🧠️ Personal Knowledge Management Discussion | With Omar Khafagy

This was a delightful conversation with one of my Discord moderators; Omar Khafagy. We talked a lot about Obsidian, My approaches and methodology towards PKM, and neurodivergence. Might want to start a podcast in the future with this lovely human :)

  • 0:00:29 Welcome
  • 0:02:06 The WHY behind the way my Obsidian system is setup to optimize for search
  • 0:08:06 Influence of the CLI on my approach, system rigidity and flexibilty, automation
  • 0:15:18 Was it hard to step back into my vault slash system after a long hiatus
  • 0:20:53 Why did i move my DevLog back to Obsidian and why do i always return to Obsidian
  • 0:26:56 To you, is the benefit of the vault more about retrieval or the act of tending to the digital garden itself
  • 0:29:54 When information is no longer correct, relevant, or agreed with in your own vault
  • 0:38:50 My approach when diving into a large body of work, top down or bottom up
  • 0:46:28 How my approach and thought process resembles an analog approach
  • 0:49:37 The separation of the UI, the model, and the backend of a PKM system
  • 0:55:49 The history of how i got all the way to this point in life with tech, PKM, and everything
  • 1:07:44 Do i struggle to work in ways that are not systematic
  • 1:14:03 What can people who do not think the way that i do, take away from my approach and thoughts
  • 1:24:58 How to get started learning the command line
  • 1:34:36 Why i love the command line so much
  • 1:41:56 Join The Discord Server
  • 1:46:32 Bloopers
  • 1:46:57 Outro