Build a Personal Knowledge System (1 Year)
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Design and maintain a personal knowledge management system for 1 year with 100+ connected notes and a public output (essay, talk, or article).
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Choose a domain and build your initial capture and processing system
2–3 weeks (system setup + first 20 notes)
A knowledge system is only as good as its capture process. Choose a domain where you want to build cumulative knowledge over time. Set up a capture workflow: a free tool for note-taking (Obsidian, Logseq, Notion, or a local text editor), a consistent tagging or naming convention, and a weekly processing block. Process your first 20 captured items (articles, book highlights, observations, or notes) into your system: each item should be in your own words, linked to at least one other item you already have, and tagged with the domain and concept type. The result is not a collection of copied quotes — it is a map of ideas you have processed.
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Submit a screenshot or export of your first 20 processed notes showing: the note is in your own words, each note has at least one link to another note, and the tagging or naming convention is consistent across all 20.
What gets checked
- Notes are in your own words — copied quotes with a source link is a bookmark collection, not a knowledge system.
- Every note links to at least one other note — isolated notes are not a knowledge system.
- The 20 notes are from at least 3 different sources — a single long book broken into 20 notes does not test the capture workflow.
Build to 100 notes and produce your first synthesis
Use your system to produce a public piece and reflect on the process
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