Personal Knowledge Management
Personal Knowledge Management is a system of creating, storing, sharing and using knowledge and information. Its about how YOU as person see the world, what matters to you and how you interact with it. It's like your lens through which you see this world.
At its core, PKM is about building a second brain outside your head, so your mind is free to focus on creativity and problem-solving rather than being overloaded with information.
A good PKMS has sub-systems for:
Capturing: Collecting ideas, thoughts, articles, extracts etc. when and where you get them. It is also adviced to note down the context and references to help later process the information in a more meaningful way.
Organizing: Sorting the captured ideas with categories, tags, links and/or folders depending on your system and what makes sense to you. The focus is on retrievability rather than perfection.
Processing: The most important part of a PKMS that helps you build the knowledge base. The idea is to remove all the fluff and extract the core idea and refining it with your words and understanding.
Connecting: Linking ideas together for patterns to emerge naturally. The network that gets built around a topic is how wisdom forms and connections with other ideas or topics.
Applying: Use your knowledge in projects, conversations, decision-making, or creative work. Knowledge that never gets used is a waste of time and becomes collectors-fallacy
Reflecting & Evolving: Periodically revisit your system to see if it still works for you and what needs to be updated so it suits your growing needs better.
Some of the most developed and most used systems in today's date are zettelkasten, digital-garden.
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