First write it down, then lay it out.

• Intellectual Production of Engineers Table of Contents Digest A portion of the table of contents is cut out and given a new title (front cover).

• Chapter 5: How to organize your thoughts 143

  • Too much information? Too little? 144
    • Check the amount of information using the write-out method 145
      • Don’t look for quality 146
      • Let’s put it into practice 146
      • Let’s set a goal of 100 147
      • Advantages of a 100-page target 147
      • I don’t mind duplicates 148
  • How to organize too much information 149
    • Line them up for better listing 149 - Column: Examples of Writing Methods 151
    • Record as soon as you think of it in the process of arranging 152
    • Move the possibly related items closer together 152 - Column: Size of a label 152
      • Flow of the KJ Method 153
    • Group formation requires a change in thinking 155
      • Grouping is not objective 155
      • Grouping is not a hierarchical classification 156
      • Disadvantages of using existing classification criteria 157
        • Column: Efficiency through frameworks 158
      • Disadvantages of creating pre-classification criteria 159
      • Benefits of Classification to Reduce Burden 159

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