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Best practice on Second brain / Note Taking

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Staff Software Engineer [L6] at Google2 months ago

Hi all,

Context on myself: https://www.jointaro.com/question/j3DNfsURCj64oIKzveoA/staff-engineer-to-principal-engineer-mindset-change/

I am inspired by ideology practice on second brain (Tiago Forte). I am trying to prepare good practice on notetaking/knowledge building before I ramp up as E7 at Meta IG RecSys.

In Google, I just use google docs. But I was wondering if tools such as Logseq/ Obsidian / Notion will double my productivity to ramp up quickly as E7.

  • Any anecdotes and tips on leveling up my notetaking with 1:1 / meetings for E7 work at Meta?
  • How about using AI (e.g: Notion AI / ChatGPT)?

Thank you

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    Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
    a month ago

    Claude has a pretty cool workspace feature that effectively acts as an AI second brain: https://www.anthropic.com/news/research

    The thing is I really doubt Meta would let you use an LLM that's primarily funded by a core competitor.

    My advice for Meta is to always be writing/documenting all the time across tasks, meetings, diff context sections, Workplace posts, etc. Check out this related thread: "Tips for someone with poor working memory?"

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    Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
    a month ago

    I started using Notion during the pandemic and it's nice. The main benefit it has over Google docs is that I create a separate page for each day, which gives me more separation rather than an unwieldy doc that eventually becomes 100s of pages.

    I also have a saved template in Notion which captures my daily template:

    • Top priorities today
    • Meetings today
    • Reflections