Definitions of key concepts in personal knowledge management, AI memory systems, knowledge graphs, and cognitive science.
Definition
The deliberate practice of collecting, organising, and synthesising information to serve an individual's goals, decisions, and creative work.
An open protocol developed by Anthropic that enables AI assistants to securely connect to external data sources and tools.
A network of entities (people, places, concepts, events) and the semantic relationships between them, used to represent and query structured knowledge.
A digital external memory system designed to capture, organise, and retrieve information in support of human thinking and creativity.
The use of external tools, objects, or environments to reduce cognitive load by storing and processing information outside the brain.