Lasting Value
Failing at Personal Knowledge Management
In previous attempts at creating and maintaining Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMSs), I have thrown lots of material into my storage facility DEVONthink. I was of course thereby demonstrating that I had fallen prey to the Collectors Fallacy.
Items which were stored in DEVONthink may have passed a threshold of interest, but they were prone to two problems:
- I may have stored items which were of passing interest, but whose utility was ephemeral
- there was no obvious retrieval method, or means of linking ideas together, even allowing for DEVONthink’s rather impressive AI.