Karl Voit's 2023 talk: The Art of Personal Information Management
| pkmI'm starting to dig into what other people have shared about personal information management and personal knowledge management. Karl Voit is one of my favourite people in this space, and I've enjoyed
I thought I'd sketchnote the recording of his talk at Worklab 2023: "The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data". Here it is:
Text from sketch
The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data - 2023 presentation by Karl Voit
My focus
- personal information
- methods, not so much tools
- developing your own methods
Vocabulary problem
- water, water bottle, bottle, drink, beverage, container
- If you ask different people to list words to describe it, you have to go far down the list to find shared words.
- Everyone has a different mental model, even past you vs. present you
Navigation, search
Desktop metaphor
- Things in the real world can have only one specific location
- Hierarchies
- In the virtual world, you can have multiple ways to find what you want: tags, search, …
Tag trees, filter
- ex: sports, hardware
Tagging tip: Controlled vocabulary: develop a short list of preferred words
Everything is Miscellaneous - David Weinberger
- physical order: only one order at a time (can change)
- index: library index catalogue
- no order
It nudges me to think about:
- where I can use tags to connect ideas that I file in different places, such as Embark-related context menus in my Emacs configuration
- reviewing my tags to see how I can consolidate terms or develop further distinctions
- creating maps and linking notes to improve navigation
- improving search for my personal notes so that it's easier for me to find things
I also edited some captions for it, because captions are nice. Enjoy!
Links:
- Worklab 2023: "The Art of Organizing Yourself and Your Data" - Karl Voit's talk and related links
- Everything is Miscellaneous - LibraryThing
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