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Articles on personal knowledge graphs, knowledge management, and data ownership.
Long-form guides on personal knowledge management, the Solid protocol, linked data, and what it actually means to own your data online. No prerequisites — start anywhere.
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What is a personal knowledge graph?
An introduction to personal knowledge graphs — how they differ from notes or bookmarks, why they make ideas easier to find, and how to start building one.
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What personal knowledge management actually is, how knowledge graphs work, and why a tagged-link archive is a low-friction place to start.
Solid
How Tim Berners-Lee's Solid protocol works, what linked data really is, and why both matter for a bookmark archive you want to keep for decades.
- Solid7 min read
What is Solid, and how does it work?
Solid is Tim Berners-Lee's open-web standard for personal data stores. An accessible explanation of pods, WebIDs, and what they mean for everyday apps.
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Linked data and RDF
The W3C model behind structured data on the web: triples, IRIs, vocabularies, serialisations like Turtle and JSON-LD, and the four linked-data principles.
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Privacy
What data ownership requires in practice — portability, sovereignty, interoperability — and which tools deliver each.
How-to
Practical workflows for organising a real archive — research, academic, or 10,000-entries-and-counting personal.
- How-to7 min read
How to organise thousands of bookmarks
Folders break down at scale. A practical guide to topics, tags, collections, and search strategies that survive a multi-thousand-link archive.
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Why browser bookmarks fail
Folders, tabs, and reading lists scale badly — and lock you into one vendor's profile. The structural problems with browser bookmarks, and what replaces them.
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How researchers manage web references
Reference managers cover papers; web sources fall through the cracks. A workflow for researchers who collect across blogs, preprints, datasets, and code.
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Bookmark management for academics
Citations, syllabi, reading lists, and grey literature — how an academic workflow benefits from a topical bookmark graph alongside Zotero and Mendeley.
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Comparing tools?
See mnera.io vs. Raindrop, Notion, and browser bookmarks
Side-by-side feature tables for each major alternative.
Build the knowledge graph these articles describe
mnera.io stores every bookmark as W3C linked data in your own Solid pod — private, portable, no tracking, no lock-in.