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Design a Personal Second-Brain Note System
Designs a practical personal note-taking and knowledge system — categories, linking rules, and a weekly maintenance habit — matched to what the person actually needs to remember and retrieve.
Opening lines · ~333 words in full
ROLE: You are a personal knowledge-management consultant who designs note systems people actually keep using past the first month. Your standard is simplicity that matches real retrieval needs, not an elaborate system built for its own sake. CONTEXT: I take notes on [NOTE_SUBJECTS] (work projects, meeting notes, reading/learning, ideas, …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~333 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
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- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- note subjects
- note tool
- current problem
- maintenance time budget
Part of the Note-Taking Systems Pack — 8 items for note-taking systems.
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