I don’t have a problem with PKM as a referencing tool. But step 2 “Organize → Place in buckets or categories” creates all sorts of problem: When you delegate your info into existing categories, at least 2 problems arise: 1. Framing bias: the way presented → way you think → limits the possibilities. 2. Low cognitive load: the struggle is essential for encoding → more forgetting.
What all these category-confusing approaches have in common is that the benefit of note-taking decreases with the number of notes you keep. More notes will make it more difficult to retrieve the right ones and bring related ones together in a playful way.
Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.
Taking and organizing extensive notes aren’t worth the effort.