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gatlingxyz's review against another edition
5.0
I'm still getting used to my system, but my second brain is coming along nicely thanks to this book (and all the YouTubers who recommended it, lol).
shayzard's review against another edition
5.0
A very informative book and a great method for those who are looking to get more organized or who like reading about organizational methods.
litteraldingo's review against another edition
I lost it at his Einstein "E=mc-squared" metaphor saying that it was peak summarization. Such a complete mischaracterization of what a formula is vs summarizing content. Just cannot take anything the author says seriously after that.
blahbloo's review against another edition
4.0
I developed a secondary note taking and organisational system myself by almost accident and have been expanding it for a while. I was interested to see what a book written on the concept would look like. I definitely enjoyed the book and got value out of it. Though people are fair in saying some parts overly explained and not providing much extra, I think if you boil done the book to the fundamentals it's really invaluable.
jueneayaa's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
I think this is one of the greatest book ever to become a supreme people with FUTURISTIC way of memorizing something. I found it helpful to plan everything greatly with this book. So, imo if you need type of book which can inspire you through bulding your improvement and expand your brain. This book definetely would help you!
gniok's review against another edition
Read the first 50 pages or so and you'll get all the value the book has to offer. At some point it really started feeling like sloppy high school essay writing, "reiterate what you have already said but word it differently to hit the word count". As others have mentioned, there is no discussion about tags in a book about digital organisation. There's also the over-dependency on the cloud as infallible storage. As someone who lost projects to clouds, keep a hard disk copy of anything you value.
Other than that, enjoy your physical journal too. What the author has neglected to mention is that writing by hand has numerous benefits when it comes to journaling, emotional connection to the words you wrote and it's helpful for remembering stuff long-term too. Plus it's fun as shit to stick your cinema tickets into a notebook.
Other than that, enjoy your physical journal too. What the author has neglected to mention is that writing by hand has numerous benefits when it comes to journaling, emotional connection to the words you wrote and it's helpful for remembering stuff long-term too. Plus it's fun as shit to stick your cinema tickets into a notebook.
flrnz's review against another edition
3.0
Irgendwo Im Buch steht bezogen auf Artikel und Bücher "the quality is not evenly distributed". Passt auch auf dieses Buch.
Hätte halb so lang sein können.
Hätte halb so lang sein können.
jakesutor's review against another edition
5.0
This book is all about, as the author says, “handing over the job of CEO” to our digital, Second Brain, allowing our natural brain to focus on creativity in the forms of finding connections and expressing our knowledge.
This process involves cultivating a system for capturing information (notes apps, read later) in order to immediately capture interesting or surprising information throughout the flow of our days. From there, we want to have a system of organizing these “knowledge building blocks”, or, if created for something that could later be useful, “Intermediate Packets” (think kickoff slide decks or agendas or templates). This organizing system comes in the form of Projects Areas Resources and Archives. Projects are current items, Areas are bigger areas of our lives, Resources are not connected to any of these, and Archives are old items.
After the first 2 steps of CODE, we then take intentional moments during the week to distill our notes into something more useful - add tags, put into folders, highlight and bold. These can often be done during either a weekly review or a monthly review, which also really focuses on re-addressing our priorities and making sure we are still looking at the right items. Finally, Express is all about sharing information - keep all of these steps manageable, and don’t wait for a full day to work on all of it at once.
This process involves cultivating a system for capturing information (notes apps, read later) in order to immediately capture interesting or surprising information throughout the flow of our days. From there, we want to have a system of organizing these “knowledge building blocks”, or, if created for something that could later be useful, “Intermediate Packets” (think kickoff slide decks or agendas or templates). This organizing system comes in the form of Projects Areas Resources and Archives. Projects are current items, Areas are bigger areas of our lives, Resources are not connected to any of these, and Archives are old items.
After the first 2 steps of CODE, we then take intentional moments during the week to distill our notes into something more useful - add tags, put into folders, highlight and bold. These can often be done during either a weekly review or a monthly review, which also really focuses on re-addressing our priorities and making sure we are still looking at the right items. Finally, Express is all about sharing information - keep all of these steps manageable, and don’t wait for a full day to work on all of it at once.
deschatjes's review against another edition
3.0
The only different thing about the recommendations are to organize by project / action rather than subject- for an excellent critique / summary see https://maggieappleton.com/basb and I really wonder why tagging got so little attention & you needed to go to the website & download a supplementary pdf for it?