内容简介

　　你花很多时间读书、上课、学这学那，需要的时候却脑袋宕机，想不起来？

　　电脑、手机、阅读器，你都用，文章、图片、视频，你都看，但总是记了这个、漏了那个？

　　正在执行的项目，有太多数据要整理、太多信息要分类，你找不到头绪也抓不住重点……

　　这样的痛苦，个人知识管理专家蒂亚戈•福特特最清楚。他曾被中学老师评定为“注意力不集中”的学生，也曾在大学三年级因不明疾病而短期失忆、脑力退化，但他在患病的过程中，将厚达数百页的病历和医嘱转化成数字档案，储存于家里的计算机，好随时搜寻、重新整理、加上批注和分享。

　　经疾病磨练后，他练成一套名为第二大脑的数字知识管理系统——你不再须把所有细节记在大脑中，而是将最珍贵记忆、想法与知识储存在第二大脑（你自建的数字知识库，即档案、文件夹或云端硬盘），随需取用，助你完成工作、经营事业、管理生活。

　　具体要如何使用第二大脑呢？福特独创简明且符合直觉的PARA系统，将信息根据用途分成项目（Projects）、领域（Areas）、资源（Resource）和存档（Archives）四大类，以及CODE法则，将整个知识管理过程浓缩为抓取（Capture）、组织（Organize）、提炼（Distill）和表达（Express）四个步骤。

　　跟着福特一步步打造第二大脑，第二大脑将成为你最好的助理，也是最有用的思维工具，使你能够达成渴求的任何目标。

　　作者简介

　　蒂亚戈•福特是世界上最重要的个人知识管理专家之一，他已经向全世界成千上万的人传授了提高个人生产力的原则和最新方法，彻底释放了他们的创造力。

　　他开授的“打造第二大脑”课程在硅谷受到热烈欢迎。

　　各界知识管理大佬（GTD方法的提出者大卫•艾伦、“子弹笔记”的提出者赖德•卡罗尔、一年修完麻省理工四年课程的神奇小子斯科特•扬）一致推崇蒂亚戈•福特的方法。

　　他曾与基因技术公司、丰田汽车公司和美洲开发银行等组织合作，他的文章发表在《纽约时报》《大西洋》和《哈佛商业评论》等知名杂志上。

Content introduction

Do you spend a lot of time reading, taking classes, and learning, but when you need to, your mind is lost and you can't remember?

You use computers, mobile phones, readers, articles, pictures, videos, you read, but always remember this, miss that?

There is so much data to sort through, so much information to sort through, that you can't find the clue or grasp the key points...

Thiago Forte, an expert in personal knowledge management, knows this pain best. He was once rated as a "distracted" student by his middle school teachers and suffered short-term memory loss and mental deterioration in his junior year of college due to an unknown illness, but in the course of his illness, he converted hundreds of pages of medical records and instructions into digital archives that he stored on his home computer so that he could search, reorganize, annotate and share.

After being honed by the disease, he has developed a digital knowledge management system called the Second brain - you no longer have to remember all the details in the brain, but store the most precious memories, ideas and knowledge in the second brain (your self-built digital knowledge base, that is, files, folders or cloud drives), which can be used as needed to help you complete your work, run your business, and manage your life.

How exactly do you use the second brain? Ford's original, simple and intuitive PARA system divides information into Projects, Areas, resources and Archives by purpose, as well as CODE rules. The whole knowledge management process is condensed into four steps: Capture, Organize, Distill and Express.

Follow Ford's steps to build your Second brain, which will be your best assistant and the most useful thinking tool you can use to achieve anything you desire.

About the author

Thiago Ford, one of the world's foremost experts in personal knowledge management, has taught thousands of people around the world the principles and latest methods to increase their personal productivity, unleashing their creativity.

His "Building a Second Brain" course has been warmly received in Silicon Valley.

Knowledge management gurus from all walks of life (David Allen, creator of the GTD method, Ryder Carroll, creator of Bullet Note, Scott Young, the wonder kid who completed a four-year course at MIT in one year) all praise Thiago Ford's approach.

He has worked with organizations such as Genentech, Toyota Motor Corporation, and the Inter-American Development Bank, and his articles have been published in prestigious magazines such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review.