Creating an Ultimate Second Brain in Notion - Full Step-by-Step Tutorial

welcome to today's video tutorial on creating second brain using notion and the Chiago 4day par method in this video I will guide you through the process of setting up your second brain template

organizing your information effectively and optimizing your workflow let's get started first let's understand what a second brain is and how the power method can help us manage our knowledge and

information more efficiently a second brain is a digital system designed to capture organize and retrieve information effec L the par method

developed by Chiago Forte stands for projects areas resources and archive it's a framework that helps us categorize and structure our information

to make it easily accessible when needed before we proceed let's create database page this page will contain all of the database that we want to create later on

now let's dive into creating the necessary databases for our second brain and explore how they relate to each other we'll start by setting up the area's database where we'll categorize

our information based on different domains or areas of Interest delete this property because we don't need it let's add the first row with personal

area we can create default template for the new area that we want to add if we create this default template every time we add new area the icon and format will

be the same next we can add a Select Property this will allow us to select what type of area it is whether it is personal business or school

add media property so we can upload the cover image for each areas we can add checkbox property to Archive areas when it is not relevant

anymore let's upload image for this personal area continue to add other relevant areas as you want for now let's leave this database as it

is and we will revisit this again later onto Ed relations and functionality next let's create projects database projects represent a collection of purposeful

tasks each with a specific deadline serving as the means to effectively attain your goals to make it clear areas are at the top of this system followed

by project and tasks projects consist a series of tasks delete this property because we don't need it let's add some projects here

as usual create default template for new project now a date property for the start and youre date of the project let's add status property to determine

the status of the project whether it is Inbox planned in progress or completed we can add more projects if you want leave this project database as it is we

will come back to this database later to add more functionality to enhance our productivity we'll create a task database to manage our Todo lists and

track out progress on specific projects let's set a sample task and create default template for the new task add date property for the due date of the task

next add checkbox property to tick when the task is completed add the text property to add description to our specific task if needed

we can also add URL property if some tasks need to refer to some website links for now leave this task database as it is next we'll create the resources

database this is where we'll store articles books links and other reference materials that are relevant to our areas and projects resources can be associated

with specific projects or areas making it easier to find information when we need it now let's set a sample resource as usual create default template to make

it easier when we add new resource next let's add other properties such as status resource type URL media and description e

add checkbox property to differentiate between resources which are f it or not add another checkbox property to set whether the resource is still relevant

or not if the resource is not relevant anymore we will move it into archive e again let's leave this database as it is next we'll set up a notes database to

capture and store out detailed notes and thoughts we can link notes to relevant projects areas or topics creating a network of interconnected knowledge

add status property to determine the status of the note whether it is still in box draft or final next add a created time and last edited time

property add checkbox property for favorite and archived notes let's continue to create notebook database this notebook will contain series of relevant

notes e lastly we'll also create a topics database to organize our notes and resources based on specific subjects or topics this will enable us to easily

locate and retrieve notes related to specific areas or projects e next to make our database become functional let's set up relation between

database add relation property and choose Project's database to create relation between tasks and its respective project assign the tasks to its related

project next add relation for resource and notes now go to the project database and let's add some relations first let's create relation

between projects and its related areas next let's create progress bar to show the completion progress of each project add roll up property then select task

it will show the percentage progress of each project in this case the progress is still 0% because none of the tasks is complete or checked the progress column of learned Spanish and python project is

blank because we haven't assigned task to them next let's add other relation for notes and resources e

now on the area's database at relation for notes and resources next we move on the resource database let's add relation with topic database

this will enable to categorize the resource with related topics let's go to the notes database and did relation with notebooks this will allow

the relevant series of notes to be collected in The Notebook next let's continue with other remaining database for notebooks and topics now that we have our databases

set up up let's create a dashboard and navigation menu to provide easy access to our second brain's various sections the dashboard will serve as our Central hub for managing and navigating our

information effectively first let's make our dashboard page becomes to column on the left side we will put our navigation menu and on the right side we will

customize our second brain section next we can add C out block to make a bounding box effect to our navigation menu

create new pages for our inbar tasks projects areas resources notes and archive later we will customize each page to add more detail and

functionality e next let's create inbark section this section is used to effortlessly capture any thoughts or ideas that come to mind

related with resource task project and notes we will add linked view of resource task project and note database to add linked view just type slash and

linked choose properties that we want to show in this inbark section we only want to show resource with the status in box we also want to only show resource that

is not archived so let's H filter next let's add link database View for the task now add filters to only show new tasks that has not been assigned for specific

projects and date e next let's create link database View for the projects in box now add filter to only show project

status in box and project that is not archived lastly let's create linked View for the notes database add the same filter based on the status inbox

before we finish in this section let's hit callout block to add bounding box effect for our inbox section next let's create section for our life area

is ADD link database view for our areas change the database view to gallery view select the card preview to cover property that we have created before

this will show the cover image for each area next let's create section for app projects change the database view to board view

this will make it easier to change the status of the project just by drag and drop next we need to create tasks section in this section we will see list of the

active tasks for today this week and all tasks add filter to the date property to only show task that the deadline is

today e now duplicate this view to another view of tasks that the deadline is this week duplicate again to other view for all

active tasks let's continue to a calendar view of our tasks this will show our task in calendar format by weekly and monthly

to make it easier duplicate the weekly View and change it for monthly calendar next let's create section for our resources in this section we will

have resoures that's still in RW completed review and favorite resource choose properties that we want to show in list View e

now we need to add filter to only show the resource that is still in review status duplicate this View and change the filter for the completed review

result resources and favorite resources now if we tick the check box the resources will be moved to the favorite resource view next let's create last section for the

notes change the D dat base view to Gallery choose the property that you want to show on the notes view we need to add filter to only show the notes that's still in draft

status duplicate The View and adjust it for the final notes and favorite notes the process is pretty similar with previous section

on the left side panel let's create sections for the topics and notebooks e next let's add section for the notebook this notebook will contain the

collection of relevant notes now let's set up the content inside our page in our area section if you see here inside the area's page P there is nothing to show

so we want to add the link database view of the projects and show the project only in this the relevant area add filter to only show the projects related with this

area e now let's open area page and add the template that we have made you will see only related project with with this personal area will be

shown let's go back to the template and show progress properties of the project apply the template for all other pages next let's set up our page on the

project database inside the project page we want to show only the related tasks let's create our template for the project page

e e apply the template for the project page that we have made previously ly we only need to apply this to the existing project page we don't need to do this

when we create new project next let's also set up our page in the topics and notebook section the process is pretty much similar e

e e e e e do the same process for the notebook page e

e e let's set up each page on the left navigation menu since it is still blank create two column to separate the

navigation menu and the content copy and paste the navigation menu link to make it easier just copy the database

view on our dashboard and paste it on the inbox page create a home link by copying the link of our dashboard page and paste it on the home text on navigation

menu now we can easily go back to the dashboard Page by clicking the home link on the navigation menu next we can do the same process for our tasks page

copy this task section and paste it on the navigation page you can customize this tasks page and add more detail than the dashboard if you want next let's set up our

projects page on the navigation menu in this project page we want to add three sections the first section is grouping our project based on the state lus or cband View the second section is

categorizing our project based on its area and the last section is showing the relevant task for each project e e e

next by following the same process let's set up our area page on the navigation menu now we also need to set up our Resort page use the same

process e let's continue with our notes page do the same process e the last part is setting up our archive

page in this archive page all IR relevant and obsolet data will be stored here whenever we need this in the future we can go to this archive page and find the data that we want to

recall e e e now we've created our second brain template based on the Chiago 4day par method it's time to put it to the test

in this segment we'll explore how to use our template to effectively organize information and boost productivity let's start by adding a new area to our template for this test we'll create an

investing area to manage all our investment related activities excellent now that we have an investing area let's create a new project within it our project will be

stock diversification to optimize our Investment Portfolio and minimize risk now let's create task related to our projects e

since this is a new topic don't forget to create investing topic you can also a notebook about investing next let's add some resource

related with our project on this example I put YouTube video about investing let's also create notes about investment guide

congratulations you've successfully tested our second brain template adding the investing area and the stock diversification project you've experienced how it can help you organize

investment related information increase productivity and track progress effectively remember this template is highly customizable so feel free to

adapt it to your specific needs and preferences thank you for watching today's tutorial if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel for more

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