Noting system
Human memory can lead to many disappointments. One of them is forgetting precious ideas, or just getting lost in life plans. The solution for that can be nicely organized notes. Although it was tough to create precious notes from lectures, I will guide you through my noting system, which allows you to work more efficiently and get better.
🧠 Second brain
New way of organising notes
📕 Book of the week
In this chapter will cover also the book of the week, which is "Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential" by Tiago Forte.
Organizing notes using the second brain concept can be a real game changer. The author of the book mentions great authorities who use in some way those principles as an example. One of them is Taylor Swift:
- When Taylor creates a new song, she always has a note system close to her, in this case, apple notes. In Apple notes, she has some quotations which she made up while doing some other activities during the day. Of course, these quotations are made 100% by her and refer to her feelings, so creating a new song is about connecting this little pieces and adding the melody.
Noting down your plans, health checks, expanses, coding lines, habits, projects, etc. can lead to enormous discipline and % of execution of life goals.
Consider an example of a huge project you are working on. If you only have it in mind or sheets of paper, you can not be as efficient as the person who divided it into the smaller goals, and tasks to perform each day to be closer to the final execution.
🧠 Second brain in Notion
The following template was inspired by:
I just walked around and created my own for free. I recommend you do the same if you are familiar with the basics of the notion. If not, make yourself a favor and learn this noting app in a couple of hours 😄
In my second brain implementation, I can found the dashboard with links to pages and proper pages responsible for the different areas of life.
For example, you can have a Plan page and create a nice timeline as a visualization of database 👉 databases are super cool in this app, but why?
Notion content can be made in databases, which can be visualized as a list, table, board, or even a timeline like below 👇
These databases can be related to other ones and make content with"a deeper meaning", why?
According to the PARA method from a book, (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive), each note can be related to some Area or Resource, then this Area or Resource can include some projects to perform, which therefore have tasks to complete. Completed tasks and projects can be stored in the Archives section. See how it is all connected?
To not create too much hard-to-read stuff, a new tutorial will be available on my youtube channel soon:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTi-LX8VSgD_It9jDf8lpDQ
The other way of storing notes is using other simpler notes apps, in my case the dedicated ios notes:
I use it as a simpler version of notes when I do not want to create new databases and some images for it. Found it helpful while writing my first ebook, creating social media posts, or tracking training results.
💌 Latest info
I have just come from vacations that were dedicated to creating something special. After 4 years journey of self-taught web development, I decided to share my knowledge and create a handy tutorial for beginners and more advanced coders. A free chapter will be available soon and you will be informed:
📽️ Last youtube video
🎙️Podcast of the week
I recommend going through both parts. AI is giving a lot of advantages, but we should take some steps to be more careful. Really interesting confrontation of AI with global warming. Global warming will have consequences in decades, while AI can change the world dramatically in years. That is why we should be more focused on taking care of AI.
Moreover, a guest on a podcast is claiming that today's 50 years old, will never die naturally. Humanity by this time will destroy themself or we will extend human life to enormous longevity.
