Setup guide
Second Brain Setup: Digital Garden
A digital garden grows your ideas in public, with each note maturing over time. Here's how AI helps tend the garden.
What a digital garden needs
Regular planting (new ideas), weeding (revisiting and revising), and connecting (linking related ideas). AI automates the weeding and connecting so you focus on planting.
Growing notes over time
AI tracks note maturity: seedling (just captured), budding (linked and revised), evergreen (well-connected and refined). Your garden dashboard shows what needs attention.
Public vs private growth
AI respects what's public and what's draft. When a private note reaches evergreen maturity, AI suggests it's ready to publish to your garden.
Cross-pollination
AI finds connections between topics you're growing in your garden that you hadn't noticed. A note on system design connects to a note on note-taking methodology through the concept of feedback loops.
Set it up with tentus
tentus makes this methodology practical. Lumi handles the linking and surfacing so you focus on the thinking.
Other setup methods
Second Brain Setup: Zettelkasten
The Zettelkasten method is the gold standard for networked thought. Here's how to set it up with AI so the linking happens automatically.
Second Brain Setup: PARA Method
Tiago Forte's PARA method organizes everything into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives. Here's how to make it work with AI.
Second Brain Setup: GTD Workflow
David Allen's Getting Things Done is the original productivity workflow. Here's how AI keeps the capture-clarify-organize-review cycle running without the upkeep.