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The Knowledge Organization
the weakness of hierarchical systems is that knowledge remains siloed from other ideas that could spark interesting connections. Adding a network to our file systems can help us preserve the benefits of hierarchy, while infusing it with cross-connections and associations.
Tiago Forte • A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management
Current solutions also lack interconnectivity. Many files are divorced from context; cast into a drawer, rather than methodically fitted into a broader framework of knowledge. Knowledge trees can create pseudo-relationships between files nested within a given hierarchy, but these are not explicit, and can only describe a vertical ‘parent and child’
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John Cutler • TBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead)
Despite the popularity of networks in the Information Age, the hierarchy persists as a simple, consistent way to organize knowledge.
Numerous studies (Bergman et al. 2008; Fitchett and Cockburn 2015; Teevan et al. 2004) have found that people strongly prefer to navigate their file systems manually, scanning for the file they’re looking for, as oppos
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All this makes sense, as linearity i... See more