"Creative products are always shiny and new. The creative process is ancient and unchanging." - Silvano Arieti
<aside> 👌
Hey! Get ready to spin up your Second Brain - Harness your digital intake & expand you creative output. This is a template of a Second Brain. This is the backbone of a personal knowledge management system (PKM) It uses the PARA (Project, Areas, Resources, Archive) system created by Tiago Forte. I have extended PARA with Notes sections. To see how each of these databases interact watch the free mini-course.
I’ve also created an app called VoicePDF so you can “Talk” to your Notion notes. Just export them as PDFs by clicking the “…” icon in the top right.
If you have questions about how to build a second brain ✨ Try my AI Second Brain setup assistant
Made with ❤️ by @serjhunt Say hi on Twitter.
</aside>
AI-Powered Second Brain Notion Template
<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Everyone's task management system is different which is why this area is simple. I have resources on how I like to manage goals and tasks but feel free to modify this to suit your needs and style. I personally use and highly recommend Motion.
</aside>
<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Projects is where the magic happens. Start new For more info on how to capture information into your projects, read my Capture Strategies Guide. Start a project by brain dumping and linking all the sources from your resources you will need to complete it, helpful notes and plan out how you're going to complete it.
</aside>
<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" /> Areas are different to projects because they don’t have end dates, you just keep doing them. An area can contain multiple projects. Start by brain dumping all the Areas of your life that you maintain responsibility for and then clicking the ‘New Area’ template inside. If you’ve used the relational database property in your projects database then the area will show you which projects are part of which area.
</aside>
This is the original Areas database filtering Business and Personal areas
<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_gray.svg" width="40px" />
Resources are re-usable lego bricks or packets of knowledge. You might create them after distilling some of the sources you capture in your Knowledge Hub, or after completing a project you might create a template or process that you want to use over and over again. Keep that all here. You can then share them with friends, sell them, or use them to complete projects quicker.
</aside>