Automate Your Highlights: The Lazy Genius Guide to Remembering What You Read
Channel: Tiago Forte
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[0:00] there's many kinds of notes that you
[0:02] want to exist but you don't have to
[0:04] create them that is exactly what read
[0:06] wise does this is a just mind-blowing
[0:09] Treasure Trove of knowledge this one
[0:11] folder called read wise why would I not
[0:13] save and preserve just the gems of
[0:16] insight the nuggets of wisdom that these
[0:18] sources contain I really fought I've
[0:20] pushed aside so many distractions I've
[0:22] dedicated and invested so much high
[0:25] quality attention to consume these in
[0:26] the first place
[0:29] [Music]
[0:34] I don't usually recommend specific apps
[0:37] my attitude is generally that they're
[0:40] interchangeable but there is one product
[0:42] there is one platform called read wise
[0:45] that is different you can almost think
[0:48] of it like a second brain companion it
[0:51] is this critical almost piece of
[0:53] infrastructure that you can install into
[0:57] your second brain ecosystem that is so
[1:00] powerful so valuable that it is more or
[1:03] less Irreplaceable there's many kinds of
[1:06] notes that you want to exist you want
[1:09] them to be created but you don't have to
[1:12] create them isn't this kind of the whole
[1:14] point of technology to save human effort
[1:16] so think about the kinds of notes that
[1:18] you'd like to exist that you can
[1:20] automate that you can have it happen in
[1:22] the background automatically with no
[1:25] effort or more importantly attention
[1:27] that thing you already have so little of
[1:30] required from you you so think about the
[1:33] kind of most typical case which is your
[1:35] reading you read books you read online
[1:37] articles you read blog posts you read
[1:40] newspaper articles that kind of focused
[1:44] aware re