PKM Tool Concepts

A beginner’s overview to picking the right PKM tool!

There are new articles published about tools for PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) almost daily, in part because new tools are being constantly built and implemented.

In fact, there are so many of these tools that it can become almost immediately overwhelming for a PKM novice.

• Which of the literally hundreds of digital PKM tools should you go for?
• Does it matter if you pick one and then want to change later?
• Is there really such a thing as a perfect tool for managing the sum total of your thinking and experience?

In a word: no.

Any tool that attempts to sell you on the idea that it is the best is, simply, lying to you.

This is a rapidly expanding field, one gaining ground in the popular consciousness. In such a situation, oodles of dollars are just waiting to be made by the intrepid, the callous, and the downright dishonest.

Fundamentally, Tiago Forte is right when he says that it doesn’t matter what tool you use, so long as you have a good system. But this isn’t the complete picture.