[creer]

My motivation was multi-sided and I went with a completely ad-hoc structure. I store different kinds of information in very different ways. I sometimes reorganize a section. I don't use any monolithic or gate-keeping tool - the information and data is far more important than the tools. The oldest sections go back about 30 years. I have a few conclusions:

(1) It takes time to reach critical mass. Until then, it's overhead. But even then some content was useful from the very start.(2) After that it became very reliable - it's there and I rely on it. (3) For me, it's clearly not just knowledge base, it's PIM - personal information management - KB is just mixed with the rest. (4) After decades, retrieval is still a mix of ideas and tools - not great. (5) I still wish for more efficient data entry / collection.

In balance, for sure a majority of the content is never accessed.That's fine. The system allows un-foreseen uses to happen commmonly and I like that. Do the positives outweigh the costs over the years? I have no idea. I add stuff constantly, some things I rely on again and again, some query ideas are one offs... and usually they work which is great. I know I have a very solid base for recollection. It's not clear how I would do a cost/benefit analysis.

I feel perfectly fine with the ad-hoc collection and storage strategy. That has worked well enough.