Have you heard of a Second Brain? In the world of productivity, it refers to a personal knowledge database for capturing, organising, and retrieving information. I’ve been using Google Keep as mine for the past three years, summarising every useful deck, report, or research piece so I can search for it later. (Here’s how I set mine up) Why do I love it? Whenever I need information on a topic, say, YouTube brand marketing, I just search “YouTube Brand” and all my relevant notes surface instantly. It’s like having a personalised Google trained only on my data. But there was a problem that nearly killed my whole system. In this post, I’ll talk about my biggest bottleneck in building a Second Brain, and how I used AI to solve it. The Bottleneck That Almost Broke Everything The biggest bottleneck of a Second Brain isn’t storing information; it’s processing it fast enough to make the storage worthwhile....