Best practice on Second brain / Note Taking

Staff Software Engineer [L6] at Google3 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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Alex Chiou
•Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
3 months 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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  Staff Software Engineer [L6] [OP]
  •Google
  3 days ago
  Hi, it seems that something like Claude research is what I am looking for.
  But I am not sure if you have something that can work with Obsidian? Any thoughts on that?
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Rahul Pandey
•Tech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
3 months 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
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  Staff Software Engineer [L6] [OP]
  •Google
  3 days ago
  Hi Rahul,
  
  Can I get to understand what your templates look like? What exactly are you including from those?
  
  Do you know the best way to have personal assistant on top of these notion meeting notes I have?
  
  Something like Claude research that Alex mentioned will be great (I cannot find info if Notion can be part of the knowledge). Notion AI does not seem to fit the bill