Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit
Anyone sharing a picture of their graph, or who even pretends to navigate&#x2F;look at the graph <i>as a graph</i> in any useful way, is definitely a bullshitter. In my experience, the graph is just a consequence that is sometimes pretty to look at, and that&#x27;s it. But what is it a consequence <i>of</i>? I think there is a ton of value in <i>taking</i> notes (probably more value than in <i>having</i> notes), so what I get out of Obsidian, my PKM tool of choice, is probably no more than vim keybindings on a text editor, but that text editor can autocomplete references to other files without getting in the way of bulleted lists or prose.<p>Pretty much agreed for the most part, but if these chic new PKM tools get people who need to take notes but kind of suck at it (like myself) to take notes, then that&#x27;s a good thing. Definitely not as miraculous as some claim. The cult around Roam in particular is well beyond laughable at this point.<p>Edit: The other thing I find very pragmatically useful, and is also a relatively simple thing (but <i>a thing</i> nonetheless!) is querying your notes. So I can take meeting notes, add some followup items as checkboxes, and then have a note that aggregates all of those to one place while linking back to their original context.