, link them
- Distill using progressive summarization
- in a note jot down or copy what you think is important
- Highlight the main points of those bullets
- continue
- 3 most common distillation errors:
- Over highlighting
- highlighting without a purpose in mind
- Making highlighting difficult
- It takes time and effort to distill your notes
- Every time you touch a note, you should make it more discoverable for your future self
- Highlight when something peaks your interest, make your heartbeat faster, or provokes you
- Intermediate packets: concrete, individual building blocks that make up your work
- There are five kinds
- Distilled Notes
- Outtakes
- Work in progress
- Final deliverables
- Documents created by others
- People tend to move through three distinct stages as they grow their second brain: remembering, connecting, and creating
- The more imaginative and curious, you are the more diverse your interest, and the higher your standards and commitment to perfection
- Set up stepping stones to your ideas and bridge them with future ideas and thoughts
- Select the points and ideas you want to include, and then in a separate step, you rearrange and sequence them into an order that flows logically
- Dial down the scope into more manageable size and finish what you started
- Remember to save the things that you “discard“ and put it into your archives
- Remember that you are not completing an entire project in one sitting
- Like every system, a second brain needs regular maintenance
- Being organized is a habit
- Three habits most important to your second brain
- Project checklist
- Weekly and monthly reviews
- Noticing habits
- Project checklist include project, kickoffs, and project completion lists
- Weekly and monthly reviews allow you to go over Notes, check to do, update your calendar, and move things to different status
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