Part 1 Building a Second Brain Book on a Page

#sketchnote #BookOnAPage #excalidraw #obsidianmd #pkm #secondbrain ✏️ Sign up for the Visual Thinking Workshop: https://www.visual-thinking-workshop.com/ 🚀 Cohort 5 starts on August 19. 📔 We will be summarizing Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse into a book-on-a-page In this video, I provide a summary of Tiago Forte's new book, Building a Second Brain. In parts 2 and 3 I will provide a behind-the-scenes view of how I created this book on a page summary. A high-resolution PNG version and the standalone excalidraw file of this BoaP are available here: https://ko-fi.com/s/beb42e224d If you find my videos helpful, please say thanks by buying me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/zsolt If you want to connect, you can reach me (@zsviczian) in the Obsidian Members Group (OMG) on Discord or on Twitter. This book on a page was created with the Obsidian-Excalidraw plugin. Timestamps ----- 00:00 Intro 00:30 The Promise of a Second Brain 01:26 The Legacy of Commonplace Books 01:59 Creativity depends on a creative process 02:27 The Superpowers of a Second Brain 03:53 CODE, Divergence & Convergence 04:41 Capture 05:49 12 Favorite Questions 06:31 Keep what resonates 07:37 Organize 08:28 Project Box 09:30 PARA 11:30 Distill 12:33 Progressive Summarization 15:00 Lego blocks 15:32 Express, everything is a remix 15:51 Intermediate Packets 18:02 Three strategies to bring creative work together 18:09 The Archipelago of Ideas 19:42 Use yesterday's momentum today 20:42 Dial Down the Scope 21:48 Essential habits of Digital Organizers 21:57 Project checklists 23:57 Weekly and monthly reviews 24:59 Noticing habits 25:46 Closing remarks How to -------- If you'd like to create a similar book on a page summary, check out these videos: How to create a sketchnote summary of a book with Excalidraw + Obsidian + Progressive Summarization https://youtu.be/n3dbH2c3l0M Part 2 Behind the Scenes 1/2: Note highlights and initial sketches. Creating the BASB Book on a Page https://youtu.be/KTsw020KFf0 Part 3 Behind the Scenes 2/2: Creating the final book on a page for Building a Second Brain https://youtu.be/Mo-o4c2pzYE Links -------- Excalidraw Plugin: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin Obsidian: https://obsidian.md My blog: https://zsolt.blog Tiago's book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LVVN9L3/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 Attributions ------------------- Icons created by surang, Flat Icons, Freepik, dDara, photo3idea_studio, Sofyan Rofiq, Smashicons, mavadee, Eucalyp, DinosoftLabs from www.flaticon.com