🐙 Promptpack: How to build a second brain (featuring AI)

A step-by-step guide to using AI to collect and store knowledge

Hi, Chantal Smith here.

In this third Promptpack, we’ll take a look at how to set up a knowledge base, aka your second brain. 

We’re a little more than half a year into the generative AI revolution. Along with millions across the world, we’ve tested and implemented new tools and practices. We’ve shown you how to get started with quantitative analysis using OpenAI’s Code Interpreter. We've shared our favourite prompts to turn ChatGPT into a thought partner. This time, we’ll go into how we use AI-powered tools to research, process, and store knowledge.

As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said last week, LLMs make natural language the primary interface with computers, and add a layer of reasoning over data. We increasingly see this in our work, which for a lot of the time is about finding clues, building knowledge and making sense of it.

The process of research, whether in an academic, professional, or personal setting, is a constant interaction between resources, tools, and the data landscape. In this Prompt…