How to build a knowledge management system (PKMS) and why it will help you be smarter

A knowledge management system (PKMS) is a cornerstone of an effective learner.

Sure, it's easy to find information on the internet, but making that information part of you, turning it in to knowledge, putting that information into action - well, that requires study, learning and a personal knowledge management system.

Sounds geeky, it is a little, but I love this stuff and all high performing people I meet have some form of personal knowledge management system.

In this video I share a four stage process you may want to copy, along with tools and techniques.

And the b-roll, although banding in places, was all shot on location in PG Wells bookstore in Winchester, UK.

Tools mentioned:

Apple Notes
Google Keep

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[julianavieira]

Not a manager, but seeking for a structured way to acquire more knowledge and... This has just blown my mind, it fills all the gaps! I feel like I can both learn and do anything now. Thank you!

[paulfrischknecht]

Very important point about making things searchable/well named/well tagged - you should put things where you will look for them. Then, when you search something and find it only on the third or fourth try, add the keywords you tried first so that next next time you would have found it immediately.

[d.s.r...]

This is so relevant for learners, especially managers! Looking forward to more ideas coming from your experiences.

[paulfrischknecht]

I think curation should happen in different layers or buckets. You have a first bucket which is literally everything you ever saw/read/noted. The second bucket is a curated subset of that with maybe some trash thrown out. Then on the next higher level you filter that and so on and so forth.

Now, because you cannot predict when something might become useful afterall, *you should not delete anything* - especially because nowadays, there is more than enough memory to store everything you could ever see. Just make sure you can curate and categorize into as many buckets as necessary.

[muhajirismail]

Thanks, nice video and very useful for us. The more we learn, the more we see that our knowledge is still lacking, never stop learning

[rosnahishak]

Thank you for the great video and the sharing of knowledge. I did my master in knowledge management and still venturing a lot more into this new field of management.

[quantumjun]

4C
1. capture: get information (but not scattered information everywhere which is people usually do)
2. curate: translate the information to yours
3. crunch
4. contribute

[paulfrischknecht]

Very well cureated & spoken, thanks for contributing this!

[ali-yearsold]

Sir, thank you. You inspire me to become a manager in the future. I will make sure to practice a lot of what you are teaching to me.

Hope you got a good health, from Indonesia.

[nexthalf]

IT's amazing and useful. Thank you.

[sstephan]

I'm not into management, I'm a scientist. Nevertheless, I found great value in this video. So thanks! One note though: in having a PKM in science there is less "contributing" in my opinion. Rather we "confront". I think that once the information one has is crunched, there is the responsibility of the scientist to go and confront this info to the data, either in the lab with a new experiment or to the existing literature (maybe by exposing this thesis to the authors of related papers...). Anyway, thank you very much and keep up the great work! 🙂

[justgivemethetruth]

> There's all sorts of web clipping tools ...

Like what? How do they work? What kind of formats do the come in. How do you store them?

It's not "what works for you" because you are re-inventing the wheel. If you intend to help us and add value, you need to tell us. You say Apple Notes is good. How do you use it. Where can I find out how to use it. I've used it before but never considered it as a way to consolidate my notes ... how? As well, not everyone has lots of time and money to try to buy, figure out and use these different tools - we need real workable examples.

[doobzb]

That first beat had no business being as funky as it was, can you give me the name of it pls lol

[peterluxus]

Sounds like "alchemy of knowledge",
Calcination. ...
Dissolution. ...
Separation. ...
Conjunction. ...
Fermentation. ...
Distillation. ...
Coagulation ...
and repeat

[doobzb]

And I'm annoyed at this video because I came here looking to have my mind blown but this is pretty much all stuff I already do 😠😂 great video though very well produced and you made some good points I had thought to myself but can't really articulate

[MFAK]

PKM Aside from sounding so incredibly self endulgent it's making sense of the world lol wow, hilarious. So if I reorganize my closet....I will have new clothes. Basically this is an app at best a way to procrastinate possibly feel smart. Think bigger people create a huge graph of all the knowledge we don't know, then collect the knowledge we can never know, then consider tasks actions we take on all while knowing nothing. The human world forgot its one of 90 million other life forms

[doobzb]

Maybe making a big video for yourself that is well organised with all relevant notes pictures quotes videos links and uploading them to a YouTube channel and making them into a playlist then making the playlist into a big mega video if you can is the ultimate form of memory storage lol

[jasonbolster]

They say if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. I say if life doesn't also give you sugar and water, it won't be good lemonade. Still, take the lemons anyway. Free lemons are good. Most things are good if they're free. Except rhinoceros poo. If life wants to give you free rhinoceros poo, it can keep it.

[pspicer]

PIM personal information management system for the younger generation... And around and around we go. Funny.