Prompts · Personal task management
Build a notes system you actually use
you've saved thousands of notes and highlights, you can't find or use any of them, and you've rebuilt your folders more than once.
Built on
Tiago Forte · 2022
Supplies the filing rule: organize by actionability, not topic. PARA, plus progressive summarization so a note gets more useful each time you touch it.
Sönke Ahrens · 2022
Supplies the deeper fix: highlights aren't notes. Rewrite each idea in your own words and link it, the way Luhmann built a 90,000-slip Zettelkasten.
The prompt
My situation: [describe where your notes live, roughly how many there are, what you've tried, and what you need them for]
Use Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte (2022) and How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens (2022) to help.
Recall any details from the whole book that help, including names, numbers, scenes, or cases that are not the most famous chapter titles.
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