How do I practice knowledge graph portability?

The most direct way to practice knowledge graph portability is through a focused exercise: Open your current knowledge system — Obsidian vault, Notion workspace, Roam database, Apple Notes, whatever you use. Export ten connected notes. Now open the export in a plain text editor. Ask: Can I read the content? Can I see the links? Can I reconstruct the graph from these files alone, with no special software? If the answer to any question is no, you have identified a portability risk. Write down what would need to change for your answer to be yes.

Common pitfall: Confusing tool loyalty with knowledge durability. You convince yourself that because you love your current app, it will always exist and always work the way it does today. This is the planning fallacy applied to software. Every tool you have ever used has either already been discontinued, degraded significantly, or will be. The question is not whether your tool will change. The question is whether your knowledge survives the change.

This practice connects to Phase 18 (Knowledge Graphs) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.