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Hello everyone,

I have a habit of hitting ‘Save’ on insightful LinkedIn posts, thinking I’ll come back to them later. The problem is, my ‘Saved Posts’ folder has become a massive, disorganized list of articles and ideas that I never actually revisit. It’s more of a content graveyard than a knowledge base.

I’m trying to build a better system for personal knowledge management (PKM). Does anyone have a good workflow for this? How do you categorise or process the content you save on LinkedIn so it becomes a useful, searchable resource?

I’m looking for strategies beyond just saving and forgetting. Any tips would be appreciated.

[Jeff Bullas]

That’s a fantastic question, as most people use that feature as a digital junk drawer.

Short Answer: The key is to treat it as an inbox, not an archive. You must schedule a regular time to process your saved items and transfer the key insights into a dedicated external system.

The strategy isn’t about saving content, it’s about creating a system to process the different content formats you find.

The most common mistake is to treat the ‘Saved Posts’ folder as a library; this just leads to digital hoarding. First, you need to schedule a recurring block of time in your calendar, perhaps thirty minutes every Friday, with the single goal of getting that saved items list to zero. Second, for each item, you must process it based on its format. If it’s a long text article, decide if you will read it now or send it to a proper read-later app. If it’s an insightful video, watch it and pull out one key lesson. If it’s a useful infographic image, save that specific file to an inspiration folder on your computer. Third, and most importantly, the actual knowledge must be extracted and moved to a ‘second brain’ like Notion, Evernote, or a simple document. LinkedIn is where you discover content, but it is a terrible place to store and retrieve knowledge long-term.

Cheers,

Jeff

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