A review by gniok
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential by Tiago Forte

Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.

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.