## Value prop ### One liner Capture information to draw insights where you would not have been able to before. ### Short version The goal of this, is to show that you (as a knowledge worker) constantly have information flowing through you. Some of it "sticks" but most of it just passes right through you. This system is meant for you to capture more not for the sake of capture, but to be able to draw insights on seemingly disparate knowledge that you would have been able to before using this system. ### Paragraph As a knowledge worker, you have a constant stream of information coming at you in the form of reading books, articles, podcasts and videos. You believe that you are absorbing this information like a sponge and able to recall those insights later when needed. This is only partially true, like a sponge your brain has a limited capacity at which point you'll let valuable information fall to the wayside. So to reframe the first sentence, you constantly have a stream of information that is being forgotten from all the books and articles you have read, podcast you've listened to and videos you have watched. That, to me, is frightening because I try very hard to consume high-quality content and that only leads to high quality forgotten ideas. ## Terms - Incoming knowledge - sourced from several inputs - interesting or somehow useful - referential (we need it later) - Knowledge inputs - Streams of knowledge to be assimilated into the 2nd brain - e.g. Books, Articles, Comments, Conversations - Knowledge units - Actual pieces of knowledge that are stored into the 2nd brain - Associated to other pieces of knowledge (linked) - can be 1 or many pieces of knowledge (ideas or concepts) - Tags - Links to associated units, concepts, ideas, people, books (references) - Personal utility: your projects, your categories that you care about - Idea - Single unit of knowledge (atom) - e.g. "atoms are the indivisible physical structures of the universe" - Concepts - Relation of ideas to create a new knowledge - associations between ideas - e.g. "ideas are to concepts like atoms are to molecules" - Not so much about the individual components, more of the linkage of concepts - 2nd brain - The database of personal knowledge - Query-able for new insights on the edges between knowledge units - organized by: projects, categories, areas of interest, goals ## Process TODO Diagram  To effectively build your personal library of knowledge, you will need some sort of mental model of how information flows through your system. Here is an overview of how raw information gets to be collected into your PKM System: 1. [[Identifying Knowledge Inputs]] 2. [[Streaming Information into a PKM System]] 3. [[Reviewing Zettels]] 4. [[Extract Insights, Content and Ideas]] #### What are my tools Properties: Reading w/ streaming. Surfing w/ streaming. Talking w/ stream. ##### What is my flow for tool A Rules by input: When reading do XYZ ### What do I get out of this #### How do I query the 2nd brain #### How do I use the 2nd brain to generate insights, new information, new content