second brain is a concept developed by Thiago Forte to help those who are struggling in the
digital world to organize himself and to remember almost everything today we're going to dive into
the best second brain note-taking applications for you to get started with we're going to be
looking at some of the more popular ones and some of the Fairly newcomers that might potentially be
your next note-taking application to implement the second brain concept welcome everyone my
name is Francesco I am very excited to dive into the second brain applications with you if you're
interested in just finding all of these tools digging a little bit deeper into them you can
head over to tool finder which will be linked in description below with a full article which
outlines all of these tools in much more detail perfectly crafted by our Charlotte who created
this piece about these note-taking apps so check it out in the link in description so Thiago Forte
is such a lovely chap I had the opportunity to meet him up in London although I've known him for
many years it's been really fun getting to know how he approaches things and one of the concepts
that he created was the second brain concept if you're curious at how second brain works in
full depth you can find the article below which dives into it however in a very short summary a
second brain is literally your second brain it's not relying on this brain to remember everything
allowing it to have a process a methodology to write things down using two main core systems
called para and code tianga has a full course on this however we're going to talk about the
note-taking apps which map well to this so one of the first ones is Obsidian and it's been growing
in popularity over the last couple of years but obsidian has been a real fan favorite amongst
those who like security because it's locally stored on your devices but it also works great
as a second brain because there's features like the graph view also so linking notes together and
which makes it perfect for resurfacing as part of thiago's concept in code it is also a really easy
to use application once you get started although it does take a little bit to learn it initially
the application has added fairly new features like canvas recently which allows you to express your
notes in more of a whiteboard fashion and the ability to extend your abilities with PDF to
make that much more editable so obsidian is a really growing popular note-taking application
that really Maps well to the second brain concept next up is one that many people know and love in
its notion and notion is known widely for its flexible abilities and that really extends to
the second brain concept you can build whatever structure you like as a second brain and map to
how it best suits you and there's even templates from the likes of easel that helps you to create
that second brain concept with just a click of the button but this application is really flexible and
allows you to really create it from database structures so that you can get started with
your second brain and use search and functions on your mobile device to find them easily helping you
to resurface content at the right time next up is Milano and this is actually one that thiaga
covered on his channel diving into how he can potentially use Miele notes to organize his second
brain and it's much more of a visual second brain because what it does quite nicely is it allows to
view things in a canvas View and it's much more popular with designers and creatives for basically
imagine Pinterest combined with Google keep it's really a combination of both of them that helps
you to make a visual way of plotting and planning notes but tianga dives into a lot more detail on
his channel in his video the really conceptualizes Miele note for using the core principles like para
projects areas resources and archive and code to be ableistically extend your functionality with
second membrane next up is an app called mem now just a little bit of a disclaimer I'm actually an
investor in mem and it itself is a note-taking application it's been growing in a market but
it doesn't really know what it fully is yet but it integrates a lot of artificial intelligence which
is why I think Targa talks about it on social media as a potential second brain because it can
help you resurf its notes much more effectively with AI but the concept is a lot different from
second brain in a way because it doesn't rely on folder system but it does rely on tags as
well and helps you to organize your notes in that fashion it also helps you to link notes as well
and there are features around templates that can save you a lot amount of time so next up is log
seek log seek is a popular tool and it's been growing in popularity since obsidian merged its
head into the scene and naturally logseek is very similar to obsidian and network thought tool that
allows you to connect up notes in and be able to see it in a graph videos as well and it has been
growing in popularity but many people have found this tool to be an effective way to use for their
second brain so it's well worth to consider alongside obsidian as a potential note-taking
application for building a second brain another similar PKM tool personal Knowledge Management
tool is reflect notes and to be honest reflect notes is probably one of the most attractive
out of all of the solutions that are on the market in the PKM space but it's priced a lot
higher I believe at 12 per user per month and naturally that's quite steep but a lot of these
applications are heading in that direction reflect note has some really interesting features like the
ability to create tanks but not just for tanks but you can make them objects which makes them
much more searchable when it comes to be able to create tabs inside of your reflect account and
be able to organize them it also still follows a daily note concept allowing you to create daily
notes alongside linking notes and creating them in a graph view too following a lot of the core
principles that we'll see in log seek and obsidian so one final one that I'm sure many people will be
beating me up in the comments for is Evernote yes Evernote is still a good way to organize
your second brain and it still follows a lot of traditional philosophies around note-taking that
help you to organize and structure that so I would still recommend checking it out because it's got
a lot of abilities more recently with tasks and calendar for boob to be able to coordinate your
note taking with the second brain methodology combined with your tasks and calendar as a hub
based concept so folks I hope you enjoyed today's feature on second brains as I mentioned if you're
in the hunt for a productivity tool head over to tool finder and you'll find that linked below and
if you want to find more detail about second brain Concepts whether that's how to build a second
brain from scratch and the core philosophies around it you can find that linked below as
well as the second brain apps note-taking lists that we've provided here I hope you find one that
best suits your needs and if you're in the hunt to go a little bit deeper you can jump over until
finder and explore them in much more depth with resources and guides that I think will provide
as much value as humanly possible so well done Thiago on creating such great concept I'm sure
millions of people are really taking advantage of it every single day so thank you to Thiago
thank you to you all for watching make sure to hit like button and subscribe if you're brand
new thank you very much folks I will see you all very very soon I'm very sure I will cheerio
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