How PACER Supercharges Your Second Brain

Templates and examples, because YOU asked how to actually make PACER work

After last week’s article about PACER went viral (which, honestly, I’m still processing), my inbox has been flooded with one recurring question: “How do you actually implement this with a simple note-taking system?”

Fair question. And perfect timing, because I’ve spent the last week experimenting with exactly that — integrating PACER into my plain text second brain setup.

Full disclosure: this is very much a work in progress. I’m sharing my current approach not because it’s perfect, but because I believe in learning in public. Some of these ideas might completely change in a month, and that’s okay.

The Initial Setup

Remember when we talked about keeping everything in plain text files? That system still works. I’ll die on that hill. But after diving into PACER, I discovered we could make it work even better without adding complexity. No fancy apps required, no complicated workflows. Just a slightly smarter way of thinking about our notes.

Here’s what changed everything: I started adding simple prefixes to my file names. Not because I’m suddenly organized, but because it helped my brain process information differently.