Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
📅 5 episodes. 5 Tuesdays. One step per week: Meet the Method (May 5) → Capture (May 12) → Organize (May 19) → Distill (May 26) → Express (June 2).
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
🗂️⚡ Is there one right way to organize information? Week 2 of the CODE Challenge answers that question by showing three Second Brainers do it three different ways, and all three work. Carolina points an AI agent at her 4-year Notion PARA system. Edvardo pulls years of blog posts into a manuscript outline. Ethan turns a Google Drive folder into a sales CRM.
Organize is where most people get stuck. They wait for the "right structure" before doing the work. This week shows what PARA looks like in three real projects on a tight deadline.
Meet the participants:
🏦 Carolina Lago (Notion · finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
✍️ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian · writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
🚀 Ethan Kohan (Google Drive · entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Previously on The CODE Challenge
1:22 Day 8: Ethan's Pokémon launch folder in Google Drive
3:43 Ethan builds an outbound CRM with Apollo.io
6:14 Carolina walks through her PARA system in Notion
9:50 Carolina tests an AI assistant on her Second Brain
11:39 Day 11: Edvardo returns with a system of his own
14:08 Edvardo's mood-first productivity and daily driver
15:28 Pulling blog posts and newsletters into the manuscript
18:00 Mapping notes to the outline with Claude Code
21:30 Three weeks in: time to distill
📅 5 episodes. 5 Tuesdays. One step per week: Meet the Method (May 5) → Capture (May 12) → Organize (May 19) → Distill (May 26) → Express (June 2).
Watch the full series here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVNXAaej57W4WfkckoQjuQbN-xKc2c2zA
🗂️⚡ Is there one right way to organize information? Week 2 of the CODE Challenge answers that question by showing three Second Brainers do it three different ways, and all three work. Carolina points an AI agent at her 4-year Notion PARA system. Edvardo pulls years of blog posts into a manuscript outline. Ethan turns a Google Drive folder into a sales CRM.
Organize is where most people get stuck. They wait for the "right structure" before doing the work. This week shows what PARA looks like in three real projects on a tight deadline.
Meet the participants:
🏦 Carolina Lago (Notion · finance trainer)
youtube.com/@CarolinaLago_TACTIC
✍️ Edvardo Archer (Obsidian · writer & executive coach)
youtube.com/@eddy8301
🚀 Ethan Kohan (Google Drive · entrepreneur)
youtube.com/@UCCLDNExfDwAEU2aMHHJM7JQ
🗣️ Get an extended 30-day free trial of Wispr Flow: bit.ly/4tjC0sJ
📬 Join my newsletter for weekly productivity and AI insights bit.ly/4tQTspi
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Previously on The CODE Challenge
1:22 Day 8: Ethan's Pokémon launch folder in Google Drive
3:43 Ethan builds an outbound CRM with Apollo.io
6:14 Carolina walks through her PARA system in Notion
9:50 Carolina tests an AI assistant on her Second Brain
11:39 Day 11: Edvardo returns with a system of his own
14:08 Edvardo's mood-first productivity and daily driver
15:28 Pulling blog posts and newsletters into the manuscript
18:00 Mapping notes to the outline with Claude Code
21:30 Three weeks in: time to distill


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👩🎓 TAKE MY SELF-PACED COURSES
1️⃣ Pillars of Productivity: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/pop
2️⃣ BASB Foundation: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation
🤓 TEST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL
Take our Productivity Pulse Check to evaluate your daily habits and find out where you can make improvements. Take the quiz now: https://fortelabs.typeform.com/pulsecheck?utm_source=youtube
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