second brain

“In my view, the central organizing principle of your second brain needs to be, what are my currently active projects? What are the projects that I'm trying to move forward right now? And everything in your second brain should be organized around what you need …”

“To me, you know, if you take notes on a book, let's say, and you save those in your second brain, unless there is a specific use case for those notes, you should probably never look at them again.”

“At most. Yeah, it's just these little, little moments to just save, capture, import, download, and then the job of, like, organizing and retrieving those, I postpone to the future, sometimes the far future, to the moment, whenever that moment arrives, that I a…”

“And so he started using his second brain to organize his patient notes, and the impact of that, he told me, is that in a 30 or 40 minute appointment, which is all the time he has, right? 30 to 40 minutes. Instead of spending, you know, 20 or 30 of those minute…”

“Your second brain is not dependent on any one piece of software. It is a collection of different tools that you use, different pieces of software. Any individual app can be swapped out. Any single one can be changed, but the overarching system that is your sec…”