Hi there,

Thanks so much for joining the Forte Labs newsletter!

To hold you over until the next edition, I want to share my top 10 most popular articles with you. (They’ve collectively been read by more than a million people!)

1. ​The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information: A guide to PARA, a method for organizing your digital life across all the platforms you use, and leveraging the information you have access to to reach your goals.
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2. ​Building a Second Brain: An Overview: A summary and overview of my online course Building a Second Brain, in which I teach people how to use digital notes as a Second Brain that remembers everything for them.
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3. ​Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes: Discover how you can systematically distill the notes you’ve saved into nuggets of actionable wisdom.
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4. ​How To Take Smart Notes: 10 Principles to Revolutionize Your Note-Taking and Writing: In this book summary, I’ll share the 10 most important principles for taking “smart” notes according to Sönke Ahrens, including a detailed, step-by-step description of his method.
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5. ​One-Touch to Inbox Zero: How I Spend 17 Minutes Per Day on Email: A step-by-step guide to streamlining your email workflow, which will save you hours every week and consistently take you to "inbox zero."
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6. ​The 4 Notetaking Styles: How to Choose a Digital Notes App as Your Second Brain: I’ll guide you through choosing the perfect notetaking app for you, taking into account your personal notetaking style.
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7. ​The One-Touch Guide to Doing a Weekly Review: How I Go From Chaos to Clarity in 30 Minutes: An intro to the simple weekly habit that can radically improve your productivity.
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8. ​How to Build Your Personal Productivity Stack: I'll introduce you to the four functions of a modern “Productivity Stack” and show you how you can use each piece of software in it better.
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9. ​12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions: This technique, adapted from Nobel-prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, will help you curate your inputs and generate better outputs.
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10. ​The 4 Levels of Personal Knowledge Management: This is a self-evaluation of your PKM proficiency. It describes the most common path of improvement I’ve seen in our Building a Second Brain students.

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Happy reading!
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Best,

Tiago
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P.S. I wanted to make sure that you can dive into our best content right away. But I also want to introduce myself properly so we don’t feel like strangers.

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