The End of Organizing
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The End of Organizing
Instead of organizing ideas according to where they come from, I recommend organizing them according to where they are going—specifically, the outcomes that they can help you realize.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
The best way to organize your notes is to organize for action, according to the active projects you are working on right now. Consider new information in terms of its utility, asking, “How is this going to help me move forward one of my current projects?”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Organizing is going to become unnecessary because no one actually wants to go back and look at their old notes.
What you really want is the information in your notes, synthesized and presented to you at the right place and at the right time.
Every • The End of Organizing
People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how to organize your journal or how to most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply. We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the au... See more
Many bloggers and “life-hackers” have made a full-time job of suggesting how to organize your journal or how to most effectively Write about what you read to internalize texts deeply. We should take this advice seriously insofar as those practices have helped the au... See more