Rather than relying on Classification. with hashtag, it is better to use link between pagesâ (shokai, in ScrapboxDrinkup). - Do not classify. Basic principles of the KJ method
2017-05-27
Because of what looks like âtagsâ, Scrapbox tends to be misunderstood as âthat kind of thingâ by people who have experience with existing tools that âallow more flexible organization than hierarchical classification by tagging objectsâ (I was one such example)Hierarchy
It became clear when shokai said at the Scrapbox drinkup, âYou didnât come to this venue knowing the latitude and longitude, you came from the station via the roadâ metaphor.link is a road Tags make it easier to find, not by ticking off a scale in space and organizing it according to a frame, but by connecting paths between pages. see sweet potato search.
- [Scrapbox displays the pages connected by two hops from the currently open page at the bottom. In other words, it is equivalent to a two-level mind map centered on the current point.
In the case study presentation at drinkup, it was also mentioned that tags should not be added much at first, but rather, important words in the text should be link, and then, when the text is reread, keywords that are âmissingâ should be added with tags. I think tags are âan emergency tool to be used when you know that the links by page association do not connect well with the words in the text alone, but you know you need to connect them to a specific place.
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