How I Reframed My Digital Life After Reading Building a Second Brain

Building A Second Brain by Tiago Forte is an excellent distillation of the methodology of the same name.

This book is up there with Getting Things Done and How To Take Smart Notes for how transformative it was for me.

Here are the 4 ways this book reframed how I manage my digital life:

Way 1: I manage my digital data with projects, not topics

After resisting it for the longest time, I’ve finally embraced the PARA method for managing my digital data.

It didn’t click with me until I watched this video by vaexperience:

Watching that video prompted me to read Building A Second Brain in the first place which in turn led to me reorganizing how I manage my digital data.