2022-07-01
Building a Second Brain
- In the middle of reading this book, I realized that the term Digital Brain, Second Brain, Digital Garden, and PKM are used interchangeably, they are not quite the same.
- I have organized them in the following manner.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Second Brain | Implementation for augmenting your thoughts. |
| Digital Garden | Implementation for documenting your knowledge. |
| PKM | Architecture for Digital Garden. |
| PARA | Architecture for Second Brain. |
- Digital Brain is a digitally implemented Second Brain.
| Second Brain | Digital Garden |
|---|---|
| Project-oriented | Knowledge-oriented |
| Notes are in Britannica Style | Notes are in Wikipedia Style |
| Allows foldering | Prohibits foldering |
| Allows archiving | Prohibits archiving |
| Focuses on managing different projects that grow into a creative garage | Focuses on creating and tending Evergreen notes posts that grow into a knowledge base |
I like the CODE Procedure in PARA architecture as a project management system, which does more than PKM. To be exact, PKM only takes care of the Resource section in PARA.
Interesting Webs
How we think about browsers
- GitHub plans to switch to ES2020 with optional chaining and nullish coalescing.
- This will reduce 10kb in JavaScript.
- Most GitHub users use fairly up-to-date browsers.