parents: Personal Knowledge Management

children: What’s in my second brain, Why I open source my second brain


A second brain is a digital system for managing knowledge. It helps us to capture, organize, and connect your thoughts externally.

Why

  • To remember more.
    • Our biological memory is unreliable.
  • To offloads the burden of remembering.
    • This frees up our brain to do what it does best, think and create.
  • To generate ideas.
    • By externalizing our thoughts, we can see them from a new perspective.
    • This helps us to find surprising ideas and links.