The Organizing Edition

Famously, when Gmail came along, Google told us to stop trying to organize (and delete) our email and instead just rely on search to find what we’re looking for. Broadly I’d say that approach has worked well, and in the vast majority of cases, I err on the side of risking losing track of something later instead of spending the time to organize it n

Tool, network Create + share with others (Instagram, YouTube, G Suite, LinkedIn) Organize + collaborate with others (Pinterest, Asana, Dropbox) System of record + keep up to date with others (OpenTable, GitHub) Look up + contribute with others (Zillow, Glassdoor, Yelp)

Organization tools begin with new, clever ways to collect links, files, tasks, and forms of content to make them more easily searchable and browsable.

I don’t have any special organization system for things like this. I don’t do it for photos or files. I used to have a perfectly organized hard drive with a complicated folder structure. Now I just throw all my files into one place and just use search. It’s like the toolbox I made all the way back at Tufts.