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# Time - Past, Present, Future
- URL: https://blog.warrenweb.net/time-past-present-future/
- Published: 2025-07-10T13:48:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-10T14:03:00.000Z
- Description: Share knowledge for your family now!
- Author: Doug Warren
- Tags: FKM, Family Knowledge

Your *knowledge* evolves over *time* through *actions* in your efforts. It helps to think about your knowledge timeline and reflect on **you** from a perspective of before, past, present, future, and after.   
  
The cycles of our life occur over various time horizons: day, week, month, quarter, year, and decade. I want to focus on what you can do right now in the *present* that enables you to share your *past* knowledge for yourself, family, community, and others in the *future*.

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## **Before**

Before your life began, knowledge was passed across generations through conversations with family and friends. However, most information was recorded by other people in books, media, and web pages on the internet. We benefit from that as we learn and grow using sources we encounter from others and make personal notes for yourself. We can do the same for our family and others now that will help them after us.

## **Past** 

Your life includes experiences, events, skills, and memories from things you *did* until now. Many use a PKM system with linked *personal notes*, which might be recorded in an Obsidian vault with your universe of ideas, which Nick Milo calls an *Ideaverse* for your own personal internet*.* Everything you did before now is in your past, and what you do after this happens in your future.

## **Present**

You live in the present moment and apply your current knowledge on what you are *doing* as you focus attention and energy on specific *efforts*, *interests*, and *areas* of your life. You make and link notes with information and ideas that develop, extend, and enrich our *personal knowledge*. We have periodic practices and workflows that capture, review, plan, do (actions), log, and journal in *time*\-based notes.

## **Future** 

When something is important or interesting, you capture, create, and connect knowledge as you make notes primarily for your own benefit and what you intend *to do* next. Some notes will be developed further for sharing content with others on websites, in communities, or a business. However, the focus in this series is on how you can create family notes with knowledge that will enable them to *know* and *do* after you are not available to support them. 

## **After**

What personal knowledge can you *share* with your *family* to make things easier for them after you are gone. And how can your knowledge, experience, skills, and memories benefit others too in websites, communities, or business.

## Summary

This is very important for me to do for my family right now. Hopefully, my effort will also encourage you to do something that will help you too. I will be describing more details about how you can make that happen, and you can begin by following these notes that I'm sharing with you and think about what you might do.