Using Personal Knowbase for Citations
A previous post talked about using Personal Knowbase for Bibliographies. In addition to using the software for listing and annotating bibliographies, you can link your working notes with source articles to create citations.
The general idea is to include information about your sources in the same PK data file as your "working articles" which contain the notes and writing work for your current project. You would have a single PK article for each source and assign it keywords for the topics relevant to that source. Please see the previous post for more ideas on using PK as reference management software.
Continue reading →PK Tip: Locating Articles by Date
It's easy to locate articles by their dates in Personal Knowbase.
To find all articles in a date range:
Continue reading →Productivity Tips: Handling Interruptions
In a previous post, I gave some ideas for how to minimize interruptions, hopefully stopping them before they occur.
Sometimes, however hard we try, we get interrupted. Here are five tips for coping when it happens:
Continue reading →PK Tip: Making Your To-Do List Your Browser Home Page
If you keep your to-do list in a Personal Knowbase article, you can easily set your browser's Home page to your to-do list. Any URLs or email addresses from the original Knowbase article become clickable links on your Home page. This is handy for keeping a list of links to websites that you frequently visit or plan to check out.
To create a local html file to use as your home page:
Continue reading →Using Personal Knowbase for Bibliographies
Many researchers, writers, and academics use Personal Knowbase to keep track of sources and references. The software is great for notes management, and you can link your working notes with citations. While PK does not have a built-in facility for creating bibliographies, you can use its keywords feature to associate topics with notes and sources.
Here are some ideas for using Personal Knowbase to manage bibliographies. These ideas assume a basic understanding of the PK terminology and interface, but even without experience with the software, they should provide you with a notion of what's possible.
Continue reading →Productivity Tips: 5 Writer's Block Tips
Writer's block. Usually, it's just a temporary inability to write. The key to getting out of a slump is understanding why you're in the slump. Determine the underlying cause.
You may feel out of ideas. Maybe you're having trouble getting started. Or not interested enough in your current project. Or you're distracted by external issues. Or you're stuck on your project, unsure what the next step is. Once you understand the cause, usually addressing that cause directly can push you forward.
Here are five tips to help you get writing again:
Continue reading →PK Tip: Fixing Drive Letter Changes in Portable Mode
If you're carrying your notes between computers using Personal Knowbase's portability feature on a USB thumb drive or other removable media, locating PK data files and file attachments can get tricky if drive letters change.
Continue reading →Sharing Knowledge Using PK Reader
Personal Knowbase data files are great for sharing documentation and "lessons learned" within your business or organization. You can create a shared knowledge repository as a Personal Knowbase file (KNO file). Then distribute it across a network or on a CD together with the PK Reader viewer software.
Continue reading →Productivity Tips: Time Management
Time management is a vast topic. But don't put off good practices until you have time to research and adopt a whole life-consuming system. Here are 5 quick tips that can help anyone today:
Continue reading →PK Tip: Importing a List as Titles Only
If you have a list of titles in a text file and want to create one Personal Knowbase article for each line of the file, with the line as the article's title, you can use the Import command to do that.
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