To people who maintain a personal knowledge base: how often do you check older entries of it? And how useful is the graph view as compared to traditional list view note taking grouped by tags?
(FYI: I use a personal wiki based on Vim (with wiki.vim [0]) and a markdown flavor.)
Also, obsidian has a "open a random note" button. Thus I open a random note once in a while to see if I can learn (or relearn) something + to see if that note is still relevant for me.
I've been keeping notes for work in a structured way for quite some time.
I log everything that I might want to recall later (project/app ideas, active projects, meeting minutes, phone call logs, people/companies I interacted with).
Typically I use two methods for retrieval:
(1) full text search: I simply search for a keyword; most common access
(2) via backlinks: mostly for people when I need to figure out when I last talked to a person and what we agreed upon. I link the person in each meeting minute so that I get a list for links on the person's page.
Frequency of access:
- For active projects, pretty much each (work) day
- For older notes, infrequently, maybe once a month. The older a note becomes, the less likely it is that I will have to access it.
I started out with Circus Ponies Notebook, migrated to Scrivener, and two years ago started working on my own app, Life Notes[0] (I really wanted links and backlinks and the ability to keep regular files/PDFs next to my notes).