*Me briefly explaining my rationale as I wrote [[Understanding PKM]]* I hit a mental squeeze point But a mental squeeze point is for ideas, not for outcomes. As I continue to improve the documentation for USV, I have to deeply understand it so I can guide people through depending on their potential use cases: - Topic was to understand why PKM exists in the first place and how I can use this for explaining my USV - Understand PKM - Understand USV - Connect the two - References - USV documentation - Existing PKM frameworks as outlined in [[Learn PKM and note-taking methodology (Preview)]] - Braindump - How could I structure this? - If someone just bought my product, they bought it for a reason or helping with a specific use case - My goal is to identify those reasons and then help them guide towards how they can use it - But then if you had highly variable stages for each one, it would be a lot to try and understand - So I had to look at three things: - Favorite mental model has recently been [[The Golden Circle]] - Why, what, how - Why is the reasons people use PKM - What would their PKM look like - How do they use it - Existing PKM use cases - Learning with traditional note-taking - Creativity with the Zettelkasten and LYT - BASB for managing information - Narrowed it down to understanding, creativity, and productivity - Existing PKM organization structures - Zettelkasten note types - ACE - PARA - Not as much overlap, but helped a bit with clarifying how this works as they are the foundation of how it is done - Existing PKM processes - [[Progression of idea originality]] - CODE - ARC - rough process: - input - transformation - output - For each I: - Set up headers based on the important parts of the why, what, how - why - what (managing) - process - started dumping what I thought initially - Then started exploring the notes I had mentioned in references to help build off of it - And now started connecting it all together - And now I just need to apply it by sketching it into diagrams, been learning excalidraw recently - Outputs - Now I can use this as a north star for my upcoming actions - USV documentation note: [[USV and Personal Knowledge Management]] to help people understand the core knowledge processes in the vault - The "end in mind" when doing something - Use it as the main benefits and paths I will show when doing my [[My Second Brain Setup for 2024]] video - Can refer to it when I make more beginner-friendly videos on [[John Mavrick Wanders]] channel for the benefits of Obsidian/PKM