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Productive Happiness's avatar

Thank you so much for the restack!

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Cassandra Bumpus 🇨🇦's avatar

Thank you for this! You published this post at the perfect time! I'm currently reading a personal finance e-book and trying to take notes to go over with my husband once I've finished. But it was taking so long to take the notes that I've been putting off finishing the book. This will make it so much easier! Thanks again!

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Productive Happiness's avatar

Oh great! Yeah remove friction and make reading and taking notes easy! It makes maintaining our second brain so effortless!

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Louise Tilbrook ✨'s avatar

This is fantastic. Thank you

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Productive Happiness's avatar

Thanks for the feedback Louise!

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Mika's avatar

What an epic hack!! Thank you. I think I also need to create a second brain. My google docs are getting pretty chaotic.

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Productive Happiness's avatar

If you struggle with structuring your notes, I suggest this post : https://productivehappiness.substack.com/p/the-para-method-is-here-a-short-review

You could get some ideas to organize your docs!

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Goaty's avatar

This is excellent thank you

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Productive Happiness's avatar

Thank you for the feedback!

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Francine Clouden's avatar

Thank you so much! You have just completely changed my reading life! I had no idea that I could send Kindle highlights to Notion. I'd stopped using the latter, as I am more of a pen and paper person, but this gives good reason to use Notions again. And the Google lens hack is simply genius.

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Productive Happiness's avatar

I use Readwise to sync my Kindle highlights to Notion but it can also sync with all kinds of notes apps! I also use a podcast app that syncs with Readwise where I can snip the transcript of the podcasts to highlight takeaways. Readwise is the powerhorse of my second brain. And their read-later app is absolute 💣!

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Francine Clouden's avatar

I've been meaning to check out Read wise since you posted about it a couple months ago. I think I know what rabbit hole I'll be going down this week!

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