Personal knowledge management is the practice of collecting, classifying, storing, and retrieving information for personal use. It is related to the discipline of Knowledge Management (KM) which has to do with information collection and use within an organization.
Skills include:
- knowledge harvesting and storage
- personal networking
- use of social networks
- productivity skills such as ubiquitous capture and review, learning and memorization
Tools include:
- Email, calendars, task managers, knowledge bases
- Wikis, including personal wikis and semantic wikis
- Reference tools such as DevonThink, Zotero, etc.
- Zettelkasten and other note-taking software
- Social bookmarking
- Virtual assistants and AI
Practitioners include people ranging from Harold Jarche and his Personal Knowledge Mastery program to Tiago Forte and his Building a Second Brain methodology.
SOURCE Wikipedia, Personal Knowledge Management
SEE ALSO
PKM has an end goal of sharing knowledge. Similar tools and processes used for general information management are better described as PIM. SEE note on The Difference Between PIM and PKM.
TK – PKM is a process not a tool † 202212251453]]
SEE ALSO notes on:
Personal Knowledge Management Skills
TK – Personal knowledge management methods † 202212222129
Blog posts: I wrote about the social aspects of PKM – Personal Knowledge Management – is it PKM or is it PIM?
Also see my post on PKM software: Roundup of 66 Tools for Thought to Build Your Second Brain
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