The important thing to remember when dealing with idea notes is what Tadao Umesao said, “Don’t classify., do array (programming, programing). Twitter
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The Art of Intellectual Production p.57 「 Classification is not the goal. 」
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Contextual explanation of how to use information card.
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summary
- Some people care about “how it’s classified.”
- This is a mistake based on the misconception that cards are for classifying and storing knowledge.
- Cards as tools of intellectual production are not like that.
- The goal is not to classify and store knowledge,
- Manipulating cards to perform intellectual production tasks is the use of cards.
- The ability to operate the card is a feature of the card, if you only want to store it, you can use a notebook.
- What is manipulation?
- rearrangement and rearrangement
- This often uncovers connections between seemingly unrelated cards.
By discovering Unexpected Related, you are Structured after the fact into a structure you did not anticipate.
- Cards are tools of creation
- To decide on a taxonomy is to set a box for thinking.
- Put the card in a tight classification system and it will suffocate and die.
- Classify according to subjective interest, not according to objective content of knowledge relevance
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Knowledge written in notebooks is often dead. - Not a warehouse to put dead text in. - Metaphor of a fish tank
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Jiro Kawakita Do not classify..
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