Siftwood / A second brain for Notion

Give every thoughtsomewhere to go.

A calmer way to collect, connect, and use what you know.

Siftwood is a guided second-brain system for Notion: one practical place for notes, tasks, projects, and reference material, ready to shape into an everyday workflow.

A little more room to think

A useful place for the whole picture

Less blank-page thinking. More room for what matters.

Start with a considered structure, then make it your own. Siftwood brings the everyday pieces of your thinking into one approachable Notion system.

The starting point

A system with a little more shape.
A guided setup helps you begin with useful categories instead of an empty workspace.
  • Notes
  • Tasks
  • Projects
  • Reference

The point is not to collect more. It is to make what you already know easier to return to.

Use one practical home to keep ideas alongside the projects they inform, the tasks that move them forward, and the reference material worth keeping close.

Follow the everyday flow

A rhythm you can come back to

From a passing thought to a useful next step.

A second brain should meet you in the middle of a real day. Siftwood gives the pieces a simple path from capture to action.

01

Collect what catches your attention.

Give passing ideas and useful notes a dependable place to land, instead of asking your memory to hold everything.

02

Connect it to the work around it.

Use a guided structure to sort notes, tasks, projects, and reference material into categories that make sense.

03

Come back when it is time to act.

Revisit what you have gathered with a next step in mind, and let useful knowledge find its way into the day.

Illustrative example · Sample records, not customer data

One note finds its next step.

The guide describes a Notes button that creates this task and changes the note’s workflow status from Inbox to Task created. This page is a static preview: it does not run that action, and the workspace flow still needs to be configured and checked in Notion.

Note Project Task

  1. 01 / Note

    Sample: Prepare the first Siftwood project update

    Collect the current project context and identify the next useful update.

    Project
    Workflow test project
    Next action
    Draft the project update outline.
    Workflow status
    Inbox Task created
  2. 02 / Project

    Workflow test project

    Related note
    Sample: Prepare the first Siftwood project update
    Task created
    Draft the project update outline.
  3. 03 / Task

    Draft the project update outline.

    Status
    Not started
    Project
    Workflow test project
    Source note
    Sample: Prepare the first Siftwood project update

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