# Main parts of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
- Collecting/curating knowledge
- Gathering information from various sources, including books, articles, online content, and personal experiences
- Creating new knowledge
- Synthesizing new knowledge through reflection, exploration, creativity, and combining different pieces of information
- Storing and centralizing knowledge
- Organizing and storing information in a manner that makes it easily accessible
- Organizing knowledge
- Organizing and classifying information into meaningful categories, and using tags/links/backlinks/metadata to facilitate search, identification and retrieval
- This implies the need for clear conventions, structure, templates, automation, workflows, systems and habits
- Reviewing and reflecting
- Regularly reviewing the information and knowledge you have acquired to reinforce learning, identify gaps, explore new ideas, and reflect
- Other activities
- [[Tools for Thought (TfTs)]]
- Utilizing digital tools and software designed to enhance learning, thinking, and knowledge management, such as [[Obsidian]], mind mapping software, etc
A PKM is a system that is *deeply* integrated in one's life. Many activities can leverage one's PKM.
Actually, when all of this is put together, we talk about a [[Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS)]]
## Related
- [[Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS)]]
- See visualization: [[Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS).canvas|Personal Knowledge Management System]]
- [[Elements of a PKM System]]