数字笔记：构建第二个大脑 作者：Tiago Forte（书籍摘要）Digital Notetaking: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte

Digital Notetaking: Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte (Book Summary) 数字笔记：构建第二个大脑 作者：Tiago Forte（书籍摘要）

About Building a Second Brain (BASB) 关于构建第二大脑 （BASB）

“When youtransform your relationship to information, you will begin to see the technology in your life not just as a storage medium but as a tool for thinking. Like a bicycle for the mind, once we learn how to use it properly, technology can enhance our cognitive abilities and
accelerate us toward our goals far faster than we could ever achieve on our own.”
“当你改变与信息的关系时，你将开始将生活中的技术不仅视为存储介质，而且视为思考的工具。就像心灵的自行车一样，一旦我们学会了如何正确使用它，技术就可以增强我们的认知能力，并加速我们实现目标的速度远远超过我们自己所能实现的速度。

What is a Second Brain?什么是第二大脑？

• “Think of your Second Brain as the world’s best personal assistant.”
  “把你的第二大脑想象成世界上最好的私人助理。
• “Think of it as the combination of a study notebook, a personal journal, and a sketchbook for new ideas. It is a multipurpose tool that can adapt to your changing needs over time.”
  “把它想象成学习笔记本、个人日记和新想法的素描本的组合。它是一种多用途工具，可以适应您随着时间的推移不断变化的需求。
• “Your Second Brain is always on, has perfect memory, and can scale to any size. The more you outsource and delegate the jobs of capturing, organizing, and distilling to technology, the more time and energy you’ll have available for the self-expression that only you can do.”
  “你的第二大脑总是开启，有完美的记忆力，可以扩展到任何大小。你越是将捕获、组织和提炼的工作外包和委托给技术，你就越有时间和精力来表达自我，而这只有你能做到。
• “Second Brain” is also known as: “Personal cloud,” “field notes,” “external brain,” “extended mind,” “digital archive,” “digital garden,” “digital commonplace book,” “Zettelkasten” (meaning “slip box” in German, coined by influential sociologist Niklas Luhmann), “Memex” (a word invented by American inventor Vannevar Bush).
  “第二大脑”也被称为：“个人云”、“田野笔记”、“外部大脑”、“扩展思维”、“数字档案”、“数字花园”、“数字普通书”、“Zettelkasten”（德语中意为“滑盒”，由有影响力的社会学家尼克拉斯·卢曼创造）、“Memex”（美国发明家范尼瓦尔·布什发明的一个词）。

The BASB system will teach you how to:BASB系统将教您如何：

• “Find anything you’ve learned, touched, or thought about in the past within seconds.”
  “在几秒钟内找到你过去学到、触摸或思考过的任何东西。”
• “Organize your knowledge and use it to move your projects and goals forward more consistently.”
  “组织你的知识，并用它来更一致地推进你的项目和目标。
• “Save your best thinking so you don’t have to do it again.”
  “把你最好的想法保存下来，这样你就不必再做一次了。”
• “Connect ideas and notice patterns across different areas of your life so you know how to live better.”
  “将你生活不同领域的想法和模式联系起来，这样你就知道如何更好地生活。
• “Adopt a reliable system that helps you share your work more confidently and with more ease.”
  “采用可靠的系统，帮助您更自信、更轻松地共享工作。”
• “Turn work ‘off’ and relax, knowing you have a trusted system keeping track of all the details.”
  “关闭工作并放松，知道您有一个值得信赖的系统来跟踪所有细节。”
• “Spend less time looking for things, and more time doing the best, most creative work you are capable of.”
  “花更少的时间寻找东西，多花点时间做你能做的最好、最有创意的工作。

Why a digital notetaking app? 为什么选择数字笔记应用程序？

• Multimedia: “Just like a paper notebook might contain drawings and sketches, quotes and ideas, and even a pasted photo or Post-it, a notes app can store a wide variety of different kinds of content in one place, so you never need to wonder where to put something.”
  多媒体：“就像纸质笔记本可能包含绘图和草图、引用和想法，甚至是粘贴的照片或便利贴一样，笔记应用程序可以在一个地方存储各种不同类型的内容，所以你永远不需要想知道把东西放在哪里。
• Informal: “Notes are inherently messy, so there’s no need for perfect spelling or polished presentation. This makes it as easy and frictionless as possible to jot things down as soon as they occur to you, which is essential to allow nascent ideas to grow.”
  非正式：“笔记本质上是凌乱的，所以不需要完美的拼写或抛光的呈现。这使得你尽可能容易和无摩擦地记下事情，一旦你想到了事情，这对于让新生的想法成长至关重要。
• Open-ended: “Taking notes is a continuous process that never really ends, and you don’t always know where it might lead. Unlike more specialized kinds of software that are designed to produce a specific kind of output (such as slide decks, spreadsheets, graphics, or videos), notes are ideal for free-form exploration before you have a goal in mind.”
  开放式：“做笔记是一个持续的过程，永远不会真正结束，你并不总是知道它会导致什么。与旨在生成特定类型输出（如幻灯片、电子表格、图形或视频）的更专业的软件不同，笔记非常适合在你确定目标之前进行自由形式的探索。
• Action-oriented: “Unlike a library or research database, personal notes don’t need to be comprehensive or precise. They are designed to help you quickly capture stray thoughts so you can remain focused on the task at hand.”
  以行动为导向：“与图书馆或研究数据库不同，个人笔记不需要全面或精确。它们旨在帮助您快速捕捉杂念，以便您可以专注于手头的任务。

Second Brain Stages: 大脑第二阶段：

• “The first way that people tend to use their Second Brain is as a memory aid. They use their digital notes to save facts and ideas that they would have trouble recalling otherwise: takeaways from meetings, quotes from interviews, or the details of a project, for example.”
  “人们倾向于使用第二大脑的第一种方式是作为记忆辅助。他们使用他们的数字笔记来保存他们很难回忆起来的事实和想法：例如，会议的要点、采访的引述或项目的细节。
• “The second way that people use their Second Brain is to connect ideas together. Their Second Brain evolves from being primarily a memory tool to becoming a thinking tool.”
  “人们使用第二大脑的第二种方式是将想法连接在一起。他们的第二大脑从主要的记忆工具演变成思维工具。
• “Eventually, the third and final way that people use their Second Brain is for creating new things. They realize that they have a lot of knowledge on a subject and decide to turn it into something concrete and shareable. Seeing so much supporting material ready and waiting gives them the courage to put their own ideas out there and have a positive impact on others.”
  “最终，人们使用第二大脑的第三种也是最后一种方式是创造新事物。他们意识到他们对一个主题有很多知识，并决定将其变成具体和可共享的东西。看到这么多支持材料准备就绪并等待，让他们有勇气将自己的想法付诸实践，并对他人产生积极影响。

Second Brain Superpowers: 第二种大脑超能力：

• Make our ideas concrete: “Before we do anything with our ideas, we have to ‘off-load’ them from our minds and put them into concrete form. Only when we declutter our brain of complex ideas can we think clearly and start to work with those ideas effectively … Digital notes aren’t physical, but they are visual. They turn vague concepts into tangible entities that can be observed, rearranged, edited, and combined together.”
  让我们的想法具体化：“在我们用我们的想法做任何事情之前，我们必须将它们从我们的脑海中’卸载’出来，并将它们具体化。只有当我们整理大脑中复杂的想法时，我们才能清晰地思考并开始有效地处理这些想法…数字笔记不是物理的，但它们是视觉的。它们将模糊的概念变成可以观察、重新排列、编辑和组合在一起的有形实体。
• Reveal new associations between ideas: “In its most practical form, creativity is about connecting ideas together, especially ideas that don’t seem to be connected … By keeping diverse kinds of material in one place, we facilitate this connectivity and increase the likelihood that we’ll notice an unusual association … In our Second Brain we can do the same: mi