I Built A Second Brain And Automated It with AI. Here's How

AI tools I use to store and process information.

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How do I store and process daily information I get from the internet?

It’s simple. I use AI tools that automatically organize all the online content I come across on the internet and help me consume it in different ways.

In this article, I’ll share with you 3 AI tools that helped me build a “second brain” and made me more productive.

1. My Mind: The extension of your mind

My mind is a private place for everything you care about. It’s a place where you can save all the tweets, articles, images, videos, and more content you come across on the internet.

This is a perfect tool for those who want to keep all their information in one place, but don’t want to bother organizing stuff in folders or labels themselves.

Thanks to AI, you only need to save the content with your browser extension and My Mind will automatically tag your images, articles, and websites so you can easily find them later.

To save anything you see on a website, you simply need to select it, right-click on it, and click on “Add to my mind.”

Once you add text, tweets, images, videos, and more things to My Mind, your homepage will look like this.

Source: My Mind

The best part is that My Mind has associative searching, which allows us to search content in our minds with a keyword, phrase, color, date, or anything else.

Last but not least, in case you’re concerned about privacy, My Mind goes the extra mile to protect the privacy and integrity of your data and there’s no tracking or ads on the app.

Try My Mind (Chrome extension here)

2. NotebookLM

Whenever you’re on the go and can’t use your computer to read an article or watch a video, you can use NotebookLM to turn a document into a podcast.

NotebookLM uses the documents you upload to train a specialized AI. This AI then becomes an expert on your doc and you get:

• A summary of your documents

• Suggested questions you may want to ask (tailored to your documents)

• The option to generate a personalized podcast.

Here’s what I got after giving NotebookLM the link to one of my Python book recommendations.

In the Audio Overview section, there’s a “Generate” button that creates a personalized podcast from your document. Here’s the podcast I got from my article.

After listening to the podcast, I have to say that it covers much of the content found in the article. What I like the most about the AI podcast is that they elaborate on key concepts in the article, make good analogies, and turn text into an entertaining, informative, and easy-to-understand audio conversation.

Try NotebookLM

3. Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI is a tool that you can use to ask any question you have, but, unlike ChatGPT, Perplexity is designed to search the web in real time to provide up-to-date information.

The way I use Perplexity AI is through its Chrome extension. With the extension, you can summarize any article in a few seconds.

Say I find an interesting article, but I don’t have time to read it now or want to read a quick summary first. With Perplexity you can summarize what’s inside the page with a simple request.

I have to say, though, that sometimes the summarization includes things that aren’t strongly related to the article in question. This happens because apparently the tool isn’t solely inspecting the site but gathers information from all over the internet to create the summary.

Try Perplexity (Chrome Extension here)