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Building A Second Brain V5.1 – Tiago Forte

• What to expect : schedule, roadmap, format, communication, and the 3 pillars of the course
• Our objective: to learn how to use digital notes as thinking tools — to capture, organize, and retrieve our ideas and insights
• What is Personal Knowledge Management , and why does it matter?
• Why organization and collaboration are the missing links in creative knowledge work
• Evaluate your knowledge management skills across 11 dimensions of performance and confidence (with post-course evaluation to measure your progress)

Unit 2 is about organizing for insight.

• Review the 8 requirements for a universal digital organizational system
• Understand the subtle but important difference between short-term projects and ongoing areas of responsibility
• Feeling unorganized? Deploy the P.A.R.A. method to organize all your digital information across multiple platforms
• Discover why almost no one has an effective Project List (a dashboard of current commitments) and how to fix it step by step, with feedback and guidance
• Banish information overload using Magic Number 4 : a helpful constraint to preserve your working memory
• Hone your ability to scale your attention at different horizons using actionability gradients
• Update and clarify your Project List , and use it to organize your files across all platforms using the P.A.R.A. method

The third unit is Digital Cognition.

• Use the 4 essential requirements for digital note-taking to help you evaluate and select a digital note-taking program
• How to amplify the single biggest opportunity for making new connections without expending more time and effort: productive randomness
• Stigmergy : practical lessons on productivity from the study of emergence
• How to utilize the under-appreciated power of incubation : heavy lifts vs. slow burns
• What the Feynman Method can teach us about “punching above our intellectual weight”
• Find out how the best note-takers build intellectual capital using compounding gains
• Transform raw material into knowledge ammunition: how to use digital notes to form valuable bodies of knowledge for a side project, career advancement, or new business
• Identify your personal research and learning priorities using the Feynman Method, as a filter for incoming information

The fourth unit is called Progressive Summarization.

• Understand the pros and cons of tagging-first, notebook-first, and note-first database designs
• Become skilled at balancing discoverability and understanding to increase the return-on-investment of your note taking
• Don’t have time for reading and research? Apply Progressive Summarization to surface key points for later review
• Strategic laziness over rigid rules: note-taking strategies that leverage human nature, instead of fighting it
• How to design individual notes for “glanceability” and recognition over recall
• Moving from “black box” knowledge management to a Personal Information Landscape
• Avoiding the perils of problem definition: balancing compression vs. context
• Practice Progressive Summarization on one of your notes

The fifth unit is Maximizing Return-on-Attention.

• Explore the hard science of transient hypofrontality : how to maximize mental states of flow for performance, enjoyment, and learning
• Understanding the impact of setup and transaction costs (environmental, mental, and emotional) on productivity
• How to create intermediate packets : exposing your personal value chain for rapid feedback and learning
• Become interruption-proof : placeholding, chunking, and modular deliverables
• Understand the relationship between small batch sizes, quality, learning, and experiences of flow for knowledge workers
• Wresting with knowledge: why interacting with information is so much more effective than consuming it
• Encoding variability : how to externalize your thinking and accelerate your learning using different types of media
• Turn one of your notes into a new deliverable designed to generate valuable, targeted feedback

Unit 6 is just-in-time project management.

• Learn Just-In-Time Project Management : a pull system for managing reference materials and executing on deliverables
• Why you should think of workflow as strategy , and apply solutions to specific problems
• Divergence and convergence : use design thinking to escape any dead-end
• Choose from among 16 proven workflow strategies , with examples, case studies, and downloadable templates
• Banish procrastination using the Archipelago of Ideas approach to new projects
• Mood-based productivity : using fast cycle time, opportunistic tagging, and active sorting to maintain motivation and leverage unique states of mind
• How to generate novel insights and valuable deliverables using personal design sprints
• Using universal design principles (affordances, signifiers, constraints, mappings, and feedback) to plan the structure of your work
• Select and try out 3 of the 16 workflow strategies on one or more of your projects or deliverables

Unit 7 of the PKM is a canvas.

• Step-by-step walkthrough to complete our proprietary PKM Workflow Canvas , an evolving map of your personal knowledge management system
• Review your notes from all the previous units to select the techniques you will integrate into your workflow
• Summarize your main learnings from the course, as a checklist and reminder for future projects
• Visualize the map of your personal knowledge management system , in a physical artifact that can be improved over time
• Get feedback on further areas for improvement , based on the exercises you completed in the course
• In-depth case study of using PKM to rapidly plan and execute a Forte Labs client project
• Complete your PKM Workflow Canvas with the tools, techniques, and strategies you’ve selected and customized for your needs

Unit 8: The big picture.

• Container vs. stream thinking : changing paradigms for a world of information abundance
• Understand why situational awareness and curation are the key skills required to navigate streams of information
• Learn how to strengthen creative confidence by identifying and overcoming limiting beliefs around your productivity, thinking, and learning
• Realize the full potential of digital notes : integrating P.A.R.A. Progressive Summarization Workflow Strategies into your daily routine
• The future of productivity and personal knowledge management

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