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It’s a shame to discover that I’ve been wrong all this time. Back to my old, worse self I guess, because last thing I want is to look like a bullshitter to some random ranter on the internet.
The Knowledge Graph says you don’t have to use your conviction and will to execute risky and time-consuming, linear projects (which will fail if your conviction is wrong). All you have to do is take cute little notes all the time, and the hard work is magically done for you!
It seems not to have occurred to him that for any topic, the loudest people on the internet are not necessarily worth listening to. Nor are they even representative of the larger group (see Twitter).
PKM has its share of grifters. I mean grift in a gentle sense, like someone who becomes successful by writing a book on how to be successful. I wish them inspiration and success.
They're selling people solutions for problems, but the problem has near infinite solution space because the problem is "how do I process information effectively?"
So what we get is individuals marketing their take on this ultimately rather personal question. It's marketing that makes them highly visible to people like the author. They're among the first personalities we encounter when one start searching on PKM (is this a good thing? I'm not sure).
I would tell the author the good news: the users without vlogs are doing just fine. You haven't heard from them because they aren't trying to grow an audience, but they're seeing added value in their lives as a result of PKM.
It's obvious that the author has no use for PKM in his understanding of it. I just don't think he's bothered to understand it as anything beyond a self-help topic.
This is mostly a set of surface-level arguments about superficial aspects of personal knowledge management. Yes, influencers pitching specific methodologies are often full of shit. Yes, network graphs are often boring and gratuitous. Yes, being overly focused on the tools used to complete tasks often gets in the way of completing tasks. None of that is super interesting. Particularly disappointing are the references…
I use the Johnny Decimal system (with Zim Wiki). In 30 years of trying, it's the best personal knowledge management I've ever used. All these note taking tools missed out on the straightforward categorization that the Johnny Decimal provides. And it's a big one.
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Browsing through Linking Your Thinking's YouTube channel[1] might be a good first-start. Despite appearances here, I am not a notes fetishist, so I find his videos rather approachable especially his "Start Here" video[2]. Jamie Rubin's blog series[4] is pretty good, too. I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of th…
> I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of the Johnny Decimal System[3]. I store checklists, procedures, howtos, concept summaries, cheatsheets, and a daily log stored in a YYYY-MM.markdown file. You must be a very organised person, any sort of Zettelkasten or knowledge-based linking system for me is too complex,…
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I use the Johnny Decimal system (with Zim Wiki). In 30 years of trying, it's the best personal knowledge management I've ever used. All these note taking tools missed out on the straightforward categorization that the Johnny Decimal provides. And it's a big one.
Never heard of the Johnny Decimal system. Are there good any writeups or videos on it you recommend?
Linked notes on the other hand have been a game changer, as have little features like Excalidraw integration. I can believe that we've known about the concept of linking information for 25 years (surfing the WWW of course) and set up linked cells and functions in Excel numerous times, yet it's only now that software exists to allow that for our personal journals and notes.
Yes, I realize Org-mode probably has had this for years but most people aren't Emacs users and need something a bit more user friendly.
I take notes relentlessly with Obsidian and I'll honestly never go back. I would have been more stubborn about this earlier on in my career. Now I realize that I've probably forgotten more over time than I ever would have imagined so I realized having good notes is critical for me. I end up looking up answers on stack overlflow and then realize I wrote them. To each their own.
Can you recommend a workflow for obsidian? Or some pointers for resources. I am struggling to "get" how to take notes with it and I am feeling a lot of friction
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/three-choices-new-users-need-to...
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> I personally just create atomic (single-topic) notes, with tags in the YAML front-matter, and store them in a folder structure along the lines of the Johnny Decimal System[3]. I store checklists, procedures, howtos, concept summaries, cheatsheets, and a daily log stored in a YYYY-MM.markdown file. You must be a very organised person, any sort of Zettelkasten or knowledge-based linking system for me is too complex,…
I’m not organized at all, but this system takes me very little effort. As a quick example, I used to do daily notes, one markdown note per day but that was too much mental overhead, so I switched to one markdown note per month with an tag between each day. But, what works for me won’t work for everyone else. Zettelkasten seems like inhuman, nightmarish garbage to me. If simple notes are working for you, then stick wi…
Roam user here. My experience is that it's not about the graph as a whole, it's about the neighborhoods. I never look at the graph view and I don't meaningfully use the global structure of the graph for anything, but I find that projects develop local neighborhood graphs that are definitely useful. The thing Roam-style note taking software accomplish is letting you be productive by organizing bottom-up rather than be…