One needs to periodically review how long stuff has been sitting on !hold. This is different from !someday, held in the fourth hand of the goddess: information which is neither determinate, nor of immediate relevance. This stuff needs further processing… at an indeterminate, yet immediate future. This is like the baggage from a previous relationship, the resolution, or not, of which, I feel will strongly determine my future person and hence, it is not to be carelessly discarded from my hands. Stuff tagged: (on) !hold … This is stuff which, if I were a Hindu warrior-Goddess, I would hold in my third hand - stuff that’s not important enough to be a high priority item, yet is not sorted-out enough to be able to be filed-away into a box. !someday → for example, “todo: Catch up with Mr. Somebody (over a cup of coffee).”.
(Or, instead use !buffer if that makes more sense to you.) !act → currently relevant “ top-level ” items affecting my present status.I visualise actionable items as beads which can be strung only through one of four threads, or statuses: Tagging allows tying together widely distributed stuff - placed in various bookmarks, files, notes, folders, drives and storage media - into a common thread of thought.Īfter a more than justifiable amount of time spent online looking for a sane logic for implementing a system for tagging, I came away dissatisfied and decided to introspect on my own needs and to come up with a system that I could also recommend to my students of design.Īn overview of my widely distributed data of knowledge and ideas revealed that I could broadly distribute the data I had gathered, as well as stuff which I had generated on my own, into two categories:Īctionable items are those, the completion of which, perceivably affects me - either personally or professionally. I discovered that tagging was the best means by which I could bring a sense of sanity to this process of information documentation and retrieval. The external information that we encounter has not only increased in volume, but also is diversified over various locations of origin, applicability, and ultimately also where it gets saved to. But, folders are limited to being containers of ‘specific’ material. It is easy to develop a logical system of “folder hierarchy” to file away self-generated information.
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