PKM software: Provides tool support for knowledge application

Original: beyonlee

I. What do users need?
Knowledge management software users are knowledge workers who need to deal with large amounts of data and data frequently. In their daily work, they found the difficulty and inconvenience of managing a large amount of data, and thus the need to use software to manage data. However, it should be noted that, even so, a considerable number of users do not know how to manage the knowledge. As a result, their explicit needs are like traditional knowledge managers-library practices-directory management and document management. Therefore, most of the knowledge management software available on the market is a Directory Manager.

However, there is an important premise difference here-there is a significant difference between the Library's intention to use the Directory Index Method to manage books and general knowledge workers. The former manages to store and retrieve data, while the latter aims to reserve and apply data. In short, after the Library collects books and materials, it is important to classify the numbers and put them in the library. For specific retrieval and use, it is the reader's own business. WhileKnowledge workers are different. Data collection and sorting are only the first step. More importantly, they are collected, sorted, digested, absorbed, and restocked. === The dot matrix PKM is fully developed according to the PKM process and supports each stage.
Through the above analysis, we can find that the library and individuals have different intentions for knowledge management, which makes the methods and methods for managing data different from each other. The attempt to learn library management knowledge to design and compile personal application knowledge management software will surely fail-if there is still room for application, it must be because there is no better product yet.

So how should the knowledge management software be improved? I think the answer lies in the process of analyzing personal management knowledge. To be accurate, it should not be the process of managing knowledge, but the process of processing knowledge. The next generation of knowledge management software must be based on the process applications that process the user's knowledge. To understand this, you must have a deep understanding of the entire process of using the knowledge management software.

The process of using knowledge software can be divided into several stages: (contact and interest) -- think that there is reserve value -- collect to your own knowledge manager -- form a forking -- 1. For information that needs to be further absorbed and digested -- Focus on digestion, summarization, and secondary creation; 2. for data that does not need to be digested again, the key is to create an index for future use.

Ii. How to improve
In the first case, the key of knowledge management software is whether it can provide convenient means to "Digest knowledge. What are these convenient means? This requires market personnel to analyze user needs. Frankly speaking, it is not a simple task. Here, I will talk about it in my own way.

First, I needTool for data Annotation. Annotation is an important means for people to digest knowledge since ancient times. Its importance lies in the way that people digest knowledge, instead, we should first deconstruct-that is, first focus on the important content in the middle-and then integrate it. Therefore, if a knowledge management software cannot be annotated, it can basically be considered as a Directory Manager. In this regard, what I like most is the Word Annotation function-that is, it does not affect reading of the original text, and can clearly save the associations produced in reading, light and snow can be used as a reference. I think further improvement of mydata is the most important potential. ===Dot-matrix PKM itself seamlessly integrates office software, and should also be the only way word is stored as a web page; therefore, it is born with this advantage.Close integration with office is the core of dot matrix PKM!
Secondly, I need tools to summarize and create new materials. Obviously, only the key analysis is completed by the annotation, and the global summary is also very important. In this regard, mydata has a summary column, which partially solves the summary problem. However, this is not enough. Abstract: It is only an objective summary of the data, and there is no subjective thinking from the reader. At the same time, if you do not provide the space for secondary creation in the knowledge management software, you will have to use other tools, which will bring about: first, the efficiency is reduced; the second is to split the original related and coherent content. In short, it will cause inconvenience.

Finally, I need tools for knowledge dissemination and sharing. That is, how to easily and efficiently share your knowledge management software content, including original materials, comments, summaries, and secondary creations with others.

I have said so much, but I don't know whether I have taken you into consideration. In the end, I would like to summarize two suggestions for improvement:

1. Be sure to jump out of the "directory and index-based management" misunderstanding so that mydata can gain more development space.

2. In this process, it is critical to mine the deep-seated requirements of the user's knowledge management software. This kind of mining not only needs to understand users' opinions, but also relies on developers to fully understand and feel.

3. Do not extend unnecessary functions. Remember that in the market, specialization is a trend and King.

4. The proper positioning of the knowledge management software is "providing tool support for knowledge application ".

5. Software and methods are indispensable. A good software must not only be a tool, but also a set of methods. The planplus developed by Covey, author of 7 Habits of high-performance management, is a good example.