How Photography Fits Into My PKM

Because I’ve been doing it for much longer than writing, after all

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I imagine that most of you reading this piece might have read one or two of my others before, all about managing personal knowledge.

Less of you will know that I’m a photographer, and actively enjoy taking photos of nature and the natural world, from landscapes to wildlife.

But as photographs are a part of our personal knowledge and information management almost as much as the written word, I thought I’d share a little about how I capture and manage images, and how they fit into my creative work on this side of the internet.

(This article was inspired heavily by Tiago Forte’s recent blog post that you can read here)

My mobile camera roll

I don’t carry around my camera all day. But sometimes I come across things that I want to capture and save. So I use my phone’s camera.

It’s not great, but it does the job. And I’ve realised that most of the time it’s capturing special moments without having loads of gear to lug around that’s important, not having a lot…