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The Obsidian Forum hosts a dedicated Knowledge management category for talking about PKM (personal knowledge management) methodologies. If you want to compare note-taking systems, debate how to structure a vault, or see how other people organize their thinking, that category is the place to start. The forum also spreads related discussion across Help, Share & showcase, and the developer sections, so knowledge-management ideas often surface outside the dedicated category too.
The dedicated Knowledge management category
The forum's own description of this category is short and specific: "Talk about PKM methodologies." That scope is the clearest signal of what belongs there. Expect threads about approaches to capturing, linking, and retrieving notes rather than troubleshooting a specific plugin or CSS snippet.
Because it is a methodology category, the useful discussions tend to be about how and why people organize knowledge, not just which button to press. That makes it a good fit if you are deciding between systems or trying to fix a workflow that has stopped working.
What "PKM methodologies" covers in practice
The category description does not enumerate topics, so the safest way to describe it is by the phrase the forum uses: methodologies for personal knowledge management. In practice, that means discussions about how people approach knowledge work in Obsidian and knowledge management generally.
If you are looking for a specific method by name, treat the category as the entry point and search within it. The forum does not publish a fixed list of approved methodologies, so the range of what appears depends on what users choose to post.
Related discussions elsewhere on the forum
Knowledge-management conversations are not confined to one category. The forum's structure shows several adjacent places where they appear:
| Category | How it relates to knowledge management |
|---|---|
| Help | Getting help from fellow Obsidian users; often the starting point before a workflow question becomes a methodology debate |
| Share & showcase | Showcasing workflows, templates, and nifty hacks — concrete implementations of a PKM approach |
| Knowledge management | The dedicated space for PKM methodologies |
| Plugins ideas | Ideas for third-party plugins, which can imply a knowledge-management need |
| Meta | Topics about Obsidian or the forum itself |
The Share & showcase category is especially relevant if you want to see a methodology turned into templates or workflows rather than discussed in the abstract.
How to get useful answers from these discussions
The forum's Help category gives one concrete instruction worth applying across the board: "Don't forget to check out our User Guide!" Before posting a methodology question, it also helps to search for duplicates, since the forum explicitly asks users to do this in several categories.
A practical sequence:
- Search the Knowledge management category for your topic or method name.
- Check the User Guide for anything that is really a product question rather than a methodology question.
- If you post, put methodology debates in Knowledge management and concrete artifacts (templates, workflows) in Share & showcase.
- For live chat, note that the forum points to a Discord channel if you prefer chatting.
What you will not find stated
The forum's category descriptions do not promise a curated curriculum, a ranked list of methods, or official recommendations. The Knowledge management category is described only as a place to "talk about PKM methodologies," so treat it as a peer discussion space. The value comes from other users' experience, not from an authoritative ruling on the right way to manage knowledge.