Figured it might be a good discussion question. Crossposted to !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone.

Especially as someone who wants to help grow !journaling@sh.itjust.works, and to participate to help it grow, but in the end I come from !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone and I think of what I have far more as a Personal Knowledge Management System than a journal. I spend far less time on personal feelings and thoughts and “what did I do today?” and a lot more on making it a knowledge repository for Future Me. And if what I do is actually pretty separate from journaling it would be cool to know so I don’t invade threads I shouldn’t be talking in.

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    Curious how specifically they are different, other than them just being different.

    At least from the sidebar,

    Productivity, self-help, mindfulness, memory-keeping, creativity, project management or any other purpose.

    In my opinion most of this overlaps with PKMS. What things belong in a PKMS that don’t go in a journal and vice versa?

    Already looked into Zettelkasten awhile ago. Seems cool but I am getting by just fine, connecting different topics together without one. I am sure I’ve missed some potential connections, but I’m not an academic and feel I have a good enough understanding of the things in my PKMS that it’s not so essential I maximize connections with a Zettelkasten—especially because there’d be a cost to redoing my PKMS that way, and I think my own neurodivergent brain just Doesn’t Work That Way. Thanks for the suggestion though, hope an onlooker benefits