I see the Personal Knowledge Management industry (what used to be called ‘notes’) is becoming even more cult-like than before. I expect people to step up their rhetoric to ‘singularity’ (aka rapture for nerds) levels soon.
@baldur The movement is odd to me. The collect and collect. Then they write or share all while never really living or experiencing life or the wisdom they think they are collecting. It reminds me of the whole GTD movement. Who has the coolest setup to manange tasks - but was anyone doing any of the tasks other than working on how to organize their tasks?
@baldur As a journalist — and therefore professional note taker — for 30 years, the movement should be meaningful to me, but is not.
@terrygrier Exactly! It’s all a sort of performance that never actually translates into more interesting writing.
@MitchWagner Mitch, curious. Do you think there is value in having a massive digital collection of sources and links etc? One thought comes to mind for me - is I was researching the early blogging movement and how many broken links etc there were. Have you written about digital vs paper notes ?
@baldur @terrygrier There is a lot of navel gazing involved that’s true, but I think that Obsidian in particular is just a great personal wiki/notes app. Sometimes these over-heated trends create the conditions for good stuff as well.
Do you think there is value in having a massive digital collection of sources and links etc?
For large projects that take a long time to complete, sure.
Have you written about digital vs paper notes ?
No, I have not. Plenty of people have written at length on the subject. I'm exclusively a digital note-taker when practical, which is nearly all the time.