the second brain concept is almost 10 years old and creator thiago forte designed it to be a place
where you don't have to rely on your first brain but to create a world of knowledge for your second
brain so that you can become more productive as you go now almost 10 years on tiago's just
released a brand new book which is set to be on your shelves very very soon today i wanted to
take a look at how you can go about implementing the second brain concept inside of notion and in
particular i wanted to show you three aspects to that the first is how you can get started
and the concept behind actually implementing a second brain and second is looking at some of
the features where notion lends itself to being a great second brain and the third is some templates
if you want to save some times just to get going and getting started with the concept so as you can
imagine notion is a fairly versatile tool and like many applications it provides you with a
great capture abilities as well as organizing and a workspace that you can design yourself
now inside the second brain there's this concept called code capture organize distill and express
and they're really the stages you go through with your second brain to create an input and create an
output at the end now inside of notion the best way to get started is probably your databases
a database is a great place for your second brain to live because they're searchable and
they're also quite enriched with export abilities and customization in terms of your properties
you can start a second brain on whatever you like whether it's small things in your personal life
or large things as a team to be able to build that second brain up but the real key thing to start
with is to capture now looking at those features when notion lends itself to the second brain
is the web clipper and the capture abilities that you do get when using things like google chrome
there is an ability to quickly capture something using that web clipper and be able to save it
into correct location inside of notion this is particularly helpful obviously with articles
as you go for being able to save content that might inspire you that may produce and express
an outcome later the second thing is the backlinks obviously one of the key things inside of notion
is the bank links because they help you to create relationships between one page and another and
that's where a lot of applications like rome and obsidian tend to excel in is being able to create
these relationships and connections between different ideas and inside of the second brain
this can be really helpful for the express element when it comes to being able to bring an idea to
life that you may have captured a few years ago but you want to be able to maybe share it to the
world or bring it into a deliverable product or deliverable idea being able to connect those ideas
together can sometimes help the ideation process and be able to distill and improve the quality
of that expression at the end so using some of the bank links the function is really easy
to use and you could have it on or off per page too and finally the search function is great for
finding stuff and especially when you're looking for a specific notebook in a specific date it was
created notion search functionality has improved dramatically over the last couple of years
and i think it's a great location for finding all of that now finally you've probably maybe
even skipped some of the video if you're aware of the second brain concept and how to implement it
but are looking for some great templates to get yourself started well i've picked out two and i
think they're particularly good for a variety of reasons let's start with the ultimate second brain
which is run and created by thomas frank now we all know thomas frank he's a productivity youtuber
with many many subscribers but much much knowledge in notion and he's created um a different content
calendar for notion two but he's also created a second brain which has a really rich experience
um and it has something that some of the second brains don't have which is the ability to do
some journaling in there too but also i like how he's dashboardized it really nicely if you're
looking for a colorful really friendly approach to the second brain i think this is a great one
it's priced at 99 but that's a one-off cost and it will save you some time setting up that entire
template and again second brain does come into the the sort of play when you're sort of organizing
all aspects of your life life admin and things like that so again it's one of those investments
that you'll probably end up finding that pays off the second one is by creator islo he is obviously
well known for his templates in the the notion space and he's done a fine job at the second brain
one it's priced a little bit cheaper at about 78 i think it was a little bit cheaper before um but
it is really well designed and what i like about ezlo's setup is it uses some really
nice minimal icons to help create yourself a very relaxing very clean organized second brain setup
so i would recommend checking them both out now before we go obviously notion isn't the
be-all and end-all of applications out there for second brains you can use a wide variety of them
thankfully the second brain lends itself to loads of them and some of the alternative options
are rome obsidian and evernote as good solutions to being your second brain i pretty much have most
of my stuff in notion um and i'm also thinking a little bit in mem at the moment so it's really um
very beneficial to have one of those applications to store all of them but as you can imagine
um obviously really try and look at a long-term base for these experiences anyway folks i hope you
enjoyed today's video please do leave a like and share where your second brain is in the comments
below i'd really love to hear it you can check out thiago's brand new book in description below
as well congratulations thiago uh good work and um i i think i i i mention it some people we've got a
few videos over on his channel because i was very lucky to go up to london and he was very uh he had
a long journey i didn't uh to travel all the way over to the uk to do some collaborations um which
was absolutely fantastic so a big thanks to thiago and yeah check out his youtube channel and i'm
sure we'll be doing a few more videos very soon thank you very much folks and i'll see you soon
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