Today it was time for breakout discussions in @fortelabs' Building a Second Brain course.

In our group, focus was on the knowledge capturing process and ways to easily save notes and highlights in your note-taking system.

Automation is key here.

A thread with tips.

1/ Be critical of what you read and save.

If you have 12 favorite problems (Feynman), you have a filter for what content is worth your attention and saving to your note-taking system.

You only want the highest quality of information in your second brain.

2/ Focus on your five primary sources of information and master them. Wax on, wax off.

Sources can be anything: online articles, webpages, PDFs, ebooks, audiobooks, podcasts, etc.

The key is to organize your capturing workflow around your most common and valuable sources.

3/ How to make most of your information sources?

Make highlights and write notes!

Use:
- Instapaper for articles.
- Kindle for books.
- Zotero + Zotfile for PDFs.
- http://Hypothes.is  for webpages.
- @DescriptApp to transcribe and edit (text-based!) audio.

4/ Make information capture effortless. Automate as much as possible.

Without a central (externalized) endpoint for your notes, it's not likely they will resurface and be of use to you.

Use @Readwise to have all your notes and highlights flow automatically into Evernote.