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

by Tiago Forte

The solution is to keep only what resonates in a trusted place that you control, and to leave the rest aside.

This one little sentence distills so much trial and error I had to do. I spent so much time trying to follow elaborate rules and strict checklists to help me decide what to save in my notes. Ultimately, my fear of not saving the “right” things came from not trusting myself. Once I started to put faith in my intuition about what was insightful, interesting, and novel, I found that my decision became very clear: keep what resonates, and discard the rest.