# Second Brain: Notes From Your Research > Second Brain is the memory behind Ask Alfred. Conversations become connected, editable notes that feed future answers, so Alfred remembers your work. Source: https://www.alfredscholar.com/features/second-brain/ Second Brain ## The memory that *remembers for you*. Good research thinking happens in conversation, and most of it is lost the moment you close the tab. Second Brain keeps it: after each chat with Alfred, the durable learnings become connected notes, filed for you and ready to inform the next answer. [Try Pro free for 7 days](https://app.alfredscholar.com/register) [Explore all features](https://www.alfredscholar.com/features/) Included with Pro and Lab How it works ### How Second Brain works You do the thinking. Alfred keeps the record. 1. **You talk through your work** Ask Alfred about your papers the way you already do: work out a method, weigh two findings, decide a direction. Nothing extra to click, no separate note-taking step to remember. 2. **Alfred keeps the durable parts** When a conversation ends, Alfred writes down what is worth keeping, the research directions, decisions, preferences, and conclusions, and files each note into a folder so nothing needs sorting by hand. 3. **The next answer remembers** Your notes feed future conversations, so Alfred picks up where you left off instead of starting cold. The context you built once stays with you across every session. What you get ### A memory you can trust #### The notes are yours Browse, rename, edit, move, or delete any note. Once you change a note, Alfred never overwrites your words. Automatic capture gets you a first draft; the final say is always yours. #### Everything is connected Notes link to each other with wikilinks, and every note shows its backlinks, so a decision made in one place surfaces wherever it matters. Your thinking becomes a map, not a pile. #### Traceable to the source Every note traces back to the conversations that produced it. You can always follow a claim to where it came from, the same way answers in Ask Alfred cite the page. #### Filed for you New notes are sorted into folders automatically, so your memory stays organized without a weekly tidy-up. Move anything you want; the default is a workspace that files itself. #### Alfred remembers Because your notes feed new conversations, Alfred carries your context forward: the direction of the thesis, the method you settled on, the papers you trust. Less re-explaining, more thinking. #### Pause it any time Second Brain runs quietly in the background, and you can pause capture whenever you want a conversation left off the record. Turn it back on and the notes resume. "Capture is automatic. Once you edit a note, your words stay your words." What is included ### Included with every paid plan #### Pro Second Brain included. Your conversations become connected notes, filed for you and traceable to their source. #### Lab Everything in Pro for the whole lab, so each member builds their own memory across a shared body of work. Where to next ### Part of the same workspace Go deeper #### Ask Alfred Ask open questions about your papers and get answers cited to the page. Compare #### Alfred Scholar vs Humata Reading a PDF, against keeping what you learned from it. What it costs #### Plans and pricing Pro is ₹899 a month in India and $19 elsewhere. Lab seats five. Start with a trial either way. ### Stop losing your best thinking. Talk your work through with Alfred and keep the parts worth keeping, filed and connected. [Try Pro free for 7 days](https://app.alfredscholar.com/register) [See pricing](https://www.alfredscholar.com/pricing/) 7 days of Pro, free No card needed Afterwards, keep everything on the free plan Prefer to read first? [Read the Docs](https://www.alfredscholar.com/docs/v1.x/introduction/)