(2020-05-19) Mather Personal Wikis

Neil Mather: on Personal Wikis. To me, a personal wiki is (currently) a kind of digital form of a commonplace book - that is, an electronic scrapbook to record my thoughts along with snippets of things I see or hear elsewhere.

I think that a personal wiki should be primarily 'for you'. Keep the barrier to writing in it low. It's not performative

In terms of removing friction to writing, it has certainly helped me to think of it as for me 'first'. I guess it is for me 'first' as opposed to me 'only' (which would be an entirely private wiki - which is also fine).

3 Why have one?

more a way for personal notetaking, for shaping my thoughts, with less emphasis on the debate straight away.

The social part is definitely important though because I want to learn through discussion

I am currently just using a separate org-roam private wiki