# How to Organise Your Life - Building a Second Brain  ## About - Author: Ali Abdaal - Title: How to Organise Your Life - Building a Second Brain - Tags: #articles - URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-ssUVyfn5g ## Highlights So often, if I'm on a train journey, I'll just bust out the iPad, I'll open up Apple notes and I'll just think, okay, what are some thoughts I've had in the last week thatI just want to write down?And one of the learnings that I've picked up over the last couple of years is reallyrecognising that my own perspective is actually quite valuable.And now that I'm, for example, writing a book, I'm coming across thoughts that I saved intomy note system a year ago, two years ago, and thinking, oh, this thought was actuallypretty reasonable, and this could actually form the basis of a few paragraphs or evena whole book chapter. --- So the next step of the code framework is organised.Now the idea here is now that we've captured all this stuff into this big-ass inbox, wenow want to organise it in some capacity.Now, the wrong way, as Tiago says, the wrong way to organise notes is in terms of whereyou found them.So people will be tempted to be like, I want to have a book notes folder.I want to have a podcast notes folder.I want to have a lesson notes folder.And the problem with that is that it's just not particularly useful.Unless you decide one day, I just want to happen to look through my book notes, you'reprobably not going to look through your book notes, because we don't have that much timein our lives to revisit the stuff that we once thought was useful. Instead, what Tiago suggests, and he talks about it extensively in the book, which kindof gives a whole system for this, is to organise things by actionability.Where will I potentially use this information? - Note: Useful way to flip the idea of organising --- But one of the things that the course taught me, and he talks about this in the book aswell, is the idea of slow burns.What you can do is work on multiple projects in parallel.So right now, I've got about eight video ideas that I'm slowly tinkering with and workingon.I've got various book chapters that are in various stages of completion. ---