Hmmm, my main "filter" missed this great post, but luckily my "backup filter" picked it up (a little late, but still) :-)

The difference between personal information management and personal knowledge management is important, and I agree with you that "sense-making" is the important step !

“Too many aspects of my sensemaking system are manual”
- to filter the information and make sense of it (for you !) and to convert it to knowledge will usually imply some sort of manual process...

In the age of information overload, I understand that people want automatic processes and tools, but they will then only deal with information, not knowledge...

If you want knowledge, you need to make sense of it; until then, it remains information that may or may not be useful to you....

Most people will not "make sense" of the information they collect, but rather just "dump" it in their PKM tool of choice - the goal should not be how easy you can store the information, but rather how easy you can find your knowledge (when you need it, or need to share it).