--- title: What do you use for a second brain? | daily.dev description: The post discusses the concept of a 'second brain' and explores open source alternatives such as Notion, Evernote, Bear, Roam, and Appflowy. It provides... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-do-you-use-for-a-second-brain--w7ihxnyby twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What do you use for a second brain? | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the concept of a 'second brain' and explores open source alternatives such as Notion, Evernote, Bear, Roam, and Appflowy. It provides... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-do-you-use-for-a-second-brain--w7ihxnyby og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/W7iHXnYby.png og:image:alt: What do you use for a second brain? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What do you use for a second brain? **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · [@bekahhw](https://daily.dev/bekahhw) · 5 min read · 27 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary The post discusses the concept of a 'second brain' and explores open source alternatives such as Notion, Evernote, Bear, Roam, and Appflowy. It provides factors to consider when choosing a second brain tool, highlights the features of Appflowy, and compares it to proprietary software like Evernote and Notion. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@randomgenerator** · 1 upvotes > Notion - It is smart enough to keep all your notes in order, easy to search through, connects with other apps, and keeps everything safe and private. **@tdlm** · 0 upvotes > My own iCloud-based notes system, so it's encrypted. 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