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AI Mega Prompts - A technique of concatenating multiple notes and documents into a single comprehensive file to provide rich context to LLMs.
Analog to Digital Workflow - A structured process for transitioning paper notes, documents, and physical information into organized digital systems.
Atomic Thinking - A PKM system focused on breaking down information into atomic units, combining first principles with systematic note-taking to generate new ideas.
Avoid Complex Folder Structures - Deep and complex folder hierarchies create more problems than they solve - keep your folder structure simple and lean.
Capture Habit - The trained behavior of immediately capturing thoughts, ideas, and information.
Capture on the Run - The practice of being always ready to capture ideas and thoughts whenever and wherever they arise, not just at your desk.
Capture System - A reliable external system for collecting thoughts, highlights, and information before they're forgotten.
Categories Are Limiting - Rigid categorization constrains knowledge connections and hinders the cross-pollination of ideas.
Center of Gravity Principle - A place where things you want to hang on to naturally find their way towards.
C.O.D.E.C - Capture, Organise, Deconstruct, Emerge, Create - a knowledge management workflow.
From Collector to Creator - The transformative journey from passively collecting information to actively creating original work, using PKM as a bridge between consumption and creation.
Digital Clutter - The hidden accumulation of digital files, emails, apps, and information that silently impacts productivity, increases stress, and creates cognitive overload.
Digital Garden - An online space for cultivating and sharing evolving thoughts publicly.
Document to Forget - The purpose of documentation is to free your mind from remembering—once properly recorded, information can be safely forgotten.
Elements of a PKM System - The core components and processes that make up an effective personal knowledge management system.
Exocortex - An external information processing system that augments biological cognitive capabilities.
Externalizing Thinking - Getting thoughts out of your head and into an external medium to enable deeper thinking.
Five Hat Racks - A fundamental design principle identifying the five key ways to organize any information, summarized by the LATCH acronym.
Challenges with Folders and Tags - Understanding the trade-offs and difficulties of using folders and tags for organization: consistency, manageability, and usability.
Fourth Place - A thinking space beyond home, work, and social environments.
Graceful Degradation in PKM - Designing knowledge systems that maintain core value even when tools change or features disappear.
Idea Development Environment (IDE) - An environment focused on idea development, akin to a software IDE but for thinking, knowledge, and learning.
Information Diseases - Pathologies that affect information systems causing data loss, inaccessibility, or degradation.
Intellectual Capital - Your accumulated knowledge, insights, and wisdom treated as valuable long-term capital that requires protection and stewardship.
Elements of a Journal - The structural components of a journaling system: daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly notes.
Knowledge Compounds Over Time - Like compound interest, knowledge grows exponentially as ideas connect and build upon each other—but only with a system.
Link Rot - The gradual decay of hyperlinks as web pages move, change, or disappear over time.
Me Note - A personal documentation note containing information about yourself, your health, challenges, and personal details.
Mindset Over Tools - Prioritizing methodology, habits, and mental models over specific tools in knowledge work.
Notes as Cattle, Not Pets - Treat notes as part of a dynamic, evolving system rather than precious individual artifacts.
Periodic Journaling - Regular, scheduled journaling practice at daily, weekly, or other intervals.
PKM Anti-patterns - Common mistakes and pitfalls that prevent people from benefiting from personal knowledge management.
Personal Knowledge Management Process - The complete workflow from exploring content to creating and sharing knowledge.
Pillars Pipelines and Vaults (PPV) - A Life Operating System designed by August Bradley for focus, alignment, and knowledge resurfacing.
Process vs State Knowledge - Distinguishing between knowing how things work (process) versus knowing what the current state is.
Search vs Organization - The trade-off between relying on search capabilities to find information versus maintaining a structured organizational system.
Second Brain Phases - The five phases of building and using a second brain system, from capture to sharing.
Seek, Sense, Share - Harold Jarche's Personal Knowledge Management framework centered on exploring new ideas, making sense of discoveries, and sharing learnings.
Sharpness of Thinking - The ability to see concepts clearly, reason precisely, and connect ideas in novel ways.
Single vs Multiple Knowledge Bases - The tradeoffs between consolidating all knowledge in one system versus separating by context.
SN(A)CK System - A PKM system inspired by Zettelkasten that simplifies the thinking process from inputs through processing to outputs, with creation as the key to learning.
Stadium of Selves - A mental model for viewing your life as a gathering space where all versions of yourself - past, present, and future - coexist and communicate.
Pros and Cons of Tags - A balanced view of tag-based organization: the benefits of flexibility and cross-categorization versus the challenges of decision fatigue and recall.
Theory Behind the PARA Method - The underlying principles and rationale that make the PARA organizational method effective.
Types of Notes in PKM - Different note types serving distinct purposes in a knowledge management system.
Writing Is Thinking - Writing clarifies thoughts - the act of writing is itself a form of thinking.

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