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29. Tiago Forte: Building A Second Brain

The Reader's Journey

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Is There a System for Taking Notes?

Timothy Stanley: I think what you did such a great job with this book is like you talk about the system that you could use for any notetaking app. And that's a lot more valuable than just choosing a specific app itself. He says he settled on these timeless, note-taking principles that don't depend on the feature set of any particular program. Stanley: You're always going to have a past self and a future self. So when you come upon a note or a document you've created in the past, it's like a time capsule. It's like your past self package up this gift of knowledge,. sent it through time, whether on purpose or an accident,

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