Tim Ferriss: You Don't Need More How-To Advice — You Need a Beautiful and Painful Reckoning. For most of us, the how-to books on our shelves represent a growing to-do list, not advice we’ve followed. (more)

Amy Hoy: My customers don't know they have a problem… if you have to change worldviews — and this woman sounds like a hot mess, really — then you need to lure them in with stuff they know they want, and then go “but really, if you have xyz problem, you ought to consider this other thing instead…” (more)

Kevin Marks: Understanding: true decentralization - the microformat model. ...the tagspace linked to (which provides the context for the meaning of the tag), with the services that can index the tag. These are completely independent. You can link to Technorati Tags, your own site, Wikipedia or anyone who provides a tagspace with a URL that ends in the tag you want (more)

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical [[note taking] application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases https://github.com/zadam/trilium (more)

a Technorati feature of scraping tags in blog posts and creating web-side lists. Tagsonomy (more)

plaintext "standard" for to-do-list http://todotxt.org/ (2007-06-15) Mayer Plaintext Todolist (more)

mac app ($25?) that supports todo.txt format https://www.taskpaper.com/

Marissa Mayer keeps her To-Do List in a PlainText document. Note that there's a Bash Script and equivalent Python code to output/filter your To-Do List lines. See Wiki As PIM... (more)

see POSIWID

Chris Messina: The problem with the problems with hashtags. 16 years after their invention, is it time for a change? (more)

Ellane W: PTPL 072: I Love Keeping All My Projects and Tasks in a Single, Searchable File. I recently spent a very intense day exploring all the ways I could record tasks as they came up that would give me a more streamlined, simplified project and task management system. (more)

Tim Bray: What Do Tags Mean? I’m almost convinced that this new Technorati Tags thing is important, but I’m 100% convinced that I don’t understand where it’s going or what the implications are. Which is OK, because I suspect nobody else does either. (more)

Ellane W: PTPL 097: Informed, Intentional Note Makers Value Processes Over Apps. To choose a tool, first know your processes. (note-taking) (more)

Zsolt: Mind mapping with Excalidraw in Obsidian. Mind-mapping is a powerful tool. In this post I will show you how and when I mindmap with Excalidraw in Obsidian and why mindmapping is such a good tool for Personal Knowledge Management. (post is a video)

Google PageRank Fueling Technorati Blog Spamming. Scandalous Argentine model Wanda Nara hitting the Top Searches List at Technorati and how bloggers, especially sploggers (spam bloggers) are monitoring these search terms and instantly publishing posts which appear in the Technorati Tags pages for these terms, that is, if the site is tagged correctly for Technorati and the popular term (by linking to the Technorati tag page or when registering your blog with Technorati).

Rebecca Blood: I've noticed a slight problem with the Technorati tags system. for a few hours this morning the most recent tagged photo under MLK was a picture of a protester's sign that read "Setting aside our differences to focus on our common goals: peace, love, harmony, killing Jews, and tolerance." (more)

Michael Descy: How I Organize My Todo.txt File. Include only current tasks in todo.txt, sort them by priority, and reprioritize often. (more)

Thanks to what Zsolt... – Interdependent Thoughts. During the PKM Summit last week I saw Zsolt Viczián do several amazing things with his Excalidraw plugin in Obsidian as part of his visual thinking efforts (more)

Technorati Tags: Why Do Bad Ideas Keep Resurfacing? If you weren't using the Web in the 1990s this may seem new and wonderful to you but the fact is we've all seen this before. The so-called Technorati Tags are glorified HTML META tags with all their attendant problems. The reason all the arguments in Shelley's blog post seemed so familiar is that a number of them are the same ones Cory Doctorow made in his article Metacrap from so many years ago.

Zsolt: The Visual Thinking Workshop. My interest in PKM started some 30 years ago. (more)