Links, backlinks, tags, atomicity…what’s the most important part of your note-taking system?
People.
Denham Grey believes that any knowledge system that isn’t driving toward sharing and collaboration is pointed in the wrong direction. In fact, Grey is fairly skeptical about the PKM movement in general, with its focus on information organization at the expense of knowledge sharing.
Actual knowledge work isn’t so much about categorizing, tagging, linking. It’s more about:
- Connecting
- Building dialog
- Collaborating
- Creating value through knowledge
- Building and participating in community
Dave Pollard observes that there’s a difference between “knowing” and knowledge. This difference is that knowledge has gone through a social process of validation, testing, and acceptance.
Without this social process, the notes in your PKM system are little more than your own personal whims and intentions.
You need an audience that will give you feedback in order to create genuine knowledge.
SOURCE Blog post on the Internet Archive: PKM by Denham Grey
Also on Wild Rye
Many people are using “PKM” tools for personal note-taking. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it doesn’t highlight the sensemaking and knowledge sharing that defines the PKM process. SEE Personal Knowledge Management — is it PKM or is it PIM?
Collecting information and finding ways to share it with others are key examples of Personal Knowledge Management Skills
