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 personal KM part of this blog is about organizing information an individual (as opposed to a group) comes 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 mentioned 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’s most important content, in categories divided by goals:

• Linking the pieces of information/knowledge together, organizing them in a coherent whole:
  • I think personal wikis can help with that
    • and they can help organizing your bookmarks too.
  • See my review of WikidPad, an open source personal wiki program
• Memorizing:
  • Discover spaced repetition and software like SuperMemo
  • Here’s a database of reviews of flashcard-type software (external link)
• Organizing documents you collect (as opposed to small bits of informations/knowledge):
  • See a to lay out documents on disk and name them for easy retrieval when many classification keyword/schemes may apply
• Finding better informationon 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
• Reading more efficiently
  • See this tool I coded to assist in practicing speed reading
    
  • Highlight Web pages you read and take notes directly in them
• Organizing your news and blogreading:
  • Learn about RSS basics, a way to centralize your news in one place
• Some miscellaneous utilities
  • 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.