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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’
... See moreSarah Constantin • Daily Notes
At a very high level, what we are doing here is decoupling goal setting from the org chart and org hierarchy while grounding it in a universally accepted model. Goals should form a network because models tend to create a network. It isn’t completely flat because there are relationships. But the dimensionality is much more centered around inputs/out... See more
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
... See moreTiago Forte • A Complete Guide to Tagging for Personal Knowledge Management
Traditionally, modern software is designed in a linear structure. Notably known as the “workspace”— a popular file cabinet structure, that reminds the parent-child relationship. Working in this structure conveys a feeling of playing a “pass the parcel” game. Every time you open a folder, the next one is revealed.
All this makes sense, as linearity i... See more
All this makes sense, as linearity i... See more
Itay Dreyfus • #4 Roam Research — What comes after a renaissance?
An alternative approach to Notion is a knowledge management system that can live across different tools and without active manual curation because it’s based on really powerful search. The folder structure of your Google Drive, for example, doesn’t really matter because looking up documents via search is faster and more convenient. Meta search tool... See more