I Gave My Diary to Al (A Second Brain Case Study)
Channel: Tiago Forte
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] For the last four years, I've been
[0:01] behind the scenes creating content for
[0:04] this channel. Hi, I'm Alysia. I'm a
[0:06] project [music] manager at 40 Labs.
[0:08] Today, the project manager becomes the
[0:10] second brain case study. In this video,
[0:13] I'm going to show you how I used AI to
[0:15] analyze a year of journal entries from
[0:18] handwritten notebooks to insights I
[0:20] couldn't see on my own. You'll see the
[0:22] exact process, the tools, and why I had
[0:25] to make this video to complete my
[0:27] transformation. By December 2025, I had
[0:30] four notebooks filled with my
[0:31] handwritten journal entries, a whole
[0:34] year of thoughts, patterns, struggles,
[0:36] raw material sitting on my shelf. But
[0:39] when it came time to do my annual
[0:40] review, I had no idea what was in them.
[0:43] I had all this data abou