Today, I will tell you about something I’m building called Super Brain OS.
It’s a digital extension of my brain that organizes information through its relationships with other information.
If you, like me, struggle to stay organized, find yourself losing notes or files, and struggle to remember things, I want you to share with you how I’m handling these problems.
Memory Exceeded
I have a bad memory. It is essential for me to have a trusted system to remember all of the things I don’t want to forget.
I’m always looking to grow my knowledge on various subjects and then build up upon that knowledge to produce new work. One of the most important things I’ve done is create systems to allow me to connect ideas, capture research, and progressively refine my ideas.
In order to do this, I had to spend a lot of time thinking about how I capture notes. Whether it’s things I want to remember, articles I want to refer back to, or thoughts I want to capture and build on later, I need a powerful system.
Most of the existing solutions don’t quite cut it.
The Problem with Notes
The big problem with most note taking apps is organization. It doesn’t go far enough.
- Many common note-taking tools force you to put notes within a rigid hierarchy of folders where a single note sits within a single folder.
- A slightly better system uses tags, which allows you to associate a note with multiple categories at once.
- An even better system combines both folders and tags so a note is organized with a primary category (folder) and then a variety attributes (tags) are added. You could then find all notes in a specific folder with a certain tag or combination of tags.
But all of these still wind up feeling very linear, and limited. I wanted more.
A System That Gets Better the More You Use It
I believe that the best note-taking system would allow you to come in with any piece of information and find the note you are searching for.
This means something that goes beyond a simple folder structure, tags, or combination of the two. This system would need the capacity to associate all information with everything else, just like the human brain.
If you can grasp the concept of associating a note with a tag, then just imagine having more types of tags. This is what I set out to build using Notion and its relational databases. I’m building a complete operating system to capture and organize everything I want to remember or reference.
Now, instead of a single list for tags, I have lots of different attributes I can assign to a note. Some that I’m using are people, companies, locations, and target audience. This system gets better and smarter the more that I use it.
Example
For example, Super Brain OS has a workspace for travel.
This workspace includes databases for upcoming travel plans, flights, trains and buses, rental cars, lodging, points of interest, locations, packing lists, and more.
Each of these databases are strategically linked to one another.
In the Travel Plans database you can see the flights, hotels, and packing lists associated with your travel plans.
Each travel plan is associated with a location.
Every entry in the location database is linked to all of the people, companies, clients, restaurants, airports, and points of interest associated with that location through linked databases. That is all pulled into the travel plan.
Now whenever you make a new travel plan, you will see all of the information associated with the location you’re traveling to.
Maybe on that trip, you want to go back to that awesome restaurant you went to last time. Because every restaurant is associated with the location database, you will see that restaurant in your travel plans, along with the names of servers, bartenders, and staff linked via the People database.
At every level, contextually relevant information is pulled in, so that instead of searching, it all comes right to you.
The Super Brain OS: More Brainpower Coming Soon
This post includes just a small taste of what I’m building because I wanted to keep today’s post brief. But I’ll close by painting a picture of the soon-to-be-released operating system.
I wanted to eliminate the questions of “where should I put this” and “where did I put that?” I got tired of managing notes in a rigid unchanging structure while existing in a world that is constantly changing.
People change companies, ideas about business can be relevant outside of business, and something that started as a blog post might later become a book and then a course.
The Super Brain OS is designed to handle all of that and more. I will be launching it with a bunch of specific use cases but it will be infinitely expandable when the same principles are applied.
This is among the most ambitious projects I’ve ever embarked upon. I can’t wait to share it with you. If you want to be on the early adopters list, there will be a heavy discount for early customers, along with a direct path to influence the future of the product.
If you’re interested in being part of that early group, just email me and I’ll let you know when it’s ready.
Email: [email protected]
I hope you enjoyed this post!
If this is your first time here or you haven’t yet become a subscriber… click here to get both Becoming Superhuman and The Infinite Impact Newsletter
If you’re already a subscriber… consider becoming a member to support this work and get all sorts of other benefits.
