# Title:: How to Increase Knowledge Productivity: Combining the Zettelkasten Method and Building a Second Brain Link:: https://zettelkasten.de/posts/building-a-second-brain-and-zettelkasten/ ## Differences BASB is a system for resource management, ZKM is a method for working with ideas themselves PARA = "language of action", ZKM = "language of knowledge" ZKM connects ideas to other ideas, not importance or urgency ## Building a [[Second Brain]] (BASB) method by Tiago Forte Goal: inner piece BASB is a hybrid of: 1. information management - progressive summarization 2. project management - uses PARA (Projects, Areas, Resources, Archive) - connections are made to urgency and importance ## [[Zettelkasten]] Method (ZKM) ^053c0d