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You have to keep a dozen of your favourite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or red a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”— Richard Feynmann My brain has two modes: the conscious “frying pan” of my attention and the unconscious “slow cooker” of my s...

A quick conversation with other newsletter creators reveal that most of them spend about 5-8 hours on their weekly newsletters each week. Thanks to Building a Second Brain, I’ve cut that time down to 4 pain-free hours maximum. Here are a couple of notes on my process before we get into the walkthoughs: I like to split each part up into different days. I tend to start my Monday newsletter on Friday mornings, Saturday mornings, or Sunday mornings. Specifically, curating and outlining are ideall...

For an updated version of this article, check out this post: “How to Use Readwise to Get Notes and Highlights into Evernote”. My main capture workflow is Hypothes.is/Instapaper/Twitter -> Readwise -> Evernote. Thanks to Readwise after I highlight something or add a note, they automatically go into my Evernote’s “Readwise” notebook. From there I can move notes into other notebooks and they would still sync with any future updates and highlights. Note that you’ll need a Readwise Full memb...

In the past few months I've gone through almost every note-taking app out there. I also wrote this article for College Info Geek a while back. But since then, my criteria for a note-taking app has changed. It's not just about the writing experiece anymore. It's about personal knowledge management. In this post, I'll be using the 3-step personal knowledge management framework that Tiago Forte lays out in his Building a Second Brain course to outline how I use Evernote's features. Capture - how ...