Logseq, Obsidian, and Zotero, Medium, and Curvenote for Pkm

Logseq is an outliner and for capturing fleeting notes, use it on the web
Zotero for all your literature notes
Obsidian for permanent notes
Medium for blogging and long form thought pieces
Curvenote for data driven and scholarly work

Here’s how and why:

Logseq

Install logseq on your github repo and sync everywhere. It does not have native android or ios app, so use its web app. The web app is basically a web page, and you can use it on any web browser. Very responsive. Gives you a journal page everyday. Use it to jot down notes throughout the day and process at night or early morning. Unprocessed fleeting notes are useless. If you do not daily process your fleeting notes, you are not doing your PKM right.

Zotero

Zotero is a reference management system. When you use it to store your references, at the time of dropping a PDF, you must add a tag, at least one related paper (if you can’t find one, do a search!). For all other kinds of documents, keep them in their folders, read and add refeences manually or using crossref for DOIs. Then, fill in the notes page, and if you annotate the PDF, bring in the annotations

Obsidian

Your basic workhorse for permanent notes you write from literature notes and fleeting notes. YOUR OWN WORDS!

Must tag, cross link, and summarise with full sentences, be brief. Aim here is to link and connect widely.

Staet with fleeting notes …

That’s the post!