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What are folks using PKMS for?
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Personal Knowledge Management Systems (PKMS)
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I have a PARA structure in DEVONthink, though it's mostly "Resources" for interesting web articles.
It's getting hard to find old articles in search engines (even DDG), so if I see something interesting then I add it to Pocket. DEVONthink then reads my pocket RSS feed and stores a PDF version which goes into its full text index so I can find it again later.
I have a lot of papers and manuals and things in there too – anything I think might want to find later.
I like your PDF pipeline! I do that manually sometimes but I usually just grab text. I've been meaning to dig into RSS too, with my primary feed (reddit) largely going away and Lemmy not having as much content right now, I want to curate a new, more mindful feed.
I use Obsidian and today was thinking about how I would "never" use Evernote for certain reasons, but I was just looking at your link to DEVONthink and I realize that I'd have to use a service like that for certain scanning/searching features if I had to scan papers as it sounds like you did.
Do you have any favorite personal examples of DEVONthink doing something that is ahead of the curve? Also, how was effort of scanning?
DEVONthink gives me a leg up with the Pocket flow because it has a built in option to automatically create PDF versions of articles in an RSS feed. Other than that, I don't really take enough advantage of its power user features. If I were to start over today, I'd probably take a serious look at Keep It which seems like a lighter tool. It's really its full text index and some of the incidental metadata features (like having the source URL for anything exported from a browser) that keep me using it.
The papers I stash there usually come to me as PDFs. When I need to scan a physical paper I usually use Scanner Pro from my phone and export to DEVONthink from there. It has built-in OCR that's always been good enough for searchability.