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Training built on this work. For now there is one course, and it is the one that changes the most day to day.

Managing what you know

Pick up a book you read a few months ago. How much of what mattered in it has stayed with you? Ten percent would be generous, and looking at a full bookshelf, the figure gets worse.

Travelling by horse-drawn carriage among cars became anachronistic some time ago, except for tourists. It is nevertheless what we keep doing when it comes to learning. In the twentieth century the challenge was finding information. Today we are flooded with it, and that calls for rethinking how we learn rather than how we store.

The usual response to abundance is to sort better and file better. It is no longer enough.

The method

Three movements, drawn from the Zettelkasten tradition but adapted rather than reproduced.

• Learn properly — actually absorb what comes from a book, a talk or a course, instead of filing it away.
• Note and connect — structure notes and link them, so that each new idea finds something to attach to.
• Produce — turn what you know into something: a piece of writing, a practice, a transmission. This is the movement most systems quietly skip, and skipping it is what turns a knowledge system into a warehouse.

The tool

The course uses Obsidian — free, accessible and durable. But the tool is not the subject. Courses on note-taking with Obsidian are everywhere; this one goes past the technique and works on how you think your notes.

What you come away with

• Nothing essential gets lost: it is structured, linked and findable.
• You find what you need at the moment you need it.
• What you learn becomes what you can do.

The aim is not that you apply a method, but that you develop your own. That is what modeling makes possible: passing on the operation, not only the result.

The reasoning behind this course is documented on thePKMind page.

The course currently runs in French. Dates for the next session are not yet fixed — subscribe to hear when they are.