In today's fast-paced world, it can be easy to get overwhelmed with the constant flood of information coming our way.
That's where personal knowledge management comes in.
Personal knowledge management is the process of actively managing and organizing the information and knowledge that we come across in our daily lives.
By doing so, we can better make sense of the world around us and navigate the complexities of modern life.
One of the key benefits of personal knowledge management is that it can help us to improve our productivity.
By organizing and prioritizing the information we come across, we can more easily access the information we need when we need it, saving time and reducing stress.
Another benefit of personal knowledge management is that it can help us to develop a better understanding of the world around us.
By actively seeking out new information and ideas, we can expand our horizons and deepen our understanding of complex topics.
Personal knowledge management can also help us to connect with others and build stronger relationships.
By sharing the information and knowledge we come across with others, we can foster collaboration and build a sense of community.
In addition to the personal benefits of personal knowledge management, there is also a broader societal benefit.
As active and informed citizens, it is our civic duty to stay informed about the issues that affect our communities and the world at large.
Personal knowledge management can help us to fulfill this civic duty.
By actively seeking out and organizing information about important issues, we can better understand them and take action to make a difference.
Personal knowledge management can help us to connect with others who share our interests and concerns.
By sharing information and ideas with these like-minded individuals, we can build a sense of community and work together to make positive changes in our communities and beyond.
This thread on personal knowledge management was written by ChatGPT.
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So @dreetje's video on how he does task management in @tana_inc is _awesome_.
So many cool things he does, and some I had no idea about were actually possible!
Let me highlight a few and then link you to the video:
1) Weekly Plan with "Busy Level"
This is ingenious. Andre has a field with seven levels of busyness for his week – that is an awesome way of framing the week and what work you select for it.
Stealing this!
2) Shift-Tab to get tasks out of a search
I had no idea this was possible, but it's _so_ convenient!
Create a search with open tasks, and then to "select" a task to do, just shift-tab with your cursor inside the task!
But as an early access product it's still clearly lacking in some important ways.
Let me do some thinking-in-public and illustrate what I mean:
Live Searches are amazing when you're searching for things that are clearly defined fields:
Here I'm recording meetings and looking for one where Cedric was an attendee. I can even look for meetings where we discussed CFT and teaching. Great!
Where Live Searches have a lot of room for improvement is in searching through structured data _in combination with_ unstructured data.
In the example above I can find the meeting where we discussed CFT and teaching because those words were mentioned _in the meeting node itself_
After all the crazyness of launching Mastering Tana Core, where I built a lot of stuff ad-hoc, I'm now at a point where I'm doing another iteration on my supertag systems.
And I thought it would be fun to show you a couple of the things I'm building:
First I like to create a place where I can collect my systems.
That puts all the related supertags in one place so I can see what I've built and quickly jump in to edit.
Also note the section for "General Fields" – super useful imo.
One step I teach in Mastering Tana Core when designing supertag systems is "Enumerating the terms" – what do you actually need for a system to work?
My product system, for example, has Product, Course, and SKU – and my email system has inbound/outbound, broadcast and automation.
Mastering Tana Core
Supercharge your life with Supertags!
I'm very excited about my new course on @tana_inc (invites included!) so let me tell you all about it: 🧵
When I got the demo for Tana I was slack-jawed (literally... mouth hanging open!).
Tana is an incredible tool – it's one tool for _everything_.
Whether that's note-taking, project management, networking, or journaling...it can do it all.
The reason why Tana is so powerful is one of its core features:
Supertags 🌟 🏷️ 🌟
Turns out 1 + 1 = 3 if you combine tags with templates like Tana has done.