Glossary Second Brain
Second Brain
Also known as:
building a second brain, basb, personal knowledge managementProductivityMethodologyOrganization
Definition
Tiago Forte's name for an external, digital system for what you know — captured, organized, distilled, and expressed — so that memory is not the bottleneck
PARA is its filing method; the CODE loop (capture, organize, distill, express) is its practice. GTD handles what you have to do; a second brain handles what you know, and this site is one.
What this digital garden is an instance of. The notes, resources, and reference here are the organized layer; the guides and writing are the expressed one; the glossary is a distillation that happens to be public.
The term is Tiago Forte's, from his book Building a Second Brain (2022); PARA is its filing method.