{"id":621,"date":"2015-12-14T21:38:17","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2016-05-12T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T03:08:47","slug":"personal-knowledgebases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/14\/personal-knowledgebases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Personal Knowledgebase (PK) is any system that you use to store and retrieve general information<\/a>. The key here is that the system should be capable of storing a large amount information on any number of topics and, ideally, provide some type of way to view relationships between the information.<\/span><\/p>\n

Historically this has been the realm of pen and paper. More recently, people have used their computers to create folders of documents that they then search when they need to find something they stored. With the dawn of the Internet,\u00a0the wiki came along to take advantage of hyperlinks. For the most part, that’s where progress stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today most people don’t use a PK\u00a0<\/span>but they do, it’s almost certain to be Evernote or OneNote or something along those lines, basically a flat list of notes that’s easily searchable and taggable or folderable. Power users might use a personal wiki.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, all of these seem comparable to using a roll of toilet paper to write a book. You can do it, but there are better ways. Some of better options exist now, but I think that we’re still far from having a great personal knowledgebase.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a perfect world a PK would have the following features:<\/span><\/p>\n