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I tried hard to like this, i still have my “second brain” collection in onenote (which worked surprisingly well across linux, Windows & mac) but i don’t add to

I tried hard to like this, i still have my “second brain” collection in onenote (which worked surprisingly well across linux, Windows & mac) but i don’t add to it anymore. However PARA has just proven more ergonomic and far less time consuming for me. https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/ https://fortelabs.co/blog/para/ 1. I don’t waste time trying to eek out atomic thoughts, PARA is a more pragmatic idea - if some bit of knowledge proves useful it will get incrementally refined 2. It works exceedingly well if your productivity system is based on GTD 3. I don’t waste time trying to link things sufficiently, instead i dump the folder of reference material in the active project using it. So simple, and quite a satisfying “cheat” All this said, it’s like time management. I’m less convinced that there’s a “right” answer than i am that there is a wrong answer and the wrong answer is not to have a strategy and just let the tidal wave of digital artifacts wash over you.

disabled 5y ago
There is some obscenely expensive program for that (I have tried to search for traces of it online). I should do an advanced search again, using key words from the YouTube video below. The course is here: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Anyways, there is this guy who is really good at hacking life who describes it and took the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 Anyways, his channel is interesting for sure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg He was also #1 student in psychology at Cambridge as an undergrad. Anyways, chances are the course is ideas plagiarized from somewhere else. That's why I have searched for the source. I found a good written source for finding key words to do advanced search queries to find the original source: https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-and-why-you-need-to-build-one-too https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-... I found high quality illustrated notes on it, too, which will be really helpful for locating wherever the course material is originally from: https://maggieappleton.com/basb https://maggieappleton.com/basb For searching text of books with advanced queries, the best place is here (world's biggest online library): https://www.bookshare.org/search https://www.bookshare.org/search Google Books is best for previewing books.
- mongol 5y ago
  Did you take the course?
  - disabled 5y ago
    Absolutely not. But, I am really good at catching other people's plagiarism, including people who make entire livings off of such grifts. This course has a lot of obvious red flags of that, and I am curious where the original material came from in Creating a Second Brain. This is one example of me finding some severe plagiarism where someone makes an entire living off of it: this Language Master "course" (https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/ https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/) which costs 990 EUR is basically this guide, "What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?": https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources... Basically, the entire basis of her course is that above guide, but she creates video lessons for each section of the above linked guide with worksheets for each section (which you fill out to the videos). The only content that she adds that is substantiative in terms of work is language learning resources for X Y and Z languages, in terms of inputs/outputs.
    - npunt 5y ago
      Tiago Forte has been working on these ideas for many years in the open on his blog (Fortelabs, the one OP posted) and Building a Second Brain is the course he built atop that. From what I have seen of it, its original work and some synthesis of past ideas, just like most things. It's weird to see you do these quick Google searches and speculate its plagiarized without any substance to back your argument or awareness of the work he's been doing for years now.
    - mongol 5y ago
      Funny, because the course seems to be exactly about that. In his video you linked, he quoted Picasso "Good artists copy, great artists steal".
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pbhjpbhj 5y ago
How do you run OneNote on Linux, just via browser or ...? Can you 'print to OneNote'?

disabled 5y ago

There is some obscenely expensive program for that (I have tried to search for traces of it online). I should do an advanced search again, using key words from the YouTube video below. The course is here: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ Anyways, there is this guy who is really good at hacking life who describes it and took the course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3dA2GcAh8 Anyways, his channel is interesting for sure: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoOae5nYA7VqaXzerajD0lg He was also #1 student in psychology at Cambridge as an undergrad. Anyways, chances are the course is ideas plagiarized from somewhere else. That's why I have searched for the source. I found a good written source for finding key words to do advanced search queries to find the original source: https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-and-why-you-need-to-build-one-too https://www.rylncoaching.com/post/why-i-have-a-second-brain-... I found high quality illustrated notes on it, too, which will be really helpful for locating wherever the course material is originally from: https://maggieappleton.com/basb https://maggieappleton.com/basb For searching text of books with advanced queries, the best place is here (world's biggest online library): https://www.bookshare.org/search https://www.bookshare.org/search Google Books is best for previewing books.

mongol 5y ago
Did you take the course?
- disabled 5y ago
  Absolutely not. But, I am really good at catching other people's plagiarism, including people who make entire livings off of such grifts. This course has a lot of obvious red flags of that, and I am curious where the original material came from in Creating a Second Brain. This is one example of me finding some severe plagiarism where someone makes an entire living off of it: this Language Master "course" (https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/ https://www.languagementoring.com/courses/master/order/) which costs 990 EUR is basically this guide, "What do you need to know to learn a foreign language?": https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources... Basically, the entire basis of her course is that above guide, but she creates video lessons for each section of the above linked guide with worksheets for each section (which you fill out to the videos). The only content that she adds that is substantiative in terms of work is language learning resources for X Y and Z languages, in terms of inputs/outputs.
  - npunt 5y ago
    Tiago Forte has been working on these ideas for many years in the open on his blog (Fortelabs, the one OP posted) and Building a Second Brain is the course he built atop that. From what I have seen of it, its original work and some synthesis of past ideas, just like most things. It's weird to see you do these quick Google searches and speculate its plagiarized without any substance to back your argument or awareness of the work he's been doing for years now.
  - mongol 5y ago
    Funny, because the course seems to be exactly about that. In his video you linked, he quoted Picasso "Good artists copy, great artists steal".
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pbhjpbhj 5y ago

How do you run OneNote on Linux, just via browser or ...? Can you 'print to OneNote'?