Thanks for the post Alex. It's very informative and I'm looking forward to the follow up blog post. I agree with your number one use case, but it's not the most

Thanks for the post Alex. It's very informative and I'm looking forward to the follow up blog post. I agree with your number one use case, but it's not the most important use case there is. The biggest reward of a PKB for me has been that sitting down to write a summary of what I read ingrains the new information in my mind. It's the writing that is the learning. I tend to reproduce the same thoughts I wrote later, even if I don't go back to read what I wrote. A PKB with little ability to organize is just as useful for me. Building a PKB isn't even the most important problem in my life. Few people on their deathbed will say: I wish my PKB had feature x. A more important problem is you'll wish you had changed yourself to have been strong enough to make different decisions throughout your life. So I'm going to go on a limb here and suggest something slightly preposterous about building a personal knowledgebase: you don't need one. What you need is what people fear the most: change. I've been in grad school too, and used a PKB religiously, and came out the other side realizing I made a big mistake: I shouldn't have gone through grad school. Not only did having a PKB not help me with that, but it also distracted me from facing the real problem that I was avoiding. Organizing a PKB better was rounding error compared to that bad decision.