PLAIN TEXT. PAPER, LESS.
Eventually Consistent: a PKM Allegory on Taking Imperfect Action Now
PTPL 133 · How plain text accounting is informing my personal knowledge management practices
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Personal knowledge management, or PKM, is a broad term I use for how the externalised thoughts I choose to record in a digital format are organised. It’s about processes rather than apps, yet one often strongly influences the other.
PKM is a deeply personal thing.
The only right or wrong is how one’s practices help or impede the flow, the connections you are seeking to make between what you know, and what you are seeking to know.
I like to identify and explore principles that can guide an effective PKM system no matter who it belongs to or what it looks like. One such principle is that of eventual consistency, a term I first heard via Tyler Cipriani, in reference to the work of Dmitry Astapov.
You don’t need to be interested in plain text accounting to feel the truth of the idea that it’s okay to start rough and refine as you go!
