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Say I wanted to beat these guys at their game. How do I come up with a description more pompous than "personal knowledge management" to describe entering text. Fascinating stuff

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PKM is the standard term for a whole diverse field of tools and techniques. Belittling it as "entering text" is pompous.

What elevates this specific vscode extension beyond my description? You personally knowing some of the people behind the project?

Parent comment didn't say anything about this extension. He just asserted that PKM is an already in-use term.

Which was a response to me talking about this specific extension.

pkm is the term. if its pompous, its not because they created it

A large number of applications, some of them extremely complex, could be summarised as "entering text". It's generally more important what happens to the text after it has been entered. In this case:

- Hyperlinking between documents and sections of documents(without needing to use a full relative/absolute path)

- Visualisation of the relationships between documens

- A metadata schema for documents(title, summary, tags, etc.)

- A search engine which indexes the content and metadata

- Embedding of various content types(other notes, diagrams, images)

- Conversion into other document formats

Thanks. I stand corrected

See jonp888's reply for the first question. As to the second, I have no idea who's behind the project.

How about: personal "personal knowledge management" management ?

First we need to find some managers with personal knowledge of 'personal "personal knowledge management" managent'.

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