Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes

Name: Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes
Uploaded: 2019-03-10
Duration: 2653 s
Channel: Tiago Forte
Description: Read a transcript preview of “Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes” from Tiago Forte, uploaded on 2019-03-10.

Channel: Tiago Forte

Uploaded: 2019-03-10

Duration: PT2653S

Read a transcript preview of “Building a Second Brain: Capturing, Organizing, and Sharing Knowledge Using Digital Notes” from Tiago Forte, uploaded on 2019-03-10.

Transcript preview

Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] welcome to my talk on building a second

[0:04] brain capturing organizing and sharing

[0:07] knowledge using digital notes

[0:09] my name is tiago forte and I've come

[0:12] here from Mexico City where I live to

[0:14] share with you an exciting new trend a

[0:17] new movement that I think has the

[0:20] potential of radically transforming how

[0:23] we work

[0:23] the first imagine for a second it's

[0:27] Monday morning you wake up refreshed

[0:31] from a nice relaxing weekend you have

[0:34] breakfast with your family make some

[0:36] coffee and as you head into the office

[0:38] you're determined that this will be a

[0:41] good week you're gonna be focused this

[0:44] week you're gonna be self-disciplined

[0:45] you're really gonna do the best work

[0:47] that you're capable of doing you arrive

[0:51] at the office go into the workspace you

[0:54] sit down at your desk open your computer

[0:56] and suddenly you're faced with this a

[1:01] morass of files and folders some of

[1:04] ambiguous origin spread chaotically

[1:08] across dozens of different locations and

[1:11] different amps and you feel a little

[1:15] discouraged but you make the best of it

[1:19] after all you don't have time to sit

[1:21] there organizing your computer do you do

[1:24] you go through your day and you go

[1:27] through your week but in the background

[1:28] there's a friction every time you use a

[1:32] device one of your mobile devices or

[1:35] your computer there's a cost someone

[1:38] asks you for a document and it takes you

[1:40] ten or fifteen minutes looking through

[1:42] different archives looking through

[1:43] different folders to find it you go to

[1:46] save a document and you have this

[1:49] creeping suspicion that no matter how

[1:51] diligent you a