Second Brain
Chris AldrichSecond brain is a marketing term which stands in for the idea of the original commonplace book. It popped up in the note taking context in early 2017 for promoting the use of commonplace books techniques using Tiago Forte’s expensive online course Building a Second Brain which focused on capturing, organizing, and sharing your knowledge using (digital) notes. It is a platform agnostic method for improving productivity wholly using the commonplace underpinning. … I view the phrase simply as marketing with no additional substance. 1
References
Aldrich, Chris (July 3, 2021). “Differentiating online variations of the Commonplace Book: Digital Gardens, Wikis, Zettlekasten, Waste Books, Florilegia, and Second Brains” boffosocko.com. Retrieved December 19, 2023. ↩︎