"Building A Second Brain" Mastery Megathread:
I have attempted to synthesize THE BEST -- ALL-IN-ONE ALL-INCLUSIVE OVERVIEW (so far) of this ENTIRE topic intended to cover as much functional aspects as possible, and I'd also like it to be a place for discussing / optimizing this topic further / developing repeatable models inside synthesizer community. (----- Note I did not view every possible thing I could, just the stuff that was easiest to find within roughly a 2 day period as a total newbie at this... but I trust some or many of you will find the thoughts valuable ----) Hopefully this can become a location where we can discuss which options are best for which personality types and various personalized use cases -- with extra resources & additional personalized expertise in the comments. While not perfect, I did my best in a couple days starting from the links @Andrew Kirby shared with us in the #Build an information capture system section of the course as well as some deep diving I did with a number of experts including some local synthesizer videos. Personal experience thus far: I avoided this for some time, because I wanted to "just get some stuff done" with knowledge I already had. However, I'm now finding the immense value in organizing & preparing the scaling of long-term projects. Seeing the INCREDIBLE power these tools give us... I have to dive deep. I will first summarize some of the key points in Andrew's content and then expand. First, synthesizers are tasked with "Building an Information Capture System" with the purpose of: - Storing important content we learn - Keeping it organized - Making it easy to distill & reference - Making it easy to transform into value for audience / end-consumers ___________ But then we are also given content about "Building a Second Brain" (see links in the module referenced above). The Second Brain can theoretically do many things, including: - Everything the information capture system can - Organize priorities - Manage projects - Track productivity - Manage routines