Structure in the flow

Note August 27, 2009: originally this blog concerned solely personal knowledge management (PKM). I’ve just merged it with my more “personal” blog, therefore this guide now concerns a part of the whole blog, ie. the entries concerning PKM.

The PKM part of this blog is about organizing the information you (personally) come by everyday by studying, searching on the Web, reading the news, etc.

Please note that old posts may change, especially broad/longer posts. When significant changes are made they’re mentionned as a short new post (so you’re warned through the RSS feed) and in a Changelog section on the page (longer explanation).

Here’s the site most important content, in categories divided by goals:

• To find a general solution solution to link all the pieces of information together, organize them, make sense out of them:
  • I think personal wikis can help with that
    • and they can help organizing your bookmarks too.
  • See my review of WikidPad, a free and efficient personal wiki program
• To organize your news/blogs reading:
  • Learn about RSS basics, a way to centralize your news in one place
  • See how a pro reads his daily 600+ RSS feeds
• To memorize more efficiently:
  • Discover spaced repetition and software like SuperMemo
  • Here’s a database of reviews of flashcard-type software (external link)
• To organize documents you collect:
  • The way I personally lay out documents on disk and name them for easy retrieval when many classification keyword/schemes may apply
• To find better information on the Web:
  • Learn about social bookmarking basics, sites in which people share their best bookmarks
  • Some tips for searching the web effectively, something that often takes more time that we first thought
• To read more efficiently
  • See this tool I coded to assist in practicing speed reading
    
  • Highlight Web pages you read and take notes directly in them
• Some miscellaneous utilities
  • Augmented reality applications that add information to your surroundings
  • This post about Quix, a bookmarklet which helps in integrating in your workflow some of the tools written about here (and many more).

Finally, for curious readers, some background material:

• A map of interesting concepts about learning and knowledge
• An article on people mass-producing Web pages with little content for ad revenue

And, for programmers, I have a post on organizing code snippets that might interest you.