Tag: PARA

• 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

• Combine Your Second Brain with Zettelkasten

  

  I’m already approaching an entire year of using my current second brain for my personal knowledge management. In case anybody doesn’t remember, I stopped using my old one because it became so bloated with information that didn’t quite matter to me. Instead of scrapping the idea altogether, I decided I just wanted a fresh start…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  December 27, 2024

  PKM, Productivity

  Analog and digital, Antinet Zettelkasten, BASB, Content maps, Easy Zettelkasten, How-To, Niklas Luhmann, Note Taking, Notecard drawers, Notecards, Obsidian, PARA, PKM, Productivity, Second Brain, Sherlock Holmes, technology, Templates plugin for Obsidian, Tiago Forte, Tutorial, Writing, Zettelkasten system, Zettelkasten vs Second Brain

• 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

• Why I Stopped Using My Second Brain (and What I Did to Fix It)

  

  I haven’t been updating as much as I normally would have, but I can assure I’m not dead, thankfully. Rather, I’ve only been busy with a few other obligations as of late, and those have eaten up my time I would otherwise use for writing here. But despite my recent attempts at time blocking, I…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  October 21, 2023

  PKM

  archives, How I started using my second brain again, Note Taking, Obsidian, Obsidian Sync, PARA, PKM, Productivity, Second Brain, Time blocking, Why I stopped using my second brain

• Pretty, Powerful, Productive: My Obsidian Power User Setup

  

  Personal Knowledge Management (or PKM) is such a useful and vital skill in today’s modern world, and I’m certainly not the first person to centralize the things I do want to track in one convenient, easy-to-navigate place. Of course, I don’t happen to focus everything into the second brain I’ve created (that’s why I also…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  April 17, 2023

  Linux, PKM, Productivity

  CODE, Community Plugins, Customization, Hotkeys, How-To, Keyboard Shortcuts, Linux, Notes, Notion, Obsidian, PARA, PKM, Plugins, Productivity, Ricing, Roam Research, Second Brain, Setup, Tutorial