“Do we really need all of that information?” she asks. “It’s tantalizing to consider: the idea that the answers to all of our questions are searchable in our own history and experiences, so long as we’re able to save everything (and arrange it in an orderly manner),” Sophie Haigney writes in The Cut, connecting the idea of building a second brain to the “knowledge-management systems” and “personal-knowledge bases” of the past. According to Fore, a second brain is “a system for knowledge management – a trusted place outside your head to preserve and protect your most valuable knowledge.”įor many, that takes the form of a digital note-taking app.Īlthough Forte says a second brain “isn’t one piece of software,” note-taking apps certainly form the centerpiece of it, acting as a “long-term memory bank where all your important information gets sent for safekeeping,” and is the tool most people initially gravitate towards when building a system for capturing, organizing, and retrieving knowledge.įorte says digital notes apps are “ perfectly suited for the demands of modern work”: they’re “informal and messy,” allowing you to capture ideas and snippets of information quickly they can store different types of media (like text, videos, photos, and audio recordings) and information can be endlessly edited, updated, and adapted for future use. This is Your Second Brain on Note-Taking Apps We can move through life confident that we will remember everything that matters, instead of floundering through our days struggling to keep track of every detail.” “By offloading our thinking onto a ‘second brain,’ we free our biological brain to imagine, create, and simply be present. “How many brilliant ideas have you had and forgotten? How many insights have you failed to take action on?,” he asks. Just think about how many thoughts, to-dos, and reminders you’ve written down over years, only to forget about them. “Without a little extra care to preserve these valuable resources,” Forte argues, “our precious knowledge remains siloed and scattered across dozens of different locations.” That’s where building a second brain comes in.īuilding a second brain, popularized by productivity expert Tiago Forte’s course and book of the same name, is an antidote to the overwhelming amount of information we encounter in modern life.Įvery day, we take in thousands of articles, podcasts, webinars, books, and conversations that form the basis of our knowledge.īut it’s increasingly difficult to capture, store, organize, find, and use information when it matters. If only we had the brainpower to remember and make sense of it. Stand by for a full interview with him on his company's plans for iPhone and other mobile platforms.That’s the sad, simple truth: try as you might, you’re always bound to forget a few things.Įvery day, our brains encounter reams of information that could fill a hard drive. "The launch of Facebook Connect for iPhone tomorrow is revolutionary for the mobile games industry," Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstrale tells. All three games will be fully optimised for Apple's touchscreen devices. Playfish has also announced that it's bringing two more of its Facebook games to iPhone and iPod touch by Summer: Word Challenge and Geo Challenge. It was Playfish's first game on Facebook, and has been played by more than 15 million people there, with a current monthly active player base of nearly 4.2 million people. The iPhone version is a premium title, costing £2.99 here in the UK. What that means is players sign in using their Facebook login details, and can then compete against their friends on the social network. UK social games firm Playfish is launching its brain training game Who Has The Biggest Brain? on the App Store with full Facebook Connect functionality. Having broken the news that Facebook Connect was live for iPhone games earlier today, with Tap Tap Revenge 2 and iBowl, we can now reveal another iPhone title using the technology.
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