I am on a journey to build a diverse and influential personal knowledge system. It's hard, but I have a plan.
by Gyöngyvér Szabó I plantconfident.com
I am on a journey to build a personal knowledge management system that actively works for me. I want to sit down at my computer in the morning, open my knowledge hub dashboard and know exactly what to pull from where. I have been skill-fully hoarding information in different apps - ahem - for years, and now it's time to say sayonara to old habits.
I have been living off of rapidly built topic knowledge (aka expertise) since forever and ever. I have to be on top of technology and industry trends and see overarching themes to do a good job. It's hard because I am a company of one. There is no hinterland like there was, for example, when I worked in higher education, where the entire system is about accumulating, structuring and sharing knowledge.
Connecting seemingly unrelated things is essential in creating strategy. Often, strategy is about uncovering what's not considered or even not seen. Digesting information and giving it back so the person on the other side of the table understands it is like working a miracle.
So I mapped out the pillars of my knowledge management system. It should look something like this:
→ CAPTURE. I need a well-oiled digital pipeline for capturing and saving information that can come from any source. A book I will read or already did, a journal entry, a Twitter or Reddit thread, any social media post, an article from a browser, an e-mail, a digital note, a video, etc.
→ ORGANISE. It would be cool to store the valuable part of those resources in a unified format, which will probably be in writing. I also want to access them in no more than three clicks once I open the hub.
→ PROCESS. I need a ritual or reminders to pre-digest the resources and establish the aforementioned miracle. Probably I should carve out one hour or so each week to deep-read what I saved that week.
→ ACTIVATE. Killer move: I want my resources to work for me, both short and long term. Once I processed and linked them together, I want them to tell a story, show a genuine pathway that I can later share through my work.
Did I write down what every researcher and journalist knows by heart and practice? You tell me!
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