Knowledge management as defined as systems to capture, create, store, distribute and use knowledge 1. Personal knowledge management then is such a system for personal use. Wright (2005) adds to this: "to enhance the effectiveness, productivity and innovation of individual workers"2
Personally, I like to think of it more along the lines of the way Ahrens describes it (Sonke Ahrens - How to Take Smart Notes (2017)Sonke Ahrens - How to Take Smart Notes (2017)
Considered the standard work on note-taking and the Zettelkasten (slip box) concept, How to Take Smart Notes is a must-read for anyone who wants to make optimal use of their external second brain.
...), as a tool for better thinking through externalization.
There are various tools for different aspects of PKM. I use ObsidianObsidian
There are many tools for digital [[personal knowledge management]]. I've used Evernote extensively, Google keep for a few months, Notion for a summer, OneNote for a day, I've watched videos on othe.... I share some of my notes in a more cleaned-up version in this online digital gardenDigital garden
A digital garden is a type of web presence which is somewhere in-between a tweet and a blog, in terms of the amount of structure and finality of the contents (see [[note stages]]). Like a garden, i... you are currently visiting.
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Davenport & Prusak (1998) Working Knowledge: How organizations manage what they know, HBS Press. Google Books ↩
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Wright (2005) Personal knowledge management: supporting individual knowledge worker performance, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 3:3. doi ↩