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PKM

Personal knowledge management: capture, connect, retrieve.

Tue · Sep 15 daily · 1 min Write the reason before the quote Issue #24 · 15 Sep 2026 Sun · Sep 13 daily · 1 min The ideas that won't let go are already doing the work Issue #22 · 13 Sep 2026 Fri · Sep 11 daily · 1 min AI doesn't amplify thinking — it changes what you have to think about Issue #20 · 11 Sep 2026 Thu · Sep 10 daily · 1 min The second brain problem is a first brain problem Issue #19 · 10 Sep 2026 Tue · Sep 8 daily · 1 min Notion as agent memory: the graph you'd build anyway Issue #17 · 8 Sep 2026 Mon · Sep 7 daily · 1 min Smart Second Brain: six design questions worth asking Issue #16 · 7 Sep 2026 Sat · Sep 5 daily · 1 min Capture everything. The real problem isn’t how much — it’s what you can find. Issue #14 · 5 Sep 2026 Fri · Sep 4 daily · 1 min The scalability problem with manual PKM Issue #13 · 4 Sep 2026 Thu · Sep 3 daily · 1 min Split Your MOCs Before They Become Unusable Issue #12 · 3 Sep 2026 Wed · Sep 2 daily · 1 min Good Systems Are Never Finished — They're Versioned Issue #11 · 2 Sep 2026 Tue · Sep 1 daily · 1 min The semantic layer problem in PKM Issue #10 · 1 Sep 2026 Sun · Aug 30 daily · 1 min A PKM is only as good as what you can find in it Issue #08 · 30 Aug 2026 Thu · Aug 27 daily · 1 min The Setup Phase Is Never the Problem Issue #05 · 27 Aug 2026 Tue · Aug 25 daily · 1 min [FD#03] The Step You're Not Designing Most PKM advice is capture advice. Which app to use, how to tag things, PARA vs Zettelkasten. The retrieval step barely comes up. That Mon · Aug 24 daily · 1 min [FD#02] Formula Daily — Aug 24 How do we edit/maintain the skill.md files? For me there’s a difference between a skill and an action. Actions are big

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