Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential

by Tiago Forte

To be able to make use of information we value, we need a way to package it up and send it through time to our future self.

This is currently the most popular highlight in the whole book! It was inspired by my love of science fiction, specifically, time travel stories. I think of notetaking as a two-way collaboration across time between your various selves. Your past self is responsible for research and fact-finding, and your future self for distillation and synthesis. If you could send any piece of knowledge or wisdom through time to your future self, what would it be? (Hint: you can!)