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What is Personal knowledge management (PKM) ?

Ken Harrison
2 min readJan 31, 2023

Personal knowledge management (PKM) is the process of actively gathering, organizing, and applying knowledge gained throughout your life, whether through work, study, or casual internet browsing.

You can improve your productivity, decision-making abilities, and overall effectiveness in both your personal and professional lives by implementing effective PKM techniques. Starting with PKM is simple and straightforward. The first step is to decide what kinds of data you want to collect and organize. This could include articles, notes, research, and ideas. Once you’ve determined what you want to collect, you can begin using tools to assist you.

The concept is not revolutionary per se; however, a deliberate, well managed PKM is a game changer.

A few key components for starting your PKM journey are:

  1. A note-taking app
  2. A single source of truth (on the cloud, local desktop or mobile)
  3. Tags to organize your notes and folders

Evernote is a well-known PKM tool. Evernote is a note-taking and organizational app that allows you to record audio, save articles, and take notes. The app also has a web clipping feature that lets you save articles from the web with a single click. It also supports tagging, making it easy to find what…

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Ken Harrison

Technical Product/Program Manager passionate about productivity, motivation and tech. Writing about the intersection of technology and effective management.