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Tiago Forte: Building a Second Brain (Hardcover, 2022, Atria Books) 4 stars

For the first time in history, we have instantaneous access to the world’s knowledge. There …

I liked this book a lot more than I thought I would! I was really resistant to it at first since I have spent a lot of time making my files conform to the Johnny Decimal system, but I think this form of note taking and organization makes a lot of sense. The real lightbulb moment for me was the fact that your notetaking space should be a working / thinking space, not a storage space. I know that that’s something that should be obvious after reading so much stuff about Zettelkasten, but I thought this was the first time I was really thinking about dynamic file structures as an important component to thinking and working. Really highly recommended!