today i'm reacting to my second brain and i want to go through this uh chart that kron
posted on twitter of a visual representation of the apps i use and talk through it in a bit
more detail more about the sort of issues or the areas that i fixed and also a little bit about
like why it was sort of misrepresented in this graph um but let's explore that in this video
before we begin thiago who's just released a new membership it's part of the next cohort of his
second brain course but he's also doing a circle community now for knowledge workers and those who
embed the second brain philosophy so you can find that all in the description below so here
we have in front of us francesco's second brain and i want to start this left-hand side with
tasks now it actually says here that i use some sama fatass and bento for task two
i do use bento but very occasionally versus i actually embed the bento methodology in sensama so
in terms of tasks it's really primarily some sama that i spend most of my time in
we've got a video here on the channel if you want to check it out that will be coming soon um
about sensama but you can check out the one that we did before about how i use it however again i
guess i would just say some sama here versus bento because i distill the the actual process into
sensama itself remarkable again i wouldn't say this is necessarily a productivity tool this is
what i think was sort of a bit it mis-explained in the thing i don't really use it i use it for
offstar offline brainstorming but i don't use it like i use it as a tool for the occasion
like for example when i'm in a coffee shop twice a week i'll use it as a brainstorming thing in
the same way you don't maybe list paper as your productivity tool because it's not necessarily
it's just like in the moment you might use it for that sort of context then moving on to evernote
again i don't really touch evernote this is why it says legacy here and mem i'm still um sort of
not i'm learning to use it but like i only use it once a week really collectively um i i capture
stuff but really going into it is just a once a week thing because i'm not naturally a big
note taker it's really i i feel like running this channel is a bit of a weird one because i actually
really don't take as many notes as i should so i use this as journal but once a week twice a week
at max so looking at this now i would say sama and mem are sort of the core apps i use and moving on
the one of the things that i noticed that the quick capture is i talked about email being my
quick catcher for tasks i actually used sunsama's quick capture but there's a problem with senzama's
quick capture which is it actually doesn't have an online version which means that you can't get the
capture when you're offline which is a pain but i typically am online most of the time so i capture
in sunsama so i'm not sure i think because i didn't understand the context of the conversation
we're having about it i thought we were referring to like okay how do you quickly capture stuff in
email worst case but i don't really use email for capturing much whatsoever unless i'm capturing an
email if that makes sense then with notion and craft this is actually something i learned a lot
from from actually looking at this i think there's a difference sometimes when you're like doing
productivity videos with somebody else you just like go when you see it in front of you with this
like a visual representationist you go okay maybe i'm over complicating it and like tiana said craft
might have been a separate workspace environment for us but actually we've just embedded that in
notion now because that seems to be a better place for it and it coincides with keep productive too
so that was a natural sort of progression again photos up here like it isn't capture base in the
second brain concept but not necessarily like a daily tool i just let google photos collect
everything in the background if i need to search for something that's searchable so again a bit
like the remarkable one it's like a tool that you go to when you use it but not really one that you
use every day if that makes sense calendar i use chron um hence why they did a little melter
mount face emoji and um you can see here that i distill in express through those formats so
in sort of concept i actually only use some sama with the bento methodology we've been mem as my
weekly journal notion to plan and organize and that's cron for calendar so it's really it so
i feel like this is a second brain version of it it's like everything on a piece of paper whereas
actually in real life it's considerably done down i don't use productivity tools massively i think
the best productivity tools are the ones that step out your way and the ones that actually don't
get in the way so that's why i don't use much of them and i don't spend much time managing them
just because they do the stuff in the background and that's what i need but i thought i'd look into
my second brain because it got a few questions it got loads of people like going oh my god this
is excessive oh my god this is stupid how do you manage all of this and i don't really manage it
because it's so much more downplayed than this and it's also so much easier as a system i always find
that just understood the topic is a task and note and a calendar app are really the stuff that you
need i think that was david allen who said that he was like really firm on the concept of that but
yeah i really don't use them as much as what is perceived anyway anyway folks i really hope you
enjoyed this feature again tiago's got a brand new membership out you could check it out below but if
you're new here and you want to subscribe hit the subscription button i'm filming irregularly
in the kitchen because it finally doesn't look like a mess it's been like a building site for
last two months and i just was like oh it's the afternoon i'm gonna film in the kitchen anyway
folks uh big wig thank you for stopping by and i'll talk to you all very very soon cheerio you