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Building a Second Brain: An Overview (Tiago Forte)

A) Design notes for your future self

A powerful mindset for interacting with our notes is to “design notes with your future self in mind.” Every time we create a note or make an edit, we can make it just a little easier to find and make use of next time.

This can include:

  • Defining key terms in parentheses in case we forget what they mean
  • Inserting placeholders when we leave off summarizing a source so we know where to pick back up
  • Adding links to related websites, files, or emails that we’re likely to forget over time
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Building a Second Brain: An Overview - Forte Labs
at it contains and potentially apply it to something you’re working on The following three guidelines will help you summarize and distill your notes into actionable, useful tools for execution. <span>A) Design notes for your future self A powerful mindset for interacting with our notes is to “design notes with your future self in mind.” Every time we create a note or make an edit, we can make it just a little easier to find and make use of next time. This can include: Defining key terms in parentheses in case we forget what they mean Inserting placeholders when we leave off summarizing a source so we know where to pick back up Adding links to related websites, files, or emails that we’re likely to forget over time By constantly saving packets of knowledge in a format that our future self can easily consume, we follow a “pay it forward” strategy that we get to benefit from in the future! B) Summar


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