Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
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Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
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#2This is very well done. I've taken BASB and this does a fantastic job covering all the main points.
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#3That’s an awesome illustration. I always wonder how much value people get from BASB
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#4I'd never heard of BASB until this post, but it seems so much more useful than the usual type of content about "zettelkasten" and such. Those seem so focused on the mechanical actions you take and not enough on the steps towards getting value from your notes.
Is there a book form of BASB, or is it a course only?
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#5Firstly, thanks to the author for taking such time and care with the illustrations.
However, by way of contrast to many of the other comments on here, I found this particular explanation quite unhelpful, both in terms of the presentation communicating the idea as well as the parts of the idea that I was able to glean.
It’s probably an individual thing, but I don’t want to combine things into projects, and I certainly Don’t want to go down the route of having a folder structure.
Having recently converted my somewhat-organised notes into a Zettelkasten workflow, I have been amazed by the freeing nature of the medium. The core of my method is simple markdown files that can be easily written without the aid of any software. I have had fun building a significant amount of automation around the notes - building a traversable and plottable graph, implementing backlinking, templating and that sort of thing, but it is purely assistive and not necessary.
Some sibling comments make the point that BASB seems to be more of a complete theory, where as a Zettelkasten is a method alone. Here, I humbly beg to differ. It is the simple and mechanical nature of the Zettelkasten that frees the mind from the burden of too much information.
This is obviously an individual preference, but I think I’ve found the method that suits me.
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#6A tangential point. I didn’t go through this article in detail, but I loved the illustrations so much that I ended up looking at a few other articles by her (Maggie Appleton). As someone who fails at Pictionary with very crude drawings, there’s something about those illustrations that’s simple, eye catching and admirable. I’m feeling envious.
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#7Firstly, thanks to the author for taking such time and care with the illustrations. However, by way of contrast to many of the other comments on here, I found this particular explanation quite unhelpful, both in terms of the presentation communicating the idea as well as the parts of the idea that I was able to glean. It’s probably an individual thing, but I don’t want to combine things into projects, and I certainly…
What tools do you use for your workflow? Is there a write up that you have done on it (or you have followed)?
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#8I've basically built a version of this with trello, the butler addon, and some custom code to use custom fields to rank cards.
have a been toying around with productizing this.
let me know if you're interested
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#9I'd never heard of BASB until this post, but it seems so much more useful than the usual type of content about "zettelkasten" and such. Those seem so focused on the mechanical actions you take and not enough on the steps towards getting value from your notes. Is there a book form of BASB, or is it a course only?
The book deal was signed Apr 14 with Atria Books which is an imprint of Simon & Schuster. I couldn't find any info on an expected publication date.
https://fortelabs.co/blog/book-deal-for-building-a-second-br...
Re: Illustrated Notes for “Building a Second Brain”
#10Firstly, thanks to the author for taking such time and care with the illustrations. However, by way of contrast to many of the other comments on here, I found this particular explanation quite unhelpful, both in terms of the presentation communicating the idea as well as the parts of the idea that I was able to glean. It’s probably an individual thing, but I don’t want to combine things into projects, and I certainly…
I was curious about that as well. For notes or thoughts that don't fall into a specific project, I wouldn't know where to put them.