PKM (MOC)

Notes

A pkm system is a collection of tools, methods and way of thinking that together forms a system that helps you remember, act and process ideas, thoughts and plans.

The basic idea behind this is that our mind is a processor and not a warehouse, using digital tools can have a huge benefit on our productivity and well-being if we use the best of both worlds. Digital tools to store information, and our brain to process and enrich it.

A pkm system can several uses:

1. Project management - could be Todo lists but also content writing, planning a vacation, work projects, etc. This also includes a sub section of goal setting.
2. Knowledge management - a way to collect, connect and get insights from notes, thoughts, ideas from others.
3. Journaling - periodical reviews, gratitude journal.
4. Archive - storing important information (more like a file management system, keeping documents, instructions, details on events...)

People vary in which of the four uses they implement in a pkm system. Note these uses don't have to be used within the same system. Although usually combining everything into a single system provides Emergence.

Project management

Productivity (MOC) Life's Mission

Knowledge management

A common workflow for knowledge management is usually:

1. Capture - a method to collect external information into your system, based on your interests and goals. Capture content
2. Organize - take the newly collect information that you captured, and connect it to your system, add metadata or put it in a place that will provide the right context. PARA The LATCH system The STIR system methods of knowledge management
3. Distill - extract the valuable information, process it, connect to other ideas. Note taking (MOC)

As mentioned, one of the more powerful features of such a system is that it can easily resurface important ideas once they have been properly processed. However there are methods to make it easier as well.

Attributes of knowledge

1. Clarity - to make something understandable
2. Simplicity - To make something easy to follow
3. Atomism - To find the smallest core of an idea
4. Complexity - When the amount of information is just too much for one person to handle
5. Emergence - The unit is greater than the sum of it's parts
6. Medium Independent - Information is shapeless, it can be transmitted through various mediums.

Organizational knowledge management

1. Retention - maintaining knowledge of employees who retire
2. Initiation - transferring knowledge to new employees
3. Tacit vs explicit - experts who forget to mention what they already see as obvious

Videos

Building A Second Brain In Notion The Second Brain My Second Brain in Notion - Full Setup Create Your Second Brain Zotero

Podcasts

Building a Second Brain (podcast)

Creators

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish Tiago Forte Zsolt's Visual Personal Knowledge Management Linking your Thinking Nicole van der Hoeven Bryan Jenks Danny Hatcher

Other MOC