Memos by Brian Swichkow

Personal Knowledge Management
Personal Knowledge Management, or PKM, is the process of creating, chronicling, categorizing, utilizing, and refining personal knowledge. In Tiago Forte's words, a Second Brain is "an external,...
Resources (PARA Method)
Resources are the third of four top-level categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, covering a range of topics a person is interested in and learning about. Forte Labs' introduction to PARA gives...
Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American electrical engineer and science administrator who directed U.S. wartime research and wrote the 1945 essay "As We May Think," which described the Memex. The...
Zettelkasten Linking Rules
Zettelkasten Linking Rules are the practices the Zettelkasten Method's own guide gives for connecting notes: each note gets a unique address, each new note is related to an existing one, and each...
Archives (PARA Method)
Archives are the fourth of four top-level categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, holding anything from the other three categories that is no longer active but may be worth saving for future...
Anytype
Anytype is a personal knowledge base made by Any, which its official repository describes as a Swiss association. The repository's README calls Anytype a local-first, peer-to-peer and end-to-end...
Capacities
Capacities is a note-taking and personal knowledge management app built around objects, made by an independent, user-funded European software company. Its homepage says Capacities "turns your ideas...
Areas (PARA Method)
Areas are the second of four categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, defined by Forte Labs as important parts of work and life that require ongoing attention. Forte's work examples are marketing,...
Projects (PARA Method)
Projects are the first of four categories in Tiago Forte's PARA Method, defined by Forte Labs as short-term efforts in work or personal life taken on with a certain goal in mind. Forte's examples...
PulseAI
As of 2021, PulseAI was a portfolio of software products powered by ALAN Analytics and co-created in partnership with One Studio. Products CulturePulse; societal simulation of subreddit data to...
Pythia
Pythia is a research tool that, as described in 2018, could predict the potential reach, influence, and conversion. It did this by creating computer models of online communities and simulating tests....
Digital Twin
Digital Twin is a computational model that serves as a digital counterpart of a real-world product, system, or process, used for simulation, testing, monitoring, and maintenance. CulturePulse extends...
ALAN // Awaken
Awaken is a series of Artificial Intelligence (AI) religious leaders created by training denominational agents with a structured database of religious sermons. Awaken is the research project of Dr....
InfluencePulse
Status: this memo describes InfluencePulse as of August 2021 and has not been updated since. InfluencePulse is an emerging product of PulseAI to profile and match influencers. The product emerged...
ScriptPulse
Status: this memo describes ScriptPulse as of 2021 and has not been updated since. ScriptPulse, by ALAN Analytics and One Studio is a simulation product for the entertainment industry. <!--...
MythOS vs OneNote
MythOS describes itself as a networked knowledge platform where every idea, person, project and decision lives as a linked memo in a library you own. Microsoft's support site introduces Microsoft...
MythOS vs Apple Notes
MythOS describes itself as a networked knowledge platform where every idea, person, project and decision lives as a linked memo in a library you own. Apple Notes is the Notes app from Apple, and its...
MythOS vs Capacities
MythOS describes itself as a networked knowledge platform where every idea, person, project and decision lives as a linked memo in a library you own. Capacities' homepage says it "turns your ideas...
MythOS vs Anytype
MythOS describes itself as a networked knowledge platform where every idea, person, project and decision lives as a linked memo in a library you own. Anytype's official repository calls it a...
MythOS vs Evernote
MythOS describes itself as a networked knowledge platform where every idea, person, project and decision lives as a linked memo in a library you own. Evernote's homepage calls it "Your second brain"...