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When adding content to a knowledge-management system (KMS) or editing existing content in it, try to make the simplest, most coarse-grained change(s) you can.
Avoid the temptation to try to get it all correct at once. Instead, just make whatever changes are apparent right now and move on.
- It's not always obvious where its real value lies, or how it's best expressed for you.
- It often takes several passes to get it down to its most concise form.
- If something turns out to be less useful than you first thought, this minimises the amount of time you waste on something you rarely or never refer to later.
- The more times you make use of a given item, the more times you'll refine it a little further. Thus, the most-used things will naturally become the best-expressed.
- It minimises the time-cost of maintaining your KMS, which is important because...
- The more you feel like your KMS is a time-suck, the more likely you are to avoid it rather than use it.
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