Designing a Personal Knowledge System
A durable collection starts with retrieval, not a perfect hierarchy. Define what you need to remember, and what you want to do with it.
Working notes about formats, research habits, and small systems that deserve to be understood.
A durable collection starts with retrieval, not a perfect hierarchy. Define what you need to remember, and what you want to do with it.
Plain text is not glamorous, but it is easy to inspect, diff, back up, and migrate when tools change.
Search design starts with the question someone will ask later: exact string, remembered concept, or surrounding context.
A practical way to add relationships between notes without turning every thought into a database schema.
Think through ownership, offline behavior, synchronization, and recovery before choosing a personal tool.
Turn scattered reading and terminal experiments into a traceable body of evidence and decisions.