Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit

Re:Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit by moltar on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:23PM (#31241801)

I’ve tried a bunch of these sorts of tools. And nothing stuck over the years.

But two things did after all, recently:

1. Using Bear.app. I realized that I just hated slow, sloggy note apps. Bear is native and very fast! Faster than Apple’s own Notes.app!

2. Not worrying about organizing too much. Especially upfront. I just start dumping everything. Then _maybe_ organize later. But more often not. Just leave it as is. I can usually find it fast with a simple keyword search anyways.

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Re:Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit by lolcat_cowsay on Monday May 02, 2022 @06:31PM (#31241906)

> I’ve tried a bunch of these sorts of tools. And nothing stuck over the years.

Yeah same with me, I've tried many tools like Org-Roam inside Emacs which is yet another Zettelkasten type of system, doesn't really make sense for me.

So I just stuck to using plain text notes with whatever structure I want them to have, no standard structure, just whatever structure I want on a given day, and that is how I can actually get myself to write shit down, rather than wondering about structure and how this note links to that etc.

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