Figured it might be a good discussion question. Crossposted to [email protected].
Especially as someone who wants to help grow [email protected], and to participate to help it grow, but in the end I come from [email protected] and I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me. And if what I do is actually pretty separate from journaling it would be cool to know so I don’t invade threads I shouldn’t be talking in.
I think the organization thing, indexed vs not, might be a tendency but it definitely would not define PKMS vs journal, as I can imagine some people have very neatly indexed journals with a table of contents page and every page gets tossed on the table of contents once it gains contents.
I do think intention has to do with it. Indexing knowledge for future you, or just getting out personal thoughts for now to help you deal with them? Although that does not feel good enough right now, because some people also put things they think they’ll care about later in their journal, and some people review entries to try to figure out tendencies in their moods and habits, also known as they put down today’s knowledge for review later which sounds like a PKMS thing…
Not my intention either. To give you an idea I will index in my pkms entries from my journal where I wrote my thoughts about such or such book I’m reading, or a movie or some event, or whatever. But only as far as I think that entry may one day have interest outside of them being my (personal) thoughts on whatever. So, most journal entries, because of the way I write it, don’t enter my pkms. I value them almost equally, though.
Sorry if I came off as aggressive or “you are WRONG,” definitely meant this more as discussion. I was just spitballing thoughts. Thanks for sharing how you do it, and what differentiates your PKMS from your journal :)
You did not ;)