My PKMS overview

#todo

“I only do what is easy. I only write when I immediately know how to do it. If I falter for a moment, I put the matter aside and do something else.”

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Notebook: I use sequential journaling and Bujo techniques to use my journal as a record keeping inbox. Weekly review converts important info to digital form for LTS.

Todoist: Primary Digital inbox. All events, tasks, and ephemeral notes go in here to be sorted. Source of truth for daily tasks and Context tasks

G-cal: Source of truth for all events

Hobonichi: For time blocking days.

Obsidian: For long term storage of evergreen content

Notion : Project management , ephemeral notes like desires, therapy notes, shopping wishlist

G-Keep: Ephemeral notes, contacts,

Can this be simplified? Can we remove one or more of these softwares and consolidate notes??

Note Flow

Read source -> source note Private or Broken Links
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-> splits into -> Lit Note Private or Broken Links
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s-> combine into -> Evergreen NoteEvergreen Note

Notes are atomic: they contain one idea
Notes are Autonomous: they are self contained and require no context
All notes are linked: all links should be explained
Notes are written by me- th...
-> Related to other notes -> marked in index

Evergreen notes are then developed over time

As per Obsidian's Role in my PKMS Private or Broken Links
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, all notes should be in a state of movement towards permanence. No fleeting notes. (This leaves an open question of what to do about daily notes. Perhaps they should be deleted- I will wait until it becomes a problem where they overwhelm search capacity 9/27/23 )

Goal and Project Flow

Project Management

Have seasonal goals planned. Always see these setting up the week plan. look at week plan when setting up day plan.

Project Flow

Note DesiresDesires
What is desire?
What I mean when I say desire. This term should be defined clearly because I use it everywhere.

I do not have a concise and atomic definition of Desire however we can infer a defin...
during the day -> develop into Ideals -> Create goals that align with ideals -> create projects to complete goals and objectives-> create objectives to track progress on goals

Task Flow

Tasks all go into Todoist where they are dealt with in order per GTD

  • One off tasks are labeled in context
  • Projects get moved to Notion
  • Tasks/events with dates are added to calendar / added to day in hobonichi

Example of Integrating Notion and TodoistExample of Integrating Notion and Todoist



Todoist should be clean and only show actual next actions . Inbox can act as inbox but tasks should be offloaded and organized into notion if they are not due by an explicit date/a m...

Potential Analogue Solutions

  • ~~fleeting notes and tasks go to HPDA where they are dealt with per GTD / uploaded
  • Fleeting notes and tasks go in notebook

Separation of Personal Notes

There is some cross over in my obsidian vault of evergreen and personal notes / fleeting notes. This appears to happen in Andy Masutchack's notes as well, although he hides his personal notes behind a login. I see other creators that keep a slipbox as well as other notes and writing in the same vault and I would like to as well.

Annual -> Seasonal -> Monthly -> Weekly -> Daily

Annual: Define and Align Ideals, Check 5 year Private or Broken Links
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Seasonal: Define Goals which align with Ideals Monthly: Define Projects which move towards Goals Weekly: Decide on which Projects to prioritize Daily: Decide on Tasks to complete