How I Reframed My Digital Life After Reading Building a Second Brain

Hint... it's all about projects not topics

Hi there 👋 I'm Michelle and welcome to Edition 74 of Design Insight. A weekly newsletter for creatives with a focus on design.

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📃 2 Articles

How I Reframed My Digital Life After Reading Building a Second Brain

The article in 3 ideas:

1. I manage my digital data with projects, not topics. This way, I know where things are and where to store them.

2. I created an archive folder for finished projects. This keeps things clean digitally and mentally.

3. My new mantra for note-taking is "how can I make this as useful as possible for my future self?"

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How real people process notes

The video in 3 ideas:

1. “Note-taking is meant to supplement your life, not be a part-time job”.

2. Use a read-it-later service to delay content consumption. When you take time between saving and consuming, you might realize you no longer need that information.

3. Let your interest determine your effort - if you’re starting to lose interest in processing your notes stop and move onto something else.

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Prototyper for Figma ➜

• Bring your design to life with code in Figma.

Dracula UI ➜

• A dark-first collection of UI patterns and components

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Lily Konings @lilykonings

Tiny design detail: nested border radii look really funky if they're the same. To maintain the same curvature, the outer radius = inner radius + padding.

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Michelle

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