You save ideas. You bookmark links. You keep notes. Yet when you need ideas, you can't find them.
Knowledge Atlas™ • Personal Knowledge Navigation™ (PKN)
A mapped route to offload your information burden. Save it and find it easily, then turn it into knowledge you can use.
Are you ready to hit the trail?
“I'm David. I help you navigate through everything you save across platforms and formats.”
Get your knowledge navigation plan without overhauling your whole system.
Where the conversation happens
I treat my website as my direct gateway and welcome mat. In the meantime, whilst a fuller website is being planned, get your regular insights about personal knowledge navigation (PKN) in the age of information overwhelm on LinkedIn. See my FAQ's (frequently asked questions) below.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Knowledge Atlas™, and who is it for?
Knowledge Atlas™ is a lifestyle, media and education content business about navigating your saved information assets so that you can create useful things from it. It's for the organised and the overwhelmed alike: knowledge workers, writers, researchers, creators, builders, students and people who read, journal and save things for later. It is for all of us that want to take better care of what is important to us.
You capture your life admin, your career direction, personal reflections, family history, finance records and half-formed creative ideas. So after years of saving across dozens of apps, folders and devices, it's easy to feel buried under the volume of your own life.
The reframe is simple: you are not disorganised. You're under-oriented.
The Personal Knowledge Navigation (PKN™) framework helps you find your bearings, review your information assets and own your location coordinates, so that what you've saved becomes a compass rather than a burden.
Do you offer app training, troubleshooting or tool tutorials?
Not exactly. I'm a trained librarian, digital and information literacy educator and historian. I spent six years training public servants to use a digital records system (EDRMS/ECM) and to comply with information and privacy regulation and laws. So I know a lot of corporate and consumer tools/platforms. I just don't start people there. People need reflection and orientation first.
PKN™ brings library science principles to personal knowledge: how information is collected, described, organised, searched and retrieved. Those principles hold whichever app you use. My own system has run on Evernote as the hub since 2012, but PKN™ is tool-agnostic. Once you're oriented, choosing an app becomes a far easier decision, and the setup stays yours.
I'll show tools in my YouTube videos, including how I apply them. That's where you'll find any tips and how-to videos. My group programmes are coming. I don't offer one-on-one sessions.
Why don't you lead with apps, AI or knowledge graphs?
Because most people who feel overwhelmed don't need more on top of their 'pile'. They need to know what they have, why they saved it and how they'll find it again.
I'm not against knowledge graphs, linked notes or AI. Knowledge graphs are useful, and they work far better on a collection that has been curated and described. Do the groundwork first, and AI can turn your analysis into a map in minutes. Skip it, and you get a beautiful picture of the same confusion.
Can I book you by the hour, or for 1:1 technical help?
No. Knowledge Atlas™ is intentionally asynchronous and content-led, so I don't offer hourly consulting or ad hoc technical fixes. My work comes through media content, structured learning experiences and diagnostics such as NavCheck™: a guided questionnaire followed by a personalised audio assessment and written summary that maps your information terrain.
Where's the best place to begin?
Right here. Click here Get the free Guide or the blue button at the top of this page. It is your first step to ‘orienting’ yourself. For regular ideas, follow me on X, LinkedIn and or subscribe on YouTube to catch the first videos as they land.
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