Setup guide
Second Brain Setup: Linking Your Thinking
Practice deliberate linking and write your own explanations of how notes relate.
By tentus team · Updated 2026-10-26 · 1 min read
Method reference: Linking Your Thinking: making notes. The workflow below is a practical adaptation, not a claim of automatic product behavior.
Begin with one note
Choose an idea you want to understand and add your own interpretation. This exercise draws on Linking Your Thinking’s emphasis on making and connecting notes; it does not prescribe a universal set of six principles.
Connect two ideas
Find another note and describe the relationship in one sentence. Ask Lumi for possibilities if useful, but inspect the original notes before treating a proposed connection as meaningful.
Create an index when navigation becomes hard
Collect a few useful links in a map of content, with a brief reason for each. Keep the map focused on a question you actually revisit rather than building a taxonomy in advance.
Return to your reasoning
Revisit one connection during a review and improve the explanation. This workflow does not measure linking velocity or guarantee that the assistant learns your thinking style.
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: GTD Workflow
Use capture, clarification, organization and review to turn notes into decisions about what to do next.