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Many stereotypes surround the creative process and creative people. One of the biggest is the romantic notion that it’s okay for such people to be disorganized — in fact, that chaos and creativity are somehow directly related. The whole premise of personal knowledge management (PKM) is exactly the opposite — that we can collect ideas …
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As a college student I had the good fortune to meet Bob Gish, an English professor who turned me on to Styles and Structures: Alternative Approaches to College Writing by Charles Kay Smith. This head-exploding book is a liberal education between covers. Styles and Structures is out of print, but you can still find used …
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I blog to explore a single question: How can I systematically capture ideas, refine them, and implement the best ones? My answers lead me in many directions — from the traditional practice of creating a commonplace book to the new field of personal knowledge management. While this sometimes takes me down nerdy paths, I remind myself that the purpose …
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This blog is all about personal knowledge management (PKM). But what the heck does that mean, anyway? The answer matters, because the way that we define PKM influences how we do it and why we do it. Taking a cue from William Jones's wonderful book Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal …
Over the past decade we’ve seen an explosion of digital tools for personal knowledge management — that is, note-taking apps. Even so, there remains a vocal, articulate, and delightfully nerdy group of note takers who look at all those apps, shrug, and just say: Meh. Not for me. Take writer Douglas Barone, for example. His …
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