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# Personal Knowledge Management

PKM requires taking notes,
but implies additional discipline not implied by "[[note-taking]]".

PKM allows one to forget things they _know_
to make room for ideas they're considering.
For this reason terse notes filled with acronyms and abbreviations
are as good as useless.
It is not acceptable to omit details
believed to be implied by the context.
One must write with clarity sufficient for an outsider to understand,
because the writer will eventually be the outsider.

## Getting Started

Getting started with PKM will feel so intimidating that you'll want to give up,
but there's a surprisingly large amount of content on how to do it,
especially with [Obsidian](https://www.google.com/search?q=getting+started+with+obsidian).

Note that PKM gets a lot of hype from productivity influencers
so you may leave some of those videos feeling like you need to pick up bouldering.

It speaks to the highly personal nature of PKM that, of these hundreds,
there is no consensus larger than two on best practice.

## See Also

* [[digital-gardens]]

## Resources

* [obsidian.md](https://obsidian.md/)