Manage knowledge, don't store it

A Personal knowledge management system needs to be valuable in the knowledge and connections that it surfaces, otherwise the cost outweighs the benefits and we are in round after round of productive non-work¹.

Storing everything creates too much detail and the big picture is lost². Be very careful that you Don’t duplicate public knowledge.

Footnotes

1. Matla (2023), Stop Procrastinating with Note-Taking Apps Like Obsidian, Roam, Logseq ↩

2. Seitz (2022), Subsidiary Awareness and PKM Concerns — Nicholas Seitz Photographer ↩