Tag: Building A Second Brain

• Why I’m Giving Up on a Second Brain

  

  I never thought I’d type this, but here we are. It’s been a fun ride for the past few years, but I saw the writing on the wall a good while back when I felt compelled to restart my second brain in the first place. I really didn’t want to think it was over, and…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  November 8, 2025

  PKM

  Alternatives to a Second Brain, Antinet Zettelkasten, BASB alternatives, Building A Second Brain, Building A Second Brain Criticism, CODE, Giving up on having a Second Brain, Index cards, life, Niklas Luhmann, Note-taking, Notes, Notion, Obsidian, PARA, PKM, Productivity, Syncthing, Writing

• New Year, New Second Brain?

  

  A new year is at hand! As the autumn ended and the winter arrived, I’ve continued using my three biggest productivity tools in tandem with one another: my bullet journal, second brain, and pocket notebook (which I will refer to here as a memo book to distinguish it from a “full-sized” notebook). Still, when I…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  December 28, 2023

  PKM, Productivity

  2024, BASB, Building A Second Brain, CODE, Intermittent Packs, Linking your thinking, New Year, Obsidian, PARA, Personal priorities, Productivity, Project management, Second brain and bullet journal with pocket notebook, Second brain with bullet journal, Starting a new second brain, Tiago Forte, Too much to archive

• How I Started Building A Second Brain

  

  Welcome back to the Sudo Science Book Club! In this series of posts, I take a closer look at noteworthy books (usually self-improvement) and break down what I’ve learned and implemented from them. For the previous (and first) post in this budding series, take a look at when I joined the 5 AM Club. Although…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  December 13, 2023

  PKM, Sudo Science Book Club

  BASB, book review, books, Building A Second Brain, CODE, Getting started making a second brain, How I started my own second brain, Notion, Obsidian, PARA, PKM, Productivity, Self-improvement book, Tiago Forte