While I was reading Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, I came up with several ideas. One day, while reading the book, the author talked about something he did to store valuable information in one place. He mentioned how he would send anything he found to a single place, an Inbox, where everything temporary and without a specific place existed. Since I use Notion for everything, I thought of trying to implement this idea, which I named Share is the new Save.

I believe I'm not the only one who has gone through social media on a normal day, mindlessly scrolling to distract myself. But many times, you come across resources that you know can be helpful but you're not sure where to store them yet. Often, you click "Save" in each application. On Twitter, you click Retweet, on Instagram, you click Save, on YouTube, you click Watch Later, you record a voice note for an idea you have, or you take a picture of a place, thing, or information you want to use. Do you know what the problem is with this?

Everything you save is distributed across different apps. Let's be honest, how many times have you actually gone to the "Watch Later" section on YouTube? Or how many times have you saved something on Instagram and spent half an hour searching through all the reels and posts? I've been there too, and the idea that "A resource doesn't have to have a specific use to be useful" changed my perspective on how to organize the information I want to use.

The book offers a simple solution: everything digital, all applications, websites, etc., can be shared and sent. So why not have a specific place where we can send everything that we know will be useful in the future? The author mentions that this place may accumulate many things, and that is the goal of this place - to filter information. The author recommends doing a weekly Check-In, where you go through all the resources you saved, see if they are helpful to you, and if not, simply delete them.

In Notion, create a new page called Inbox (that's the name I used, but you can name it Random Stuff if you prefer). This is all we have to do in Notion for now. I apologize to Android users, but this tutorial will be general for browsers and iPhones.

For browsers, there is a resource called Notion Web Clipper, an extension available for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, which allows you to share any content you're viewing directly to Notion with just 2 clicks.

For iPhones, most applications have a share option. The detail is that the Notion option doesn't appear automatically among the first options, so you'll have to change this. You can do this by following the instructions in the following image.

From now on, every time you send something to your Inbox, it will create a new page within your Inbox. Personally, this is something I'm still trying to figure out how to solve because in my vision, I would like the Inbox to look more like the following gif, where all the resources can be quickly viewed without entering any of the pages and quickly start filtering. If you ask the Notion AI to give you a summary of what's in the Inbox, it does it, but it's not perfect.

I believe that in the end, for this to work, an extension using the Notion API would need to be created, and by manually using the content of the page, we could determine which resources can be embedded. If you're interested in the idea, send me a DM on Instagram. I know this is a tool that can help many people better organize their ideas.

I hope you liked this post. Thank you so much for reading :)