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The way we manage our personal knowledge can and should evolve to fit our changing needs. Here’s the 4-quadrant weekly planning matrix I’m using to plan my life, 7 days at a time.
This time last year I wrote—
How has your personal knowledge management structure changed in the last six months? Are you feeling better or worse about how things are running now, than you were at the beginning of the year? 2023-08-21 PTPL 066 - A Radical Obsidian Vault Shakeup, 6 Months Later
To answer my own question(s), my PKM has changed significantly over the past 12 months, and I’m feeling a whole lot better about it than I was at the beginning of the year. How about you? What changes would you like to see in the next year?
I’m currently reading Carl Pullein’s Your Time, Your Way book. I recommend it.
A Weekly Planning Matrix now sits at the top of my One Big Text File (OBTF), with the quotes and scriptures I wrote about last month under that. I used to fill in this matrix when planning my week on paper, but it didn’t work so well back then because I hadn’t done the foundational work to really know what needed to be done, and when.
At the end of each week I copy the matrix to the relevant week in my OBTF as a record, an archive, before replacing the original with next week’s tasks.
It’s possible to tag tasks in Reminders and use smart lists to automatically generate the Weekly Planning Matrix in that app, but I much prefer the way it works in my notes app. Projects in the list are written as [[wikilinks]], making it easy to go straight to the relevant project planning page when I’m ready to start work.
I’m working hard on bringing my domain to my new blog home. Once support gets back to me and the DNS / website name issues are resolved, I’ll make the switch.
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