Stone-Age Brain Meets the Second Brain
Old Neander My wife drops clips into a Google Drive folder and something picks the good moments, cuts them into highlights, checks them, and publishes them to YouTube. 112 highlights in a month, zero minutes of editing. Here is how to build it, including the prompt I actually used.
I wanted to learn how to take notes, so I read eight books about it: Building a Second Brain, The Giant’s Notebook, How to Take Smart Notes, The Power of the Note-Taking Habit, The Note-Taking Reading Method, Rediscovering the Memo, Lee Dong-jin’s Reading Method, and The One Thing. Five of those eight have never been published in English. Those titles, and every quotation … Read more
“Where did I put that report?” Four folders, sorted by when you’ll need a file rather than what it’s about — the PARA method, with a structure you can copy.
I tried every digital to-do app worth naming, and none of them lasted. Here’s why a paper Bullet Journal finally stuck — and the exact setup I use at work every day.
Three years of running Tiago Forte’s CODE method with two paper notebooks and Obsidian — what stuck, what didn’t, and why understanding arrived three years late.
Any task you do once a year, you’ll forget. Here are five reasons Obsidian — a free note-taking app — is the fix, from a government worker who can’t code.