Now why would you want to publish those thoughts to the world if you wish it to be your own personal knowledge base.

Well that’s just it. You don’t have to publish it. You can keep it private.

And I do such a thing with a free wordpress.com blog. Here’s the steps on how to create a private blog.

1. Sign in to your wordpress.com account, or create a new one
2. Follow the instructions to create or register a blog
3. Type in your desired name and make sure there there is no check mark in the box marked “Privacy” so your private blog won’t be indexed by Google
4. Once created, go into the blog’s dashboard and go to the Options > Privacy tabs
5. Select “I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose”
6. When you’re writing a post, expand the “Post Status” tab in the right sidebar and select “Private”
7. After you have completed writing the post, click the “Save” icon, NOT the Publish icon.

You will know that you’ve done it correctly when you view the title of your post. It should start with “Private:” followed by the post title.

That’s three layers of privacy selections that I use to keep my private knowledge base private. The beauty of having a private knowledge base is that you can put any information you feel useful to you in there and categorize and tag as you see fit. Thus, you can look for information by browsing categories or tags. Plus, you can run a word search. I build to my private knowledge base every day. It is now so much easier for me to locate information that I’ve stored in my private blog. And it’s made my work so much more efficient.

One final note, to double check that outsiders can’t view your blog, log out of your wordpress.com account and type in the web address of your private blog. You should get the following message and log in screen.

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