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Dig inside YouTuber and medical student Elizabeth Filips' uptodate Second Brain Notion system to discover the productivity apps and notetaking philosophies that fuel her prolific creative output.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Elizabeth: "Our main brain is not meant for storing information"
00:34 Tiago: "So, your whole Second Brain is one page?"
00:50 CAPTURE
00:55 Pen & Paper "It's awful and not sustainable"
01:05 Books "Start with books"
01:11 Readwise "It's the ultimate app"
01:34 Kindle "It's easy and highlightable"
01:42 Instapaper "It's like your own curated newspaper"
02:05 Twitter "I hated it before"
02:19 Air "I don't really like it"
02:28 Elizabeth's Book Reading Strategy
02:31 Kindle "Super informationdense book"
02:41 Audio Only "Fluffy books"
03:23 Apple Notes "Art is a good thing to capture"
04:14 Elizabeth's Task Management
04:33 Google Calendar "I'm not very rigid with these"
04:48 Elizabeth: "I've accepted that I've a very poor memory but, I'm a very passionate person"
05:07 ORGANIZE
05:10 Readwise Inbox Raw highlights from sources
05:32 Notion "Only the important things will go here"
05:55 The Zettelkasten Method
06:47 Tiago: "The digital equivalent of an index card"
07:08 Progressive Summarization "My favorite thing in the world"
07:40 Turning reading cards into personalised note cards
08:46 Elizabeth's Second Brain Overview "This will need a bit of explaining"
08:59 Topics of Interest "Life, design, yourself, mental frameworks, emotions..."
09:27 Create a Strong Statement "A straightforward Life is Depressing"
10:00 How to Separate Information "I didn't do any mental gymnastics here"
10:26 The 3 C's "Connected, contradictory and, crazy"
12:08 "This was the only thing I couldn't adopt from Building a Second Brain"
12:35 Elizabeth's Numbering Notetaking System
13:48 What's Elizabeth’s Notetaking Style?
13:58 How to figure out your own notetaking style...


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Host: Tiago Forte
Guest: Elizabeth Filips @elizabethfilips