The Supreme Second Brain For Notion

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Philipp Stelzel - Digital Creator
5 min readJul 14, 2022

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Screenshot — Supreme Second Brain Dashboard

A person living today receives more information on a single day than a medieval peasant in her entire lifetime.

To be honest, I have no way to prove this popular statement, but it is undeniable that many persons today suffer from information overload.

We are getting bombarded with new information constantly. Filtering out the essentials and having an efficient note-taking system in place is, therefore, a crucial skill for today’s knowledge workers.

Here, a concept called Second Brain comes into play.

In the last years, it was popularized by the work of Tiago Forte who defines it as follows:

a Second Brain is a methodology for saving and systematically reminding us of the ideas, inspirations, insights, and connections we’ve gained through our experience. It expands our memory and our intellect using the modern tools of technology and networks.

With today’s technology, the job of your brain is not to store information, but rather to produce ideas by finding unconventional connections between ideas you have stored in the past.

Tools like Notion or Roam are allowing you to store an unlimited number of notes and media, while also supporting you in finding them…

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Philipp Stelzel - Digital Creator

Certified Notion Ambassador | Midjourney AI Nerd | Stoic Enthusiast. Check out my new Midjourney course on Skillshare: https://skl.sh/3MLLGda