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My talk at the PKM Summit: Doing It in Public (Patreon)

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2024-04-05 14:25:39

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On March 22nd and 23rd, I went to the PKM Summit, a conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I had never been to an in-person conference just for Personal Knowledge Management and note-taking, and it was amazing.

I did two talks at PKM Summit. In the first one, my friend Zsolt VIczián (whom I met for the first time there and who is the developer of the Obsidian Excalidraw and ExcaliBrain plugins) talked about how to use Excalidraw for playing TTRPGs (TableTop Roleplaying Games). This talk was recorded, though I don't have the recording yet. I'll definitely share it when I do!

The second talk is the one I've rehashed here, because it was not recorded and I still wanted to share it. It's called Doing It in Public: Observability for PKM, and it relates my day job (as a software performance engineer) to note-taking and PKM systems.

PKM Summit notes

When you gather a bunch of note-taking nerds in one place, there will be notes. It was surreal to attend a talk and see almost everyone take notes in some way. I saw physical notebooks, mobile devices, tablets, laptops, e-ink tablets, and more software apps than I'd ever heard of.

Here's a link to my notes on some of the talks from the conference. I've been trying out hybrid approaches to note-taking recently, and took all my conference notes on my new Boox Air 3C e-ink tablet. Those notes are available on PDF in the vault linked above, but their primarily visual nature (and the presence of Zsolt) inspired me to use Excalidraw. I have more videos planned around this, but here's a sneak peek for you lovely folk. This is an Excalidraw drawing within Obsidian that maps out my experience at the PKM Summit:

Zsolt and I also recorded a long chat discussing visual PKM and the conference in general. I plan to release it in full to Patreon in the next few days, so stay tuned for that!

Have a lovely weekend!

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Learning in public with Personal Knowledge Management

The quest of learning in public with Personal Knowledge Management is really about making what you learn observable and exposing your process, rather than your result, early and often. This is a rendition of a talk I gave at the PKM Summit in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on March 23rd, 2024, and it relates concepts borrowed from performance engineering and software development to PKM systems. // TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 What is PKM Summit? 00:00:35 Doing It in Public - Observability for PKM 00:02:47 What it means to make a system observable 00:05:45 Why make your PKM system observable? 00:11:38 How to make your PKM system observable 00:12:18 1. Make the thing 00:18:47 2. Instrument the thing 00:26:14 3. Monitor the thing 00:35:30 4. Refactor the thing 00:41:39 Summary 00:43:25 Doing It in Public, the book // RESOURCES PKM Summit: https://pkmsummit.com/ Slides here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAF6moBC3mU/farao2EWcQe-A_MmHkVfWA/view 🎥 Andy Polaine - Simple tricks for defensive calendaring to take back control of your time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-OSEgcqxs Workshop Facilitation course: https://courses.polaine.com/view/courses/workshop-facilitation 📕 Open Space Technology: A User's Guide: https://amzn.to/3xr6Zvp 🎥 Links vs. tags vs. folders: knowledge gardening for Obsidian with Jorge Arango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipvNQI8AQg --- // ABOUT ME Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole // APPS I USE - Obsidian: https://obsidian.md - Readwise: https://readwise.io/nicole - Shortform: https://shortform.com/nicole - Reclaim: https://go.reclaim.ai/eg0tgbamp7cb - Snipd: https://link.snipd.com/Cx7S/nicole - Napkin: https://napkin.one/?via=nicole // GEAR https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/gear/ // WANT TO SUPPORT ME? ❤️ Join my Patreon and get my sample vault with templates: https://patreon.com/nicolevdh ☕ Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/nicolevdh Note: Some of the links above are affiliate links, which means I may get a small percentage when you sign up using those links. To see how I decide what to promote in this way, check out my Ethics Statement: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com/ethics/