Personal Knowledge Management

What is Personal Knowledge Management?

Personal Knowledge Management is the Activity of collecting, organizing, and storing Information related to all the various subjects, experiences, and fields of study that a person learns about over the course of a lifetime. The goal of Personal Knowledge Management is to increase the Usefulness of Information that a person has themselves or has access to. 

In other words, Personal Knowledge Management is an application of general Knowledge Management carried out on a personal or individual level.

Note-Taking can be thought of as a sub-activity of Personal Knowledge Management.

Here are several tools that make Personal Knowledge Management easier:

• Personal Wiki Programs
  • Tiddlywiki
  • The Brain
  • Vimwiki plugin for Vim
• Networked Note-taking tools
  • Emacs org-mode
  • Foam plugin for VS Code
  • Logseq
  • Obsidian
  • Roam Research
• Mind-Mapping tools
  • XMind 8

Personal Knowledge Management Concepts

• Zettelkasten

Topics in Personal Knowledge Management

• My Zettelkasten Method