23: Creating Your Own Knowledge Database For Daily Life

In this episode we discuss the importance of creating your own personal knowledge management system to store information you learn throughout your life, how to make sense of it in your own words, and how to organize it in a manner to better leverage it in your life.

Personal Knowledge Management System: A PKM system is a system in which you gather information you deemed valuable, make sense of it in your own words, store it, and retrieve when needed for your daily activities.

Call-To-Action

1. Identify a location where you will capture content or ideas
2. Identify a location where you would like to store information you deemed valuable enough to add to your personal knowledge management database
3. When you write down notes about something you learned, try to explain what you are learning in your own words

Tools:

• Things 3
• Obsidian
• Evernote
• Notion
• Roam Research
• Apple Notes
• Microsoft OneNote
• RemNote
• HyperNotes
• Notebook

Video:

• How to build a knowledge management system (PKMS) and why it will help you be smarter

Article:

• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information