PKM Weekly May 1 2022 – Issue 017

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Bigger Ideas

Platform agnostic ideas that may help your PKM process. They may feature a software, but I think they apply to more than a single platform.

Great short article on getting the most out of what you read.

While I love digital notes, there is something about notebooks that digital systems can’t compare to.

I just found Vicky on YouTube, who has a bunch of Zettelkasten and Obsidian videos.

Jamie found some old daily notes unexpectedly this week and wrote about it.

Jon talks about the drawbacks of elaborate note systems. He faults these systems for focusing on notes, not actually producing anything. To read the whole post you’ll need a MacStories Club subscription.

How to take book notes and turn them into AntiNet notes.

Santi streamed a Q&A session covering productivity and note-taking apps for writers.

Touring a Digital Scrapbook.

Ev Chapman uses a breadcrumb tag to identify the next steps in notes.

While this is an older post, I finally got around to reading it. If you’ve wondered what PARA is, this is the post to read.

Interesting way to mark up the fore-edge of the books you read.

Here is an update to GTD methods because Nicole doesn’t find vanilla GTD that useful 21 years after it was invented. She uses Obsidian as her GTD tool.

AI powered Zettelkasten?

The quote below stuck out to me from the article titled Personal Knowledge Management is Bullshit. I do think that far too many people think some system will be their saviour, but if you aren’t sitting down and writing now or producing that thing you want now…you won’t be doing it once you’re using some new system.

The concept of the Knowledge Graph deserves the classification of bullshit because its allure derives primarily from the false impression that it can mechanistically deliver—or substitute for—the brute, linear willfulness that defines all non-trivial writing.

Do you also rely on note dead ends simply becoming irrelevant?

More discussion on the issues with digital Zettelkasten systems.

Here is a mathematical-based Zettelkasten workflow.