Every time you take a note, ask yourself, ‘How can I make this as useful as possible for my future self?’ That question will lead you to annotate the words and phrases that explain why you saved a note, what you were thinking, and what exactly caught your attention. Your notes will be useless if you can’t decipher them in the future or if they’re so long that you don’t even try. Think of yourself not just as a taker of notes, but as a giver of notes—you are giving your future self the gift of knowledge that is easy to find and understand.” It’s called information overload, and boy, it’s a real drain on the brain juice. Leaves you frazzled, doesn’t it? Essentially, the Digital Brain is your personal info-handler – it fine-tunes the way you record, stash, and summon information. Building A Second Brain is a methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained through our experience. It expands our memory and our intellect using the modern tools of technology and networks.”

Collecting a diverse range of stimuli – from images to anecdotes – can supercharge your imagination, letting you connect dots others might not even see. More tips and details about the 4 CODE steps can be found in our complete Building a Second Brain summary. Improving your Creative Process with CODEThere are three stages of progress Forte often observes—and even encourages—as people set out on their Second Brain journey. Those stages are remembering, connecting, and creating. Here are twelve practical steps you can take right now to get your Second Brain started: 1. Decide what you want to capture But as long as you view your work through the lens of areas, you’ll never quite know just how much is on your plate. Looking at the list above, how much of a workload does “Hiring” represent? It could be anything from a part-time hire every 6 months to filling 50 positions this quarter.

Jangan habisin waktu untuk cari aplikasi note-taking yang sempurna sebagai second brain. Masing-masing punya kelebihan dan kekurangannya.A space where you can dump, categorize, pull up, and squirrel away all those fleeting thoughts and lightbulb moments. The good news? Your wallet’s safe. It doesn’t take a load of cash. But here’s the thing – it does take some genuine effort.

Tiago Forte came up with the 4-step CODE System to help you develop a Second Brain systematically. Here’s an overview of the 4 steps: Next, if the information requires an action that takes longer than two minutes, decide whether or not it’s something you can or should act on in the near future. If you should act on it, create a new project to complete the action (a new subfolder in your current goals folder). If you can act on the information (meaning it already applies to one of your commitments or interests), then determine what you should do with it. (Sort it into one of your current goals, ongoing engagements, or topics of interest subfolders.) Finally, if it’s not currently actionable, move it to your someday/maybe folder (what we refer to as your hold folder). Contraction Step #1: Refine Forte found that most organization systems, while well-meaning, complicated his life and kept him from his priorities. One day, after realizing the ease behind dropping all his notes and files into a folder for which project he was focusing on, he made his own organization system called PARA, which stands for Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives.Forte explains that the first two steps of using your ESS are to record information and sort it into relevant folders where you can utilize it (these are the condense and organize steps of Forte’s CODE system for saving information). These steps are part of the expansion mode of the creative process—they’re designed to gather relevant information that gets your creative juices flowing and sparks new ideas.