Why I choose Obsidian as my PKM

Stéphane Sulikowski
PKM Playbook
Published in
5 min readDec 2, 2022

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When I browse articles about productivity and note-taking apps review, the concept of personal knowledge management (PKM) is something that comes often into the scope. It makes me think that PKM is really the new black!

After reading a lot of articles about this subject, building a PKM brings note-taking to the next level. The principle is to store in a system the knowledge we acquire by reading books, articles, and all the material that make us learn something. Then all these knowledge concepts can be linked and are searchable.

From my point of view that brings “taking time to consume content” to “investing time to develop knowledge for the long term”, and it may be incredibly powerful.

For that reason, I started to build my own system some time ago and I faced, and I still face, some questions about it.

The system

When browsing the web, you will find plenty of reviews and techniques to create your PKM.

It’s very interesting to read or watch about a theme but from different authors and points of view that can teach you a lot about the pros and cons.

So I read and watched a lot of content from Tiago Forte, Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, and Francesco D’Alessio, to only name four productivity specialists.

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Stéphane Sulikowski
PKM Playbook

Digital Product/Project Manager, I write about productivity, knowledge management, code and no code | www.suliworld.com | mastodon: @stephane@pkm.social