Hey!!
I'm thinking about what makes an efficient PKM, and right now, I don't want to focus on only in how to take notes or tools; I want to focus on structure, on workflow.
Well, I'll try to explain.
From my point of view, there are some basic points that a PKM should have. The first and easiest to understand is being able to create notes, then I need to find these notes, and be able to create relationships between these notes. Right? Basically, I have a system that allows me to create, search for, and link notes. That's a very basic PKM.
But what I want to understand is know how to always be aligned with the "fundamental" principles of PKM is: What, in addition to those I've already shown, are the principles you look for in a tool to build your PKM? I'll say upfront, I'm not looking to create any commercial tool, at most, to understand and build or improve my own workflow.
Why am I asking this? Because, if we look only at the basic concepts, those I already mentioned at the beginning, "any" notepad can be used. I was even thinking about Git: I can create pure .md files inside a folder with Git and create my notes there. All the principles I talked about would already be there. So why do we always look for tools full of things that we know aren't important?
My workflow today runs on Obsidian, without many plugins, basic frontmatter, all to allow me to also use it with my text editor in the terminal, which is NeoVIM. And today I even have a second laptop with NeoVIM, without Obsidian, and I use my notes normally.
So, guys, what do you think is important in your PKM? In your workflow. Why most of the time we try to create so complex workflow?