Figured it might be a good discussion question. Crossposted to !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Especially as someone who wants to help grow !journaling@sh.itjust.works, and to participate to help it grow, but in the end I come from !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone and I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me. And if what I do is actually pretty separate from journaling it would be cool to know so I don’t invade threads I shouldn’t be talking in.

  • Libb@jlai.lu
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    1 day ago

    but it definitely would not define PKMS vs journal

    Not my intention either. To give you an idea I will index in my pkms entries from my journal where I wrote my thoughts about such or such book I’m reading, or a movie or some event, or whatever. But only as far as I think that entry may one day have interest outside of them being my (personal) thoughts on whatever. So, most journal entries, because of the way I write it, don’t enter my pkms. I value them almost equally, though.

    • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.orgOP
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      19 hours ago

      Sorry if I came off as aggressive or “you are WRONG,” definitely meant this more as discussion. I was just spitballing thoughts. Thanks for sharing how you do it, and what differentiates your PKMS from your journal :)

      • Libb@jlai.lu
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        10 hours ago

        Sorry if I came off as aggressive or “you are WRONG,”

        You did not ;)