Setup guide
Second Brain Setup: Maps of Content
MOCs are curated index notes that navigate your knowledge graph. Here's how AI helps you build and maintain them.
What a MOC does
A MOC is a note that links to other notes around a specific topic. It's a human-curated directory of your best thinking on a subject. AI can suggest MOCs when it detects a cluster of related notes that needs navigation.
Auto-generated MOC proposals
When your second brain has 10+ notes on a topic, AI proposes a MOC. It lists the notes, their key ideas, and the relationships between them. You edit, reorder, and publish.
Maintaining MOCs over time
New notes on a topic get flagged for MOC inclusion. Stale MOCs get surfaced for review. The system keeps curation light by handling the scanning and flagging.
MOCs as weekly briefing anchors
Each week, AI selects a MOC relevant to your current work and includes it in your briefing. It's a reminder that you have organized thinking on the topic, ready to build on.
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.