Personal Knowledge Management

A collection of 48 posts

Where Not What

WNW - The Daily Note

Explore the value of the Daily Note.

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Year At a Glance

A Novel way to visualize your year using Google Sheets.

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Time, Tasks, & Things

The tools for juggling time, tasks, and the "things" that make up our daily lives.

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Life Balance: Roles > Goals

In our goal obsessed culture, elevating the roles we play can help restore work life balance.

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USING ZETTLEKASTEN UNIQUE NOTE NUMBERS

Using Zettlekasten numbers to make your file names unique opens the door to linking your thinking in powerful ways. In this article I share the method and a template I use.

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Think GRIT

Instead of organizing files by type Think GRIT - Goals, Roles, Interests, and Treasures. This handy acronym can help guide how you organize your work for outcome.

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A ReMarkable Way to Take Notes

My go to digital / analog note taking system: the reMarkable tablet.

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The Power of Digital Journaling

Exploring Digital Systems and the Benefits of Notability Today, I want to delve into digital systems that mimic the experience of writing on paper.  From a creativity standpoint, my personal favorite is Notability on the iPad. There's also a popular alternative called GoodNotes. As of now, there may

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Capture Resonance with Sketchnoting

Sketchnoting is another form of journaling that is fun and creative. Bring your notes to life with a few simple colors and some lines.

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The Art of Bullet Journaling

Bullet journaling offers a path between unstructured and structured journaling systems.

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Structured Journals to Enhance Productivity and Gratitude

Today I'm going to give a quick overview of two of my favorite structured journals.

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Expressive Journaling

Today, I want to introduce you to another form of journaling that goes beyond the surface level. This is a therapeutic practice that has personally helped me navigate difficult moments in my life. It's called Expressive Writing.

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Getting Started with Obsidian

If you want to start building a Second Brain with obsidian, you can start right here. Stop trying to remember everything. Know where to go, to find what you need to know.

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Clear Your Mind With Morning Pages

If you're new to journaling or looking for a simple starting point, let me introduce Julia Cameron's Morning Pages technique.

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Where Not What

Why do you want to know about Personal Knowledge Management? Because it is much easier to remember one thing, than a million details. I call this philosophy, Where Not What. Because it helps me know the ONE place I where I need to go, to find out what I need to know.

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Obsidian Install Cheat Sheet

A friend of mine recently asked me to a "Cheat Sheet" for setting up an Obsidian Vault the way that I recommend for Personal Knowledge Management. This blog post is the result of that request.

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The Power of Journaling

What's the big deal about putting pen to paper? Let me tell you, my friend, there's more to it than meets the eye.

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My Path to Personal Knowledge Management: A Personal Journey

I’d like to share a journey with you, a personal voyage I embarked upon over a decade ago. This journey of self-discovery lead to the development of my current Personal Knowledge Management system.

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Three Most Useful Ideas from GTD

I've tried a lot of productivity systems. I did my best to love GTD but ultimately it did not work for me. However, three things have stuck with me and I use them almost daily.

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Obsidian Magic

Here's a technical tip on how to create your own custom obsidian callouts using the css snippet file. I used this to create an idea callout in Obsidian.

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Do Better Now - You Need It Now

When we organize information for time, there are three buckets, Now, Soon, and Someday.  Let's explore the first. 0:00/1×

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Do Better Now - Trouble Organizing Your Files?

In this video, I introduce the idea of organizing your information by WHEN you need to use them. 0:00/1×

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Do Better Now - Introduction

I've started a video series to share what I have learned about Personal Knowledge Management.  I will also be posting the videos here.  Each video is about a minute and will be posted on my social media channels each week. Introduction 0:00/1×