What If Writers Could Create A Second Brain? I Made One For Myself!

This is how to never lose a good idea again.

Anangsha Alammyan
The Startup
Published in
8 min readApr 28, 2023

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As a full-time writer and entrepreneur, my days are power-packed with work, but my mind keeps crunching new ideas 24×7.

What can be the topic of my next YouTube video?

What are the problems new freelance writers face that I can help resolve?

How can I grow my business from A to B?

I find a hundred answers to these questions throughout the day but most of them get lost in the deep oceans of my thoughts. Often I find myself creating business plans in my head, or even pitching them to prospective clients — but I barely remember anything from those super-convincing pitch decks.

After all, we humans still carry a monkey brain that can only remember so much without context.

A solution to the information overload?

After several bouts of forgetting and regretting some absolutely brilliant ideas, I decided to take action.

I actively started looking for a reliable knowledge management system where I can feed in my ideas, revisit them whenever needed, and access them from all my devices. The app stores are saturated with note-taking tools…

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