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Using a system of personal knowledge management (PKM) has been a huge boon for me. Just the act of jotting down all my ideas whenever I have them (Google Keep),

Using a system of personal knowledge management (PKM) has been a huge boon for me. Just the act of jotting down all my ideas whenever I have them (Google Keep), then dedicating time to structuring/curating them into an organized format (Microsoft OneNote), and then being able to quickly access them in the future has helped my retention and creativity immensely. I just see patterns I never would have recorded or remembered otherwise. Sometimes it's a pain to dedicate a few hours every weekend to structuring all this information but I've found the long term benefit to far outweigh that cost.

fartcannon 8y ago
Aren't you worried that google or Microsoft will deprecate your personal library? Google isn't exactly good at keeping non-gmail programs in good shape and my original MS One note files simply do not open anymore. Do you at least keep a plain text file somewhere? It just seems like such a delicate choice of software to use for something like your personal knowledge. Certainly a wiki of some kind would be better?
- opan 8y ago
  I had a similar thought to this. I was shocked that he was willingly and publicly making proprietary software such a part of his life, and I thought of emacs org-mode, but maybe he doesn't like that sort of workflow. I've only barely used org myself, but I've seen a lot of thoughtbot talks and such that make me feel like bringing it up in case someone goes farther with it than I did.
  - doomjunky 8y ago
    Thanks to GDPR now everyone can export all their data.
patrickk 8y ago
Interesting. After reading Siver's writing on this topic[1], and your comment, this is really something to get into. Every once and awhile I'll re-read something that I "should" have retained and internalised (by my own standards) but that hadn't sunk into my long term memory. [1] https://sivers.org/dj https://sivers.org/dj

fartcannon 8y ago

Aren't you worried that google or Microsoft will deprecate your personal library? Google isn't exactly good at keeping non-gmail programs in good shape and my original MS One note files simply do not open anymore. Do you at least keep a plain text file somewhere? It just seems like such a delicate choice of software to use for something like your personal knowledge. Certainly a wiki of some kind would be better?

opan 8y ago
I had a similar thought to this. I was shocked that he was willingly and publicly making proprietary software such a part of his life, and I thought of emacs org-mode, but maybe he doesn't like that sort of workflow. I've only barely used org myself, but I've seen a lot of thoughtbot talks and such that make me feel like bringing it up in case someone goes farther with it than I did.
- doomjunky 8y ago
  Thanks to GDPR now everyone can export all their data.

patrickk 8y ago

Interesting. After reading Siver's writing on this topic[1], and your comment, this is really something to get into. Every once and awhile I'll re-read something that I "should" have retained and internalised (by my own standards) but that hadn't sunk into my long term memory. [1] https://sivers.org/dj https://sivers.org/dj