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Last updated Nov 13, 2022

A Personal Knowledge Base (PKB) is a collection of your and others’ thoughts for further reflection and getting insights and ideas. I.e., bias toward creativity (creator mode)1. The goals of corporate KB (CKB) are to preserve and transfer already formed, existing knowledge (archivist mode)2.


  1. This does not negate the use of the PKB for memorizing everything you have read, viewed and heard. A good starting point here is How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens: Book Summary ↩︎

  2. I recommend getting acquainted with The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information - Forte Labs to those of my readers who are looking for an approach to organizing their lives and projects (archivist mode). However, PARA is not well suited for creators (creator mode) ↩︎