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“Personal Knowledge Grids” Yawn

Just reading about this in a blog this week (which I can’t even remember). I do like the term though, PKG. I guess that makes PKEs “personal knowledge exchanges” which is what KEG is, of course, and the Knowledge Net was before that, and the Essential Web was before that. I’ve been exploring this area since 2016. But, as I’ve said recently, it’s not about the idea, it’s about the delivery, which is why that shitty proprietary software (Obsidian) is so fucking popular even though it thumbs its nose at existing standards and promotes lock-in so you have to permanently bow down to them for all of your personal knowledge management. Is there any rational person who thinks that is actually a good idea? I swear, people are so lazy they will use that shit rather than just a well-organized git repo just because it’s so shiny and easy. But, like I said, it’s done. My keg Bonzai branch will be so phenomenally better than Obsidian could ever dream of being, but it isn’t done yet. Just a bunch of good intentions and amazing ideas, with nothing to show for it. The bright side of it all is that Bonzai is now very usable and will be at v1.0.0 by August. And without that standard for modular applications development I never could have proceeded well with any of the other stuff.