We may create a snapshot-like tree for the output we need at the time, but we do not insist on keeping the whole thing neatly organized. As Yukio Noguchi once wrote in “The “Super” Organizing Method,” categorizing and organizing for the sake of searching results in futility, and organizing puts information into known categories, rather than keeping it from new discovery.
While the hypothesis that “much of what we call ideas comes from this forced simplification” may indeed be true, I have a feeling that poor organization may ultimately cause us to fall back on known categories. In order to discover something new, categories must consequently be traversed. Thinking about a new form of outliner - Yubitek
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