Building a Second Brain to Organize Your Digital Life with Tiago Forte
Description
#85: Tiago Forte joins Chris to talk about his proven method to build a "Second Brain" to organize your digital life. They discuss the best tools to use to collect and store information, why it's important to become more of a maker than a consumer, why the most common way people categorize information might not be the best and a lot more.
Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) is one of the world's foremost experts on productivity. His cohort-based courses teach people around the world how timeless principles and the latest technology can revolutionize their productivity, creativity, and personal effectiveness. Tiago’s book is Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Full show notes at: https://allthehacks.com/second-brain-tiago-forte
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Selected Links From The Episode
Connect with Tiago Forte: Website | Instagram | Twitter
Tiago Forte’s Book
Resources Mentioned
- Your Resource Guide to Building a Second Brain
- Second Brain Case Study: Sleep Training an Infant
- Evernote Mobile App
- Readwise
- Zapier
- Notion
- Twlets
- Otter.ai
- Airr
- Miro
- Procreate
- Command E
- Apple Files
- Things
- Art of Accomplishment
- AssemblyAI
- Free Shipt Membership with Visa Cards
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
- Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
- Dream Studio Course
Full Show Notes
Introduction to Tiago Forte (00:00 )
How it all started (01:49 )
The three-part arc people go through as they build their Second Brain (02:43 )
Changing the focus from finding content to making things and using technology more effectively (05:04 )
The Four Steps of CODE (09:14 )
Capture: Saving 1% of the most insightful idea, quotes, takeaways, and thoughts (10:47 )
Capture tools (17:00 )
Tools to search across all of your saved information (26:09 )
Distinguishing between business and personal life mode in your organizational categories (28:39 )
The optimal way to organize your information (30:23 )
Tiago Forte’s PARA method: Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives (33:33 )
How to begin implementing the PARA method today (37:32 )
Organizing your email inboxes (38:23 )
Types of information to offload or to keep (45:32 )
Doing/acting vs. rote memorization (47:34 )
Thinking about your First Brain: primary use cases (49:04 )
Tiago’s acknowledgment hack (52:36 )
The role AI plays in our Second Brain (55:18 )
Tiago’s Mexico City recommendation (57:36 )
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