
This is exactly what I was inspired to do after reading Tiago Forte’s excellent book Building a Second Brain. For the record I use OneNote, but any note taking app with a powerful search functionality works. My book highlights would be easy to retrieve and available to me with only a quick search and I wouldn’t have to remember the particular book the information was originally found in.

But I tried that, and it turns out that Aristotle had a lot to say about friendship and finding the specific bit of information I was looking for needed more than a quick search.īut what if after having read a book, I had taken the time to copy my highlights and notes from my Kindle and into my notetaking system. Some might say, ‘just do a Google search’. This involved me having to look through several possible books I’d read in the last 12 months.

Eventually, mostly due to luck I rediscovered my highlights in Massimo Pigiliucci’s book How to be a Stoic. Unfortunately, I could not remember the details of what those categories were and where I had read about them. I knew I had read somewhere that he had divided friendship into three categories.

Recently I attempted to recall the three tiers of friendship named by Aristotle.
