Mem: The Note-Taking App That Connects Your Thoughts!
Channel: Tiago Forte
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] In the brain, information is a network,
[0:02] right? So, I'll mention the word prompt.
[0:04] Tell me what comes to mind.
[0:05] Um, embarrassment.
[0:07] It's like they're going to three
[0:08] different grocery stores to buy the
[0:10] ingredients to make a peanut butter and
[0:12] jelly sandwich. A Google doc to get this
[0:13] piece of information, to your inbox to
[0:15] get this piece of information. By the
[0:16] time you're done, like your bandwidth
[0:18] just gets burned. I have notes that are
[0:20] connected to hundreds of other notes and
[0:22] there's nothing in there. [music]
[0:27] Today I am talking to one of my favorite
[0:30] thinkers, writers, and podcasters,
[0:32] Serini Ralph. Welcome to the channel.
[0:34] Yeah, thanks for having me. It's good to
[0:35] be here, man.
[0:36] This is going to be a little bit of a
[0:37] wild ride through your mind, your first
[0:40] mind and second mind. You are primarily
[0:42] focused on the unmistakable creative
[0:44] podcast with many different thinkers,
[0:47] authors, writers, and
[0:48] people from every walk of life
[0:50] imaginable. bank robbers, drug dealers,
[0:52] performance psychologists, artists,
[0:54] authors, entrepreneurs, just people who
[0:56] are interested.
[1:00] What occurred to me after reading your
[1:01] book and spending all this time in me
[1:03] and and deep work and all this stuff was
[1:04] that everything that we have built up
[1:06] all our task management tools, all our
[1:08] note-taking apps had basically been
[1:09] band-aids on bullet wounds because our
[1:11] biggest issue was the ability to easily
[1:13] access and organize information. So,
[1:15] what do we do? We build distraction
[1:16] blockers not to get distracted. We build
[1:18] note-taking apps. But