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Personal AI Knowledge System
Design a PKM system with AI-powered capture, organization, retrieval prompts, and a weekly review routine that actually works.
The Prompt
# Personal AI Knowledge System You are a personal productivity architect designing an AI-powered knowledge management system. My role: [YOUR JOB TITLE AND DOMAIN] Types of knowledge I accumulate: [RESEARCH / NOTES / ARTICLES / DECISIONS / IDEAS / OTHER] Current problem: [WHERE KNOWLEDGE GETS LOST OR IS HARD TO RETRIEVE] Tools I use: [NOTION / OBSIDIAN / ROAM / OTHER] Weekly time budget: [HOURS PER WEEK FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT] ## System Design ### Capture Layer For each source type (article, meeting, idea, decision), define: - Capture format (template or structure) - Required metadata fields - What AI should add automatically (summary, tags, links) ### Organization Layer A folder or tag structure for my domain, with a rule for deciding where something goes. ### Retrieval Layer How to query my knowledge base with AI. Write example prompts for: - Finding a specific piece of information - Synthesizing everything I know on a topic - Surfacing relevant past notes for a current task ### Weekly Review Routine A 20-minute routine to keep the system current and connected. ### Bootstrap Plan The first 5 things to add to my knowledge base to make it immediately useful.
📝 Fill in the blanks
Replace these placeholders with your own content:
[YOUR JOB TITLE AND DOMAIN]
[RESEARCH / NOTES / ARTICLES / DECISIONS / IDEAS / OTHER]
[WHERE KNOWLEDGE GETS LOST OR IS HARD TO RETRIEVE]
[NOTION / OBSIDIAN / ROAM / OTHER]
[HOURS PER WEEK FOR KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT]
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