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Personal toolkit: capturing spontaneous ideas. (Personal KM).

Publication: KMWorld
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 983 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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There are still people in knowledge management who will tell you that KM is all about capturing information and ideas to digital form. That is, of course, nonsense. However, it is also nonsense to completely discount the usefulness of having notes and thoughts stored in a form that can be and...

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...indexed retrieved when you need them.

How many ideas are lost forever before we can record them in any form? Even at our desks, ideas can evaporate faster than we can type them. And, anyway, we are rarely at the keyboard when the best ideas come. Some end up scratched out by hand if there's paper handy--or at least a napkin. Or they can be quickly chatted into tape recorders. But even if they do get captured on paper or on tape, they rarely get transferred to digital files. In my case, the scraps tended...

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