Setup guide
Second Brain Setup: GTD Workflow
Use capture, clarification, organization and review to turn notes into decisions about what to do next.
By tentus team · Updated 2026-10-26 · 1 min read
Method reference: The official GTD method. The workflow below is a practical adaptation, not a claim of automatic product behavior.
Capture into a place you review
Save commitments and ideas through a capture method available to your account. Check that the material arrived; a connection or upload alone does not prove successful processing.
Clarify the next action
For each item, decide whether there is an action, useful reference material or something to discard. Lumi can help draft questions or candidate actions, but check ownership and dates before accepting them.
Organize for use
Keep the next actions in your task system and link the supporting note. Add context labels yourself where useful. This guide does not assume automatic GTD tagging or approval buttons.
Reflect and engage
Review your lists regularly, update changed commitments and choose an action appropriate to your time and context. The five-step method includes engagement; compiling a list is not doing the work.
Set it up with tentus
Use these steps with the tools available to you. tentus is preparing for pre-beta testing; join the waitlist to hear about access.
Other setup methods
Second Brain Setup: Zettelkasten
A practical linked-note exercise: write one idea, explain its connections and revisit the source.
Second Brain Setup: PARA Method
Apply Projects, Areas, Resources and Archives through a small, deliberate review of your notes.
Second Brain Setup: Building a Second Brain (BASB)
Practice Capture, Organize, Distill and Express using a small collection and a concrete output.