How Conoted helps students structure their knowledge and find the right people (examples)
The university learning process is full of information that needs to be processed, remembered and linked to existing knowledge. Conoted helps with this - an application that allows students to not only take notes, but also structure them, find related materials and involve other users in the work.Step 1: Create your first note with automatic tag suggestionsLet's imagine that student John creates a note on the topic "Basics of Accounting". After he has written down the main ideas, the application...
Why knowledge sharing via notes is better than via messages
Knowledge sharing is a vital process, especially for students and teams working on common projects. In the modern world, instant messengers have become the main means of communication, but they are far from ideal for structured knowledge sharing. Using notes instead of messages allows you to systematize knowledge, make it easier to find and avoid unnecessary information flooding. Let's figure out why notes are better for this.1. Less flooding- Groups with chats often face the problem of flooding...
Why should students who know the subject best help others?
The best students are usually already successful in their studies. So the question arises: why should they share their knowledge and help others? In fact, there are many benefits to this interaction, and many successful students willingly participate in this process, realizing that helping others can significantly improve their own results. Let's look at why the best students need to do this and what benefits they receive from teaching and supporting their classmates.1. Deepening your own knowle...
Identifying the best students in the class: why it is necessary and how it helps learning
When there are clear leaders in the class, using their success can be a very useful tool for the entire group. After all, the knowledge and skills that such students possess can be actively used to improve the overall level of understanding and preparation. There is some logic and humor in this - to imagine that the best students can become something like an "internal Google" for everyone else. Let's figure out how to use this hidden resource and how the whole class benefits from it.Example: sha...
Who are your competitors? What do you understand about your business that they don't?
Conoted competes with several notable players in the note-taking and expert networking space, such as Evernote, Notion, and Microsoft OneNote for note management, and platforms like LinkedIn for professional connections. However, these existing tools often fall short when it comes to integrating knowledge management with expertise discovery.What Conoted Understands Differently:1. Contextual Expert Discovery: While platforms like LinkedIn rely heavily on static profile information for...
Finding experts through knowledge, based on the film "Searching"
Imagine you’re searching for an expert to help with a specific project, but you don’t know anyone directly who fits the criteria. This is where Conoted, with its knowledge - powered social graph, can step in using the concept seen in films like Searching, where the father follows his daughter’s digital footprint to find her. Conoted applies a similar principle: it leverages connections within your notes and tags to locate experts or knowledgeable individuals based on shared interests, themes, or...
Notes is one of the top three most used apps every day
In recent years, notes on smartphones have become one of the most popular tools, perhaps second only to social networks and instant messengers in popularity. In one survey, when people were asked to name the three most frequently opened apps, the majority included notes on this list. This seems telling: in an era when access to information and tasks is endless, notes have become a familiar and necessary way to organize thoughts, ideas, and tasks. And this applies not only to work tasks, but also...
Tactical and Strategic Tasks: Calendar and Notes
The calendar and notes are two simple but powerful tools that play different roles in daily work and project management. The calendar allows us to organize our day and solve specific tactical tasks, while notes are a medium for planning and implementing broader strategic goals. Let's try to understand how exactly these tools complement each other and create an effective system for achieving goals.The calendar: a tactical tool for everyday tasksThe calendar is a kind of "battle map" of the day. I...
Organizing knowledge through groups, tags, and experts
Creating a knowledge structure requires clear organization of information. Here, it is important to combine tags into groups, especially as their number increases, when navigation can become more complex. Let's consider how you can optimally organize information and knowledge using groups, tags, and experts.1. Groups as a basis for projectsGroups help combine tags to organize specific projects or topics. For example, if you are working on a project in the field of psychology, tags such as "psych...
Evolution of groups
Uniting experts on a topic into separate groups is a great idea for professional and educational interaction, which has long been implemented on platforms such as Facebook, Telegram, and WhatsApp. These services allow you to create interest groups where experts and participants can communicate, share experiences, ask questions, and give advice. However, as practice shows, such chats often suffer from a large volume of irrelevant messages, depriving the discussion of clarity and structure.The adv...
Navigate and manage projects with groups, tags, and the ideas compass
Creating and maintaining a Personal Knowledge Base requires not only adding individual notes, but also the ability to organize them into a logical structure that helps you navigate easily. To do this, you can use the Groups and Tags system and the Ideas Compass, which will link your notes into convenient blocks (projects), and a structure for deeper understanding.Step 1: Create a GroupWhen you start a new project or topic, a Group is created - the main container in which related n...
Chapter 7. Develop ideas. Don't create an archive, but develop a second brain
Developing ideas and storing them in a "living" note-taking system is a method that allows you not only to record thoughts, but also to return to them, rethink them, and supplement them with new knowledge. This approach does not require archiving information, but creating an active system for analysis, reflection, and creation.An archive is not storage without life, but a system that allows you to accumulate ideas so that they can be developed.Principles of Idea Development1. Developing ideas th...
Automatic system for searching experts through knowledge
- Imagine that you decided to study some complex topic, for example, “the impact of nanotechnology on global warming” or “the prospects of quantum cryptography”. You start writing notes, and then you come across the classic question: “Where can I find experts who really have something to say?” The usual approach is a long search on LinkedIn, ResearchGate, Academia.edu and other platforms, but is it possible to just take and understand which of these people is an expert, and who just looks confid...
Symbiosis of technology and people: why do we need experts if we have GPT Chat?
When GPT Chat appeared in the world, many people asked themselves the same question: why do I need experts now? Chatbots know a lot and never tire of answering. But it is important to remember that knowledge is not just information; it includes experience, practice, and nuances that are not yet available to artificial intelligence.What happens if we rely only on AI?Imagine that you come to the gym hoping to get stronger. The trainers know how to work with the load and show excellent results, but...
Chapter 6: How to build relationships with experts?
Found the right expert? Great! But real success comes when you don’t just consult one-time, but build long-term relationships with the expert. Building a network of contacts through a knowledge system is an approach in which each new contact and expert is integrated into your personal knowledge base so that you can find the right people and turn to their expertise exactly when it is really necessary. This approach allows you to organically connect experts to new ideas or projects, gradually...
Chapter 5: How to choose who to learn from, and whose opinions are truly valuable?
Imagine: you are standing at a bookshelf in a huge bookstore, your eyes wide open from the abundance of books. Which one to choose? Now imagine that each book is a potential teacher, an expert in their field. How to choose someone who can really teach you something?Or imagine another situation: you want to learn how to play the guitar. You enter a query into a search engine and get a million results. How to choose who to learn from? By the beauty of the Instagram profile cover? By the number of...
Chapter 4: Why do you need experts and contacts?
Imagine that you are putting together a puzzle. You have your own pieces - knowledge, experience, ideas. But there are always a few key pieces missing, and that's where experts and contacts come in. These are people who have the knowledge and experience that you can't master quickly or in full. No, you don't have to be able to do everything in the world, experts are your quick access to someone else's experience and intelligence, which you can "borrow" when you need it.Example: How not to f...
Сhapter 3: How networking helps build a knowledge base (and why it's important not to be afraid of people's business cards)
Imagine your knowledge base as a giant spider spinning a web of facts, ideas, and people. And that's where networking comes into play. It's as if you were that spider, but not some humble grey spider, but a real superhero who knows who to ask, what to read, and how to get the most out of communication.Example: "Who Was That?" or Why Networking Matters- Let's imagine. You're at a conference, and someone shares a brilliant idea about how to use AI to automate routine tasks. You take a few not...
Сhapter 2: Why is it important to have your own knowledge base in the modern world? (and what happens if you don’t have one)
Imagine that you are in a supermarket of ideas. There are millions of thoughts, articles, smart books and words that you once heard or read, but at the right moment you can’t remember a single one. It’s like trying to remember why you came to the store while standing at the cookie shelf. This is where a personal knowledge base comes to the rescue - your personal GPS in the supermarket of information.Example: The brain as a forgetful bartenderOur brain can be compared to a bartender who has...
Сhapter 1: What is a personal knowledge base? (and why do you need this mess)
I'm thinking of writing a book about "Networking and Experts: How to Create a Personal Knowledge Base". I'd like to present my first chapter for review. And if you like this format, I'll post the rest of the chapters here too.Chapter 1: What is a personal knowledge base? (and why do you need this mess)Imagine that your brain is an intangible closet with a million shelves, on which notes, ideas, conversations with friends and all those facts that you once learned but never used are scattered...
