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Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)

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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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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (15 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.

[–] Calixthe@pkm.social 4 points 1 year ago (12 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/

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (5 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

Why not create notes in obsidian and then just use search?

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