To learn more about AI I decided to obtain a monthly subscription to Claude Pro, which includes Claude Code and Claude Cowork. I came across a YouTube video describing how to use Claude Code as an alternative to using any of the available Personal Knowledge Management apps and
I decided to try using Claude Code in the manner described in that video to develop a system that might work best for me.
I’ve been incrementally building an app to manage the information important to me and below is a screenshot of the app with the main sections listed in the left. Note what you don’t see, Events or Tasks, which are part of the app but not the main focus of the app.
The first thing that came to mind when I asked myself what is it I wanted to keep track of in retirement were the Topics of Interest, which are subjects that I either want to learn more about or focus more on. Another item are Ideas, which are basically things that come to mind that I want to do. Ideas sound like tasks, and they become tasks, but the point is to capture them and then do more with them in the future.
Projects are what you would expect, a grouping of two or more tasks for the purpose of an outcome. Regulars are recurring tasks, which you would think of as habits or routines. Contacts is an address book, Journal is a daily record, Knowledge Base is for information and Files is a listing of files stored in two directories: Owner’s Inbox, which is where AI agents store results for research that I ask for, each that is in a markdown file that I can click and open in Typora; Team Inbox is where I put files for the AI agents to process.
What makes the app unique to me is how I link items together. The linkage was added as I thought about how I will use the app. For example, Knowledge Base items related to a Topic of Interest are linked to the Topic and vice versa. When I enter an Idea I review whether it relates to a Topic of Interest and select one.
For example, do any of the ideas I have relate to a Topic Of Interest? When I create an Idea the dialog in the app has a drop-down field for me to select a Topic. When I open the details page for a topic I can see the related Ideas and click them to open that particular Idea. The screenshot below shows what is linked to a Topic.
In the process of creating the linkage between sections I decided that I should have goals that tie everything together and answer the question, what is it I want to do with my time? The goals here are truly my goals and not the goals imposed on me by somone other than myself, which come to think of it is a good a definition or retirement. My goals might have a target date like the one shown in the screenshot below. I have the ability to write a progress report, but the number of linked Topics, Ideas, and Projects really provide an overview of just how I am achieving the goal.
Claude Code has done all of the development of the app, which is just for myself and I have no intent on ever providing it for others. In fact, the app only runs on my Macbook although I can access it via other computers on my home network while the Macbook is running.
The “development” process has been iterative, as I think of things I want done I add them to the PKM App project in the database. Having this experience in directing AI to write software, I have thoughts/questions about my computer science profession that I will write more about in a future post.
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