thanks to short form for sponsoring this video everybody does some kind of planning researching or studying almost every day whether you're trying to find a restaurant for a date or holiday destinations for your next vacation or relevant paper for your academic research it can quickly get overwhelming since your brain can hold only a certain amount of information this is why having a second brain can improve many aspects of your life because it makes these things much easier by holding information for us which frees up space in our brain for thinking personally i've been using an app called my mind as part of my second brain where i save anything i want to remember and i've been recommended to many people because it's brilliant but i have to admit it's not the cheapest app it costs more than NUMBER_TOKEN dollars a month which makes many people hesitate to subscribe so i started to look for a cheaper alternative and so far the best ones i found are evernote and raindrop you may think evernote is almost dead but it's still great as an idea storage bookmark manager or filing cabinet but in this video let's focus on raindrop because it's even cheaper than evernote and got almost everything you want from a bookmark manager like tags collections sharing and full text search to simply put your idea storage is where you collect your inspirations and save things you don't want to forget or lose that includes your favorite blog post videos pictures products you want to buy places and restaurants you want to go or even important documents and pdf files by saving them to your bookmark manager you can quickly find anything anytime you need it with raindrop you can save anything on the web easily it just takes one click to save a page on your browser and it's really simple to save from your mobile too by using the share option one of the things i like about raindrop is that when you save an item it automatically categorizes into articles videos images documents and audios which makes it easy to find items you're looking for when you click on the item you can see the preview i like this because it removes all of the annoying ads and other distracting things on the web page or you can choose to see the permanent copy which is like an internet archive meaning you can see this page even if it gets taken down or disappears for whatever reason another great feature is full text search that means the entire content of every webpage you saved is fully searchable say for example you want to find items about baseball i can type it in the search bar and it will show me the ones that contains a word along with the sentences that has a word baseball in it this feature is important because it improves the searchability of things you saved after all if you can't find the item you saved when you need it what's the point of saving it in the first place anyway this full text search also applies to pdf files if you upload a pdf to raindrop it will make the text inside searchable this might be great for students who read many academic essays and need a place to organize them you can create a collection like school and nested collections for each subject where you can organize your lecture slides and academic paper personally i save pdf summaries of my favorite books so i can read them whenever i want to speaking of book summaries let me briefly tell you about today's sponsor short form short form provides super detailed book summaries with smart insight and analysis that you won't see anywhere else personally i like to read summaries on my favorite books rather than rereading the entire books i
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