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PARA Method by @fortelabs is one of the best things I've implemented into my business and personal life recently. If you haven't already, read his book "Building a Second Brain"
Vijay Shankar Gupta
This Is the Best Book I’ve Ever Read on Organizing Digital Life and Personal Knowledge Management to Free Up Mental Space for Creative Thinking Building A Second Brain - by Tiago Forte @fortelabs #BASB #SecondBrain #pkm
Technically J
@theJasonTLewis @fortelabs “Building a Second Brain” was life-changing for me. I’ve used my severe ADHD as an excuse for years, as to why I can’t get things done. Some of the concepts in this book have allowed me to add some modifications to better prioritize and organize.
Aaron Amaya
@fortelabs I’ve been listening to your audiobook for the last week and it’s been a game changer in my personal and professional life. 🙏🏾
Melanie Knight
Over the last week, I’ve been reading Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte. I used Tiago Forte’s ‘progressive summarisation’ technique to take notes on the book, which are now stored in my second brain on TheBrain. Through a blog post on his website, I also came across Francis Miller’s multi-level summary approach to non-fiction books and his idea of using macrostructures to remember books. I tried out his approach with this diagram, which shows the main concepts of each chapter of the book. Building A Second Brain describes how to use technology to help to capture, organise and share knowledge. He was influenced by David Allen’s structure for Getting Things Done, and the model can also be matched with elements of Harold Jarche’s network learning model (Seek, Sense, Share). Throughout the book, Tiago Forte gives examples of how creative people have stored knowledge, from choreographer Twyla Tharp’s ‘project boxes’ to director Francis Ford Coppola’s notebook for The Godfather. I’ve developed a similar model of dealing with knowledge through my own trial and error, but there were a few useful ideas in the book that I have taken on, for example duplicating organisational structures across all digital tools, writing brief notes about the next step when I put down a project (inspired by Ernest Hemingway), and breaking big projects down into a series of smaller deliverable ‘packets’. I also intend to become more consistent in doing weekly and monthly reviews. The book helped me to gather more information that might help me answer the question of ‘What do I DO with all the information I collect?’
Marvin Robertson
Tiago Forte book, work and philosophy will change your life. Never has an author made such a difference for me, since Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of highly effective people. Check him out.
Blake Atwood
@fortelabs, thank you for "Building a Second Brain." I used to think I was fairly accomplished at organizing my digital life, but BASB is showing me a better way. I'm actually excited to apply its simplicity so I can more consistently unlock my creativity.
Paul Millerd
Did a short reflection on @fortelabs book and how his thinking has influenced my own remix and led to things like my book: youtu.be/wi57wiBs4EY. Genuinely didn't have any sort of system for creation early on my indie path but everything changed in summer 2018 when @jonnym1ller introduced me to BASB systems This is all despite having a comprehensive system in my jobs & getting promoted for it!.
