How to build a second brain?

Guide

• every post should have a problem + solution + story

Supporting material

• [new perspectives] handwritten notebooks
• [related content] basb emails and notes
• [book highlights] how to take smart notes
• [visual support] iCloud photos
• [series structure] check the map of consciousness series

Sequence

0. Switched from an AI problem to another

• on what to work on

1. Why build a second brain?

2. Capture

How to build a knowledge library for creative work?

3. self-organized notes post

[title]

[story]

[problem] Information management

• focus, headspace
• wasted time
• open loops
• forgetting

[solution] Connected notes

• AI, self-organized notes
• Zero tags, manual backlinks

[value]

[helpers]

• essay #2 intial draft intro on google docs
• 24Feb03 | Tools for thought
• Time as a computing platform
• 24Oct19 | Knowledge is continuous
• 23Sep12 | The “Why” & “How” to hack through your life’s timeline
• 23Jun16 | 90% of our problems are not new
• https://every.to/thesis/the-end-of-productivity

4. recall post

[title]

[story]

[problem] Information retrieval

• context?

[solution] Contextual notes

• 3rd party integrations
• multi-device sync

[value]

[helpers]

• 23May20 | Smarter daily reports: Your self-tracking assistant
• 24Mar28 | Time as a computing platform
• 24Feb03 | Tools for thought
• 23Jul16 | Reading & writing as form of time travel
• 23Apr15 | Time travel by means of searching anything you read, write or say
• 23Sep12 | The “Why” & “How” to hack through your life’s timeline
• basb notes about the last step: wide-sweep search

later posts

[*] 1-photo a day

[*] Intro to quantified-self / self-tracking

[*] Intro to journaling

[*] About writing

[*] A deeper look into the creator economy: 2020 to 2025