We humans often overestimate our ability to store and recall relevant details. A productivity technique that has worked for me for decades is the concept of writing down digital notes in multiple formats, and organizing them in a way that those ideas can easily be retrieved, as and when needed.

With the information overload we face today, such a tool is not only invaluable, it may be one of the very few ways we can cope with all the data that bombards us every hour of every day.

Thankfully, a wonderful book was published in 2022 called ‘Building a Second Brain‘ that can help you understand how this approach works. In it, you will find practical solutions to learn faster, work more efficiently, and manage all your ideas.

Here’s a quick look at the core message of the book:

In the author’s own words:

“By offloading our thinking onto a “second brain” for the things we learn and work on, we free our mind to imagine, create, and simply be present.”

Now, isn’t that an idea worth looking into?