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title: Notes
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# Notes

## Log

- 24/10/05 - 🏡 [house/helene](/notes/house/helene)
- 24/09/12 - 💰 [work/wealth](/notes/work/wealth)
- 24/04/03 - 🌳 [notes/garden](/notes/garden)
- 24/04/02 - ⛵️ [notes/travel](/notes/travel)
- 24/02/24 - 🦮 [dogs/iris](/notes/dogs/iris)
- 24/02/09 - 🧠 [health/mental](/notes/health/mental)
- 24/02/05 - 📻 [projects/ham](/notes/work/projects/ham)
- 23/12/18 - Added [Ideas](/notes/ideas)
- 23/12/17 - [health](/notes/health)
- 23/11/05 - [house/studio](/notes/house/studio)
- 23/10/20 - [house/build](/notes/house/build)
- 23/08/25 - [tennis](/notes/tennis)
- 23/08/19 - [house/build](/notes/house/build)
- 23/07/14 - [mod AI demo for til](/notes/work/projects/ai)
- 23/07/05 - [fix post md-graph](/notes/work/)
- 23/06/10 - [dogs Iris foods](/notes/dogs)
- 23/06/14 - [garden poison mushrooms](/notes/garden/mushroom)
- 23/05/14 - [art edu standards](/notes/art)
- 23/05/14 - [tennis season](/notes/tennis)
- 23/05/10 - [travel dates](/notes/travel)

## TOC

[art](art/art.md)
| [dogs](dogs/dogs.md)
| [Iris](dogs/iris.md)
| [garden](garden/garden.md)
| [golf](golf.md)
| [health](health/health.md)
| [house](house/house.md)
| [^personal](personal/personal.md)
| [tennis](tennis.md)
| [travel](travel.md)
| [work](work/work.md)
| [work/clients](work/clients.md)
| [work/projects](work/projects/ai.md)
| [work/wealth](work/wealth.md)

( ^ private notes - personal, family, finances, etc. Excluded by `draft` status and `.gitignore` )

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## About

I wrote an essay about this page @ [**davidawindham.com/a-second-brain/**](https://davidawindham.com/a-second-brain/)

**22/05/07** - I've separated the **technical** to [Docs](/docs/) and the **non-technical** to [Notes](index.md). As always, this Notes page started with me trying to solve something. It really bothers me for anything to take away my attention. In this case, I was trying to keep my Apple TV home screen clean so I don't have to see or surf through offers of other stuff to watch.  I curate an 'up next' list and I usually make notes that sync between my devices when someone mentions a movie or show. I usually handle this with 'quick Notes' that sync between devices. That mostly works, but the problem I'd like to have them all in one place so that I can archive and search what I've already watched much the same way I database my music listening habits. This will give me a simple searchable place to store it all without any complex APIs, databases, or whatnot. It's a work in progress :sweat_smile:.

What is a personal knowledge manager? And How could I possibly organize these notes? Some folks refer to it as a Second Brain - https://maggieappleton.com/basb & https://aliabdaal.com/how-to-build-a-second-brain-271393/

I like to use Apple Notes and quick mental notes and I started using the [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) markdown editor for looking at a pile of them on my computer. I noticed is that it's an easy way to map out some sense of order from a set of notes and documents.  The more I looked into it, I noticed that there is a whole subset of folks who are into **PKMs** ( **Personal Knowledge Management** ).  Evidently, I've been doing it for a while now since I'm accustomed to making my own documentation as I build software and websites.  As I was setting up my folder directories on a new computer ( [Ovid](/docs/computers/ovid) ), I noticed that it might be helpful to use the same approach to other aspects of my life so I created another set of documents here for the **non-technical** stuff.

I generally use four lists of reminders to keep up with everything. Groceries, Short-Term, Mid-Term, and Long Term. I put everything on there and I can conveniently access and edit them from any device. For every project I build I keep a _notes.txt file containing all of the pertinent info.  I'm going to merge my old note into this site, so I have them all in one place. **Reminder**: try to match up my existing docs, notes, reminders, and start pages workflow. ... It's pretty hard wrapping your head around creating a Table of Contents for a knowledge base incorporating everything except technology. I'm just going to start adding an outline of potential topics and link to the pages as they are created.

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## References
- Ontology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)
- Personal knowledge management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_management
- Personal wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki
- Personal information manager - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager
- Personal knowledge base - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_knowledge_base
- Personal digital assistant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_digital_assistant
- Knowledge engineering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_engineering
- Knowledge management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management
- Knowledge retrieval - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_retrieval
- Knowledge representation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_representation_and_reasoning
- Information retrieval - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_retrieval
- Information architecture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architectur
- Semantic - integration - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_integration
- Idea networking - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_networking
- Metacognition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition
- Semantic network - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network
- Mind map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map
- Concept map - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_map
- Group concept mapping - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_concept_mapping
- Graph drawing - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing
- Modeling_language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modeling_language
- Hypertext  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext
- Hyperlink - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperli
- Metadata - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata
- Semantic Web - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
- Web Ontology Language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Ontology_Language
- Resource Description Framework - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
- RDF_Schema - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schema
- Simple Knowledge Organization System - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_System
- Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantically-Interlinked_Online_Communities
- JSON LD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-LD
- Linked data - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data