> [!DANGER] My story > [[Personal knowledge management saved my life]] Exploring the way we organize and interact with the information in our lives. ## How to Start I would recommend you do the following: - Watch my [Obsidian for Beginners playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLntFhxSBHZuqDxI9JF84xAk18SnLPzLbO) on YouTube - Take my two FREE email courses and do the action items: - [Beginner's Guide to Using Obsidian](https://free.johnmavrick.com/obsidian-templates) - Organize your life and master knowledge management via [CODE Method in Obsidian](https://free.johnmavrick.com/code-method) - Check out my other resources - [[AI for Personal Knowledge Management]] - And in obligatory influencer self-promotion fashion, if the above isn't enough and you want the ready-to-use and highly opinionated system that I use as my daily driver, you can check out my paid product, [[Ultimate Starter Vault]] (or if you are a student, [[Obsidian University]]) ## Notes This contains all the relevant notes I've taken on personal knowledge management :) For my philosophy of personal knowledge management visit [[Ultimate Starter Vault]] ### My Lens ### Tools - [[Obsidian]] for most of my workflows and knowledge storage - [[Readwise]] ### Types When you spend time listening to books and learning, you spend less time listening to yourself how can you strike that balance between internal and external thoughts? I think the easiest thing to do is to have that time in between transitions and during major parts of your day. like right now I'm on the toilet and it can be a good cue to just let the mind wander. #### External thinking - [[Note-taking]] #### Internal thinking - [[Note-making]] ## Benefits - Enhanced thinking - Effective learning - Facilitates creativity - You have a space to transform the ideas of others into one of your own, [[Progression of idea originality]] - Productivity for knowledge-work - Leveraging your knowledge with AI ## Attracts - Self or lifelong learners - Knowledge workers - [[Polymath]], [[Generalist]] ## Suggested Resources *From a Reddit post, have not read most of them* 1. Duly Noted by Jorge Arango. 2. Antinet Zettelkasten by Scott P. Scheper (Autor) 3. A System for Writing by Bob Doto (Author) 4. Information Architects by Richard Saul Wurman 5. Information Anxiety2 by Richard Saul Wurman 6. [https://maggieappleton.com/garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden) by Maggie Appleton 7. Ali Abdaal 8. Cal Newport 9. Andrew Huberman 10. "How to read a book" By Mortimer J Adler. 11. the garden and the stream by Mike caulfield 12. You and your research by Richard hamming 13. Almost anything by Andy Matuschak 14. Everything by Bret Victor - [worrydream.com](http://worrydream.com/) 15. Ted Nelson's work 16. vannevar bush with "as we may think 17. "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens 18. "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte 19. David Allen's "Getting Things Done" ### Research - https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/s/v3VIhp7MF9 ## Queries ### Notes ```dataview list from [[]] AND !outgoing([[]]) AND !#input and !#thought ``` ### Inputs ```dataview table Tags as Type, Links, Created from [[]] AND (#input) sort Tags desc ``` ### Thoughts ```dataview table Created from [[]] AND #thought sort file.mtime desc ```