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What is Personal Knowledge Management?

Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is the practice of capturing our learnings and ideas into digital notes, and transforming those notes over time into specific deliverables and results in our work and life.

We're going to build a simplified version of the PKM system described in Building a Second Brain.

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Click the answer to each of the following questions:

Do you know what Building A Second Brain is?

Yes

I need a reminder...

No

Do you take notes when you read books, articles, PDFs, etc.?

Yes, always

Sometimes

Rarely or never

Do you know what Progressive Summarization is?

Yes, and I use it when I interact with my notes

Yes, but I don't use it often

No, what's that?

Do you know what PARA is?

Yes, and I organize my information using PARA

Yes, but I haven't organized my information yet

No, what's that?

How hard is it for you to turn your notes into blog posts, presentations, or other deliverables?

I feel confident with my workflows for making deliverables

I'm not always certain how to piece together my notes into something useful

I'm not confident at all about creating deliverables


Action Pages:

What is Building A Second Brain?

Practice Taking Notes

Learn About Progressive Summarization