"5 W" self-analysis of Personal Knowledge Management

What: What is PKM?
Why: Why PKM?
How: how to perform PKM
When: Just do it, act immediately, and "know before"; do not stay in theory.
Where

1. What is PKM?
Generally, it refers to the process in which individuals use tools to establish a knowledge system and continuously improve the knowledge collection, digestion, absorption, and innovation. The English word is Personal Knowledge Management, abbreviated as "PKM"

2. Why PKM:
1. Do you know how many documents you have collected? When was your last reading? How many times have I read it?
2. Do you know the average time for finding a file? What is the maximum time? What is the shortest?
3. Have you found that you often spend a lot of time searching for methods to solve the same problem? Because there is no or no "previous experience summary" available for reference
4. Do you know your knowledge distribution? Which industries do you care about? How much up-to-date information is collected and digested?
5. Do you regularly Back Up Files? Are you frustrated when your own files are lost?
6. How many industry-related knowledge can you focus on?
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Systematic management of all kinds of information, quickly finding and solving problems as needed; thus saving time, the result is to continuously improve the competitiveness of individuals, and then make more contributions to society!
* How much is your 1 hour value? -- Find a file every day? How long does it take to put files? How many documents have you downloaded but haven't seen it once?
Save 10 minutes every day. How many minutes have you saved in one year? -- At least 60 hours!

3. How to perform PKM
1. Reflect on your current PKM situation: Do you have a knowledge system? Are there storage specifications? Are you interested in the dynamic information of the industry? What are the ways in which your knowledge is distributed? What are your experiences?
2. Do you know about PKM? Do not understand or hear it for the first time, please refer to: Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) national promotion Series
3. Want to change the status quo? Want to make file management orderly? Do you want to remember the location where the file is stored? Find a suitable PKM software tool.
4. Understand how PKM software tools create a "knowledge classification system "? How to specify the order of classification display? How to import existing data to the system? How can I use various quick search functions?
5. Stick to it! Stick to it! Stick to it! After a while, you can see the effect!

* Quick search is the core of professional PKM!
4. What are the features of professional PKM software tools:
1. Quick Search: The search screen must be directly found on the main interface to find the required information at will and in the shortest possible time! Search must be completed in an instant!
2. knowledge classification: "multi-dimensional classification", "sorted display order", "statistical quantity", and "penetrating display" must be supported.
3. knowledge point: you must support editable, remarks, reference values, evaluation, multi-File Association, and other functions.
4. Data Security: automatic backup is provided to facilitate data transfer to other computers.
* For more information, see:Professional PKM tools