Personal knowledge base management

Track your knowledge, track your life
DennyZhang
UnitedStack

2013-08-25

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PKM – Personal KnowledgeBase management

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Why PKM and why it’s hard

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Showcase

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How to enforce

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Challenges

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What’s PKM I

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Why PKM is crucial I

PKM is a useful and lifelong marathon:
Repeatable success with no extra eﬀort
Remember your memory and your life
Start point for sharing and discussion

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PKM is the key to continuous success I

Improving self productivity normally means:
Knowledgebase management
Time management
Task management

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Quiz for your PKM I
When facing a problem you experienced twice, how long you
need to solve it?
When others’re facing a problem you experienced twice, can you
always share your knowledge easily?
How you share, for the above question? And how long it takes?
How many megabytes your knowledgebase is?

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Quiz for your PKM II
How frequent you suffer from finding some information among
tons of files in your computer?
When discussing some topic with friends, can you easily get all
questions and lesson learned which you pondered before?
You may find a lot of new stuff to learn during work. But when
you’re free or idle, do you still get the task list?

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Management levels of PKM I
L0: No comment :)
L1: Well organized
Remember everything, easily to be retrieved
L2: Knowledgebase can evolve
Similar knowledge can be easily combined and integrated
L3: Grow in a collaborate way
Sharing to others, leverage others to learn

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Why it’s hard I

Fighting against human natures
Lack of persistence, Innocence, Laziness, Greed
Take too much eﬀort
Maintaining PKM is like gardening

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Why it’s hard II

Too fragile
Information are generated from may different scenarios.
And it come from different files.

Too easily to mess up
Consider how many pdf, ppt, images, txt you have.
How they are mixed up, after time goes?

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Share anything in 3 seconds I

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Easy to capture I

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Easy to retrive I

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How to track I

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How similar knowledge evolve I

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Guidline of PKM I

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Comment
Remember everything Work, Life, Interests, etc
Fast to retrieve
Plain text search and hierarchy seach
Self-evolution
It’s simple not just record
Public share
Public export will force you to improve it
Easy to share
Low the overhead, do it socially
Keep it in plain text
Diﬀerent binary ﬁles tend to be isolated
Clear division
No ambiguous for the hierarchy search

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Hierarchy I

Maintain PKM in three tiers:

Tier Summary
Comment
1 Hot list
Current todo and wish list
2 Active Knowledgebase work/life/contacts/project/Diary, etc
3 Full Knowledgebase
Anything useful

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PKM with GTD I

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What to track I

For me, the content can be divied into:
Work:
major tasks in daily work, working projects
code snippets, console output, various usage of cli
mail, screenshots, meeting notes
links and partial content of web pages, etc

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What to track II

Life:
songs, books, movie, etc
random thoughts, pain points coming out in a ﬂash
phone call, f2f chat, im chat
diary, contacts, personal ledger
Ideas, brainstorming, lesson learned, etc

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What to track III

Interests:
programming lanuages
emacs, cloud computing, mobile computing, etc
Misc:
Other stuﬀ

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Lifecyle of PKM I

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Tools of PKM I

Org-mode of emacs
Wiki Pattern: Vimwiki, Tiddlywiki
Email Pattern: gmail, Outlook, qqmail
Mindmap Pattern: Freemind, Xmind
Web page pattern: Evernote, OneNote, WizKnowledge
And so forth

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Backup it in a minimum size I

Keep data small
No need to backup everything, just the important things.
Never store useless, huge ﬁles
Never store eBooks you won’t read
Prevent storing too many store high resolution photos
Prevent storing movies, large software

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Challenges for me I

How to do it in a more collaborate way
Make my exported knowledgebase more attractive
Integrate PKM with my mobile phone
Track ‘soft’ knowledge
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References I

http://www.davidco.com/forum/index.php
http://www.mindtools.com/index.html
http://www.mifengtd.cn/
http://zenhabits.net/
http://www.gtdlife.cn/
http://www.gtdstudy.com/
http://book.douban.com/subject/1430904/
http://book.douban.com/subject/1048007
http://book.douban.com/subject/4198078

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