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Tiago Forte's blog is dedicated to exploring the frontier of modern productivity. New essays, guides, and case studies every week.

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2026 20

  1. How I Write a Book: The 7-Stage R&D Process Behind Life in Perspective
  2. What 18 Years of Annual Reviews Taught Me: A Live Q&A
  3. Sold a Story: How We Failed to Teach Kids to Read
  4. Introducing AI Second Brain Meetups
  5. What I’ve Learned from 4 Years of Hosting Mastermind Retreats
  6. The AI Second Brain Is Back: What’s New for Cohort 2
  7. Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AI
  8. Operation Gallavant: An Overlanding Journey Through Latin America
  9. Is Recall the Second Brain for the AI Era?
  10. Introducing the Alumni Mentor Corps
  11. The Ultimate Guide to Claude Connectors
  12. What I’ve Learned From Selling 500,000 Books
  13. The History Beneath My Feet: Two Years in Valle de Bravo
  14. 5 Questions to Help You Navigate Uncertainty
  15. Why PARA Is the Key to the AI Era
  16. Groundbreakers 2: Seeking the Heart of Fear
  17. Introducing The AI Second Brain
  18. How to Create Your Own Luck: 5 Easy Practices
  19. The Difference Between Claude Code and Cowork
  20. My 2025 Annual Review

2025 20

  1. The Book I’ve Been Waiting to Write for 15 Years
  2. What I’ve Learned From 20 Years of Goal-Setting
  3. Beyond Acceptance: The Transformational Journey of Applying to Grad School (or Anything Else)
  4. Boundary Intelligence: Why What You Can Access Matters More Than What You Know
  5. 3-Year Update: A Financial Analysis of My Book’s Unit Economics
  6. A Guide to the Claude 4 and ChatGPT 5 System Prompts
  7. The Voice-Only Mid-Year Review: Testing the Limits of ChatGPT Voice Mode
  8. A Brief History of the Annual Review
  9. Finding Perspective at the Edge of the World: 10 Days in Antarctica
  10. Mushroom Trip: My First Experience with Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
  11. Life and Death on a Scorched Planet: What I Learned From “The Heat Will Kill You First”
  12. My 4-Stage System for Learning Anything New
  13. How a Small Mexican Town Became My Template for the Ideal Place to Live
  14. What J Dilla and Early Hip-Hop Teach Us About AI and the Future of Creativity
  15. Introducing Death Clock (And My First Experience with Vibecoding)
  16. Productive Disorder: The Hidden Power of Chaos, Noise, and Randomness
  17. My Time in Eastern Ukraine: A Story of Beauty, Community, and Hope
  18. The Death of Goals
  19. My 2024 Annual Review
  20. The Analog Productivity System: Journaling for Every Season of Life

2024 27

  1. Rediscover Your Year: A Cheat Sheet for Reflecting with the Help of Tech
  2. A Quest for Self-Knowledge: From Self-Help to Somatic Healing (Part IV – My 7 Principles for Personal Development)
  3. A Quest for Self-Knowledge: From Self-Help to Somatic Healing (Part III – Awakening My Body)
  4. A Quest for Self-Knowledge: From Self-Help to Somatic Healing (Part II – Feeling My Heart)
  5. Reflections on Our First In-Person Second Brain Summit
  6. A Quest for Self-Knowledge: From Self-Help to Somatic Healing (Part I – Opening My Mind)
  7. The Road to 300,000 Subscribers: A YouTube Retrospective
  8. Building a Second Brain – The TV Show
  9. Unspeakable Pain: A Personal Journey Through Psychosomatic Illness
  10. The 10 Most Transformative Books on Personal Development I’ve Read
  11. VidCon 2024: 8 Takeaways on How YouTube and the Creator Economy Are Changing
  12. How Your Projects Shape Who You Are
  13. Did My Bestselling Book Turn Out to Be a Financial Failure?
  14. Rewriting My Financial Story: How I Healed My Relationship with Money
  15. Digital Attention Spans: AI as a Source of Infinite Patience
  16. The Creative Power of Procrastination
  17. New Book, New Strategy: The 7 Main Things I’m Doing Differently for the Annual Review Book
  18. Will Artificial Intelligence Replace the Need for Second Brains Entirely?
  19. Launching Building a Second Brain in Brazil and Mexico
  20. Introducing the Second Brain Summit
  21. Why We’re Moving to Valle de Bravo, Mexico
  22. The Ultimate Guide to Storing, Managing, and Enjoying Your Photos
  23. The 5-Year Journey of Publishing Building a Second Brain
  24. The B2B Education Frontier: Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Corporate Training
  25. Tiago Forte’s Annual Reviews
  26. A Journey Between Worlds: The Story of My Ayahuasca Experience
  27. My 2023 Annual Review

2023 33

  1. Test-Driving a New Generation of Second Brain Apps: Obsidian, Tana, and Mem
  2. Announcing Pillars of Productivity: The Blueprint for Modern, Digital Productivity
  3. The Crucial Difference Between Beginner and Advanced Advice
  4. How to Implement PARA in Your Favorite Notetaking App
  5. How to Choose Your Second Brain App
  6. When You Should Switch Your Second Brain App (And When You Shouldn’t)
  7. What It’s Like to Hire a Speaking Coach: Discovering the Power of Spontaneous Self-Expression
  8. Surviving the Post-Pandemic Slump: How We Recovered From an 87% Drop in Profit
  9. Organize Your Bookmarks with the PARA Method for Lightning Fast Web Browsing
  10. How to Create an AI Style Guide: Write With ChatGPT in Your Own Voice
  11. Bring Building a Second Brain to Your Organization
  12. The 6 Pillars of Our Book Promotion Strategy
  13. The Last 100 Exercise: How I’m Delegating 85% of My Work
  14. 5 Surprising Insights From My First Mastermind
  15. What’s in Your Meaning Portfolio?
  16. The Financial Reality of a Traditionally Published Book – a Complete Breakdown
  17. The 5 Pillars of My Writing Process
  18. The Rise of Prediction Factories: How AI Allows Us to Replace Rules with Decisions
  19. Beyond Perfection: How AI Unleashes Creativity by Lowering Our Standards
  20. The Extended Mind: Reimagining the Nature of Intelligence
  21. How to Summarize Books Using ChatGPT: 7 Experiments in AI Distillation
  22. The Project Management of a Bestselling Book
  23. Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Introductory Guide
  24. The Making of a Bestseller: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at the Creation of Building a Second Brain
  25. 100,000 Copies Sold: My Long-Term Goals for the Building a Second Brain Book
  26. Team Knowledge Management: How to Use PARA in Your Organization
  27. The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds
  28. How We Saved $27,000 in Two Weeks: Cost-Cutting in a Creator-Led Business
  29. How I Used Amazon Reviews to Predict Sales of My Book
  30. A Single Creative Project Can Change the Trajectory of Your Life
  31. Inventing the Digital Filing Cabinet
  32. Why I Will No Longer Teach Building a Second Brain
  33. My 2022 Annual Review

2022 84

  1. Remixing Religion: The Dawn of Personalized Spirituality
  2. Nonprofit Productivity: Leveraging Software to Shape Your Career
  3. Bullet Journal: The Difference Between Our First & Second Brain
  4. The Origins of Personal Knowledge Management | Dr. Jason Frand
  5. How to Capture Ideas Like a Pro | The Pinkcast
  6. All Things Second Brain | Productivityist
  7. The Business of Building a Second Brain | Conscious Creators Show
  8. Building a Second Brain to Organize Your Digital Life | All the Hacks Podcast
  9. My Favorite Favorite Problems
  10. How to Thrive in a World of Uncertainty
  11. How To Build A Second Brain | Anthony Pompliano
  12. How Favorite Problems Evolve: A Case Study
  13. Amplify Your Thinking Ability With Open Questions
  14. How to Generate Your Own Favorite Problems: A 4-Step Guide
  15. 12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions
  16. Everything Is Information | What Is Money Show with Robert Breedlove
  17. Growing a Sustainable Business & Living a Life of Service | The Build In Public Podcast
  18. The 1-Percent Rule for Capturing the Best Information | Smart Passive Income Podcast
  19. Why Building a Second Brain Is a Proven Method | Transform Your Workplace Podcast
  20. The Future of Personal Knowledge Management | Timothy Kenny Podcast
  21. The Power of an 80 Second Spark | The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
  22. Building a Second Brain to Free Our Minds | Beyond the To-Do List Podcast
  23. It Didn’t Start With You: How to Understand and Heal from Intergenerational Trauma
  24. Notetaking, Investing, and Gaining A Knowledge Edge | The Upgraded Brain Podcast
  25. What I Learned From The Bullet Journal Method
  26. How I Found My Creative Medium | Converge Podcast
  27. Ranking Our Biggest Productivity App Predictions | Keep Productive
  28. Organizing the LEGOs In Our Minds to Build the Ultimate Version of Ourselves | Unrivaled Man Podcast
  29. Becoming a Thought Leader and Creating a Million-Dollar Course | Build Your Thing Podcast
  30. ​​Why I’m Becoming a YouTuber
  31. Why the Most Successful People Sharpen Their Memory Power | CNBC OpEd
  32. The True Meaning of a Knowledge Worker | The Shaun Tabatt Show
  33. The Story Behind Building a Second Brain | Google Talk
  34. Tiago’s Ultimate Guide to Traditional Book Publishing
  35. The Power of Offloading Knowledge | The Small Business Radio Show
  36. Why a Second Brain Transcends Software | Free Time Podcast
  37. The Psychological Toll of Writing a Book
  38. How to Deal With Information Overwhelm | Modern Wisdom Podcast
  39. Moving Beyond Self-Improvement | Interintellect Supersalon With Visakan Veerasamy
  40. Project People vs. Area People: Are You Running a Sprint Or a Marathon?
  41. The True Meaning of Productivity | Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
  42. How to Create a Knowledge Library | Art of Manliness Podcast
  43. How to Get More Out of Digital Notetaking | Goop
  44. Free To Learn: Curiosity, Playfulness, Sociability, and the Human Nature of Education
  45. Why We Should Build a Second Brain | Secrets of Success with Bill Horan
  46. How to Sustain Behavior Change | Creator Lab Podcast
  47. How a Second Brain Is Relevant to Cryptocurrency and Web3 | Coin Central
  48. How to Organize Your Life | Ali Abdaal
  49. How Lego Relates to Digital Notetaking | Conversations About Collaboration With Phil Simon
  50. The Motivation Behind Building a Second Brain | Focused Podcast
  51. The Purpose of Building a Second Brain | Katu TV Portland
  52. How to Not Get Overwhelmed in the Information Age | Hello Monday Podcast
  53. A Life of Creativity, Teaching & Service | The Danny Miranda Podcast
  54. Final Book Update: Building a Second Brain Is Out in the World
  55. How to Organize the Creative Process | Nobody Told Me! Podcast
  56. The Full Tour of Tiago Forte’s Apps & Workflow | Keep Productive
  57. The Difference Between Our First and Second Brain | Bullet Journal
  58. The Evolution of My Second Brain | Anne-Laure Le Cunff
  59. Notetaking As a Tool for Personal Development | Scott Young
  60. The 4 Notetaking Styles: How to Choose a Digital Notes App as Your Second Brain
  61. Peeking Into People’s Second Brains: 6 Videos to Inspire Your Second Brain Setup
  62. Book Update #8: Turning Up The Heat 3 Weeks to Launch
  63. Divergence and Convergence: The Two Fundamental Stages of the Creative Process
  64. How Building a Second Brain Became a Thriving Cohort-Based Course | Creative Elements Podcast
  65. Why Every Coach Needs to Build a Second Brain. Now | Propane Fitness Podcast
  66. 12 Steps to Build a Second Brain
  67. Why I’m Becoming an Official Advisor to Maven
  68. Build A Second Brain To Maximize Productivity and Creativity | The Louis & Kyle Show
  69. The Untethered Soul: The Roadmap of My Personal Growth – Part 4
  70. The Untethered Soul: The Roadmap of My Personal Growth – Part 3
  71. Book Update #7: Reflections on a New Season
  72. The Untethered Soul: The Roadmap of My Personal Growth – Part 2
  73. The Untethered Soul: The Roadmap of My Personal Growth – Part 1
  74. Creator to Company: How to Make the Shift from Solo Creator to a Team
  75. What’s New in Building a Second Brain 14
  76. The Case for Brazilian Online Education
  77. Why I’m Not a Christian: A Testimony of Losing Faith
  78. How to Build Your Personal Productivity Stack
  79. Book Update #6: Publishing deals in China and Taiwan
  80. Case Study: How the Second Brain Meme is Going Mainstream
  81. Building a Second Brain: The 10-Year Vision
  82. The Building a Second Brain Sharing Guide
  83. The 4 Identities of a Teacher: Reporter, Expert, Mentor, Role Model
  84. The Yoga of Eating: Food as a Source of Information

2021 50

  1. My 2021 Annual Review
  2. The New Building a Second Brain: Brand Reveal
  3. Tiago’s Favorite Second Brain Quotes
  4. Forte Labs Operating Principles
  5. Becoming Superhuman: Unlock Your Productive Potential with Email
  6. Book Update #5: Our first international book deal – the United Kingdom & India
  7. Book Update #4: You showed up – book sales are taking off!
  8. My Book Building a Second Brain is Open for Pre-Orders!
  9. Book Update #3: The Goal That Took Me 15 Years to Achieve
  10. Book Update #2: Manuscript in Production
  11. Building a Second Brain 13: The 9 Biggest Improvements We’re Making
  12. Podcast Time Travel: What I Learned From Listening to 100 Episodes of the SPI Podcast
  13. Building a Second Brain 13: The Founders
  14. Intermediate Packets in the Wild
  15. Dan Charnas on Working Clean: An Interview on the Power of Mise en Place
  16. Tiago Forte on the Mindvalley Podcast: 4 Powerful Tools to Boost Your Productivity
  17. Second Brains in the Wild
  18. What do you call your Second Brain?
  19. Octavia Estelle Butler: Notetaking as Science Fiction
  20. Second Brain Case Study: Sleep Training an Infant
  21. The Godfather Notebook
  22. Forte Labs Director of Content
  23. Tiago’s 2021 Mid-Year Review
  24. The Box: Twyla Tharp on Project-Based Organizing
  25. Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean
  26. Building a Second Brain in Miro
  27. Artificial Time
  28. Productivity is a Phase: The Four Stages of Personal Growth
  29. Teachable Workshop: How to Take Digital Notes with Tiago Forte
  30. My interview with David Duncan, Author of The Secret Lives of Customers
  31. Book Update #1: Popularizing the Second Brain
  32. Why I’m Investing in Maven
  33. The 9 Biggest Myths and Misconceptions about Building a Second Brain
  34. Building a Second Brain: The Executive Edition
  35. Building a Second Brain Podcast Season 2: The 9 Biggest Myths and Misconceptions
  36. The 8 Biggest Improvements in Building a Second Brain 12
  37. Building a Second Brain 12: The Belters
  38. Why I’m Investing in Circle
  39. Welcome to Renaissance 2.0
  40. Paranoid Productivity
  41. Inner Limits: Why You’re Not Getting More Out of Journaling
  42. The Future of Education is Community: The Rise of Cohort-Based Courses
  43. Superhumans at Work Podcast: Tap Into the Power of Your Second Brain
  44. The Forte Labs Customer Journey: Behind the Scenes of a Full-Stack Education Business
  45. Bacon-Wrapped Business: Buying and Selling Online Courses
  46. My Interview with Nathan Barry on The Art of Newsletters
  47. Introducing the VIEW Workshop
  48. The Modern Swipe File: 15 Unexpected Uses for Digital Notes
  49. My New Book: Ways of Knowing
  50. Why I’m Investing in SchoolHouse

2020 68

  1. Windows of Opportunity: A Fleeting Chance at the Impossible
  2. The Annual Review Workshop 2021
  3. My 2020 Annual Review
  4. The Second Brain Manifesto
  5. The Dawn of Personal Documentaries: Democratized Storytelling in an Age of Narrative Disruption
  6. My Interview on Noah Kagan Presents: Behind the Scenes of a $5,000,000 Online Productivity Course
  7. Announcing the Praxis Fellowship
  8. Tiago’s 21 Notes for Documentary Filmmaking
  9. How I Made a Documentary Film with Digital Notes
  10. Knowledge Building Blocks: The New Meaning of Notes
  11. My Complete Gear Kit for Filming a Personal Documentary
  12. Launching Your Book
  13. Writing the Book
  14. Negotiating Your Contract
  15. The Ins and Outs of Offers
  16. Finding an Agent and Publisher
  17. KM Brasil: Construindo um Segundo Cérebro [Portuguese]
  18. How to Be Productive Working from Home (Without Going Crazy)
  19. I’m speaking at Teachable’s “Share What You Know” Summit
  20. Video Series: Tiago Learns Roam
  21. Why I Organize Areas in PARA with a Taxonomy of Functional Areas
  22. The 4 Levels of Personal Knowledge Management
  23. Second Brain Week: A Free Workshop Series from Top Experts and Creators
  24. The Ultimate Guide to Summarizing Books: How to Distill Ideas to Accelerate Your Learning
  25. The 10 Biggest Changes We’re Making to Building a Second Brain
  26. Introducing Forte Shelter
  27. Interview with Kent Sisco of Speare
  28. Introducing Building a Second Brain 11: Idea Inception
  29. Feminine Energy: What Productivity is Missing
  30. Time Budgeting: What I’ve Learned from Doing 364 Weekly Reviews
  31. Wayne Lacson Forte: On My Way To Me [Documentary Film]
  32. Tiago Forte on the Sources & Methods Podcast
  33. Crafting a Book Proposal
  34. Praxis is Joining the Everything Bundle
  35. Interview with Oliver Sauter of Memex
  36. The 5 Stages of Building a Second Brain
  37. Project-Based Learning: Designing a Capstone Project
  38. Tiago Forte on the Everything is Teachable Podcast
  39. The One-Touch Guide to Doing a Weekly Review: How I Go From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Minutes
  40. The Automation of Note-Taking and the Just-In-Time Future of Work
  41. Own Your Writing Platform
  42. Evaluating Your Book Idea
  43. The Complete Guide to Landing a Book Deal
  44. The Lifecycle of a Profitable Online Course
  45. How To Work Effectively With A Personal Assistant, with Tim Francis
  46. Interview on the Talk of Today Podcast with Sam Barton
  47. Latinos Who Tech: How to Become a Digital Nomad with Lauren Valdez
  48. I Got a Book Deal for Building a Second Brain!
  49. The New Forte Labs Website
  50. The Building a Second Brain Podcast
  51. Webinar: You Need a Second Brain Now, with Rich Schefren and Tiago Forte
  52. Live Q&A on Cohort 10 of Building a Second Brain
  53. Progressive Summarization with PDFs
  54. Progressive Summarization for Clinical Notes
  55. Online Workshop: How to Take a Digital Note, with Tiago Forte
  56. Virtual Workshop with Srini Rao: Transform Information into Wisdom with Progressive Summarization
  57. Interview and Q&A with Sönke Ahrens on How to Take Smart Notes
  58. How to Prepare for the Coronavirus in Six Steps
  59. Saving and Organizing Resources in Notion, by Marie Poulin
  60. Tiago’s Comprehensive Guide to Creating a Profitable Online Course
  61. Version 10 of Building a Second Brain
  62. Video Interview: Eclectic Spacewalk with Tiago Forte
  63. Comparing Frameworks for Self-Development: A Conversation with Joe Hudson
  64. Notion As A Second Brain: Video
  65. How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing
  66. The Heart is the Bottleneck
  67. Groundbreakers: My Journey Healing Trauma, Unleashing Anger, and Awakening the Vagus Nerve
  68. My Goals for 2020

2019 94

  1. The 10 Paradoxes of Entrepreneurship
  2. My 26 Favorite Essays of 2019
  3. Opensourced: Increasing The Output of The World’s Creative Professionals
  4. Decoding Superhuman Podcast: Distributed Cognition with Tiago Forte
  5. Interview with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder of Roam
  6. Superorganizers: Inside the Mind of a Productivity Master
  7. Notion as a Second Brain Tour
  8. Making Knowledge Work Visible
  9. Black Friday Promotion: Last Chance to Join Building a Second Brain
  10. Introducing Forte Academy
  11. The Creative Process Workshop
  12. Zen Courses Podcast With Janelle Allen
  13. Why Now is the Time to Build A Second Brain: 7 Trends Driving the Note-Taking Revolution
  14. From Coach to Business podcast
  15. Real World Productivity Podcast with Adam Moody
  16. Curious Humans with Jonny Miller
  17. Ask-Me-Anything with Khe Hy of RadReads
  18. North Star Podcast: Tiago Forte on the Future of Online Education
  19. The Forte Labs Community
  20. The Forte Academy 8 Pillars of Education
  21. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma (Book Summary)
  22. Building a Second Brain at Knowledge Conf 2019 (Russian)
  23. Interview with Billy Broas
  24. Organizing Ideas Using Machine Learning
  25. Topic Discovery Using Machine Learning
  26. Second Brain Case Study: Using Digital Notes for Stand-Up Comedy
  27. Live Q&A – Building a Second Brain Live Cohort
  28. Announcing the Second Brain Week of Reflection
  29. The Digital Productivity Coach
  30. Email Boss: My Top Learnings from an Online Course Accelerator
  31. Famous Failures with Tiago Forte
  32. Tiago Forte’s Origin Story
  33. Venture Stories Podcast with Erik Torenberg
  34. On Purpose Podcast with Alex Beadon
  35. The Case for First-Brain Memory
  36. Announcing Building a Second Brain Version 9, Kicking Off Oct. 2
  37. Don’t Set New Year’s Resolutions – Create Reusable Components
  38. Servant Hedonism: My Life Philosophy
  39. Public Libraries: Our Last Stand for Social Infrastructure
  40. Libraries in the Digital Age: A Case Study in Equipping Librarians with the Tools of Idea Management
  41. Modern Wisdom Podcast: The Definitive Guide To Digital Productivity
  42. How to Build a Second Brain, with Tiago Forte
  43. How to Use and Master Your Second Brain in 2019, by Tiago Forte at ProdCon
  44. What It Feels Like to Have a Second Brain
  45. The 10 Principles of Building a Second Brain
  46. Pleasure as an Organizing Principle
  47. Building a Second Brain Workshop, at Collective Academy Mexico City
  48. Interview with Paul Millerd, Founder of Boundless U
  49. Zion 2.0 Podcast with Collin Morris: “Designing Your Reality”
  50. Crazy Wisdom Podcast, with Stewart Alsop III
  51. How to Build a Second Brain in Notion, by Maria Aldrey
  52. Summer of Learning 2019 Live Q&A
  53. What Makes Building a Second Brain Different
  54. The Building a Second Brain Chain of Beliefs
  55. The Punk Strategy Guide to the Logical Thinking Process
  56. Announcing the 2019 Summer of Learning
  57. The Story Behind Building a Second Brain
  58. Adapting to PARA using GitLab
  59. Introducing the Forte Labs OneNote Resource Guide
  60. Top 10 Things I Learned from Chimp Essentials
  61. Real Magick Deconstructed (Interview with Chloe Good)
  62. My Top 10 All-Time Most Popular Articles
  63. The BASB Customer Persona
  64. My interview on the Justin Brady Podcast
  65. My interview on the Mindhack Podcast: Finding the Achiever’s Mindset
  66. Superhuman: The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made
  67. How Emotions Are Made: The Theory of Constructed Emotion
  68. 5 Things I Learned From the Anti-Book Club
  69. Interview with Timothy Kenny, #1 Productivity Instructor on Udemy
  70. Using Notion as Your Second Brain
  71. Crafting a Book Proposal: The Onboarding Questionnaire
  72. Get Yourself Optimized Podcast: The Secret Weapon of the Highly Productive with Tiago Forte
  73. Second Brain Case Study: Building a Second Brain in Higher Education
  74. Announcing Write of Passage
  75. Second Brain Case Study: UX Designer at Adobe
  76. My 10-Step Book Publishing Strategy
  77. The Case for Traditional Book Publishing
  78. Building a Second Brain: A 45-Minute Presentation
  79. The Four Pathways of Modern Book Publishing
  80. The 7 Benefits of Building a Second Brain
  81. The Future of RandomNote (Seeking Developers!)
  82. Behind the Scenes of a Profitable Online Course
  83. Interview with Toby Sola, Co-Founder of Brightmind
  84. The Free Agent Ecosystem
  85. Building a Second Brain: Premium Edition
  86. Second Brain Case Study: Citation Management in Academia
  87. A Vision for Escola Pura
  88. Commonplace Books: Creative Note-Taking Through History
  89. The Secrets of Bundles (Virtual Workshop)
  90. Introducing RandomNote Web
  91. The Power of DWYSYWD (Doing What You Said You Would Do)
  92. Second Brain Case Study: How a GTD Master Trainer Uses PARA
  93. A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management
  94. The Official Second Brain Note Template

2018 93

  1. Announcing The Annual Review New Year’s Bundle
  2. Building a Second Brain: Version Notes
  3. Second Brain Case Study: Progressive Summarization as Religious Experience
  4. Second Brain Case Study: PARA and Habit Formation in Argentina
  5. The Structure of Information Revolutions
  6. A Productivity Expert’s Guide to Working with a Virtual Assistant
  7. The Enrolling Pitch: How To Structure And Deliver A Pitch That Sells, with Julia Beauchamp
  8. Interview with Weihaur Lau of Created Living, on Health and Wellbeing for Conscious Leaders
  9. 10 Things I Learned as a VA with Tiago
  10. Tide Turners: A Workshop on Using Business to Fuel Spiritual Awakening
  11. MESA Part 5: The Future of Work That MESA Envisions
  12. The Ecommerce Influence Podcast: Why You Should Stop Organizing And Build A Second Brain
  13. MESA Part 4: The Origins of MESA
  14. The 60 Inventions that Shaped Information Technology
  15. Interview with David Nebinski on the Portfolio Career Podcast
  16. PARA for Teams
  17. MESA Part 3: The Art of Unlocking People’s Creative Potential
  18. Desktop Zero: An Experiment on Clearing My Digital Workspace
  19. Just-in-Time PM #21: Workflow Strategies
  20. MESA Part 2: The 10 Principles of Work Sprints
  21. The Maker’s Guide to Content Curation, Part 2: The 7 Pillars
  22. The Maker’s Guide to Content Curation, Part 1: Open-Sourcing Your Learning Process
  23. The Complete Guide to Saving Your Kindle Highlights
  24. Science Fiction Books I’ve Read
  25. Interview with Readwise Founders
  26. Tiago’s Life Goals
  27. Os 5 Passos Para se Tornar uma Máquina de Produtividade (Interview in Portuguese)
  28. A Maker’s Ethos in the Era of Networked Attention
  29. The Essential Requirements for Choosing a Notes App as Your Second Brain
  30. Introducing the MESA Method: Creating the Ideal Work Experience
  31. The Design of a Weekly Review
  32. The Forte Labs Staff Retreat, 2018
  33. Emergent Strategy: Organizing for Social Justice
  34. The Personal Narrative Vision
  35. New Book: Extend Your Mind
  36. The Case for Digital Notes
  37. The 5 Challenges of Becoming a Digital Nomad
  38. You Need a Budget: 13 Parallels Between Money and Productivity
  39. Why I’m Moving to Mexico
  40. The Future of Ebooks
  41. Second Brain Case Study: Progressive Summarization in the Intelligence Community
  42. Progressive Summarization VI: Core Principles of Knowledge Capture
  43. Interview with Khe Hy on Rad Awakenings: The Privilege of Sharing Knowledge
  44. Hostwriting with Michael Fogleman
  45. A Conversation with Ryan McCarthy of the Global Kindness Initiative
  46. One Taste of Orgasmic Meditation
  47. The Digital Productivity Pyramid
  48. Just-In-Time PM #20: Speed as a Capability
  49. Just-In-Time PM #19: Explosive Inspiration
  50. Just-In-Time PM #18: Motivational Waves
  51. Impact Cycles: Finding the Why Beyond the How
  52. Riding the Writing Wave: How to Improve Your Writing, Get Rid of Writer’s Block, and Accelerate Your Output
  53. Just-In-Time PM #17: States of Mind
  54. Just-In-Time PM #16: Effective ROA
  55. Just-In-Time PM #15: Multithreading
  56. Personal Sprints: Applying Design Thinking to Your Life
  57. Just-In-Time PM #14: Personal Productivity Networks
  58. Just-In-Time PM #13: Component Thinking
  59. Just-In-Time PM #12: Just-In-Case to Just-In-Time
  60. Just-In-Time PM #11: Late Starts on the Critical Path
  61. Just-In-Time PM #10: Structure, Features, and Purpose
  62. Just-In-Time PM #9: Placeholders
  63. Just-In-Time PM #8: Divergence and Convergence
  64. Just-In-Time PM #7: Interaction Over Consumption
  65. Just-In-Time PM #6: Evolving Deliverables
  66. Just-In-Time PM #5: The Iron Triangle
  67. Just-In-Time PM #4: Intermediate Packets
  68. Just-In-Time PM #3: Flow Cycles
  69. Just-In-Time PM #2: The Fundamentals of Flow
  70. Case Study: Creating an Online Course, with Lauren Valdez
  71. Just-In-Time Project Management: A Digital-First Framework for Modern Projects
  72. Anatomy of a $20k Webinar
  73. A Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind
  74. Visualizing the Theory of Constraints with Mini Metro
  75. Why I’m Leaving Medium
  76. Reading 2.0, Part I
  77. Trekonomics: The Economics of Post-Scarcity
  78. Praxis Anti-Book Club Instructions
  79. Live Webinar: Build A Six-Figure Service-Based Business Without Trial and Error
  80. Wardley Mapping Workshop
  81. Second Brain Case Study: How I Write Long-Form Blog Posts
  82. Praxis Anti-Book Club version 2.0
  83. My interview on the Buddhist Geeks Podcast
  84. Progressive Summarization V: The Faster You Forget, The Faster You Learn
  85. Beyond the Orange Curtain — Adventures of an Orange County Kid in South America
  86. A Skeptic Goes to the Landmark Forum
  87. Building a Second Brain in One Tweet
  88. Interview on the Super Power U podcast
  89. Case Study: Alex Hardy’s Successful Quest to Conquer Inbox Zero
  90. My interview on the Metalearn podcast
  91. Announcing: The Praxis Anti-Book Club
  92. Second Brain Case Study: Teaching Progressive Summarization in an Undergraduate Classroom
  93. The Annual Review is a Rearchitecture

2017 41

  1. Progressive Summarization IV: Compressing All Types of Media
  2. Masters of Creative Note-Taking: Luhmann and Da Vinci
  3. Progressive Summarization III: Guidelines and Principles
  4. This Is Product Management Podcast Interview
  5. Progressive Summarization II: Examples and Metaphors
  6. Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes
  7. Supersizing the Mind: The Science of Cognitive Extension
  8. Building a Second Brain in Emacs and Org-Mode
  9. The Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer, Part II: The Stack
  10. A Productivity Expert Goes to Burning Man
  11. The Monthly Review is a Systems Check
  12. Press, Reviews, Articles, and Case Studies on Building a Second Brain
  13. The React Productivity Revolution
  14. From Multitasking to Multiplexing: 5 Steps to Building a Personal Productivity Network
  15. The Topology of Attention
  16. First Principles of Workflow Design: Interview with Khe Hy and Tiago Forte (Part II)
  17. Second Brain Case Study: Researching and writing a 10,000-word academic article
  18. The Unmistakable Creative Podcast: Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain
  19. Introducing Praxis Vol. 1: Design Your Work
  20. The World Beyond Your Head: How Distraction Shapes Who We Are
  21. The Inner Game of Work: Focus, Desire, and Working Free
  22. Strategically Constrained: How to Turn Limitations Into Opportunities
  23. Live Interview at Evernote HQ: Habit Formation and Behavior Change
  24. Able Business Radio: Podcast Interview with Tiago Forte
  25. Testimonials for Building a Second Brain
  26. The Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer
  27. North Star Podcast: David Perell and Tiago Forte, on Designing a Better Life
  28. A Manifesto of Human-Centered Work
  29. Evernote Podcast Interview Part II: Tiago Forte on Productivity, Provocation, and Layering…
  30. Praxis Town Hall #1: A 6-Month Retrospective
  31. The Weekly Review is an Operating System
  32. Evernote Podcast Interview: Tiago Forte’s Approach to Productivity
  33. Mood as Extrapolation Engine: Using Emotions to Generate Momentum
  34. Breaking Paradigms: Khe Hy interviews Tiago Forte
  35. Theory of Constraints 111: Elevating the Constraint
  36. Theory of Constraints 110: Subordinating Non-Constraints
  37. A Theory of Unlearning: Ecstasis, Anamnesis, Kenosis
  38. Getting Things Done + Personal Knowledge Management
  39. The Throughput of Learning
  40. The Future of Online Learning: STEVEs (Short Tiny Exclusive Virtual Experiences)
  41. Bending the Curves of Productivity

2016 19

  1. Theory of Constraints 109: Optimizing the Constraint
  2. The Secret Praxis Master Plan
  3. Theory of Constraints 108: Identifying the Constraint
  4. Theory of Constraints 107: The Five Focusing Steps
  5. Theory of Constraints 106: DBR at Microsoft
  6. Theory of Constraints 101: Table of Contents
  7. Theory of Constraints 105: Drum-Buffer-Rope
  8. Theory of Constraints 104: Using Time to Control Work-in-Process
  9. Theory of Constraints 103: The Four Fundamental Principles of Flow
  10. Theory of Constraints 102: The Illusion of Local Optima
  11. Theory of Constraints 101: Applying the Principles of Flow to Knowledge Work
  12. Meta-Skills, Macro-Laws, and the Power of Constraints
  13. Experimental Habit Formation
  14. The Holy Grail of Self-Improvement
  15. Immersion. Experimentation. Leverage.
  16. Emergent Productivity
  17. Productivity for Precious Snowflakes: a Mood-First Approach to Knowledge Work
  18. My interview on the Emerge Podcast
  19. A Review of Cal Newport’s Deep Work

2015 10

  1. One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email
  2. A Conversation with David Allen on Quantifying Productivity
  3. How to Use Evernote for Your Creative Workflow
  4. Design-Driven Productivity
  5. What I Learned in 7 Years of Tracking Gratitude
  6. A Crash Course in Culture Design
  7. The Habit Graph
  8. Tagging is Broken
  9. What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books, Part II
  10. What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books

2014 3

  1. What’s Wrong with “Productivity”
  2. The Top 5 Misconceptions Keeping You From Creating an Online Class
  3. 10 Days of Vipassana