I keep information I need to return to for work and personal life in there. I've been less disciplined lately as I've been doing a lot of journaling to explore my mental health needs

I'm not sure if it counts, but I've been using Joplin for a couple years now to keep notes on various things in my life, ranging from gaming/movie logs to how to properly install some self-hosted service on a NAS. I'm curious to learn more about PKMSs though.

I've been trying to get into org-roam for research since I already use Emacs as my text editor for most of my other research needs (writing scripts, LaTeX, input files for programs). But I can't keep consistency with PKMS in general. I last at most a semester and as soon as I take any vacation I lose all my habits.

Never heard of PKMS before, but I've looked a few of them up and they seem cool! I just finished exams for this semester, but they seem like good systems for note taking. For example in my Java subject they were talking about data structures like Queues and Stacks that we learned in the algorithms and data structures subject so I could just link that inline.

Honestly? I use it for fun, mostly, at the moment. The first thing I really flexed it for was playing Elden Ring and actually understanding what's going on story-wise, because I love FromSoft's narrative style but without taking notes it's impossible to keep it all in your head.

I'm doing the same with Dune right now (actually doing a reading club thing on Discord) and eventually I'll do so for Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle, probably the most FromSoft-ish books ever written.

I'm also writing an Elder Scrolls supplement for the TTRPG Mythras, using it to store links / info about obscure websites that seem cool, and generally writing down anything I want to keep written down.

I struggle to understand using Obsidian for scheduling / task organization kinda stuff, because I can't make Obsidian yell at me to go do something. I just use the calendar on my phone and alarms for that. I'm not disciplined enough otherwise. I see Obsidian more like a personal wiki builder.

I'm just using emacs org-mode and Obsidian for task management, and keeping track of my learning new code-y things... but no backlinks or anything yet. Was trying Zettlr as well. Waiting for an excuse to get really fancy with it.

I have never got properly into the habit of using one, but try use one for PARA type stuff for keeping notes about work and personal stuff.

At the moment I use Google Docs for work and Notion for personal stuff, but should try Obsidian or nvUltra or something maybe.

Been using Roam on and off for a while. A friend of mine calls it her exocortex and I’ve been feeling similarly. As someone with ADHD it’s so nice to be able to offload a bunch of mental overhead to a place where I can just review it later without having to struggle to recall what I wanted to remember!

I stumbled onto this forum despite never having heard of PKMS. Does using Notion’s applicant tracker to track people who want to rent my room count?

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.

Oh my god! I was browsing a lot of instances and didn't know where to start such kind of community! I am so hyped, that my favorite instance, with my favorite subreddit in exile, has this community. Your community is the reason I made an acc here. Let's goooooooooooooooooooo.