First, these critics argue that Forte’s recommendation to refine information right before creating, rather than immediately after saving, encourages you to over-collect information. This is because refining a note helps you identify how useful it is—if you don’t at least start to refine notes before saving them, you might be saving massive amounts of irrelevant information and cluttering your ESS. For centuries, intellectuals, artists and successful people kept notebooks, sketchbooks, or journals where they recorded their thoughts and reflections. These served as personal knowledge banks where they could return to build on their content and ideas. Songwriters often compile “hook books” of song lyrics and music, software engineers build “code libraries”, and lawyers keep “case files”, and so on. Skip forward ke momen saat gue mau beneran bikin kontennya, apakah gue bisa ingat berbagai macam kutipan buku itu? Mungkin hanya samar-samar, tapi isi persis kalimatnya jelas nggak mungkin gue bisa ingat semua. That’s when second brain comes into play. Apa sih “second brain” itu?

Making this knowledge tangible not only benefits others but ensures that your expertise continues to shine, whether you’re switching jobs, industries, or even starting fresh. 7. A Smarter Way to Learn Which brings us to our second problem: without a list of individual projects, you can’t connect your current efforts to your long-term goals. With the long-awaited release of his book, “Building a Second Brain,” I want to share 4 ways I use @NotionHQ to manage my Second Brain 🧠— Sam Thomas Davies (@SamThomasDavies) June 18, 2022 The Five Big Ideas Overall, Building a Second Brain bisa jadi buku yang berguna buat kasih fondasi awal untuk lebih organized. Penerapannya gimana, bisa kita otak-atik sendiri, nggak mesti plek-ketiplek ngikutin formulanya Tiago Forte juga. Bukunya gue kasih 8/10 karena sebagai penganut kadang analog kadang digital, kasihan yang analog berasa nggak disebut bagusnya apa. Hahaha. Ada juga beberapa part di buku ini yang kesannya repetitif buat gue.This makes zero sense in your post-academic career. In the workplace, there are no classes, no tests, no grades, and no diplomas. No teacher is going to tell you what to write down for the final exam, because there isn’t one. In this video , I introduce you to 4 notetaking styles and the best apps for each. 3. Choose a capture tool Creativity doesn’t happen randomly. The best creative minds strategize and develop habits that allow them to continually collect, process and combine raw materials to find new inspiration. By the time they sit down to create something, they already have the ingredients in place. The 4-step CODE Method is designed to standardize how you work, so you can concurrently maximize your creativity and productivity. Here, Forte presented a Progressive Summarization Technique to help you extract the most important points from your notes. The method basically involves highlighting your notes in layers, using different formats (e.g. bold, underline, written summary). 4. Express your Ideas Summarize a group of notes related to a project you’re currently working on using multiple layers of highlighting to see how it affects the way you interact with those notes.

But that is exactly the point: if your organizational system is as complex as your life, then the demands of maintaining it will end up robbing you of the time and energy you need to live that life. Don’t worry about what others think—often, we strive for perfection because we think others will look at us negatively if we finish a project that’s less than perfect. The technique Forte teaches to distill notes down to their most important points is called “Progressive Summarization,” which involves taking the raw notes you’ve captured and organized and distilling them into usable material that can directly inform a current project. You have areas of responsibility – important parts of your work and life that require ongoing attention. These might include:Our initial notes are like raw materials that must be processed and refined before they can become valuable assets. Filter your notes down to their essence, so you can find, use and share the ideas easily in future. It’s like how Einstein summarized his insights about energy into the well-known equation E=MC2. In the midst of your busy day, as you are trying to make these things happen, you absolutely do not have time to go rummaging through a vast category like “Psychology” to find the one piece of information you need. Areas: personal or professional responsibilities to be managed over the long-term, e.g. health, finance, recruitment.