I recently used linked thinking in Obsidian to do some critical meme analysis for therapy. It was a good exercise in creating index notes, e.g. a meme crossing over Marvel and The Good Place wouldn’t fit in a folder for either one.
I keep information I need to return to for work and personal life in there. I’ve been less disciplined lately as I’ve been doing a lot of journaling to explore my mental health needs
I’m glad to hear others are using their notes for mental health. I’ve been using intersectional memes as a way to connect similar patterns that are usually silo’d. Is there anything more you’d like to share on the topic?
I’m just using emacs org-mode and Obsidian for task management, and keeping track of my learning new code-y things… but no backlinks or anything yet. Was trying Zettlr as well. Waiting for an excuse to get really fancy with it.
I have never got properly into the habit of using one, but try use one for PARA type stuff for keeping notes about work and personal stuff.
At the moment I use Google Docs for work and Notion for personal stuff, but should try Obsidian or nvUltra or something maybe.
I stumbled onto this forum despite never having heard of PKMS. Does using Notion’s applicant tracker to track people who want to rent my room count?
I guess the difference between PKMS and KMS to me is primarily who’s using it. So yes? 😆
Been using Roam on and off for a while. A friend of mine calls it her exocortex and I’ve been feeling similarly. As someone with ADHD it’s so nice to be able to offload a bunch of mental overhead to a place where I can just review it later without having to struggle to recall what I wanted to remember!
Even though I prefer Obsidian now, Roam was like being able to run after only having crawled with Google Docs. It changed how I approach thinking.
Can you describe what you like about Obsidian vs Roam? You’re not the first person I’ve heard say they switched.
Hey, I wanted to take some time to re-find it but this video was what pushed me to make the switch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x54XJrECvk
I’m not sure if it counts, but I’ve been using Joplin for a couple years now to keep notes on various things in my life, ranging from gaming/movie logs to how to properly install some self-hosted service on a NAS. I’m curious to learn more about PKMSs though.
I would say that counts! Is there anything specific you’re curious about? Particular issues in your personal system or interesting things you’ve seen from others?
Sorry for the delayed response! No particular issues, just interesting to see that there’s a name and a community for this kind of system, and even that there is a system!
I’ve been trying to get into org-roam for research since I already use Emacs as my text editor for most of my other research needs (writing scripts, LaTeX, input files for programs). But I can’t keep consistency with PKMS in general. I last at most a semester and as soon as I take any vacation I lose all my habits.
I hope this comes across in good faith rather than pithy, but have you tried making a note of the habits you want to keep?
My main problem is going back to those notes. Whether I use Org+Dropbox, google docs/calendar, a physical BuJo, messages to myself on Whatsapp, etc… At some point checking the system slips my mind, regardless of the system.
That’s fair, I’ve run into that too. Is there anything that you do check? I’ve found that emailing myself and snoozing it (in gmail) helps since I’m an inbox-zero person.
Never heard of PKMS before, but I’ve looked a few of them up and they seem cool! I just finished exams for this semester, but they seem like good systems for note taking. For example in my Java subject they were talking about data structures like Queues and Stacks that we learned in the algorithms and data structures subject so I could just link that inline.
Oh gosh, I really wish I had a proper PKMS back when I was at university. I would have done exponentially better, I’m excited for you 😆
