Tag: Second Brain
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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…
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Omnivore: A Read-It-Later App I Actually Want to Use

UPDATE: As much as I liked using Omnivore, this page didn’t age too well. As of November 2024, Omnivore is shutting down, which will prompt me to continue my search for an alternative. Switching jobs sometimes requires moving out of where you live, further than you expected. Moving can also be expensive, expensive enough to…
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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…
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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…
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Bullet Journal & Second Brain – Making Them Work Together

The Bullet Journal: The Beginning of My Journey It was around January of 2022 when I really paid attention to the Bullet Journal. It seemed like a tremendous tool to bolster my personal productivity and keep my life organized. What’s so unusual is that I had heard about the system in passing a few years…
