CODE: capture, organize, distill, express

CODE breaks down into these aspects:1

  1. Capture
    • external knowledge
    • internal ideas and realizations
    • criteria
      • inspirational
      • useful
      • personal
      • surprising
  2. Organize
  3. Distill
    • Four layers
      1. Captured notes
      2. Bolded passages
      3. Highlighted passages
      4. Executive summary
    • Mistakes
      • Over-highlight
      • Highlight without a purpose in mind
      • Make highlighting difficult
  4. Express
    • Retrieval methods
      1. Search
      2. Browse
      3. Tags
      4. Serendipity

  1. Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (Atria Books, 2022). ↩︎

Note last edited December 2023.
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