📽️ A growing market
- PKM is a growing market
- Aims to solve “information overload”
- Draws connections between note-taking systems and technologies with the human brain
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📽️ Cognitive mapping
“Information overload” goes back at to least the 40s Vannevar Bush’s memex (1945) Information storage technologies to the human...
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Even though there is a lot of open knowledge-sharing that happens in these spaces, there is a burgeoning market of PKM software, books, courses, and experts-for-hire, each of them promising a solution to the apparently contemporary problem of “information overload.” Frequently, these strategies are marketed as ways of building a “second brain” to support your thinking. They often draw parallels between information networks and the brain’s structure, with some even suggesting that choosing the software to house one’s note-taking system is akin to selecting a “neural center” for future thinking ( Forte, 2022
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Forte, T. (2022). Building a second brain: A proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential...