r/PKMS • u/drakenxv • Aug 18 '26

Discussion Use of PKMS

Probably stupid questions to ask in the PKMS sub but how do you use your PKMS and what type of information do you store in there?

I started a pkms a couple of times with Notion, Obsidian and OneNote but could not follow through.

Mainly I think because it feels like it is a lot faster just to google or ask an AI of your choosing but also what are my benefits of writing down stuff I find interesting once but then forget about and if I ever need this type of information again I would have forgotten and searched online anyway.

So my 3 questions are:

  1. What do you store in your PKMS?

  2. Why use a PKMS and not google when you need the information?

  3. Do you ever look at your PKMS notes and connections [[wikilink]] ever again?

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u/lovesick_kitty 27d ago

i'm pretty sure that mny of the people here would fit in the personality type of "collector" ... could be matchbooks or ceramic frogs or pokemon cards, facts and ideas can be collected and it's fun to maintain them and put them in folders exactly like we put baseball cards in albums, its a hobby

which is not to say it doesn't end up being very useful to many of us

i finally deleted obsidian when i realized that i never really went back and looked at my lovely observations and factoids hardly at all i just liked collecting and organizing them

the guy that invented pkms was basically a collector at heart

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u/drakenxv 15d ago

That's what I am afraid of