#### [[What is a PKM System]] --- - What is your End goal, product, desired state? - Formal Document? - Thesis - Academic Papers - Creative output - Writing - Articles - Books - Fun - DnD - World Building - Fiction - Video scripts - Studying | Thinking | SRS partner - To just get more value out of notes - Escape rote memorization - Escape passive learning - Escape transcription - Escape useless forgotten notes - Quick capture of your ideas - 🌱️ notes - 📅️ daily notes - ✅️ Task Mgmt. Software - Status tracking - Capture the ideas, how how to manage them - How to process them to completion and not lose them in the shuffle - Textual searches - Special Symbol Taxonomy - [[Regular Expressions]] - Searches - relevant dates in titles - Association Traversal - soft links - hard links - filters - structure types more rigid --> less rigid - [[Johnny Decimal]] - folders - [[Map Of Content|MOC]] networks - free form - temporal components? --> Daily notes - adds timelines through links - show progression through material - a low friction way to begin work in the system - a great entry point - Types of inputs and their tools - Discovery - Acquisition - storage - processing / markup - Archival - reference - Thought facilitators - [[ABC lists are a great tool for associative thinking|ABC-Lists]] - Curation - Pick a topic and follow its [[The benefit of analog zettelkasten cards laid out on a desk can be replicated with andy mode#^568623|Rhizomes]] - random local graph traversal - Open random notes - set them to intervals for review with review plugin? - Aesthetics - A tool should first and foremost WORK, It should also inspire work not endless configuration - But a tool should be nice to use, and inviting - How to make it your own? color theme, CSS? - Automation - What can be automated? - What SHOULD/NT be automated? - Smart Lens's - ways of viewing your work in meaningful ways with tools - Mac smartfolders - Network graphs with filters - higher order filtering with MOCS --- - **How to think like me and my approach** - *look at my issues and desires then look at what others are doing * - `then (Jeet kune do method)` - *test things out in small experiments then ask* - `will it scale?` - `is there friction?` - `will maintainence cost become burdensome?` - *implement the system and USE IT* - *identify pain points and repeat this process* - **BONUS: always looking at new tools and determining** - `is the shiny new toy something i need and would actually use?` - `is the pain of migration worth the value of the feature(s)?` - `is this just for "wow" factor or will it actually add value?` ---