Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)

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A place for people to discuss Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS) such as "Building a Second Brain" (BASB), Obsidian, and more.

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What is your experience with pkms? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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Did you see a significant productivity increase? Did your motivation to work on long projects change? Did it help you get over roadblocks in long project? (I tend to lose motivation whenever I struggle to make progress for more than 3 hours in a row.) How do you decide what goes inside of the system and what doesn't? (we have search engines and chatgpt that can quickly give us the information we want for most things) How do you keep the information up to date, for example if you read a research paper and later it is partially disproven?

Thank you! Looking forward to learning about your experiences :)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm just curious at this point. I'd like to spin up a second brain but I've tried a few options - Zim, Obsidian, OneNote, text files synced with Dropbox, nothing seems to really stick for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Cevilia @AnneKitsune Do you have any requirements? There are some amazing free apps, offline first with free sync like #Acreom https://acreom.com/ which is geared to coding and long form writing and off-line first open source #AffinePRO https://affine.pro/ which is a #Notion replacement

If you don't want to have to do any customizations and are ok with online, there's @capacities which has robust free options and #Tana https://tana.inc/ and #AnyType https://anytype.io/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My main requirement is being able to type in facts or thoughts, and have them offloaded somewhere (I don't care where but would prefer it be local). Then later on I could bash in a few keywords and the program would spit out things it knows about those keywords. I don't want to be involved in trying to organise my thoughts. That way lies madness. :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

people love logseq for this type of note taking. the idea is you have a daily journal that creates a new page (from a template if you like), and you use backlinks to connect ideas. then you can click on any subject you've journaled about and it'll bring up a list of places where you've mentioned this thing. For example if you're learning a programming language, you can just type [[clojure]] and it'll show up on the clojure page.

I have a template that has an embedded page that keeps track of tasks I'm currently focusing on, a section for my random musings and journalings throughout the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Cevilia Sounds like you might like #AI integration. Two apps come to mind, #ReflectNotes https://reflect.app/ https://nitter.net/reflectnotes which has AI integration, very focused workspace with #Markdown, but still lots of functions like backlinks. The other is #CraftDocsApp https://www.craft.do/ https://nitter.net/craftdocsapp @[email protected] @[email protected] it also has markdown, backlinks, and an AI integration. It has a very broad workspace and lots of templates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget about mem.ai.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll take a look at them. Looks like they're both free to start too, so no harm in giving them a try :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acreom looks interesting! But 500 mbs of ram usage is worrisome

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@PsychrolutesMarcidus They have a really active Discord community, and I'm guessing they might address it if you mention it to them. Here's the link: https://discord.gg/kCGeBVGt Especially since this tool is aimed at other developers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I dunno. It is a pretty popular complaint about electron apps. They probably know about it, but it will take time to fine tune electron to use less resources.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@PsychrolutesMarcidus If you run it from the browser does it still use as much RAM? I've seen a lot of people post that they hate Electron apps, but I didn't fully understand why. Thank you for explaining. 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, ram usage is probably the most notable thing people seems to hate about electron apps. You are basically running another chromium browser. Which maybe fine for some other task. But for making notes it seems to be an overkill.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was your struggle with obsidian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The biggest struggle with obsidian was how it seemed to try to subtly push me to link everything together. I have a very disorganised neurospicy mind and I was hoping to be able to offload the burden of organising stuff to a program on my computer, but I couldn't intuitively get to grips with how Obsidian could help me with that other than just pushing me to do it myself.