by lorenzfx on 4/5/22, 7:32 AM with 52 comments
by jonathanstrange on 4/5/22, 9:38 AM
GTD recommends to set as few deadlines and calendar dates as possible, and I still think that's the right way to go. If you can, you should work items on your todo list in the order that best suits the context and current abilities.
by CGamesPlay on 4/5/22, 10:37 AM
Basically, weekly reviews are tactical, where you can mostly mechanically prioritize the upcoming week and clear out your inboxes. Monthly are more strategic, where you take a wider look at the status of all projects, consider modifying, canceling, or reprioritizing them. And annual reviews are the same thing but addressed at the highest level of your life; you might think of it as a formalization of New Years Resolutions.
Since adopting a schedule of these reviews I have felt much more in control of my projects and work, and the time investment is about 1 hour a month to do.
by justusthane on 4/5/22, 10:56 AM
- Every “project”, no matter how small, gets its own folder. This means I’m no longer hunting for files (“Did I save that to my desktop? Is it in my email?”)
- Replicate and manually “sync” the folder structure between programs (in my case, OneNote for notes, OneDrive for files, and Microsoft Tasks for…tasks). This gives the freedom to use the best tool for the job, rather than trying to find one tool that does everything, but means you still have a consistent organization structure.
These both seem somewhat obvious in retrospect, but they’ve been very helpful for me.
by pantulis on 4/5/22, 10:21 AM
by polote on 4/5/22, 9:04 AM
First personal knowledge management is not a new field, it was just called "note taking" before.
Second the place where you really need to manage knowledge is at your job. Using a system that requires discipline at work is usually a bad idea as most people are not disciplined. Also at work information is spread around different applications which makes sorting all information about everything into folders difficult
Finally if that method works for the author then good, but I also have also method that works for me which is : try to take notes of almost nothing
by smk_ on 4/5/22, 10:33 AM
A system that has a higher success of working is developed organically, from the bottom up. I’d say Zettelkasten is one such example, though its primary beneficiaries are researchers in text-heavy fields (e.g. sociology).
by Ambolia on 4/5/22, 9:21 AM
For task and calendar management GTD has everything I need, and try to keep the system as simple as possible, usually in paper and just moving a few things to digital if it really adds value. Then the project reference material itself can be more messy and be used to generate new next actions and other GTD items, as long as GTD itself is kept tidy the chaos in the reference material doesn't have much impact in the general planning.
by kkfx on 4/5/22, 11:35 AM
- ~612 BC Ashurbanipal di Nineveh tablets, sort of structured tag-based library with more than 30k tags found, mostly used to note transactions and other daily life activities
- ~245 BC Callimacus pínakes, another sort of tag-based index for the Alexandria giant library
- ~1545 Conrad Gessner libraries of Babel, personal notes closely similar to "modern" ZettelKasten
- 1673-94 Leibniz's Scrinium Literatum another far similar to Gessner's one and ZK
- 1934 Paul Otlet & Henry La Fontaine Mundaneum, so-called the modern web ancestor
- 1960 Niklas Luhmann's ZettelKasten
Those are just few I remember but there are many others and surely many more not lost in the history. All claim to be universal and all have an ultimate goal: store&retrieve information as easily as possible to produce new one, to evolve. All are closely similar in principles (usage of meta-information, cataloguing techniques of various kind, keep individual "entries" small for easy isolation and composing etc). The web (1.0 so called) is the first general and global example of those systems. All fails though at a certain point.
Long story short: there is no universal method to be followed slavishly expecting magic results, there are common needs, normally solved in closely similar ways with the tools of the time for millennia, the best option is understand the problem and the principle behind all those solutions tailoring one on our needs.
Personally I use Emacs/org-mode/org-roam and various other related package to manage my personal information, suffering a bit by the lack of a more flexible storage than files and filesystems, but still enough to manage almost anything so effectively that I can't use modern desktops/sw anymore, it's not PARA, ZK etc but just another systems, without strict rules, tailored on my needs following the similar principles of all others. Popular modern one are LYT https://youtu.be/RgwnpEBFNUg or Jonny Decimal.
by yawnxyz on 4/5/22, 8:44 AM
by boxfoxdox1 on 4/5/22, 10:00 AM
Was able to use it in both profesional and personal environments.
by koonsolo on 4/5/22, 8:33 AM
Google already indexed this page 59 minutes after posting (that's how I ended up here)
by thenerdhead on 4/5/22, 5:23 PM
The most important principle? You find an expert who will take you by the hand and give you the success formulas. You can do that through reading in many cases in which you then add your own special tweaks to improve it. If you read a number of books in the topic of information organization, you'll realize that these people who are "experts" are really just in the same position as the people before them with their own special tweaks to improve the previous generation's work.
by perelin on 4/5/22, 10:40 AM
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by algorias on 4/5/22, 8:36 AM
by koonsolo on 4/5/22, 8:52 AM
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by AlphaWeaver on 4/5/22, 12:50 PM