

Part 3: Building the infrastructure of your second brain - CODE and PARA.

But when you understand networked thinking, the disadvantages of using folders for personal knowledge management become clear. Building a second brain in Mem is different than in any other application because there are no folders.

Part 2: What makes building a second brain in Mem different. Part 1: The Second Brain Methodology: Before you can create a second brain in Mem, you need to understand what a second brain is, what it does, and how it works with your first brain. This guide is divided into five sections: The reason I mention all of this is to give you an idea of what's possible when you use Mem often enough. What used to take hours now takes minutes what used to take over a month now takes a few days. Using Mem has enabled me to write blog posts, create courses, and finish projects at a pace that I've never before been able to attain and sustain. I spend 70% of my day in Mem and have more than 7000 notes stored in my account, ranging from project plans to podcast transcripts, blog posts to ideas for books. And I wanted that knowledge to be more accessible so I could do something with it. For years my brain has felt like a disorganized encyclopedia of all the things I've learned. I've interviewed over 1000 people, read over 1000 books, and published four of them myself. Hi – I'm Srini Rao, host of The Unmistakable Creative Podcast and creator of Maximize Your Output with Mem. Welcome to a guest post by Srini Rao, explaining how he has used principles from author Tiago Forte to build his own second brain in Mem.
