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#knowledgemanagement

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One Tool to Rule Them All!?

✅ The Fact
There is no #tool to rule them all. Effective #knowledgemanagement depends on your goals, needs, and context and builds on solid #thinking and working habits—not on a single tool.

📚 Dig Deeper
Siegel, S. T. (2025). One Tool to Rule Them All!? Stop Chasing After the “Perfect” Tool for Thought for (Personal) Knowledge Management. It Does Not Exist. Notelab. Developing Ideas Through Evidence-informed Note-Making. lnkd.in/d3cruGDK

Of course, if you do have long-time plans for your personal #knowledgemanagement, you should not use proprietary tools like #Obsidian, #OneNote, #Evernote and alike.

You also should think of switching to a much better (learnability, portability/compatibility, typobility, logic, featureset) markup syntax like #orgdown which is used in #Emacs #Orgmode (among other tools).

But if you start with Org-mode, you need to know the right way of doing it, as so many web pages recommend. Here's my take:

#UOMF: The Right Way to Use #OrgMode
karl-voit.at/2021/08/30/the-or

ad syntax/Markdown/Orgdown/#LML: karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmod

A specific blog post about the #lockin effects of Obsidian and Co (despite using some tool-specific flavor of MD) is in the making. (Please don't start a religious discussion here.)

public voit - Web-page of Karl Voit · UOMF: The Right Way to Use Org ModeUOMF: The Right Way to Use Org Mode
I'm wondering if anyone knows of an existing technical solution for this:

I would like to run something like a #DokuWiki internally to collect and manage #information for employees.
On top of that, I'd love to have a #search system where users can ask questions in natural language, and the system would either:
+ understand the question and answer it based on the knowledge stored in the #wiki, or
+ point users directly to the relevant section or page within the wiki.


Does anything like this already exist?
#Recommendations are very welcome!

#TechHelp #KnowledgeManagement #SearchSolution

Trying to decide: Obsidian.md or Logseq — which one is the ultimate tool for knowledge management and note-taking?

Both have their strengths, but I’m curious:
Which do you use and why?
Pros, cons, hidden features — let’s discuss!

Today in the Golem.de newsletter #ChefsvonDevs:
@RichardHeigl and Markus Glaser explain what companies should pay attention to when integrating #accessibility into web applications and share their experiences within their company, "Hallo Welt!" regarding the development of #BlueSpice.
golem.de/news/interview-mit-ha

Anyone use the #Zettelkasten method of note-taking and knowledge management? Stumbled across it and I'm quite curious about it. I read widely across a lot of topics. No longer in grad school but having a way to organize and cross-reference is really appealing.

zettelkasten.de/introduction/

Zettelkasten MethodIntroduction to the Zettelkasten MethodLearn how the Zettelkasten works as a system, what a Zettel is made of, and how to grow an organic web of knowledge.

Apropos* Wikis. Mir fällt gerade (wieder) ein, wie geil ich das "The GitLab Handbook" (handbook.gitlab.com) finde.

Das ist kein Handbuch zum Produkt, sondern "The handbook was our way of ensuring that all of our company information was accessible to everyone regardless of when they became part of the team." (About the Handbook)

Ich mag auch das How we use the guide every day sehr: handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/a

* openbiblio.social/@vform/11416

The GitLab HandbookThe GitLab HandbookLearn more about GitLab and what makes us tick.

🧠 Knowledge management vs. content management: Which one do you actually need?

We’ll help you figure out whether you need knowledge management, content management, or a powerful mix of the 2 to streamline workflows and make information work for you, not against you.

Check out our knowledge vs. content management comparison article: xwiki.com/en/Blog/knowledge-ma

Why did @lenovo choose XWiki for their knowledge base?

🔍 Transparency & trust—they wanted an open-source solution where they could see exactly what’s happening under the hood.

📖 Coming from a wiki-based environment, they needed a flexible and scalable tool for collaboration.

XWiki gave them the customization and control they were looking for.

Read their success story here: xwiki.com/en/company/reference