Overview
Personal Knowledge Management generally refers to the processes one uses to collect, store, classify, organize, and retrieve knowledge, as well as the ways those processes might support one’s work or personal endeavors. Most PKM systems take a bottom-up approach, in which connections between notes and resources emerge as one’s library of notes grows.
Examples
Analog
- The Zettelkasten Method is an analog PKM system. developed by the prolific German sociologist Niklas Luhmann.
- Another classic example is the commonplace book used by thinkers throughout history, like Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Newton, Virginia Woolf, and John Milton.
- The Bullet Journal Method is a “Mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system,” which can certainly serve as a PKM.