1/ A lot of ppl have been asking about PDF reading workflow for personal knowledge management. Here is the super simple one that fulfills all my needs. Start by creating a Resource folder on Dropbox with PDFs I want to read. Access it via @PDFExpert6 file browser
2/ Open a PDF and use highlight feature to highlight passages you want to keep
3/ When finished, tap three dots and then “Email.” For some reason the option to export only highlights doesn’t appear when I tap “Share”
4/ Next, tap “Annotations Summary” which exports highlights, plus the highlighted PDF as an attachment. Best of both worlds
5/ This will generate a new email with the highlighted passages in the body. Email it to your designated Evernote Import Email, which you can find in settings (I recommend saving this to your contacts)
6/ Sync Evernote and it will be created as a new note. Now you can do progressive summarization
7/ At the bottom of the note the original PDF will be attached if you need to dive deeper
8/ Opening it you will see all your original highlights in context
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Most pieces on climate change present vague arguments w/out specifics. Alex strikes a practical balance of realistic strategies we can take to prepare in short to medium term for impacts already happening
1/ I think of every creator business in the creator economy as being built on a 6-level “stack”:
Level 6: Social distribution
Level 5: Email distribution
Level 4: Content hosting
Level 3: Content creation
Level 2: Ideation & development
Level 1: Information capture
2/ It is a “supply chain of ideas” from the first moment an idea pops into your head, all the way to spreading all over the world via the internet
The lower levels are like R&D and wholesale warehouses, and the higher layers are retail stores and “last mile” delivery of products
3/ To have a viable business that can monetize effectively and stand the test of time, every creator ultimately has to own or control every level in their stack
For every level you don’t control, you become vulnerable to a gatekeeper or platform squeezing you for money & power
1/ The upcoming cohort of our Building a Second Brain course, cohort 12, will be the last time we offer all students lifetime access to join future cohorts
This was a really difficult decision, and I wanted to explain our thinking around it
2/ This won’t affect anyone who’s purchased the course in the past. Students through cohort 12 will always be able to join any future cohort
And it only applies to joining live Zoom calls. Everyone will continue to get future curriculum updates & lifetime access to Circle
3/ First, why did we offer lifetime access in the first place?
Honestly, in the early days it was because I was embarrassed by the quality of the course. I had no idea what I was doing, didn’t live up to my own standards, and lifetime access was my way of making up for it