I used to be deep into the personal knowledge management tar pit. Most of it was wasted time. Here are the few things in it that I actually regularly use and get something out of. These are just simple zim-wiki text files that I update and skim through a couple times a month: - Idea list: Ideas for art or other projects that I'd like to try some day. I'm occasionally adding new ones and I've started work on old ones…
Yeah I have to agree. I really liked the idea of having some sort of common place book of files on my machine, but I never looked at them. I have a few todo/list files like you mentioned and aside from that, I dump old ticket and historical data from my day to day into dated files in case I need them. I rarely do, but it's easy to dump since they're fairly raw.