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Core influence

Tiago Forte

Author & productivity teacher · Building a Second Brain

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.”
The idea

Forte argues your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Offload what you know into a trusted external system, and you free up attention for thinking, creating, and being present — rather than spending it as a filing cabinet.

How it shaped Orbit

Orbit is a second brain pointed at people. It reads your real conversations and remembers the durable facts, the promises, and the threads — so you don't have to hold them in working memory. The Dossier and Insights are exactly this: the remembering, externalized, so the caring is all that's left for you to do.

In the appDossier · Insights