Introducing the second brain
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The best ideas I’ve had arrived years apart. Rereading my [[Commonplace books]] I saw two of them were the same idea, and [[Slow reading]] explained why.
Write it down. Let it wait.
Linked from 3 notes
Engram noticed these two were related, before I did.
§ 1 — The method
A thought takes two seconds to catch. Hit ⌥Space anywhere on your machine, clip a page from the browser, forward an email, or talk to your phone. Everything lands in one inbox, ready to sort later, or never.
Link notes by typing [[. Engram shows every place a note is mentioned and quietly suggests connections you haven't made yet. No folders to design, no tags to maintain.
Search by meaning, not just keywords. Ask a question in plain language and get an answer with citations from your own notes. Each morning, a few forgotten ideas resurface on their own.
“It’s the first tool that made me feel like my past self was on my team.”
§ 2 — In the margins
Backlinks
See each mention in context, without lifting a finger.
Graph view
Zoom out to find clusters, orphans and the ideas you keep returning to.
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Every answer cites the notes it came from, so you can check the work.
Resurfacing
A small daily digest that spaces out what you'd otherwise forget.
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§ 3 — Rates
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