Personal
See where your effort drifts.
See where your effort drifts from your intent. Model your career and commitments as a graph with a declared desired state; describe state shows current → desired and what blocks the next step, and the graph surfaces which commitments move you toward where you said you want to go — and which are accidental. Your own trajectory becomes queryable: what have I done, what connects, what should I do next — answered, not felt. You don’t end up where you didn’t choose.
A person’s career, content, decisions, and intentions live as scattered prose — a CV in one doc, talks in a deck, the reasons in your head. There is no way to ask ‘what have I done, what does it connect to, what should I do next’, and — worse — no way to see drift: the commitments, content, and opportunities that consume effort without moving you toward anything you actually said you wanted.
So the rudder slips silently. You end up where you did not choose, doing what you did not want, having forgotten what motivated you — not through a bad decision but through the accumulation of accidental ones that no map ever flagged as off-course. PKM tools store and link notes; none of them hold a declared desired state against which effort can be checked for alignment.
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What it is
Personal is the domain of a person's own trajectory: goals with a status and a horizon, the content and opportunities that move toward them or not, and the career they add up to — as typed records a person can ask questions of, instead of prose spread over documents.
Why
The rudder slips silently: effort goes to commitments that move toward nothing that was ever said to be wanted, through an accumulation of accidental choices no map flagged as off course. Notes store and link; none of them hold a declared desired state that effort can be checked against.
What for
A person's own project binds to the domain model and takes its schemas. The model holds nothing of any particular person: what is shown here is the machinery — the schemas and the modes that cross goals, content and opportunities — never anyone's records.
Architecture
The model and what it is made of
Hover or tap a schema, or pick a card below, to see only its relations; a picked card keeps its route on the map until it is picked again. A relation is an import between the schemas.
The model
Schemas, nothing of anyone
Workflow
From where you stand to what you commit to
From where you stand to what you commit to: each mode crosses the declared goals with what is actually being done, and every status change is decided by the person, never by the agent that prepared it.
Schemas read from the personal domain model's manifest and relations from their imports when this page was generated; every step cites the mode of the model that carries it.
The prize, once inside
When your reason for being is verifiable and not just declared, holding your course stops costing effort.
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