A common purpose for starting to use Personal Knowbase is to take control of all the miscellaneous information that passes through our lives. Collected observations and ideas. Captured thoughts and conversations. They accumulate on bits of paper on our desk, in our drawers, or in boxes of 3×5 index cards. Or they may be scattered around your hard drive in emails and small text files in multiple software formats.
Many notes are not associated with a person or a date, so storing them in contact management software doesn’t make sense. But we know they may be useful later, if only we can find them when we need them.
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